This morning (29 January 2010) it was reported on the BBC radio4 “Today” programme that staff at a Tesco store, built very near a housing estate, were protesting against shoppers coming into the store with bare feet or slippers and clad only in night-wear.  Hopefully this is the first step in restoring a recognition that what you wear in public is a declaration to other people of who and what you are.

If you wear sloppy clothes in public, the chances are you are sloppy in other things – how you do your job, assuming you have one – what respect you have for other people (who probably – just like the Tesco staff – don’t like to see you in night attire) and what view of yourself you project to your children and other people’s children.

In other words, what you wear says a great deal about you, and many, many British people need to understand that.  If in doubt take a look at a photo of a Bank Holiday scene around 1910 and reflect that 8 years later some of the young people you see won the greatest war in Britain’s history.

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