And faded, baggy jeans.
I actually cried a little when I saw that picture. My New Yorker grandmother and aunts are spinning in their graves.
It is the most disrespectful gesture this couple could have made to the family, in many ways.
Many will not understand that, but it is true.
“My New Yorker grandmother and aunts are spinning in their graves.”
Yes, yes they are. Family story, years ago when I was a kid there was a funeral. People were traveling from various places and evidently there was some complaining about who was where, when, etc. on the part of the older folks.
My brother overheard one elderly aunt say to another: at least you don’t have to worry about [jocon’s mom] she’ll have those kids here on time and dressed correctly.
As a New Yorker she’d’ve died to do otherwise.
My boss’s wife died recently. My boss is black. At the funeral every man and women black and white were dressed in fine but subdued apparel. There were no blue jeans on anyone. All the women wore dresses. They were shown the appropriate respect due good people.
Mrs. DeBlasio is a highly educated women that moves in the highest power circles of the liberal elite of the East Coast and Washington D.C. She is not ignorant of what is proper attire for any occassion and particularly this occasion. This leads me to believe she does not give a damn or this was a calculated insult to the New York Police.
I have a very good friend whose mother grew up in New York City and was a young woman there in the 1940's and early 50's. They weren't wealthy but I suppose would be considered upper middle-class. My favorite photos - she used to wear gloves out on the town. She and her friends looked so elegant!
It seems to mirror the decline of American society. The shrinking minority in NYC who have the attitudes of traditional public decency, while the majority celebrate their degraded attitudes and status.
My family’s history is also from NY and no way would they be caught dead going out of the house/apt looking like that. They’d sooner die.
What’s really striking here, too, is how usually black women get really dressed for any church event. Even after so many whites started looking like slobs in the late 60s/early 70s, those black church-goers continued to dress to the nines. They do to this day. But Mrs. deBlasio dressed like THAT? And she was there with her husband in an official capacity. Disgraceful. Just breathtaking.