opinion?

[Michael Rolls]

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

[klondike]

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.

[Jacqueline]

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?

[GrannyMac]

I think some modern dress is awful. Not only the young round here either.     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.

[Michael Rolls]

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

[klondike]

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...

[Scrumpy]

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.. 

[klondike]

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 

[zoony]

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.. 

Yeah, me too..Shame we can only go around once eh Scrump..

[Scrumpy]

Too true.

[GrannyMac]

I loved mini skirts, I was told my legs were my best feature. Doesn't say much for my face!  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. 

[zoony]

The best years for mini-skirts, imo, were the first couple after they became so universal. There were still women wearing stockings fgs.   Only one seat to sit on on the bus..

[GrannyMac]

Calm down   

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.   

[Jacqueline]

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.

[zoony]

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.