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Old 08.20.2008, 10:56 AM   #1
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I was noticing while watching some movies from the 1980s and 1990s how strange it seems to see men wearing their shirts tucked into their pants, even when the shirts are polos. Also strange is seeing this done with shorts, and even stranger still, to see the shirt-into-shorts with a belt.

And yet at one time apparently this was quite normal. Now it seems so odd to me.

Sometimes what is or was normal seems quite odd, does it not?

Another example--hats through time. Until around the early 60s, men wore brimmed hats all the time, it seems. Hats came back a bit in the 1990s--it seemed every kid on campus wore a baseball hat. Now both traditions seem odd to me--though I wear a cap if I'm at the beach in the sun, or a straw hat if I'm working in the hot sun in the yard.

What's normal but odd to you, eh?
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