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Originally Posted by srmom
Maybe it's a Texas thing, or maybe it's just a maturity thing, but many people with extremely good taste, who are definitely not working-class wear jeans and t shirts.
I was at a high school basketball playoff game Tuesday night, and the stands were full of men who were in jeans and t shirts supporting our team. Most of these men were in fraternities while in college, all are college graduates, and all have executive level positions (unless they are ex-executives who took the golden parachute or trust funders who invested well, then they are unemployed).
While I will agree with you that at most social situations, such as dinner parties or get togethers, men are in dress pants or chinos, there are many other situations, beyond yard work or ranching, where men wear jeans.
I want to edit and add that last night while watching Project Runway, Michael Korrs described why he always wears jeans with a t shirt and sport coat. I would hardly call him blue collar!
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Michael Korrs might not get a bid in a SEC rush. His interests probably don't line up with a lot of the guys.
I think you'd see adults wearing jeans at high school sporting events any place. I don't think you'd see t-shirts as much as you'd see polos with them around where I live, and I think collared shirts are probably more the norm on the kind of adult guy you described where I am.
I think jeans are probably way more common on adult, college educated, well-off, white-collar men in Texas than in Georgia, but it's not even as if adult people in Georgia are giving it a lot of thought, especially if they, like I do, live in an area with a lot of people from around the country. I don't think people are really that judgmental about what other people are wearing, especially in regard to men.
I want to add that I noted all that class related stuff not because I care, but just to clarify that I'm not trying to say that everyone in my little section of the south is less likely to wear jeans, just a certain little segment.
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