[Dingfod]

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In high school back in the early 70s, I wore Dingo boots and boot cut Levis, usually with a tapered shirt, often Western style. My hair always conformed to the school dress code, but I let it grow long in the summers. When they dropped the dress code between 10th and 11th grade, I was ready on the hair front.

In college and after, I wore what we called jeans, flannel shirts and waffle-stompers, thick lugged sole boots much like Doc Martens are now, only denim. My hair got longer, almost shoulder length.

After dropping out of college in 1975, I worked jobs in retail and auto sales, which had dress codes of their own. I conformed to the norm, right down to a polyester leisure suit, white patent leather shoes and belt and shorter haircut.

I had no style at all after that. I usually wore the same kind of clothes at work (oilfield and chemical plant) that I did everywhere else, jeans, t-shirt, Dingo boots, flannel shirts when the weather allowed.

When I lived in Wyoming, I let the hair grow long and grew an unruly mustache, trying for the cowboy/mountain man look.

I found some Hawaiian shirts on sale during the Magnum PI tv show era, then it was jeans, tennis shoes, and brightly colored Hawaiian shirts most of the time when I lived in Colorado.

When I moved to Salt Lake City, I had to wear shirt and tie at work all the time, so I went even more casual in my casual clothes, cargo shorts and oversized t-shirts with sandals most all the time. That's still the norm for me. Comfort is more important than appearance now.

So, I've not made a lot of drastic changes in appearance in my life except for the Herb Tarlek look in the mid-70s and the Thomas Magnum look in the mid-to-late-80s.