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You actually "dress up" while at home????
No dressing up. Just a try, how this combination feels.
You actually "dress up" while at home????
I think about this all the time as I watch modern movies - and think some are very good - but rarely do I have any interest in seeing them again. Whereas, I can watch even (to be honest) mediocre movies from the '30s - '50s over and over.
The stars, the stories, the time-travel to a period I am fascinated by - I don't know why it is that I can see those movies over and over, but it is. Did the studio system - for all its faults and mistreatments - create stars in a way that today's freelancing can't? Did the limitation of the code force a different style that somehow produced stories one wants to see again? Is it just the style of that time is more appealing to me?
I could successfully bluff my way through a college term paper answering that question with ease, but in truth, I don't really know why I can watch "Holiday" with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn the tens of times that I have, but have no desire to see "Manchester by the Sea" or "The Age of Adeline -" two decent modern movies - ever again.
Wearing a shirt is "Dressing up"?You actually "dress up" while at home????
Wearing a shirt is "Dressing up"?
IN the summertime when I am at home I sometimes don't wear a collar.
Does that count?
...IN the summertime when I am at home I sometimes don't wear a collar. Does that count?
"Tee" shirts are but underwear in my book.Knowing you as I've come to through this forum, I have to ask, do you mean you don't attach your collar to your shirt (as you are referencing those cool old-style shirts with a detachable collar) or do you mean you wear a T-shirt or similar collarless shirt? My money is on the former.
"Tee" shirts are but underwear in my book.
I sort of agree about old movies but I won't go so far as to say I can watch them over and over again. But I can enjoy a very ordinary 60-minute B-movie that I've never heard of as well as more well-known movies. The reason is because it's fresh and compared with new movies, it doesn't feel like I've already seen it from having seen so many promos about it.
Tennis champions wearing "underwear" in public.
Well. They are sportsmen. I wouldn't go around dressed in a jockey's pinks, nor do I run around in an athletic shirt like, say, Gene Tunney.
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Though if I put that much effort into my physique doubtless would I seldom wear a shirt of any sort, let alone a collar.
..."The Third Man"--- Wells entrance scene
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Well. They are sportsmen. I wouldn't go around dressed in a jockey's pinks, nor do I run around in an athletic shirt like, say, Gene Tunney.
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Though if I put that much effort into my physique doubtless would I seldom wear a shirt of any sort, let alone a collar.
I think that the mere mention of having shirts with collars that need turning is the real giveaway of "You know you are getting old when......". I will admit to being so old to know what that means!"Tee" shirts are but underwear in my book.
Yes, when I'm home I wear stiff collars attached with collar buttons.
When I'm back in Michigan I wear old-style clothing. Only wear soft collared shirts for yard and shop work back there.
In Cleveland I dress like a schlub. Old dress shirts (usually with collars and cuffs that want turning) khakis and low shoes.
I accessorized my truck with running boards, but that was to make it easier for our aging friends with bad knees to get into it.Running boards...