I had the occasion to go to our local High School to pick up two young couples from their Christmas Ball. The roads were bad due to snow and ice and as I had a 4x4 and the time their parents asked me to assist and I was delighted to help out. Any way the local School cannot be described as a school for "toffs" and there are are mixture of reasonably well off to those with extremely low incomed parents and some of those(too many) would have parents that are unemployed. So without dwelling on peoples circumstances I will get to the point.
I was delighted to note that all the young gentlemen leaving the ball were wearing a dinner jacket(tux), or appropriate Highland attire and without doubt many of the outfits were begged, borrowed, hired and I suspect, stolen!I have to say the young ladies looked beautiful and their outfits were a delight to the eye. So yes, the young here are well aware of dress codes(to a point) at a young age and thank goodness a black tie event is not regarded as a "toffs do", but more a case of doing justice to the occasion, themselves and their young lady.
Last edited by Jock Scot; 7th January 11 at 12:42 AM.
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