Quote:
Originally Posted by Reece
... but people did dress up more back then, summer or winter. Men wore hats on the street and women had to have the latest hats to wear, almost never went bareheaded. It was a more formal time.
|
The local paper a few weeks ago ran a fluff editorial that lamented today's casual dress (T shirt and jeans worn by white collar workers at the office). Said that people dressed up during the Great Depression. But one thing he didn't mention was that people didn't shower as much then vs today. "B.O."
Back in college, a foreign student classmate mentioned to another classmate, in a friendly manor, that he looked like a bum, as he had on raggedy T shirt and worn jeans. I mentioned that there was an important difference between him and a real bum, that the classmate was freshly showered, and his clothes freshly laundered, even though he looked like something the cat dragged in, he didn't smell like something the cat dragged in.
