When I was a kid and in the Boy Scouts in the early 70s, our troop was required to wear the regulation uniform in every detail. We"d have inspections and there were consequences for those who did not comply and wanted to go by their own rules. We were able to take pride in our presentation. However, we"d go to jamborees and other events and most of the other scouts in other troops looked like a bunch of rag-tag misfits because of no uniform standards. If a troop had 20 scouts, you would see 20 different combinations of pants, shirts, socks, hats, etc. It probably wasn"t a matter of money, as the Boy Scouts had plenty of ways to raise funds to help kids get uniforms. It boiled down to the scoutmasters taking pride in their troop, or not. It was usually those leaders who served in the military who had sharp-looking boys. The scout uniform situation is probably a lot worse now in 2011, but I still have a lot of respect for the program.
I agree about the respectfulness of removing a hat or cap in a building. A lot of folks today just don"t know. The significance just isn"t there anymore. I"ve seen seniors get quite upset about it. At the same time, I see lots of WWII and Korea vets in stores wearing baseball caps with the picture of the ship they served on. This doesn"t bother me as I have a lot of respect for these guys.
When I was a kid, most boys wore baseball caps. But nobody ever wore them backwards. The only kids who would wear a baseball cap backwards were the catchers on the baseball teams. If non-catcher kid would wear a cap backwards, he"d probably get beat up, and would be considered a dorky moron. Now backwards is the fashion. Lots of newer cars and SUVs have a visor-looking thing over the back window, and it makes the vehicle look like a kid wearing a cap backwards.
Most of us kids in 60s and 70s wore blue jeans, but our parents preferred to send us to school in nicer slacks.
Remember when all athletes in all sports wore white socks? Now black socks are in. It used to be that black socks were worn only with business suits and going to church. It does look strange to see men playing basketball wearing what appears to be their black dress socks.
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