| When I graduated from college back in 1991, like | | | | well. What a major change in dress for both men and |
| most young graduates, I started looking for a job. I | | | | women. |
| eventually found a job that came close to the field | | | | So what about the typical American? What is the |
| that I studied and it dealt with mainframe printers. I | | | | best thing to really wear as far as comfort? It has to |
| was the low man on the totem pole and I believe | | | | be regular "blue jeans". Rather it be Wrangler or |
| my starting pay was $16,000 a year. I had to wear a | | | | Levis, we love wearing jeans. We can go out into our |
| tie, nice shirt and dress pants. The only problem | | | | yard and pass the ball around or even mow the lawn, |
| about wearing these good clothes was that I was | | | | and wear the same jeans in after our outdoor |
| putting toner into these printers and would get it on | | | | activities and plop down on the couch to catch our |
| my good clothes. That was company policy | | | | favorite show on television. I call this the t-shirt |
| though...you had to wear a tie with dress clothes to | | | | blue-jean type of person that does about everything |
| work. So basically, looking professional was the thing | | | | in this type of "outfit". Let's face it, if you have jeans |
| to do, no matter what you did. | | | | and a t-shirt on, you can go to the movies, go out to |
| Now go back another 30 years, people wore "three | | | | eat, rake leaves, sit on furniture inside the house, |
| piece suites" to work. In fact, it didn't stop at work. | | | | play video games...you get the picture. There is |
| When people went outside of the house, they | | | | something special about those jeans you take off |
| dressed up (well, except for hippies). If you go back | | | | before you go to bed and toss them on the floor. |
| to the 50's, people wore suites and hats to a | | | | When you get up the next morning, you can put |
| professional baseball game. People dressed up big | | | | those same jeans on after you threw them in the |
| time. | | | | corner the night before. They don't wrinkle so there's |
| Now fast track to present day. People have become | | | | no ironing involved. This is probably the best modern |
| more relaxed in what they wear. The attire at work | | | | convenience that man has ever seen besides the |
| is totally different - men wear dockers while women | | | | microwave. |
| wear pant suits. Then you have Freedom Fridays | | | | Jeans and a t-shirt. This has saved us all a lot of time |
| where everybody wears jeans. When you go to a | | | | in trying to choose what to wear for "today". Even |
| ball game on a hot day, you'll see some men without | | | | as I write this article, guess what I'm wearing? |
| any shirts on with just shorts and flip-flops and | | | | Yep...you guessed it. Jeans and a black t-shirt. It's the |
| women with tank tops and some type of shorts as | | | | American thing to do. |