Let's Pretend

I happened to be watching some tennis played this afternoon, in the course of my multifarious duties, when it struck me that the garb of the fine players, which looked very chic indeed, would have appeared absurdly baggy to the even finer players I used to watch in the 1960's and 1970's on television. In those days shorts really were shorts and got ever shorter, it seemed.

Then it struck me that watching people from other eras in the fashions of their times, as in costume dramas or period movies, tells us an essential truth. We are all of us always dressing up and playing pretend - and it's great fun.