We see West Indian immigrants arriving on the Windrush in their best clothes, dignified and optimistic, into smoggy, dirty, austere England.
Recently in London with his trio, Ibrahim, now 67, is a tall, dignified figure, in loose clothes.
He put together his own style from old clothes – not yet dignified as "vintage" – and theatrical costume, and carried that over to his first boutique, Kleptomania, which he opened in 1966, in Kingly Street, Soho, around the corner from Carnaby Street, where John Stephen was running several shops.
The switchman lifted his head from the rail, blew his nose, brushed the dirt off his clothes, and adopted a serious, dignified expression.
Improve your confidence and ease to initiate personal talk with women in person by dressing attractive, dignified, and masculine by not making your clothes and shoes over sized, too loose fitting and too puffy (padded).
"These clothes give a kind of body language which is very dignified," she said.
Showing chimpanzees dressed in clothes and clowning around in films and commercials may not be particularly dignified, but it fosters sympathy for the species and makes people want to protect them in the wild.
But now Colby had shaved and Tina wore makeup, though everyone was wearing the same clothes they had worn three months before -- all except the host, Jeff Probst, who got to change into dignified long pants instead of his khaki shorts.
