Robin Givhan

And I remember there was a group of, I think it was all men, I might be wrong about that, who were in New York, who made this point of getting dressed up.

when they were out there raising their voices.

And when I say getting dressed up, I mean, it was like...

you know, those images from the 60s had been sort of dipped in technicolor.

And they were, some of them were in suits, some of them were in ties, jackets.

I mean, they just looked incredible.

And their whole point was, you know, in sort of bringing a kind of dignity and importance

to what they were doing.

And not to say that you can't be in, you know, t-shirts, sneakers, shorts, whatever, and still be delivering a really important message.

But I think, you know, as you said, there are reasons why, you know, there are still these handful of occasions in which we really, when we fret about what we're going to wear,

and whether or not what we're wearing is appropriate or is respectful or perhaps celebratory enough.

And I think about it at weddings and at funerals.

We think about what we're wearing.

And those are occasions that still sort of carry this

importance and an emotional weight to them.

And there are these moments that, you know, we are going... that we know that we're going to remember.

They're going to be sort of written into the family history book.

And I don't know.

I mean, sometimes I wonder...

if other moments still had that sort of capacity to inspire kind of thoughtful dressing, that act of thoughtful dressing just sort of allows people to take a moment and really sort of think about the occasion that they're dressing for, whether it be a protest, whether it be