Enough, already! ( wardrobe-related content )

Man Of Constant Sorrow · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Jun 2023 Posts: 478

Good Grief !

What in the world is going on, what with the way people are dressed, now-a-days?

People (young, old, middle-aged, children, adolescents, adults, elderly) just do not seem to care to put much/any thought into how they appear in public.
Have they forgotten the value of being well-dressed? Studies have shown well-dressed people are more confident, and respected.

Does that no longer matter?

I shall refrain (for now) from citing examples.
(You may choose ... or, not ... to provide your own).
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richmanwisco · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:36 am Post subject: Define "Well-Dressed"

Define "well-dressed".

Provide examples in a cultural context.

kehaulani · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:49 am Post subject:

I'm from Hawai`i. Our "national dress" is Aloha and T- shirts and slacks/jeans/shorts. Practically nothing above that low common denominator. You usually can't tell the difference between socio-economic differences. Some find it threatening, others refreshing.

Sounds like a first-world problem to me.
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WxJeff · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:43 am Post subject:

Were you recently in a Wal-Mart?

(Educated guess)

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huntman10 · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 1:23 pm Post subject:

Being a retired power plant engineer (day job) and currently living in a small rural Texas town looking after the family farm, "well dressed" for me is a clean Carhartt T-shirt and clean cargo pants, and formal wear means a shirt with some type of buttons! 🥸
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Man Of Constant Sorrow · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Jun 2023 Posts: 478

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Man Of Constant Sorrow · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Jun 2023 Posts: 478

* [Spoiler alert]

I sometimes go out in public wearing shabby bib overalls over a holey T-shirt. Usually, a trip to the local auto-parts store (Pep Boys, O'Reilley, NAPA, AutoZone, Sears, etc.) ... while I'm in the middle of changing oil, rotating tires, changing belts/hoses on one of my vehicles ... and, I have likely just come out from under one of them. Hence; I'm a bit dirty.

I prefer NOT to "stop by the grocery store" for a few items, as requested by G/F (who is a former runway model in NYC); lest I embarrass myself. Never know who you're gonna run into. She says my Rolex will give me away, anyhow. I now wear my vintage 84+year old Hamilton. Less ostentatious.

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richmanwisco · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: Define "Well-Dressed"

Man Of Constant Sorrow · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Jun 2023 Posts: 478

Have an ordinary day.

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Seymor B Fudd · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:44 am Post subject:

So you are the devil in disguise???

Tell you a short story: Back in the day I owned a(used)Mercedes 250 SE, the one and only from 1967. Supernice big big shiny extremely expensive looking car. So one day I ran out of petrol (with that car it happened quite often) and entered very solemnly the gas station of the town. Drove up to the pump while watching in the mirror the station attendant flinging the station door open, literally throwing himself at my car. And then I opened the door, put my two clogs on the ground, my legs dressed in a pair of jeans shortly after. He came to a screetching halt and tried to walk back in looking as if nothing had happened.

Poor humanity.
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Man Of Constant Sorrow · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Jun 2023 Posts: 478

* Back story ~

I was voted "Best Dressed" in my graduating class ... as was my eldest daughter in her graduating class, some 25+ years later.
She had NO coaching from me, at all. She was "her own person" ... had an excellent sense of style and decorum.

I enjoyed wearing cut-off jeans and a holey T-shirt at the local country club, while playing in tennis tournaments.
I usually thrashed my opponents, who were be-decked in the proper Fred Perry or Izod "whites".
I was club champion several years running; singles and doubles.

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Seymor B Fudd · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 3:47 am Post subject:

RandyTX · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:17 am Post subject:

"Not in my yard..." style rants are always amusing, if only for showing how much people hate change, especially as they get older.

I don't really care how other people dress, as long as I don't have to look at them.

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LittleRusty · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:33 am Post subject:

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LaTrompeta · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 1:45 pm Post subject:

I've come to realize that dressing nicely affects me psychologically. Even though I work remotely, I have been trying to dress more professionally in order to improve my own self-image.
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Man Of Constant Sorrow · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Jun 2023 Posts: 478