Here, here, Scoville. It would be interesting to know exactly *where* peas & chips sees folkies. At festivals? Difficult to be elegant when camping. On stage? I can think of lots of professional folkies who dress *up* for gigs, so that doesn't fit the supposed stereotype. In folk clubs? Just *who* dresses up to go to the pub? Maybe peas & chips thinks the wrong class of people are listening to / performing folk music! I wonder if peas actually listens to the music at all, to start such a shallow thread. Come to think of it, why am I wasting my precious time on this thread, too?!