Society is getting more and more casual, and I love it

[Dominus]

Just got out of court. The courts lady was wearing yoga pants. The judge was wearing a normal t shirt and pants. Half the court room was in shorts. I went in business casual and I was totally overdressed. This was my first case in this county. Recently expanded into this county.

It was actually kinda weird holding up my right hand and all and addressing a guy in tshirt as "your honor".

Edit.

Or maybe he was in a golf shirt. I don't remember exactly now. But it was definitely not formal attire or a robe.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Had a couple of work uniforms for mostly service jobs, but usually it wasn't required. Dressing up is for special occasions, but we the Dutch are not known for our sense of style.

Occasionally, I rent a suit. The most expensive items I own are hand-me-down leathers and a pair of excellent shoes 20 years old. In this country we think casual is chic.

 

[Petallways]

People should feel they’re able to go anywhere they want and very casual wear

 

[rareboy]

Had a couple of work uniforms for mostly service jobs, but usually it wasn't required. Dressing up is for special occasions, but we the Dutch are not known for our sense of style.

Occasionally, I rent a suit. The most expensive items I own are hand-me-down leathers and a pair of excellent shoes 20 years old. In this country we think casual is chic.

Of course, I look at the photos of my gg and ggg grandparents on my wall....the women with gold and lace skullcaps, ropes of jewellry laid over brocade dresses...and the men in their Morning dress or full tails ....or the pic of my grandmother strutting her 1920's fashions while out shopping in the city....our family was never casual until after the war and even then, my grandmother and mother loved dressing us like proper European dolls.

I remember my grandmother being so shocked when they returned for a trip in the early 1970's at how much less formal people dressed. hahaha

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

That's klederdracht and it is almost never worn by anyone anymore.

But they're not forgotten, and can readily be made again, if only people cared.

My best clothes are for the church and even they are overly casual.

I'm deeply interested in buying or having better clothes made, but for that, I need more space than living with my mother will afford me.

But as things are, we have too many garments there already. Some from my mother's late father, some from my late father. Some from me from twenty years ago.

By Dutch standards we aren't poorly dressed, but those aren't very high. Germans dress with more care. Having said this, almost no one wears pyama's although tracksuits are acceptable in many public venues.

There's also a house music based subculture called Gabber House from the nineties where (mostly white) by now middle aged women and men wear Australians' track suits.

But you don't see that a lot.