Yeah, Bob was quite a dandy, even a fop, for a short while there. Velvet suit jackets, tight shiny pants, maybe even Seinfeldesque "puffy shirts" (i.e., with ruffles).

The period in question was the same era when he made so many "enemies" by picking up the electric guitar. I wonder if the reaction might not have been so overwhelmingly toxic if he had changed only his sound and intrumentation, and not changed his "look" or "fashion statement" at the same time, just as drastically or maybe even moreso???