NYC Easter 2012

Easter and Passover coincided very neatly this year ( reminding us all again that the Last Supper was a Seder meal)...

Manhattan seemed to belong entirely to the tourists this weekend. Sunday a lot of the Avenues in lower Midtown were almost empty of traffic...

The End of An Era in Clothing Styles...One trend I have been noticing in New York is how young people in particular are so loathe to "dress up" for anything, -- and this included the participants at the event at the Armenian Orthodox St. Vartan's Cathedral.  Neat but very casual, this look has spread even to the middle aged -- is it the high cost of mens' suits and ties that is behind some of this, or is it due to a world where more and more people are connected to computers and social media so much and the " dressing down" atmosphere they seem to have at some high tech workplaces has just become more and more a standard deal...

Forget the "Easter Parade" this year, folks...I went up to Fifth Avenue and 57th Street and found the Avenue blocked off by the police South of 57th Street, where the mob scene ( and all the Easter costumes and finery) was too claustrophobic to be entered into...

If the trend is continuing, the number of tourists milling about outnumbers the real Easter Parade people by about 100 to one...of course, a lot of kids are some adults had bunny ears and there were big bows in the hair of some women etc. but it was the same masses of neatly but casually attired people...
( Maybe this clothing trend is part of the "suburbanization of America" which I read about somewhere...

Let me see if there is anything on the internet about all this--well, here is an excerpt from an article about "Dressing for Success in the Workplace"

It’s not an easy task to find a job these days. So when you do get called for a job interview you need to make the best impression. There’s one easy method of doing this: dress for it.
I know what you may be thinking: “The business world has gotten so casual—people wear flip-flops for goodness sake! Workplace attire doesn’t matter anymore.” Not true! The way you dress says a whole lot about you and how you feel about your career, and potential employers certainly notice.
This simple rule may help where job interviews are concerned: Better to be overdressed then under-dressed. Even if the company you happen to be interviewing for says, “You don’t need to dress up, we are very casual here,” it is best to still wear proper business attire to your interview. Your clothing is capable of showing how serious you are about your work, and employers want someone who wants to grow with a company and takes their position seriously. In the event you dress for an interview in t-shirt and jeans, you have made a bad first impression, even though you may blow everybody else out of the water with your qualifications.
In the workplace you should still think about the clothing you wear. Even in a casual place you can still look sharp. Should you just grab yesterday’s jeans off the floor and run out the door you won’t get noticed. People who put more thought into their style stand out from their peers, which is never a bad thing if your boss is looking to promote someone!