Where did all the eccentrics go?

Well doneForestflame

Love a bit of eccentricity. We have a lovely Senior Citizen lady in our town who has her hair any shade between Lilac and bright pink. She has a bright pink hooded jacket that she wears, which I would kill for?.
As for me, my friend bought me one of those studded dog collar necklaces for Christmas. I wore it to work the other day and it went down well. I turned have just turned 60....

It’s far too cold to go out in pyjamas, and I don’t own any.

Not my family, DS’s especially. All very individual and into self expression. Good for them I say. DH and me were quite ‘way out’ as they used to say, when we were at art school. My mother wouldn’t walk down the road with me.
Love a bit of individuality. Not pyjamas though, that is just laziness.

Hahahaha Fanny

They are in Tipton.
Trust me on this one.
Your good citizens of Glasto would pick up their skirts and run

isn't any eccentricity

nanna8

The world used to be full of eccentrically dressed people when I was growing up but these days everyone dresses more or less the same. Have we changed, can’t we be bothered, or is there more pressure to conform now ? Maybe Covid hasn’t helped or perhaps there is no need and anything goes, anyway ?

Where did all the eccentrics go?
As Coastpath said, they're all in Glastonbury

nana8 I always thought there were lots of eccentrics in Australia, but perhaps they've all drifted to Byron Bay now!

A lot mention people ( mainly female ) dressed in their night clothes, pyjamas and dressing gown and on 2 occasion i have seen curlers in hair. Im sorry but i just dont get it

Is it eccentricity at its worst, rebellion or just down right lazy?

Whatever label it is, its totally crass ( another label for it).

Its not an individual dress sense that displays their personality, its displaying 2 fingers up at society.

Thats my take on the whole thing.

Apart from the pyjama display amongst the detergent isle, i cant say that here in my pàrt of beautiful Yorkshire, there is any eccentricity.

Jerseygal

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Then it's quite arbitrary depending on who is on duty whether they will or they won't.
Very unfair.

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When he was about 14, DS, while passing through the living room turned to us and said 'I am so glad I have eccentric parents' and walked on.

Quite how we were/are eccentric I am not sure, I thought we were boringly normal.

We are very boring here in Urmston.
Well, apart from our ‘Elvis’ lookalike, a man in his 70’s who wears crêpe soles, long sideburns, slicked back black hair (dyed, natch).
Oh and the guy who wears shorts in all weathers, has purple hair and takes his two cream coloured ferrets out for a walk in the square most days.

Pyjama luxe Brilliant!

Ugg-bootalicious?

Perhaps it depends where you live as my town is completely stuffed with eccentrics. We're not a million miles from Glastonbury and we seem to attract fabulous oddballs. They come for the festival, get into the vibe and never quite go home.

The following folk spring to mind - a man who dresses as a pirate complete with parrot on shoulder, a lady we all call The Tzar because she wears a floor length red coat and astrakhan hat and a guy in full pilot's jump suit who rides a tricycle with two bichon frise dogs yapping from the basket.

Where we lived before there was a lady who looked like Hattie Jacques who wore a fairy outfit complete with pint tulle skirts and tiara as she went about her business. Oh, and another guy called Ron who is a TV historian who daily went around dressed as a Victorian. These are only the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe I attract these people? Odd as I'm completely normal myself.

I've often been called quirky. Is that another word for eccentric?

I’ve got Pyjama luxe down to a fine art.
All my clothes are glorified pyjamas. Voluminous dresses and cuffed cotton trews with Ugg boots.

If you think that you are eccentric you most probably are not.
It’s the ‘normal ones’ that you need to look out for ?
Most of us are eccentric, but not for the reasons that we think

There are two sisters who go in our local pub. They must be in their 70s. They wear exactly same clothes usually glittery skimpy dresses or shorts, fishnet tights, glittery boots. They are covered in tattoos. People who haven't seen them before are taken aback.
We had a day trip to Glastonbury a few years ago. The town, not the festival. Plenty of eccentric people there!

Just a thought. Are you sure they were pyjamas. I've recently bought what is called lounge wear, comfortable loose what look like jogging bottoms and matching loose tops. My grandson, on seeing me yesterday, said " have you got pyjamas on?". My daughter in law said " great lounge wear". Maybe some misconceptions?

'People have to be so careful not to stand out in the way they dress. so many murders on the street for looking different....

remember the young girl murdered in a park because she was dressed as a 'goth' a few years ago....

corri did a storyline on the murder with 'nina' being attacked

I don't really give a damn what other people are wearing. Or what I'm wearing, come to that. I do occasionally look in the mirror and think, 5 years ago you were attractive, well dressed and 'styled'. Then I think 'Oh, F* it' and carry on being a slob.

There was a person in the town I used to live in, appeared to be male, may not have been. Wore a combination of mens and women's clothes. Always had lovely earrings. Also used to be a fair number of dramatically dressed goths. And (casting back into the mists of time), I remember living on the Kings Road and seeing all the lovely punks.

Wish I had the energy for creativity really. Meh.

Our local primary school put out a note to parents asking them not to drop off children when they were in night clothes (the parents not the children). Some people were up in arms about it until the school pointed out that it gave the impression that parents weren’t coping and could lead to safeguarding concerns.

Going out in pyjamas and dressing gowns??? I must be out of touch. It seems slovenly to me.

Going to the shops in pyjamas. Why on earth would you? Do they stay in said pyjamas all day? Do they change into clean pyjamas when they go to bed, or do they sleep in the……no, let’s not go there!

As I get older, I do more and more things that some might consider eccentric, I suppose. I am less likely to not do something I really want to do just because of what others might think.

If I were rich, I might well choose to live like the woman mentioned by Grammaretto .

My every-day fashion style, though, is more 'scruffy' than 'eccentric', and as far as I am concerned is perfectly suited to my outdoor life in the often muddy countryside.