"Sorry again?"
"Oh you were talking about before… ah, before…"
"Eh, before… well, before I did as everyone else did. I dunno."
"How did I dress?"
"I dressed… like now, I guess."
"Well, maybe not exactly like I do right now, just a little bit more… yeah, jeans, a sweater…an eskimo*."
"Why? Anything wrong with it? It was comfortable."
"Say again? What I used to sing?"
"Oh, this now, you want to know what I used to sing, yeah of course I also sang popular songs…"
"Ciao bella ciao"
"Do I need to speak louder? Yes, I did sing Ciao bella ciao, and even the Internationale but that one only in a group."
Footnotes
* The eskimo was a symbol of left wing students, and of left wing politics in general, so wearing one was often a statement.