Back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, people traveling by plane considered it a privilege and a social event. As such, airline travelers dressed accordingly. Men wore suits and perhaps a tie, while ladies wore dresses. Even children adopted society’s norms back then and wore outfits comfortable for travel, but not outrageous or sloppy. And if one were to review scenes of fans from baseball games during the 1940s and 1950s, there would be scores of men wearing hats (not baseball caps) and dressed in sartorial splendor.

These days making an appearance at a funeral home means the only person wearing a suit or dress is the deceased. Visitors invariably show up in cutoffs, flip-flops, or jeans. We have become a nation of slobs and people with no sense of style or decorum. While dining in a fine restaurant, you will invariably spot some dude wearing a baseball hat, and most of the time with the brim sideways or facing backward.

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