Women's legs & showing too much flesh

I could have written that myself honeyrose ?

I know it’s the done thing now to say people should wear whatever they want, and I dare say that’s valid, but for myself, I much prefer to cover up more unsightly bits, even when it’s very hot, with loose, light cotton. IMO it’s cooler anyway, than having the sun beating down on your skin.

Presumably some people just don’t care what they look like. Good luck to them, but personally I wouldn’t be seen dead in the kind of clothes some really fat, flabby people wear (male and female) exhibiting a load of vast guts, wobbly cellulite and veins. Not to mention builder’s bum - at least women don’t insist on displaying hairy cracks to all and sundry - at least I’ve yet to see any. (The odd non-hairy one though).

I expect that makes me vain, but so be it.

I'm too self conscious of my wobbly bits. I still have good legs, but they are covered in bruises, due to my meds, so tend to cover up with trousers or leggings.

I would love to have the courage to wear what I like, without people being judgemental.

I’m 67 my daughters still say I have got good legs and I wear whatever I want, especially on holiday , I’m in shorts all the time.

It’s a mean disposition that points out somebody else for discussion I hope you didn’t literally point. How rude of you !

You must have a very boring life if all you can do is be critical of a strangers taste of clothing.

I agree with Riverwalk and Furret.
I don’t care what people wear on the beach, but in a restaurant or cafe there are still standards of dress. In the States you often see signs on even humble diners to the effect that people not wearing shirts or shoes, or conversely, wearing baseball caps, won’t be served.
It’s nothing to do with ageism or sexIsm, it’s to do with someone else’s flesh encroaching inappropriately on someone else’s personal space.

Personally I have horrible veins on my legs. I gave up caring about this a long time ago. I wear shorts when the weather’s warm enough and I don’t worry about what people like grannyrebel & others might think.

Well, each to their own. I think it's probably better, whether young or old, to leave something to the imagination which as we all know is a very powerful thing.
It's simply more elegant and dignified not to 'let it all hang out', as the saying goes.

honeyrose

I can definitely see both sides of this too. I wouldn’t wear that sort of thing, now that i’m in my later years, as I’ve always been a very self-conscious person and my body is showing signs of age. I wouldn’t feel comfortable in that sort of clothing. If someone wishes to dress like that lady, hardly wearing anything at all, that’s up to her, so long as she looks reasonably covered. I think that elegance probably has gone out of the window for a lot of people, but that’s modern times for you.

Good post honeyrose

I sometimes can’t believe what people go out wearing?but then I’m in the ‘make the best of what you have’ brigade and not the ‘let it all hang out and don’t care if you frighten the horses’ camp.
Come on GNers.....a little honesty please instead of all the holier than thou comments to the OP.

Lemongrove I find myself agreeing with you again!!

Mind you I wouldn’t necessarily start a thread on it....

I saw this thread last night just before I went to bed when there were just a couple of replies.

My first thought was, this is not going to end well!

Was it an unkind thread to start?Yes, I guess it was but I think we are kidding ourselves if we haughtily claim that we don’t notice how other people look.

As humans it’s inbuilt in us. We notice and make judgements on people as they do on us.

I suspect the OP was well aware that this was a controversial issue!

Yep sort of an under the bridge thread.

I must admit I was shocked the first time I went to Majorca and saw older women letting it all hang out. But now I just think, well, good luck to them! We should be allowed to relax on holiday and wear what we like. Personally, I don't want the world to have to suffer my wobbly bits so I'm careful, but sometimes I wish I was less careful....

I am too vain to show my swollen ankles that once were pretty ankles. I guess people who display their damaged bodies lack vanity.

Galaxy

Yep sort of an under the bridge thread.

That's a bit unfair, the OP isn't a troll - a quick search shows she's a regular poster.

Sometimes people post late at night, because they can't sleep. I do, nothing sinister there.

I dont think it matters if people are regular posters or not, I would say a thread like this has only one intent.

Just as everyone has the right to wear whatever they want to, when out in a public place, we all have the right to hold an opinion on that. It's whether voicing that opinion is acceptable or not isn't it?

Starblaze

Bodach you do understand that your thoughts can stay inside your head where noone else has to put up with them right?

Dear Starblaze, are you (after the fashion of the current 'Woke' mania) attempting to 'no-platform' me from this particular discussion for expressing an opinion? I would never dream of giving the object of my gaze any sign of my bemusement at their choice of clothing - or lack of it - but my thoughts are my own to consider (and occasionally savour) inwardly, and I refuse to believe that others' immediate reactions are so very different to mine. Be careful about casting that first stone. I judge people by their actions; never by their opinions, and I commend that to you. Many years ago, when my family emerged from the wilds of Wester Ross to accompany my Grannie (the living embodiment of the cartoonist Giles' Grandma) on a rare shopping expedition to the metropolis of Inverness, I was always intrigued by her insistence that we found her a suitable bench, where we would leave her to survey the passing throng. She sat there twinkling away at the passers-by - only to recount for our delectation on the way home the horrors of the various 'sights' she had seen 'traipsing along the street as bold as brass'. Condemn me, and you condemn my Grannie...

It's whether voicing that opinion is acceptable or not isn't it?
We’re not only allowed to voice our opinion, we are also allowed to offend people, though that sometimes seems to be forgotten.
What we are not allowed to do is incite hatred or violence.

Anyone is allowed to say whatever they want on here within the guidelines of the board ( and I have already broken those guidelines) and those who respond to them have the same rights.

Bodach thinking that other people have the same reactions as you is fairly arrogant I would say. I know some people have great difficulty in understanding that some people may behave differently to them. It causes all sorts of problems.

Pointing the lady out to your husband says more about your own insecurities would you have pointed out the way she was dressed if she'd been mid twenties with a perfect figure

Starblaze
Bodach you do understand that your thoughts can stay inside your head where noone else has to put up with them right?

Wrong.

Of course we all notice other people and may no want to look or dress as they do. I don’t think that is a problem but it becomes one when our spoken words make derogatory comments.