Sloane Wilson, was it, who wrote that well-known novel?  I like the father in 'Ripley' who loathes jazz.  What is it he calls it?  An insolent noise?  And I bet he was at least slightly Ivy League, too...

Depends on where you were on the West Coast. Parts of San Francisco considered a man wearing pleats to be cause for arrest while others thought all clothing bourgeois and optional. In Los Angeles, always a company town, one company (movies) said and dressed one way on film and live quite another way of camera. The other company (war production) was pretty grey all the time, except in Pasadena, where colorful traditions from the east coast thrived. Both companies and their vendors were masters of propaganda, trying to promote the Eisenhower era and all this notion of conformity while working daily to either undermine it or see something else arise. Both were successful.