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Originally Posted by graciegirl
The folks at Glenview always seem a bit.......dressier...I am not sure. The girls look a bit more polished and look like they have "cleaned up" to go out to eat. And the gentlemen sometimes wear jackets there.
It might be my imagination. The surroundings there remind me more of our Country Club back home...and the area is a Little older, so the residents may be too.
I can't believe I just typed that. I hate when people bring up age as a discriptor.
Bad Gracie.
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No, it is definitely generational. You are right on target.
When we were younger, our friends and neighbors who were about 14 years older than us, who dated during World War II, would always dress very formally to go out to dinner and to church. **Mink coats, etc.
It was the dress code all over back then.......but not for us. These friends are now in their early 80's.
My childhood memories of my aunts coming from New York City with "fox collars" (the fox had eyeballs and claws; to a kid a bit scary).....the men wore suits, ties, overcoats and dress hats, just to visit the sticks (as they called it) of New Jersey....sticks meaning the country.
**Obviously not in Florida....no need for furs.
We were the era of MAD MEN......and you can see how the men still wore sport jackets and suits, ties, etc. to dine out.....or even dine in their own homes. I was a private secretary for men like that.
We wore dresses with high heels every day.........even in high school before we went out into the working world.
So, yes, age is a descriptor as you call it. It's just generational.
Most of the younger folks' weddings now, whether on the west coast or mountain states, etc. are asking guests to dress "casually elegant" but not too dressed..........not all in black, no glitter, no feathers, no whatever.
Again, you'd be surprised how people decipher that "casually elegant" or "elegantly casual". It's a little tricky, but most of the college educated adult children just do their own thing and don't worry about society's dress codes.....not like we did.
Times have changed. I, for one, am glad that THE VILLAGES allows comfortably casual.