You’re never going out looking like that?

My Mum used to say 'get out quick before your Dad sees you!' when i appeared in tiny skirts and far too much makeup for a teenager!

Primrose53

People like Boris who have confidence in themselves and are well educated and done a bit of travelling really do not care what people think they look like.

My friend comes from a very posh family, she is very well educated and bright and has travelled the world and she speaks with a cut glass accent. However, if you saw her out you would think what an old scruff she is. Most of her clothes come from charity shops, she cuts and dyes her own hair, her car is like a battered old skip but she couldn’t care less what people think of her. She owns 3 houses, 2 of which she rents out and has only worked a few years in her entire life as she lives off family money. She is quite happy just being herself and I’m sure Boris is too.

Indeed.

Perhaps he could get his hair cut and ditch the orange - otherwise he looks as if any other person walking a sweet dog.

Yes Jaffacake, I was wondering about the sort of company you kept!! 😂

On second look, perhaps tucking in might help - I so dislike untucked. Many people even wear untucked T shirts.

Norah

On second look, perhaps tucking in might help - I so dislike untucked. Many people even wear untucked T shirts.

I'm untucked! 😁
In fact I might look as scruffy as Boris today although I am wearing long trousers (washed out linen) and grey socks.

My hair's worse than his, though.

Jaffacake2

Long cheesecloth hippy skirt,skimpy top with lots of beads, Afghan coat and flip flops !! My dad was right when he said the cost smelt like an old host when it rained ! Happy teenage fashion years

We wore clothes that resembled our mothers' clothes for so long (full dresses, white gloves, suits for best) it was a relief when teenage fashion became the norm!

My dear old Dad would say it in the 60's, regarding my makeup, the full works Eye shadow, Liner, Mascara, sometimes false eye lashes.
My very sensible Mum would say " leave her alone , it's fashion, she will grow out it. I didn't, I still wear the lot, minus only false eyelashes, I do think I have perfected the look now and get many compliments and I am still growing up sixty years later, I am now 75.

I too used to wear vertiginous wooden clogs with loon pants (complete with sewn in fabric inset). My parents didn't say much, perhaps they were simply speechless.

When I pestered my Mother for craved a pair of white fishnet tights with double tramlines down the side ( yup), my request was turned down as they were only 'worn by streetwalkers'. I had no idea what one was.

As for Johnson, I care not a jot.

Those words were uttered to me by my 9 year old niece in a changing room several years ago, very loudly with little hands on little hips.
I was trying on some designer Jeans in white with a actient map of the world printed in them, would never buy far to expensive but wanted to see what they would look like.

After that response, they went back on the hanger. Outside of the curtains the ladies in the changing room were crying with laughter.
I too was laughing as I handed them back with a comment of apprently not for me.
Out of the mouths of babes.

I think B does it on purpose. He'll settle for attention of any sort.

Aveline

My parents never said outright that they injected to anything I was wearing but I do remember seeing them deliberately swallowing any objection. They did well. I remember wearing some appalling things eg a jet black nylon wig or my red leather hot pants!
Cheap and nasty huge fake eyelashes to a severe Church of Scotland service one holiday was a particular low point. I must have looked like a 14 year old pantomime dame.

I had some red leather hotpants too..
And some olive green cord ones for the winter ❄️

I had a army green sleeveless t shirt with a prison number on the back My poor Nan bless her begged me not to wear it but of course it became my favourite vest top

Primrose53

People like Boris who have confidence in themselves and are well educated and done a bit of travelling really do not care what people think they look like.

My friend comes from a very posh family, she is very well educated and bright and has travelled the world and she speaks with a cut glass accent. However, if you saw her out you would think what an old scruff she is. Most of her clothes come from charity shops, she cuts and dyes her own hair, her car is like a battered old skip but she couldn’t care less what people think of her. She owns 3 houses, 2 of which she rents out and has only worked a few years in her entire life as she lives off family money. She is quite happy just being herself and I’m sure Boris is too.

So very true.

Louella12

Primrose53

People like Boris who have confidence in themselves and are well educated and done a bit of travelling really do not care what people think they look like.

My friend comes from a very posh family, she is very well educated and bright and has travelled the world and she speaks with a cut glass accent. However, if you saw her out you would think what an old scruff she is. Most of her clothes come from charity shops, she cuts and dyes her own hair, her car is like a battered old skip but she couldn’t care less what people think of her. She owns 3 houses, 2 of which she rents out and has only worked a few years in her entire life as she lives off family money. She is quite happy just being herself and I’m sure Boris is too.

So very true.

Indeed.

Given his wonderful education, doubt he cares what a few GN believe.

He’s not exactly a style icon is he? Still, I don’t suppose you need to be to walk the dog.

Kim19

I think B does it on purpose. He'll settle for attention of any sort.

I actually think this could be true. Now he’s not our PM I don’t really care what he wears but I did wish he’d been a bit smarter when he was our PM. Carrie dresses beautifully but she’s obviously had no luck smartening him up.

Yet, so many with backgrounds like Boris dress impeccably, it is a personal matter and is a combination of shape, size, and personal characteristics.

I made DH shave and put on a shirt and tie and jacket before he walked our pooch this morning.
He said it was his lack of trousers that caused raised eyebrows!

Mollygo

I made DH shave and put on a shirt and tie and jacket before he walked our pooch this morning.
He said it was his lack of trousers that caused raised eyebrows!

😁

Or perhaps you didn't trim and blowdry his hair for him first?

Shhh! Don’t give him ideas Callistemon21!

💇‍♂️

I tend to walk both our pooches before 6 a.m., and usually just throw a loose pair of joggers and jogging top on, plus trainers. Hair gets a cat-lick brush, no make up, and off we toddle. Fortunately, I cancelled both my pooches joint membership of the fashion police, so I no longer get any of those telling "looks", especially from Molly. Mind you, we occasionally bump into an Afghan Hound and her owner, Lucrezia, who do seem to look down their long noses at us. We just jog on.. and so can they...

We walk 4 times daily (dogs needs) beginning 5 to 7am. I could not possibly care what others think of our looks, just that we are warm.

Norah

We walk 4 times daily (dogs needs) beginning 5 to 7am. I could not possibly care what others think of our looks, just that we are warm.

We are dogless now but we always had two dogs at a time and they were walked twice a day. I never cared what I looked like when I walked them.

In fact, the older I get the less I care what others think of how I look, what I say or how I behave.