How Does a 1978 Dress Code List Hold Up?

Or: Should you wear shorts to a restaurant?

Good morning from Brooklyn where I witnessed a gang of youths at the nearby park break through a wire fence to get to a little hill where a pile of various discarded plastic playhouse parts was waiting to get carted away to the dump and turn it into a fort. The children looked to be led by a mop-haired boy who looked like he was dressed in some Rag & Bo…