They had casual clothing back then. But it was not jeans and t-shirts.
Posted on 03/14/2020 5:47:59 PM PDT by NRx
To join the classic Fifth Avenue Easter Parade, you put on your best clothes and walked to the four great churches to see their Easter displays: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, St. Thomas Episcopal, St. Nicholas Dutch Reformed, and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Movietone sound cameras filmed the crowds in 1930 by driving down the Avenue, then filming across the street from St. Patrick's. They also (at 3:39 ) filmed a sequence of just feet. Look carefully and you'll see a few men still wear spats. After the credits, there's (silent) bonus footage of the previous year's Easter Parade. Despite the holiday being early that year, the temperature got to 60 degrees, and the open double-decker buses are out. P.S.: Never hear of St. Nicholas's? At Fifth Avenue and 48th Street? Not surprising. It was torn down in 1949 to make way for an office building.
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The Depression was still in its early stage and would not reach catastrophic levels until 1931.
Interesting. ..thx...noticed no obese people
I don’t think it’s the amount of food that you eat; it’s the quality.
They had better food, back then. And they also moved around a lot more. The physical labor necessary to get through the day was greater for most people then, than it is today.
YES...to everything you wrote. BUT, I’m transcribing a diary from 1920 of family on an orchard...good lawd...they ate lots of pies, puddings, and other carbs...at least my husband’s family...and no weight problems there either. But, they did have good meat/poultry, milk, butter, etc. Not a lot of veggies, though. I do think their “movement” counted for a lot.
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Note how every single adult man wore a full suit, complete with vests, neckties and overcoats. As well as hats! Every grown man had on a hat. Well, except for Babe Ruth, who can be seen in the back, moving right to left, starting around the 3:33 mark. But when you are Babe Ruth in 1930, you could get away with not wearing a hat!
There was pretty much no such thing as casual clothing in those days. Women did the housework in dresses and even on weekends, men would still wear suits. I remember my own father as recently as the 1960s, wearing dress slacks and dress shirts on weekends. His only concession was taking off the necktie.
and NO snacking
It’s Tin-Tin!
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