[quote=Diego Mamani][quote=briansd1]I long for the conservative olden days when people didn’t go out of the house unless properly dressed[/quote]

Images of “People of WalMart” came to mind after reading your post. Ugh! Yes, I miss the olden days. When I was 8 or 9 (back in the early/mid 70s) I was supposed to go to downtown with my dad. Right before we left the house, he said “You’re wearing those old jeans? You can’t go to downtown like that!”

Yes, it was the 70s, but dad was brought up in an earlier, more conservative time.[/quote]

Growing up (also in the 1970s to early 1980s), we always dressed up for Mass on Sunday, followed by brunch after. The term “Sunday best” actually meant exactly that.

Dinner was another family get-together where you cleaned up and didn’t wear anything scruffy. My mom was ruthless when it came to enforcing good manners (no elbows on the table, use the right utensils, be polite, etc).

I see people going to church now in shorts and flip-flops and I’ll admit I find that disappointing.

I’d agree with Brian over the loss of manners and courtesy; what the nuns would be call “good deportment”.