The Politics of Pants

Charles Paul Freund's "The Politics of Pants" (February) brought back memories. My late father used to complain about the love his baby boomer kids had for wearing jeans or, as he invariably called them, dungarees.

Dad's comment whenever one of the brood tried to pull off wearing denim to any social event was, "You know, we used to make POWs wear that stuff when I was in the Army." Mind you, he and my morn saw nothing wrong with wearing jeans when we were playing softball in the back yard, but just try to wear even brand new black jeans to church--even the "folk mass"--and you'd be sent to your room to change. The idea that employees not engaged in physical labor would wear them to work would have flummoxed him.

Kevin Robinson

Milwaukee, WI

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