"Karen Selwyn" wrote in message
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> 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.
Yes, but for them it was a form of necessary transportation....not a cruise.
I know quite well, my mother and father and their families were those who
were in the ship's bowels when they immigrated and they certainly never even
got a glimpse of those in formal clothes on the decks above! ;-)
--Jean
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