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Seriously. I'm not a fashion nut by any means, but the consensual cultural decision to go from "stylish" to "casual" and (so far) not look back is baffling. I was looking at some candid shots from the 1930s the other day—not fashion shots, just regular folks lookin' fab—and I said to my wife, "So…did people just get

Agreed. During my brief two-week tenure in the public school system, a 4th-grade teacher had to schedule a meeting with parents because she told a student that when he didn't do his homework despite her best efforts to support and encourage him, it was "like he was slapping her in the face." This somehow got construed