I don’t know when this broke down, but I recall a time when black folks dressed to the nines when they went out to clubs.
They still do. The definition of “the nines” has changed, of course.
“I don’t know when this broke down, but I recall a time when black folks dressed to the nines when they went out to clubs”
When I was 20 years old and military, I was invited to a party by a black woman as her date. I asked her if there would be other white people there, she assured me that there would be.
Not only were there no other whites there, I was the only man there without a tie on. I felt really out of place and not because I was the only white person there.
I was treated decently, 1965, Washington, D.C.
Here in South Carolina the black folks still dress up for church, down to the smallest child. They look like they are attired to enter unto the house of the Lord.
Wish my fellow parishioners would. I put on a sport coat over slacks & dress shirt and I’m a snob for it.