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Article: Bobos In Paradise.(the effect of casual dress codes on the marketplace)(Column)
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- National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
- Article date:
- July 23, 2001
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To The Point
A little more than a year ago I wrote a column entitled, "Whatever Happened to Elegance?" In it, I decried what Letitia Baldridge, White House social secretary for Jacqueline Kennedy, labeled the "slobbing of America." I also raised the question as to whether there was a connection between the then currently popular sloppy dress habits of so many and their personal discipline in work habits and lifestyle.
At about the same time, I read about a new book featured in the Washington Post, entitled, "Bobos in Paradise." My immediate reaction was: "Wow! Maybe one of my relatives or perhaps a heretofore unknown ancestor stumbled upon a mother lode ...