When I was growing up, we had what I think of as about four levels of dress.

There were shorts, jeans, and casual shirts which were reserved for play.  Then there were school clothes; we did not wear shorts or jeans to school, and when we got home we changed our clothes before we went out to play.  Then there were dressy clothes, sometimes called church clothes.  They served not only for church but for almost any event dressier than school.  By the time I got to college, I had added party clothes. 

Nowadays people seem to have more clothes, but they have fewer levels of clothes. 

People come to church, as a friend put it, in the same clothes they wear to the grocery store.  The children lighting the candles have bare legs and flip-flops hanging out below their acolyte robes. 

Jeans and t-shirts are the norm at our office.  And at the company Christmas party, which is supposed to be a dressy affair, I have seen folks in jeans and sweatshirts.

I have no idea what to make of it all.

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