Declining Standards

[hc4361]

I've spent a happy half hour looking at street scene photos from the 1950s and 1960s and it strikes me that the general population is much scruffier these days with trainers and 'leisure wear' replacing polished shoes and structured clothing.
This is despite the fact that doing the laundry in the 1950s was a much harder job than it is now as most people didn't have washers and dryers nor sooooper dooooper high steam irons.

How do you dress when you go into town for a spot of shopping?

[cazzz1975]

I went shopping on saturday, I noticed the majority of people were well turned out and groomed.

[mccfluff]

if i go supermarket shopping its a ballgown, hair & make up done, heels etc. if i go into town then i dress down a bit (just a little)

[TWR]

Presentable.

[ChillDoubt]

I'm too busy lolling about the house in my cravat and smoking jacket, I get my butler to do all that.....

[bookbinder]

I wear a casual, zip-up jacket, leather shoes as normal. If I go into town, especially if I go with my wife, I also wear a tie. [I'm 75, by the way, if that makes a difference.] I've always been accustomed to dressing 'respectably/neatly', so it's a habit that I've kept. As regards people looking much scruffier these days, well, when I was younger there wasn't the wide choice of fabrics and styles that's available nowadays, so perhaps it wasn't as easy, then, to look scruffy.

[hc4361]

I'm relieved to know that you are all dapper men and glam women :)

[stuey]

Green bell-bottom trousers; brown sandals; black socks; a white string vest; and a red carnation.

[Peter Pedant]

recall bias

have a look at Billy Liar again, the blackened Manchester streets

I recollect everyone is post-war demob suits or utility clothing, much darned and not often washed

and the mums didnt wash their kids that often either....

[ummmm]

Jeans, mainly.

[mikey4444]

Personally, I never wear tweeds in Town, or pin stripes in the country. These things might be considered old-fashioned these days but my Valet insists.

I would rebel but good staff are so difficult to get these days and I can't afford to lose him.