You’re never going out looking like that?

Hopikins - it was my Dad who always commented on my appearance (mainly to my Mum). It was usually about the "black eyes and white lipstick" and sometimes about the length of my skirts.

That is the title of my piece, a couple of weeks ago... (in Maltese): skoperta.net/2023/05/26/hekk-hierga-tanja-cilia/

My Mum did this all the time, my Dad would look up and say 'I was clean looking...his highest praise, and so I got to wear it. However, I was about to go out with my husband to be, and I asked if I looked OK. He said yes, apart from the 'muck on your face' Ladies, I'm ashamed to say I went and washed my face

I used to go out with a skirt over my mini skirt and remove the top one once out of the door!!

I don't mind people being scruffy, so long as they're clean and don't pong, but I object to the way that Johnson goes for the deliberately studied and unkempt style.
He does it all the time, even when it's desperately inappropriate - he looked like a sack of spuds at the late Queen's funeral, at the Coronation, and even at the Cenotaph a year or two back.
I rather feel its a case of "Look at meeeee - I'm so scruffy and cool and sexy, and no-one can stop me, 'cos I'm the greatest!"
Maybe I'm biased because quite frankly this geezer sets my teeth on edge.

I still remember my father (who was generally very good and certainly not prone to hurtful insults) once saying to me as a mid-teen that I looked like a Soho tart. 😥

I don’t think I was even wearing a very short skirt and I certainly had no cleavage to flaunt. It was probably because I had long blonde hair that was just left loose.

I remember having my long hair chopped short, standing in front of my Dad and saying "What do you think"

He said "Um, new dress?"
"No"
"New shoes?"
"No"
"What, then?
"My hair!"
"Oh! Very nice"

😂😂😂"

TillyTrotter

Reaction to the BJ photo - what a lovely dog 😜?

Indeed.

As BJ can't change his pale skin, very short height, or round face - perhaps a haircut? Apart from that - well, he has no ugly facial hair.

I don’t mind admitting to having a (private) pink fit when a teen dd dyed her lovely shiny golden-brown hair blonde - and ditto when she came home with half a dozen piercings in one ear.

But remembering my own thinking at that age (anything your parents deplored must be really cool) I pretended to really like both, and thank goodness the hair colour didn’t last long, and all but one of the piercings eventually closed up.

I am so happy that the younger generation care less about the opinions of others. They also judge less.

I wouldn’t think twice about what someone else was wearing…walking a dog of all activities. As the my grandchildren say *major eye roll*

I remember getting off the train at my home town station wearing a Mary Quant Dress, knee high boots and sporting a snappy hair do from Vidal Sassoon . (My first job was in Bond Street and I had saved up for my grand return home). My father’s reaction on seeing me for the first time in a few months was “Get in the car quickly before someone sees you,”

Witzend

I don’t mind admitting to having a (private) pink fit when a teen dd dyed her lovely shiny golden-brown hair blonde - and ditto when she came home with half a dozen piercings in one ear.

But remembering my own thinking at that age (anything your parents deplored must be really cool) I pretended to really like both, and thank goodness the hair colour didn’t last long, and all but one of the piercings eventually closed up.

It was the tattoo!
She didn't think I knew about it but her credit card statement arrived when she was on a gap year 😂😂😂

I did once look a mite askance when a dd came home with some purple leather over-the-knee heeled boots she’d found in a very cut-price sale. She called them her ‘slut’ boots.

But at maybe 19, they looked great on her - if I’d ever thought they’d look anything like as good on 50+ me, I’d have borrowed them.🙂