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A Brief History of Nobody Dresses Well Anymore

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2022 "Attitudes have changed," she said, a bit wistfully. "People don't dress up much anymore. --Lincoln Journal Star, 12 September 2022
2015 "People don't dress well anymore. They don't even dress up to go to work. On the tube I see a lot of black clothes all the time," she explained. "I have black clothing too but I like to wear colours, particularly purples, mauves and pinks and other bright colours. "In my day when you went to London for the day you always wore gloves, a hat and smart shoes. It was unthinkable to wear trainers. I don't like it. Things like trips to the theatre are a chance to dress up." --The Argus, 19 November 2015
2000 Dressing up just isn't very big anymore Changing ways: Everybody seems to be going casual --The Telegraph-Herald, 22 August 2000
1995 NBA superscout Marty Blake was once general manager of the St. Louis Hawks. How did he compare the old Kiel to the new one? "People don't dress as well as they used to," Blake told Bernie Miklasz of the Post-Dispatch. "And there still isn't enough parking." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6 January 1995
1982 No doubt there are just as many poor people on the streets today as there were then, but they are not quite so obviously in the want. One reason for this, of course, is that so many people today dress poorly. It's the style. The most prosperous people in town wear blue jeans or overalls. --The Plain Dealer, 15 June 1982
1973 One thing he's learned over the years is that people aren't as dressy as they once were. "People don't dress up anymore. They go casual now. "As a matter of fact there's a shortage of people going to church. This is no good. People should go to church more often. That's the trouble with the kids these days." --Star-Gazette, 14 March 1973
1972 "These days, you wear fewer petticoats, which used to take up a lot of room. But old people used to look nicer when I was younger. They looked stately in their long black dresses and shawls. --Reading Evening Post, 22 August 1972
1965 "It's a shame," she says. "The teen-age girls and young women today dress so poorly -- the surfing and Whiskey-a-Go-Go set really have abominable taste. And there is a sameness to their clothes that is pitiful." --The Herald, 23 January 1965
1960 "People don't dress as well as they used to," Vermeers said. "Leisure-time clothes and wash-and-wear fabrics have cut into the cleaners." With his sharply creased suits and near bow ties, he sets an example of the typical cleaners' customer. Also on the way, he said, are coin-operated dry cleaning machines. --The Spokesman-Review, 27 March 1960
1955 A Marion Marlow laments "When I was a kid in St. Louis I had three burning ambitions -- to wear high-heeled shoes, to have enough money to buy all the chocolate ice cream I wanted, and to be old enough to wear evening gowns. Now that I'm old enough, nobody dresses up anymore, I'm on a diet and I'm too tall for high heels! That's life!" --Daily News, 27 December 1955
1954 ... The CIO Textile Workers' Union is blaming television for the decline in the clothing industry. The Union claims people don't dress up anymore, but loll around the house watching television, instead... --York Daily Record, 18 May 1954
1950 BLAMED FOR SLOPPY MEN Binghamton, N.Y. (AP) -- Michael Santalucia, the last of Binghamton's custom hatmakers, claims the automobile has encouraged sartorial sloppiness. "Men stopped dressing up because of the auto," Santalucia says. "They got sloppy. They don't have to look nice any more. They are never on the street. They are always hidden in cars." --The Plain Speaker, 28 April 1950
1948 People Dress Poorly. As for clothing, the English male, who used to be the best-dressed in the world, now is very poorly dressed. Many men have not bought a new suit in five years. Women are still wearing the "old look" for the most part. New clothes can be had only for ration points and a sales tax of 66 2-3 per cent is tacked onto the price. --The State, 2 September 1948
1938 "England seems rapidly to have lost dignity," says the veteran. "While I would not suggest a return to the formal manners and customs of the Victorians, I deplore London's present lack of poise. "The young men of all classes in England today dress sloppily. There is no other word for it. And the young women are not much better. Because they want to be treated as equals by the young men of today, they expect none of the little politeness which were a featuer of my young days." --The Mail, 2 September 1948
1937 FORGOTTEN HOW TO DRESS Lament of Oxford University Magazine Where are the wild-eyed tousled-haired fantastically clad undergraduates of popular fancy? "The Isis," Oxford University magazine, is lamenting their non-existence. --Grimsby Evening Telegraph, 4 February 1937
1923 GIRLS, DON'T TRY TO FOOL MEN FOLKS! You Can't Make a Hit With 'Em Dressing As You Wish BY SENORITA SAN DIEGO When the flapper came into prominence just after the war, girls stopped dressing up for any one else -- even man. They cut their hair short, avoided long skirts, lowered their heels and took to puffing cigarets more strenuously, only to suit their own particular whims. But, girls, if you still include yourselves in this class, you're on the wrong track. You'll never make a hit with man -- let alone other women -- if you continue picking your wearing apparel just to suit yourselv...
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