Melba's Jammin' wrote:

>> yeah, but she didn't 'splain about the pearls. The writer obviously
>> didn't do their research!
>
> We wear our pearls and high heels when canning in homage to June
> Cleaver. :-) It's a matter of style, no?
>
Well *I* knew that, but the reader to these newspaper stories don't. I
think the writers failed to mention this very important point and
possibly you failed to clue them into the it?