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People who dress "nicely" to travel through airports, why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by pirating@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I get that some people have business waiting at the pickup and wanting to look professional, but why everybody else?

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

It used to be good manners to dress up for stuff like this, probably left over from that. People would wear their church clothes when traveling.