“Answer: JFK.”
I just really get into these fashion threads. I wish my grandma was still alive, she would LOVE FR!
I watched some docu-something on the Kennedys once, don’t ask me why but I guess it was pretty even-handed or I would have turned it off.
The thing that stuck with me was the difference in dress between JFK’s funeral and RFK’s funeral. Tragically they only died, what 5 years apart? And, admittedly JFK was the President and had a much more formal funeral. And it wasn’t like the family at RFK’s funeral was dressed in any inappropriate way.
But just to see the images it was like these 2 men had died 20 or more years apart.
And it spoke volumes about how much upheaval our society went through in the 60s, I thought.
And not for the good, I also thought.
If you look at the way people dressed 500 to 100 years ago they took much more pride in it than people today. The more I read about the 1960s the more I realize just how much upheaval was occurring socially, politically, economically, religiously and in many other ways at that time.
I used to know this guy that sold formal, dress up uniforms for the military and emergency services. During the 1970s it was the worst time to try and sell this type of clothing because no one cared how they dressed. Since that time his business has improved significantly.