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Re: Formal wear on board Posted on: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:00:39 MST

Jean O'Boyle wrote:
>
> Todd, it stems back to the era where only the affluent were able to
> cruise...they wore formal clothes to dinner every night.

You have only to look at the immigration records at Ellis Island to see
how many far-from-affluent individuals arrived in America on the same
ships that carried first-class passengers in luxury across the oceans.

Karen Selwyn