re: When did people stop dressing nice as a rule and more as an occasion

I have worn flip flops on a daily basis since I was 14, unless I was playing sports, at a wedding, or when I worked in DC for a couple years.
I live in gulf shores now, but even if I didn’t, I’d still find a way to be without shoes.
To hell with societal standards.
Do what you wanna.

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it's always struck me how people seemed to be dressed then.

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They didn’t have mass produced T-shirt’s and comfortable clothes.

You had a few shirts, jackets, and pants and you rarely washed them. And they lasted a very long time. You wore a jacket everywhere because your shirt was gross and jackets and pants can be washed less when made of wool and real fabric instead of synthetic nonsense

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there's a middle ground though.

my WWII vet grandfather (and all of his friends) would never go out for dinner in anything less than a clean, ironed collared shirt, tucked in to clean, ironed slacks. he wore a suit to church. maybe wore shorts if it was very hot and in the middle of the day in Florida.

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I'm not condoning it, but the facts are what they are.

If you spent 25 years of your life dressing a certain way, I don't expect you to change much for the remainder of your life, regardless of the options.

If you're born in the late 1940s, polyester and other synthetic fabrics were coming into the mainstream by the time you were choosing your own clothes. That's a much different situation than the previous generation.

Philosophically and analogously speaking, what’s celebrated more these days: European marble or African mudbrick?

Everyone knows the answer, and you can apply it to most aspects of cultural life. We no longer aspire to marble or grandeur, but celebrate instead the so-called egalitarian and antiracist mud huts.

Nobody is stopping you from dressing nice everywhere you go. Be the change you want to see in the world, and stop worrying about what everyone else wears.

One only needs to go to an airport and see the human circus clowns waiting to board. While dressing up with suits and ties isn’t really needed, you shouldn’t show up in the pajamas you slept in the night before.

Well the exact clothing items yes, but that’s 1000% the point I was making. Leisure clothes weren’t invented yet.

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Perhaps but he is the kind that would give a shite about the attitude likely accompanying delressing like a slob to church.

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Prolly not. He was kind of a hippy.

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When people realized how you dress is a phony facade that doesn't reflect what kid of person you are, how good a worker you are or much of anything other than you are a sheep that does what he is told.

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Dressing up was a sign of self discipline, among other things.

We no longer have any self discipline.

I was raised to see church as a place to show respect. Sure you can show respect in shorts, but are we going to sit here and argue that there is no difference?

I was raised Catholic but haven’t been practicing in nearly ten years and I would still never set foot in any type of church or temple, Catholic or not, in shorts.