Reply #18: What other people do is their biz, but I mightn't take 'em seriously. [View All]

[politicat]

I wish more people wore formal clothes for formal events: A daytime graduation calls for *at minimum* khakis and a shirt with a collar and shoes (not runners) on gents and either a summer tea dress or skirt or a summer pants suit for women. Period. There is no way that we would ever attend a graduation in less than that, nor a wedding (and depending on the to-be-marrieds wishes, far more formally if requested), nor a funeral. I don't see that it's that hard to do and is no more constricting than a pair of jeans (and may be less so, depending on the cut.)

I find it appalling that adults wear jeans to everything, especially when a pair of bloody dockers are the same price as a pair of jeans. To me, it's thoughtlessness and carelessness.

That said, I don't care if others chose to present themselves as slobs, but my opinion of them will follow their outward efforts and presentations.

This stuff is basic: if my navy wife and farmer's daughter mother, and farmer's daughter and wife grandmother could drill this into my head in the 80s, there's no reason that people today should not know this.