COLUMN: Take some pride, dress the part

Not a day goes by that I am not alternately amazed, amused and appalled by the sartorial inelegance that has so permeated society. I am not one for enforced dress codes, stifling individual innovation, or imposing my obviously antiquated ideas of style and taste on the public at large; however, when compared with today’s “standards of attire,” Maynard G. Krebs, a character in the sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and Gravel Gertie, a recurring character in Dick Tracy, would be fashion plates.