“I don’t know when this broke down, but I recall a time when black folks dressed to the nines when they went out to clubs”
When I was 20 years old and military, I was invited to a party by a black woman as her date. I asked her if there would be other white people there, she assured me that there would be.
Not only were there no other whites there, I was the only man there without a tie on. I felt really out of place and not because I was the only white person there.
I was treated decently, 1965, Washington, D.C.
Everybody seemed, from the pictures I have seen to have dressed back then. I guess it’s cheaper not to dress up.