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

I wanna know what happened to those spandex jackets we were promised in IGY by donald fagan.

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Look at the way people dressed for Mardi Gras parades back in the day...

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The men’s clothing department was probably just about finding the right size for a handful of items they carried.

I respect how they used to dress back then, but I'd be damned if I'm wearing slacks and a button down anywhere besides work or another important event( ie funeral/wedding)

I enjoy being comfortable over trying to impress people I don't know nor even care for.

I've always just worn jeans and tshirts. "Dressing nice" usually just means dressing uncomfortably.

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Really? Who is doing the choosing? Even in the 60s and 70s when there were terrible clothing choices - the guy usually asked the girl out.

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That's a trope. Guys seldomly ask girls out without first being lured in. Girls make themselves available, basically a deer walks up to you pointing a rifle at its chest and ask you to pull the trigger... you sexy hunter.

The question is why is the deer walking up to certain hunters. Are they walking up to a hunter that will use the meat, the skin, and will mount the head on the wall to cherish....or Will they walk up the hunter that'll just shoot them and leave the dead carcass to rot?

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The reason people stopped dressing that way was the 60's counter coulter revolution.

They hated their stiff proper parents and wanted to be nothing like them. So they burned their bras, did LSD, and all the other hippy shite. Society chases the trends of the youth and fashion followed and the suit and die died with the hippies.

The funny thing is all those assholes turned into worse people than their parents they were protesting.

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This. Hammer-------> Nail.

David Horowitz touched on it in Radical Son It makes sense.

Depends on your age, gender, and definition of nice. My guess is women from the Elizabethan Age would shite on any female not wearing an ankle-length dress, regardless of social class.

My wife and I discuss this a lot lately.

Now it’s not like we’re a couple cosmopolitan social jet setters, (we’re very small townish) but we’ve noticed that a lot of people don’t even dress up for special occasions such as weddings, funerals, baptisms, or holiday events.

I like jeans as much as anyone but, c’mon you don’t have a pair of khakis and a button down shirt to attend a wedding / reception?

These threads always remind me of this:

When I was a kid it seemed like people dressed up a lot more than they do today to go to LSU games.

I think this has to do with the change in what people are allowed to wear at work.

But even church.. Not that I go to church often, but when I was a kid, the majority of men would have a suit.. Or a nice coat on. Today, wearing a good pair of jeans and their best Columbia fishing shirt is considered "dressed up" to some.