Why do Americans always dress like they're headed to Reagan's funeral?

[troublemaker]

There was a popular and eerily prescient thread lurking here for the better part of last week titled: WHY DO AMERICANS ALWAYS DRESS LIKE THEY'RE HEADED TO THE BALLPARK?

Behold the grim toll Casual Fridays have taken on our nation!



I actually blame the Clinton era for this. After the conspicuous consumption of the 1980s resulted in a tax increase on the rich in 1993 everyone became paranoid about us knowing how fucking RICH they were and even the wealthy started dressing like pigs, trying to blend in. (Bill and Al running around in khakis during the 1992 campaign didn't help either.)

This is like Six Flags over Crap... "you must be this tall to look at the dead president"

Tips for Reagan mourners:
1) You are not in line to see a stuffed mermaid at the county fair. (Close, but not quite)
2) Ranch dressing is not a beverage
3) Don't use an American flag to cover your spotty behind. Seriously guys, would you treat the Confederate flag that way? Of course not! So while you're up here in The United States show a little respect.
4) Save your "I saw the dead president" souvenir card. You can sell it on eBay!

[flamingyouth]

1. Nice flag desecration there

:eyes:

[Bunny]

2. You know, much has been made of the apparel of people

who are parading past Reagan. I don't have a really strong opinion about it either way.

What I will say is, if (and that's a big if) I was going to wait in line, in whatever kind of weather, for 5-10-15 hours to see a coffin, I would NOT be wearing a skirt, panty hose, and heels.

If that makes me an ignorant, unwashed clod, so be it.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Great post, thanks! I saw one of those shirts last night, on C-Span

on a totally different guy. They must be selling them out of a truck near the White House!

[Warpy]

4. I would say they're just dressed for comfort

but there's no reason casual, comfortable dressing has to be this tacky. Plain slacks and T-shirts can look classy with a lightweight jacket over the whole business.

You'd think they'd at least have bothered with wearing plain, darker colors instead of the celebratory printed tack-a-rama going on.

But then, nobody ever accused right wingers of class.

[Carni]

5. It's pathetic and I am mortified

It isn't the "casual" nature of their dress...

It's the "I am a big fat slob without any sense of style" thing happening with the "God's Country" right winged people that I find so appalling.

I agree with the poster that said you can throw on jeans and a
T-shirt and look stylish and put together.

You can be comfortable and not go around looking like a car crash at a flea market.(but then again look at the way our "first lady" dresses--she looks like the back end of a barn straight off the JC Penney final clearance rack)

These Reagan GOP lemmings disgust me.