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Why don't people dress in suits or stylishly anymore ?
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My eyes are up here pal. Stop ogling.
Chase drop bears.
Stop wearing the low-cut T-shirts, cutie..
There’s nothing wrong with appreciating a woman in a nice dress is there?.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I used to have a similar suit, too, but mine was black and had a dress and jacket instead of pants.
I went looking for a new one, but its hard to find one that's cut for women that you can actually wear in public.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
As a representative of class (goth, biker/hippy, metal, redneck, glamour girl) I am appalled by the lack of proper attire these days. I mean, c'mon, cargo shorts, Bermduda/Hawaii anything, flip flops...in fall/winter!? WTF?!
GoodAttention
Well-Known Member
Can I say I appreciate a woman with piercings? May I say can I say?
Cargo shorts are ridiculous, no one needs that many pockets unless you're trying to confuse a pick-pocket.
McBell
Unbound
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They could afford it back then?
I never forget my pocket watch. I carry it everyday.Only when I forget my pocket watch.
Alien826
No religious beliefs
I started work (1950s) in an office and a suit and tie were expected. At the same time men typically wore a suit to the Saturday night dance. A compliment from a girl was that a guy looked "smart". Later I discovered jeans and wore them night and day, though work still expected a suit. Then something wonderful happened. Casual Friday, followed by casual every day. We didn't meet the public (by then I was in programming and we were in enough demand that they didn't tell us what to wear), so whatever we preferred. I wore a suit for my second wedding and then it lived in the closet.
Now I'm retired and wear casual clothes exclusively. My gf nags me to dress up a bit when we go out to anything vaguely formal, which I do, under protest. I'm not sure if I have a suit any more. It won't fit if I do. Over the years I've gone from a 32" waist to 40". I still like jeans but they keep slipping down, due to my small butt and large belly. Shorts in the summer with loose short sleeved shirt and loose workout pants with warm shirt for winter. She hates the workout pants but they are comfortable and stay up.
About women's clothing ... "My dear you have your prettiest clothes with you all the time". That's not original to me, but it sums it up. And I wouldn't presume to tell her what to wear. And whatever she wears looks good and definitely doesn't make her butt look big. Though it is. Which I like. A lot.
Now I'm retired and wear casual clothes exclusively. My gf nags me to dress up a bit when we go out to anything vaguely formal, which I do, under protest. I'm not sure if I have a suit any more. It won't fit if I do. Over the years I've gone from a 32" waist to 40". I still like jeans but they keep slipping down, due to my small butt and large belly. Shorts in the summer with loose short sleeved shirt and loose workout pants with warm shirt for winter. She hates the workout pants but they are comfortable and stay up.
About women's clothing ... "My dear you have your prettiest clothes with you all the time". That's not original to me, but it sums it up. And I wouldn't presume to tell her what to wear. And whatever she wears looks good and definitely doesn't make her butt look big. Though it is. Which I like. A lot.
I always dressed professionally in a suit and tie usually, with cuff links and French cuffs on the shirts, even when most others didn't wear even a tie. It's not that I was putting on airs. I just felt it was the respectful thing to do. I never looked down on anyone for not doing the same. But, strangely sometimes others would act put off and hostile because of how I dressed. No one should be put down because of how they dress.
We're a retirement community with warm, sunny days year round. Nobody's dresses up in the daytime, but they might toward the evening
This is me the last time I wore long sleeves and pants visiting a country club in Guadalajara for a bridge tournament in the summer (the day of the first Trump shooting; we heard about it on the trip home), so shorts and sandals weren't appropriate, but we're all still fairly casual. My sleeves aren't buttoned. These are fairly well-to-do Mexicans in the background - not part of our bridge group -and you can see one woman in a nice dress, but they're mostly casual as well even at the country club.
Also, long pants on a boat on the lake, but short sleeves
Tropical shirts are standard fare:
This is me the last time I wore long sleeves and pants visiting a country club in Guadalajara for a bridge tournament in the summer (the day of the first Trump shooting; we heard about it on the trip home), so shorts and sandals weren't appropriate, but we're all still fairly casual. My sleeves aren't buttoned. These are fairly well-to-do Mexicans in the background - not part of our bridge group -and you can see one woman in a nice dress, but they're mostly casual as well even at the country club.
Also, long pants on a boat on the lake, but short sleeves
Tropical shirts are standard fare:
I wore my pajamas out today.
My son is having a mental health day. I've had to get down in the dirt and leaves twice, and he's grabbed and pulled my clothes a few times.
If its going to be a day where I might get my clothes stained or torn, I choose ratty pajamas, even if I'd rather not.
I enjoy my clothes too much to want them ruined.
So, I guess it would be hard to look at a person and assume why they're dressed the way they are.
My son is having a mental health day. I've had to get down in the dirt and leaves twice, and he's grabbed and pulled my clothes a few times.
If its going to be a day where I might get my clothes stained or torn, I choose ratty pajamas, even if I'd rather not.
I enjoy my clothes too much to want them ruined.
So, I guess it would be hard to look at a person and assume why they're dressed the way they are.
Collapse of social standards and the degeneration of fashion trends.
Poor people dressed their best, too. Just because you're poor doesn't mean you lack dignity and class.
I agree, there's a way to do it even if you're poor.
When I was younger, eBay kept me in decent clothes.
(I do lack dignity and class, but that's another issue.)
With the right body. When I do it, it's illegal -- under the rubrick of "public nuisance" I think.
Alien826
No religious beliefs
This has always puzzled me. What does how you dress have to do with dignity and class? Those things are part of your personality, are they not? If a person that has no dignity or class puts on a suit and tie does he suddenly have them? If someone with dignity and class puts on jeans does he suddenly lose them?
People put so much stock on appearances.
Until you get to know someone, all you have to go by is their appearance. We all subconsciously put a lot of stock into appearances as that's how evolution wired us. If you go around wearing dirty clothes with holes in them, have bad hygiene, etc. that's going to signal to others that you don't care that much about yourself, there's problems somewhere, etc. If someone showed up to a job interview like that, would you hire them?
There's also the idea of dressing appropriately for where you are. Like it's not appropriate to go about your errands wearing a bath towel and your underwear should not be seen.