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1940 = [2090]
2019 = [2030]
agree
None of my business either way. Wear what makes you happy.
The 1940s fella looks old fashioned now, but still smart. As for Perry on the right, or is it Kevin ? well he looks like he needs help.
(https://i.postimg.cc/X7GVyrpZ/perry.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
The 1940s picture must be of a black marketeer. Most young men in 1940 looked more like this and they certainly needed all the help they could get...
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oh dear, please read the stickie on how to post a photo.. [2010]
i expect it one of a squaddie an i agree with you..
my old man wore a trilby and raincoat, and looked more like an insurance guy,,
What's up with the pic? It looks fine on my kit.
mine too
i am just getting a blank square
Dunno what the soldier is doing there as the question was about fashion 1940s versus 2019 :cool: :cool: picture is ok for me too, maybe it's your Indian connection crabbyob ?
I would rather go out with 1940's man than 2019 slob.
What I can't stand is great big fat people who couldn't play sport if they tried, wearing trainers and sports gear, fat stomachs hanging over the top of jogging trousers and women in thin overstretched leggings showing all their fat bottoms and worse. I am not thin but try to make the best of myself, this lot don't care.
I do think slobby dress is a symptom of the times, how the country has gone to the dogs and people have no hope.
we will always have hope Jaq, and will have, until the labour party turn the palace of Westminster into 'Mecca'
Quote from: Alex on April 23, 2022, 09:56:12 AM
Dunno what the soldier is doing there as the question was about fashion 1940s versus 2019 :
I suspect that the site blocks the hotlink for some. I've put it on a hosting site now.
In 1940 clothes were on ration and only spivs would look like that. Most young blokes would be sporting the "fashion" I suggested.
Quote from: klondike on April 23, 2022, 12:02:24 PM
I suspect that the site blocks the hotlink for some. I've put it on a hosting site now.
In 1940 clothes were on ration and only spivs would look like that. Most young blokes would be sporting the "fashion" I suggested.
I wasn't born chuck :grin: :grin: :grin:
Quote from: Alex on April 23, 2022, 12:46:48 PM
I wasn't born chuck :grin: :grin: :grin:
Me neither, not even my eldest sister was born.
Quote from: Alex on April 23, 2022, 12:46:48 PM
I wasn't born chuck :grin: :grin: :grin:
My dad was. He had a camera.
I was, although only a child
so we cant have an opinion on a subject because we werent born then.... so exactly when was the union of the crowns when Scotland became a leach to england?
Quote from: crabbyob on April 24, 2022, 09:02:43 AM
so we cant have an opinion on a subject because we werent born then.... so exactly when was the union of the crowns when Scotland became a leach to england?
Nonsense ! :grin: my comment at not being born then was a crack aimed at klondike !
thats all he needs [cracks]...
perhaps mine was a crack too....pet.. :biker:
Sarky one too :cool:
Oh bugger. Yet another heading for Controversial :grin:
mark, it wears a bit thin that someone born in a certain part of the UK can be so bloody sanctimonious, condescending and downright rude, about people they have never met and know nothing about... but i take this opportunity to point out i know nothing about Barnet... but quite a bit about the UK... no englishman knowingly nor willingly pays one penny towards Scotland... you just have to listen to the crap that gets dragged up every time the subject comes up... let me ask them... how many have served their country...percentage wise?... because the Scots by a large margin percentage wise have by far served this nation in or out of conflict [my bit was out of conflict i am happy to report] now every time the england Scotland thing comes up it ends up in bit Why? because the few Scots on here will always stand up for what we are and what it has cost us, the Scots to be part of this union... no you dont have your own parliament, Why?... because you arrogantly presume that Westminster is Yours...., p-lease try and remember it was a Scots King who united the Kingdoms....
The only person here to mention Scotland in this thread is you crabbyob. :?: :?: :?:
My son had his genealogy done from a cheek swab. Interesting results.. Much of my family is from Ireland but guess what?..40% Scottish. Much of interest including South Africa and Bengali but 40% Scottish??
Quote from: klondike on April 24, 2022, 12:45:17 PM
The only person here to mention Scotland in this thread is you crabbyob. :?: :?: :?:
I was thinking that, it was a joke about fashion !!!!! from crabbyob no less :rofl:
Quote from: zoony on April 24, 2022, 02:15:09 PM
My son had his genealogy done from a cheek swab. Interesting results.. Much of my family is from Ireland but guess what?..40% Scottish. Much of interest including South Africa and Bengali but 40% Scottish??
We get about.. 😃
Perhaps the Scots element comes from his maternal line? Also Scots/Irish have lots of historical connections. I have quite a bit of English in my DNA, all from my dad's family. That could really upset some Scots, just as finding African ancestors wouldn't please anyone with a leaning towards white supremacy!
I thought this thread was about 1940's versus modern day "fashion"?
Despite makedo and mend during the war and lack of new clothes, most people back then made the very best of themselves and wouldn't have been seen dead in ripped trousers and slobby dress like most people today.
Many threads wander into different areas. We're old, its to be expected..☺️
But, back to the 1940s. Respectability was very important back then, as was conformity. My father wore a collar and tie every day, casual wear was a blazer and flannels rather than a suit! Clothes were expensive relative to income, and expected to last.
When my son started work in the 90s, he was expected to wear a suit, even though he was office based. The dress code has really relaxed over 30 years, and jeans, and a shirt and sweater are standard now. However the brands and quality of today's clothes can still mark differences.
I like the fact that there's choice and I'm not expected to be corseted, or wear high heels any more.
when I started work with Surrey County Council in 1954 a suit was de rigeur Monday to Friday but a sports jacket or blazer was permitted on Saturdays provided we were in a job which did not involve meeting members of the public.
Mike
I recall going to a customer site in Stavanger. I was wearing a suit and tie. All the Norwegians turned up in casuals. Some very casual or even scruffy.
Quote from: GrannyMac on April 24, 2022, 11:10:17 PM
Many threads wander into different areas. We're old, its to be expected..☺️
But, back to the 1940s. Respectability was very important back then, as was conformity. My father wore a collar and tie every day, casual wear was a blazer and flannels rather than a suit! Clothes were expensive relative to income, and expected to last.
When my son started work in the 90s, he was expected to wear a suit, even though he was office based. The dress code has really relaxed over 30 years, and jeans, and a shirt and sweater are standard now. However the brands and quality of today's clothes can still mark differences.
I like the fact that there's choice and I'm not expected to be corseted, or wear high heels any more.
I am not talking about fashions changing so much as total slobs, surely you have seen the girls and women in leggings skin tight showing everything, the ripped jeans and trousers an insult to the poor, the baggy shapeless stretched joggers, what's happened to pride in ones appearance whatever the current fashion?
I think some modern dress is awful. Not only the young round here either. :embarrassed: Leggings are great under dresses or at the gym, but I've come to the conclusion that some folk don't own a mirror.
Loads of tattoos and piercings, yuk! But, I'm happy with the comfortable styling of much of today's fashion.
I have never understood the idea of ripped jeans, and doubt that I ever will. It may be a fashion - but it is a stupid one
Mike
We had some odd fashion fads when I was young but if our jeans were ripped it was because we or our mums were skint...
We seem to be forgetting the fashions/ trends of our younger years..
Mini skirts... Very tight sweaters when the Sweater Girl was all the look.. Teddy Boys and even Vicky Boys when they wore frills on their shirts and cuffs..
Then there was the Beehive hair do's and loads of back combing .. the DA..!!
And way, way back the flapper girls..
Every generation has a good and bad look.. Let the young get on with being young..
I wouldn't mind being one of them.. :grin:
Quote from: Scrumpy on April 25, 2022, 01:35:59 PM
Mini skirts... Very tight sweaters when the Sweater Girl was all the look..
I can guarantee that I forget neither. I rather suspect few men of my age do :smiley:
Quote from: Scrumpy on April 25, 2022, 01:35:59 PM
We seem to be forgetting the fashions/ trends of our younger years..
Mini skirts... Very tight sweaters when the Sweater Girl was all the look.. Teddy Boys and even Vicky Boys when they wore frills on their shirts and cuffs..
Then there was the Beehive hair do's and loads of back combing .. the DA..!!
And way, way back the flapper girls..
Every generation has a good and bad look.. Let the young get on with being young..
I wouldn't mind being one of them.. :grin:
Yeah, me too..Shame we can only go around once eh Scrump..
Too true.
I loved mini skirts, I was told my legs were my best feature. Doesn't say much for my face! :grin: Before minis we had loads of starched net petticoats and white stilettos. And we trowelled stuff on our fresh complexions, to look like Dusty Springfield, when we'd have been fine without any! We live and learn.
I have photos of my mum with her hair in 'earphones' in the 1920s.
The best years for mini-skirts, imo, were the first couple after they became so universal. There were still women wearing stockings fgs. :grin: :grin: Only one seat to sit on on the bus..
Calm down :grin: :grin:
I spent many teenage evenings in an underground coffee bar (met my OH there) and under the open staircase was a popular spot for some of the lads. :wink:
Whatever the fashion, mini skirts, flared dresses with net petticoats, from my recollections they all looked clean and made the best of themselves.
There were not too many young fat people in dead tight clothes around in our youth. We were in a hotel last week and a wedding was going on, one girl bent down in front of me showing all she had got, what she didn't seem to understand is that because she was fat her skirt was up at the back to accommodate her large rear end and down at the front, she obviously didn't look into the rear view mirror. And rings through your nose like a prize bull at the county show is not a good look either.
I am not all negative, one fashion I do like is the Goths, seen them at Whitby, now they do make a real effort and look amazing.
We all mourn the passing of our youth Jacq but the young should be just that. Young. And be as creative or sloppy as they wish bless 'em. Won't be long before they have to grow up for real.
Good luck to them.. How quickly they too will be 'Tut tutting' when they are old like us..
Blimey , I have seen some big 'uns... and not all young.. Men and women.. and sometimes they come as a pair.. !!
Quote from: zoony on April 26, 2022, 01:01:12 AM
We all mourn the passing of our youth Jacq but the young should be just that. Young. And be as creative or sloppy as they wish bless 'em. Won't be long before they have to grow up for real.
The young can get away with freeky fashion, good luck to them. My granddaughter looks fine except for the ring through her nose, I am not talking about a nose stud here but a prize bull job!!! she has scared herself for life. My son during the punk era had studs all up his ears he still has the marks to tell the tale and now he wishes he hadn't. Like the tattoos, too late to regret them once they are done.
My gripe is not with the young, in fact its the older people who look the worse, its not the clothes they wear its the slobby way they wear them, a saggy fat bottom in leggings with a short top is not a good look on the over 30's, wear a longer top to cover your bum for goodness sake.
What was the name of the American hostess a good few years ago, who coined the dictum 'girls out of their teens should never wear jeans' - Dorothy Parker?
Mike