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Sleepwear = tracksuit underwear = semi-formal wear
Baron Kurtz said:The modern standard of jeans and a T-shirt were ridiculed as outerwear, too. T-shirts are for sleeping and under your shirt, and jeans are for yardwork. Not for walking around town.
Sounds ridiculous, yes?
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3PcSuit said:I don't know how a suit is any more uncomfortable than a pair of jeans. In fact, suit trousers are far more comfortable than all but the softest-material jeans.
Sure a t-shirt would be lighter than a dress shirt, but really what you are saying comes more from being judgemental.
I don't think dressing in this fashion is uncomfortable at all. Maybe if you were in the *desert*, where even victorians dressed down, I can see the necessity of casual wear.
It's just like I never got guys that talked about how oppressive ties were and how they cut off the circulation to your head blah blah blah. F&^%ing pansies if you ask me, trying to eliminate the only flipping article of mens' clothing that isn't entirely functional
I think, in summation, all I'm trying to say is things were just different, no better no worse. Oh, they did look better though. It's like that scene from Pulp Fiction where John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson's characters got blood and guts all over their gangster outfits and had to change into average-Joe outfits of T-shirts and shorts and everyone is making fun of them for looking so silly.
mister7 said:I live in Albuquerque and walk roughly two miles back and forth to work, so I spend about forty minutes walking. That is long enough to soak your clothes completely through with sweat on a warm day. We have days that warm for more than half of the year. In mid-summer full sun conditions you will be be exposed to 110 - 120 degrees.
My title is a falsehood, this is not the true Sonoran Desert like Phoenix or Las Cruces. It is as much as 20 - 30 degrees warmer. Last year some poor lady came out of a store in Phoenix, fainted and fell on the sidewalk. She got severely burned on every part of her that touched the ground, very nearly died. If she had not been swiftly rescued she would not have survived the experience.
I enjoy dressing more nicely from roughly Haloween until Easter, but the rest of year is just too hot if you engage in any physical exertion like walking or working in a hot building.
Baron Kurtz said:To be honest: Yes, that's exactly what i'd love to see. Everyone free to wear what they want, free to wear as little or as much as they wish, without fear of ridicule or arrest.
I have as many opinions as others about modes of dress, but i'm not so pretentious as to think my opinions matter very much, and nor should they.
bk
bonnieprince said:If...BP
bonnieprince said:Here's the real meat of my response. I think lines should be drawn when clothing becomes offensive to a majority of the populace or is worn with the intention of instilling fear in others. Adorning a Nazi swastika, or any Nazi regalia for that matter, through a Jewish neighborhood (say Israel, for example) is offensive (please don't bring up the pagan origination of the swastika, because it was differently shaped and didn't include the white and red background). Wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit is always wrong. Wearing a picture of a noose on a t-shirt is offensive to African-Americans.