My family’s history is also from NY and no way would they be caught dead going out of the house/apt looking like that. They’d sooner die.
What’s really striking here, too, is how usually black women get really dressed for any church event. Even after so many whites started looking like slobs in the late 60s/early 70s, those black church-goers continued to dress to the nines. They do to this day. But Mrs. deBlasio dressed like THAT? And she was there with her husband in an official capacity. Disgraceful. Just breathtaking.
What the Mayor’s wife said by wearing scruffy blue jeans is that she didn’t want to go to the funeral in the first place. So her rebellion for having to go to it was to wear her blue jeans. She really showed them up for her being forced to go to the funeral, didn’t she. Infantile.
I know what you mean, I see them on Sunday in nice dresses and hats...real hats...traffic stopping hats..