By conjuring up notions of the
traditional wedding as timeless and unchanging, Howard
writes, businesses have been able to slip in new products and requirements, resulting in what Mead dubs the «traditionalesque»: «a pleasing mélange of apparently old -
fashioned, certainly nostalgic... practices that may have little relevance to the past or to the future and are really only illustrative of the present in which they emerge.»
A
traditional style is the safest approach for resume
writing, and it may be exactly what an old -
fashioned company may be looking for.