Amish are people that do not believe in using modern devices. They ride in carriages pulled by horses. They do not have televisions or radios. They dress in old-fashioned clothes, very conservatively. You can recognize an Amish 100 meters away just by the way they dress. Here is a sight for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish Apparently, the father has started to dress like some sort of old-time farmer.