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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Now, about those books: first off, though, I couldn't find the book or books about L.L. Bean's corporate history. It's somewhere. I'll look again tomorrow. I did find his book on Hunting-Fishing and Camping, published 1944, later than I had remembered. The earlier book about your house in the...
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    A Day in the Life of the NY Times, 1942

    It's another thread but I don't think "dandy" gets used much anymore, if it ever was. I understand what it means, though. As I mentioned elsewhere, I think the term "sharp dresser' was used more back in the 30s and 40s. It doesn't seem to apply to any of the men in the photos, though. Neither of...
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    A Day in the Life of the NY Times, 1942

    I don't know when I learned the facts of life about deodorant but at least one of my relatives used cologne liberally after he came home from work. I can recall observing that fact more recently in someone I had contact with now and then. Fresh shirt or not, a weekly bath was probably...
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    A Day in the Life of the NY Times, 1942

    Could be but my father worked at a laundry in the pre-wash and wear days and when a wringer washer was what most people had. Shirts were a big part of the business. They were always folded and wrapped up with the customer's other laundry with brown paper. Dry cleaning was always on hangers. The...
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    A Day in the Life of the NY Times, 1942

    Most of the men's clothes looked lived in, with shirts that had probably been to the cleaners a hundred times (once a week for two years would be realistic, don't you think?).
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    A Day in the Life of the NY Times, 1942

    Lots of surprising little details in the photos, not the least of which was the fact that the men weren't actually all that dressed up on average. But it looked like most of those not actually involved in printing were wearing a tie. One man had his bowtie undone. It also looked like a window...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    About the book about buying a house in the country, I'll have to check. There is also another book about a house in the country, published post-war. I think both books are New England oriented. The later book is almost right wing in temperament.
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    It's in L.L.Bean's story, a book I received for Christmas a few years ago. Not sure of the exact title. I think there was an older version of their history, too, as well as L.L. Bean's own guide to hunting, camping and fishing published around 1940. It's really a useful little book. You realize...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    A bush jacket is still considered fairly dressed-up clothing in some places. But not with a scarf.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    While generally speaking, justice is usually served, there is still a lot of injustices in the system from top to bottom and the blame can be evenly spread out among everyone from the policeman on the beat to the legislators writing the laws.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I'm almost positive the purpose of a red light camera is to produce revenue and some are timed so as to increase the revenue.
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    So, has it been established beyond a reasonable doubt that American workers dress more casually now, allowing for the different work environments. I assume we have not been talking about people who actually work, like truck drivers, farm workers, welders, masons, construction workers and so on.
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Practically everything we used to wear from the skin out is made fun of sooner or later. You name it: Oxford bags, celluloid collars, tie clasps, pegged pants, socks that matched your tie, nylon shirts, tie-dyed t-shirts, Henley shirt, body suits, bell bottoms, flared pants, hip-huggers...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    One also commonly sees various knit tops with company logos, too, so they're like a uniform. The main problem with business casual is that it can be as restrictive in scope as wearing a suit or so vague that you aren't really sure if a print sport shirt meets the rule or not.
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    Skin salves or balms before the 1920s?

    It's hard to imagine people getting a sunburn in the 1870's, given their standards of modesty under most circumstances, at least for ladies and women in general. I didn't know, however, that Unguentine was as old as it was. It seems to have been popular in the 1950s when I was little, along with...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    We tend to say business suit rather than lounge suit, although that sounds better than sack suit. There are dress codes and there are expectations. We have a dress code but it's meaningless, really. The one person who wears the tightest pants or leggings and off-the-shoulder tops is the one who...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    WAMU, a local NPR station, had a program on Sunday nights called the Big Broadcast, which features old radio shows. It was hosted for many, many years by the late Ed Walker, who passed away a few days after his last broadcast a couple of years ago. He once remarked that it had been longer since...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Youth culture is always anti-establishment. It's even in the Bible, although not in those exact words. I'm not sure if radio and movies were booming with opportunities but at one time everything you did was something new. The golden age of radio, however, didn't really last all that long...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I'm not sure I agree.
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    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    Although I'm at a loss to think of a good example, I think there are things that show up in movies that are there simply because they are something current and not something done intentionally (or left out intentionally), without the slightest bit of propaganda. Smoking might be a good example...

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