Its simple. People dressed up to go to just about any gathering.
It was the style back then. If someone now were to go back in time, Renaissance people would think we dress weirdly
It's how many games back from the wildcard or division leaders the team is...for ex. Redsox (69-46) Yankees (63-52). The Yanks would be 6 back of the Sox...
They dress in raggedy clothes,
It is a dip hem dress
* It depends on the designer of the wedding dress. Sometimes the ribbons are criss crossed much like you would do on laces on your sneakers or they may go side to side. The best thing to do is go to the shop you bought your wedding dress at along with your Maid of Honor and have the shopkeeper show the Maid of Honor how to do the ribbon on the back of your dress as that is part of their job.
Back in my day, the girls wore white and the boys had all the color.
a double header
She wears a white blouse that is untucked a bit at the back and an olive knee high skirt.
A dress train is the back of a dress where it drags on the ground behind you, sometimes they can be clipped on and off. Usually these are on wedding dresses.
Up the back side.
The baseball stat WC means Wild Card as how many games back in the league race a team is.
They played an assortment of games like an old fashion game of soccer, baseball and cricket.