Dressing sharp is one way to improve manners

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT; updated 4:36 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The lineup of June weddings and graduation ceremonies elicited the usual rounds of groans and complaints from some of my friends. We jokingly refer to ourselves as the fashion police, primarily because we mentally and verbally like to sentence people who wear ratty jeans, shorts and T-shirts to dress-up affairs to a year in the House of Mirrors.

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