well roniheels, thats the generation of my mom ( in her late 70s) so I would say that you are dead-on about the way people thought back then, in fact my mom would feel (if not out right say) those very same things about people that
TODAY dress in any way they like (hence, anything goes attitude of the 21st century) in more ways than you might know times are way
DIFFERENT than they once were. (or in other words "a product of their generation") so when these older people may see others like ourselves dressed like we might want to be seen in "public" they
STILL react in the old ways they were brought up in- namely,

type of look cause part of their mind still cant understand what they see around them @ the present time.
