Style, the decline of.

I went down to the Mirage on the Las Vegas strip yesterday to celebrate their 20th Anniversary and what did I find; a host of scruffy people shuffling around the casino floors looking like an army of Russian serfs storming the Winter Palace. The really dismaying part was that they were predominantly young people. These are the people who should be dressing smartly and acting smartly. Instead, they came off as if "they'd never sat on chairs before" in Basil Fawlty's critical opinion of some hotel guests of his. I know it's asking a lot in the age of grunge to clean up but that's how you move up in class, get a better job, better service, better looking girls. As Leo Gorcey, the spokeman of the Bowry Boys, would say, "I'm regurgitated".