Posted on 03/09/2005 9:47:25 AM PST by qam1
"Many 20- and 30-somethings here have theater backgrounds, for example, and often say it's inappropriate to wear jeans to theater...."
I always hated that expression "to theatre"... It just wreaks of snobbery. It's like "oh muffy, where do you summer?" Never saw either of those words as a verb, I guess??
If I'm ever banned, you can bet money that it will be for something I either said: A) Right before dinner when I'm hungry and cranky or B) After midnight when I'm tired and cranky but too stubborn to go to bed yet.
I've been to a lot of funerals in Texas where at least someo of those in attendance wore jeans. I've even been to a couple where everyone in attendance wore jeans.
Well, I've never heard that use of the word theater either. However, it's a completely appropriate use of summer. Summer does have a verb form, and has since antiquity.
To each his own. I'm a fundamentalist frump :-).
Who decides what is "Formal"? Further, apparently years ago when silks and frilly French fashions were considered "Formal" someone somewhere made a conscious decision to change styles. How did this come about?
sounds like my three month old grandbaby....LOL :)
"Theater" is being used as an adjective in this sentence, modifying "performances": "... to theater (performances) and other cultural performances ..."
It's kind of an awkward construction, but at least it's not, "I'm going to theater; are you coming with?"
Actually, I have a leather do-rag that I wear to dress up. I never wear the linen do-rags for formal occasions, that's just not right. I especially can't wear the do-rag with the finger on top for the police helicopter. :)
I hope the smily face means you don't own such a thing.
ROFL! That'd be a good line for a stand-up comic. Hopefully others can spot humor. I come from a long line of Norwegians. We love to live and love to laugh.
Thanks...at least that makes two of us,who know that that's right. :-)
No,it wasn't the MODS,it was the hippies,who wanted to destroy everything about the world as it was. Of course,it was the "leaders",most of whom were RED DIAPER BABIES and funded by the KGB,who led the naifs,like so many Pied Pipers, but that's when dressing appropriately, good manners, self responsibility,politeness, and never using inappropriate speech got far more than just a toe in the door.
The "FREE SPEECH" and "FREE LOVE" and "DO YOUR OWN THING " (which was far MORE conformity,than what these barbarians were supposedly railing against!)movements is what changed,upended society.Few fought it then and now, more and more people just accept it all...making the F word ubiquitous,thusly making it a useless word,impolite behavior the norm,and destroying dress codes,so that those who follow this trend are nothing but "proles".
HELLO COMRADES;AS FOR ME,I'LL STAY THE DINOSAUR!
I would agree with that. My father in law was interning at the WSJ in NYC in the early 60's and he remembers when the transition from men wearing hats outside to men not wearing hats outside occured: 1963.
I would say that Jackie Kennedy had a lot to do w/ women not wearing hats, too because she had a public disdain for them. That's why she liked the Pillhat, the smaller, the better.
HELLO COMRADES;AS FOR ME,I'LL STAY THE DINOSAUR!
*** Are ya shure??? :o)
Personally,I liked her hats and wore them myself.
Because I have ALWAYS worn hats,I can't put my finger on the exact date that women stopped wearing them much,but I think that it was after Jackie left the White House.
Part of the problem,was women's hairdos....falls and wigs became the "IN" thing and wearing a hat on top of all that hair,was just about impossible!
About me being a "DINOSAUR"? Well, that's what a poster called me. LOL
I still dress appropriately and always shall do;which does NOT include my wearing dungarees........ever.
You're not a dinosaur, just the Queen Mum of Manners.
I have a chrome leather do-rag, and a matching apron and gloves.
Thank you for putting it so nicely !
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