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I post this because I think it shows how strange we become to ourselves. Do you notice that the singer is the only one without a tie. What was the dress code and why was he exempt?
This took place fewer than five years before I was born but it looks like footage from another planet.
Hat tip: Dawn Patrol
I think the “dress code” was just the common cultural notion that you didn’t go out in public except to do physical labor, unless you were dressed for it. The singer is exempt because he’s a folk singer, so in a way he’s “in costume” for his performance.
My mom, who’s 80, remembers when people went to watch community baseball games in jackets and ties, in her childhood in the 30’s. I still remember her changing out of the shoes she wore around the house into pumps, maybe even changing her clothes from an everyday sort of skirt and blouse into a casual dress, and putting on lipstick, just to go to the grocery store, in the 70’s — and we were by no means unusually “dressy” people.
Mark, whenever you write “I post this …” these days (usually a video, I suppose), I can’t see what “this” refers to. I don’t see a link. What am I missing?
The video is embedded in the post….
What browser are you using? And where are you. Some public places bar video sites for bandwidth reasons.
Double bizarre. (I thought my latest response got posted already. It didn’t, so I’m back.) I’ve clicked all over everything, every sentence, and still get nothing. I’m at home with my MacBook.
Well, it is embedded in the middle of the post as a big picture. But here is the Youtube link.