... today. There is work in the garden to be done - and I need to rest up after a hectic week. But I would draw everyone's attention to this piece by my colleague Annette John-Hall (which I had the pleasure of editing): Say yes to dress-up.
Note this quote: "We have become Tacky Nation, a society whose dress reflects our dumbed-down, diminished sense of what's important. Even rich people dress like they're about to make a Wal-Mart run. Somehow Bill Gates addressing stockholders wearing a golf shirt reeks of condescension, especially when he can buy the whole stinking course.
If moneyed folks like Gates think that sporting Dockers and deck shoes puts those of us less affluent at ease, they should think again."
Then consider this piece by Theodore Dalrymple: Minding Our Manners. Perhaps these two articles by very different writers represents the start of a grand new convergence of views.
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