You’re never going out looking like that?

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.🙂

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 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,”

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 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.

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 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"

😂😂😂"

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

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

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

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.

I got married in 1970 . My wedding dress of choice was a black embroidered long Indian dress. I was a bit of a hippy in those days.

My mother took one look at me and exclaimed (you’re not getting married in black, are you?).

I was pregnant with my son at the time, but even if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t have fancied a white dress,

Skyblue2

I wish my mum had told me ‘you can’t go out looking like that!’ I thought I looked so cool in my embroidered flares, red and yellow plastic platform soles and pleated smock. Not forgetting the false eyelashes and purple and orange nail varnish. I was about 15 at the time and going to local dances.

Bet you looked great!!

Fashions were changing so fast in the 60s and 70s. i wore the tiniest mini skirts which would just about fit on one of my thighs now! 🤣🤣. I wore hot pants in various colours and materials. PVC boots which we called wet look, over the knee pink suede boots, maxi coats over my mini skirts. Skinny rib jumpers, grandad shirts, loon pants, cheesecloth smocks, platform shoes, i wore jeans with frayed bottoms over hand decorated plimsoles.

I worked part time from the age of 12 so always had a bit of money to spend on fashion. One of the shops I worked in sold clothes and tights by Mary Quant and I got good discount. I have kept just one item - a tiny button fronted patchwork mini skirt which I absolutely adored. It was a designer make but I can’t get to it to check as it’s in the loft.

I wish my mum had told me ‘you can’t go out looking like that!’ I thought I looked so cool in my embroidered flares, red and yellow plastic platform soles and pleated smock. Not forgetting the false eyelashes and purple and orange nail varnish. I was about 15 at the time and going to local dances.

My parents were quite relaxed about what I wore, thank heavens! I was always conscious of the latest fashions and my mum, remembering her own youth, was all for it. It was my Dad who was the embarrassment at times being if a decidedly alternative’ style! A beard when few men wore them, flared jeans which didn’t suit him and longer hair than most people his age. He was fun though and my friends envied me, as many of their own fathers were far more uptight about appearing as ‘respectable’ Mr Average. So I got off lightly really and have always tried to be non judgemental in what my children wore. Luckily they didn’t test me too much although I used to be concerned about my girls breaking their necks given the height of their heels!

There’s a wonderful photo on Facebook of a group of young women dressed up to the nines in their miniskirts and platform shoes in around 1970. The caption is: “Remember - these are your grandmothers.” I was a teenager in the very late seventies to the mid eighties so fashions were very different but l still remember my grandmother being shocked that I was wearing jeans to a party (like all my friends).

This is hilarious! BJ looks as scruffy as his dog - both need a combing!

Now WHO HASN’T gone out for a quickie something (dressed like Boris or even undressed…) hoping no one will see us picking up the paper on the driveway, carrying out garbage, quick pee for the dog?

Chances are “a gotcha!” 😬 in which case I always laugh and say “I got dressed up just for you!”
Haha
USA Gundy

handbaghoarder

I remember going to my son’s parents evening when he was about 12. As I came downstairs he said totally seriously “you’re not going dressed like that you look like a punk rocker” Think it was because I had a bright jacket on. And probably spiky hair. But I was only 30 after all. He never let me forget it. He has recently died and I’m trying to find a similar jacket for his memorial service. We will know 😢❤️

Condolences, handbaghoarder - no one expects to outlive their children.

Good luck finding the right, bright jacket xx

I'm no fan of Boris but I have no problem with his clothes choices for walking the dog. Seems fine to me.
He could smarten up for formal occasions especially in the hair department but don't really care even about that. I really don't see what Carrie sees in him!

Siope

He’s an adult. Why on earth is what he wears his wife’s responsibility?

I couldn’t care less what he - or anyone, including my husband, children and grandchildren - wears. It doesn’t harm anyone, or affect my life in the slightest.

And I can’t believe that in 2023, anyone believes that what an adult man wears is a matter for his wife to co

31/05/2023 09:31 Siope

Oh for pities sake - must proof read!

31/05/2023 09:39 Jaxjacky

If my husband tried to ‘inspect’ me before I went out he’d get a blunt answer, good grief!

Yes! Both of these! In any case, That's Boris’ style. I quite like the fact that he’s not bothered by fashion 😂😂😂

My dad's favourite was, "That's not a skirt! It's a pelmet!"

pelmet - a narrow border of cloth...

BJ seems not to care what he looks like. If he does care, he must spend a lot of time feeling disappointed! He seems to be a build and shape that would provide a really severe challenge for any clothes - and he is only walking the dog.