Today the notion of ‘suitable clothing’ is dying out. It 1 now appear that, to all intents and purposes, anything goes. At one 2, it was possible to tell at a glance the difference 3 someone dressed for work and someone en route to a nightclub. And, needless to say, the same clothes would never have been worn to both. However, in the last thirty years, we have undergone a sea change in 4 ideas of what a dress code consists of. Even well into the 1960s, male air travellers were expected to wear a suit; these days it would 5 as no surprise to find them in shorts and trainers. In fact, such has been the revolution in our own dress codes that we may find 6 dressing down to go to work and dressing up to go out in the evening. That 7 said, there are occasions, a wedding or a funeral, for example when only certain clothes will 8, even if certain people will just show up dressed the way they want.