Ugly fashions

I still think that tattoos on a slim, attractive 20 year old will not look the same in another 40 or so years.

Flabby, wrinkled skin. Not a pretty sight.

Oreo - exactly! But as I said with the tatties, it's their bodies and choices, although I do find it repulsive!

Things change. 20 years ago I was an engineer co-ordinator, any of my engineers who had tattoos were issued with long sleeved company shirts in case they offended customers.

RosieandherMaw

ViceVersa

Wow, awful lot of judgemental people on here!

Well if you have a thread entitled”Ugly fashions” it’s going to be judgemental by definition isn’t it?

Yes Rosie, and judgemental is what interests me. It's interesting what criteria people hold to.

Babs03

I thought this thread was about the awful wide legged trousers dominating the fashion scene.🫤

Me too! Extra wide, and barrel legs. All utterly hideous IMO.

Tizliz

Things change. 20 years ago I was an engineer co-ordinator, any of my engineers who had tattoos were issued with long sleeved company shirts in case they offended customers.

A young car hire company employee we encountered in Cyprus a few years ago, told us he really regretted the tattoos on his arms, because the company insisted on long sleeved shirts to cover them up - in that stifling summer heat.

Chocolatelovinggran

My son shaves his head because he is almost bald. I think that he's quite good looking, and so does his lovely wife.

Same with my son - so much better than a seventies comb over!

The older I get, the less inclined I am to judge the choices others make unless they adversely affect other people. My mother hated pierced ears, but I had mine pierced and always wear ear rings. I'm not keen on lots of ear piercings but my younger daughter has several and wear lots of little ear rings. Her ears, her choice! She also wears a discreet nose ring. She's got 16 letters after her name and is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, I doubt any of her patients care much about her piercings! My older daughter has a large tattoo although she now regrets having it. However, it was her choice and she's having to live with the consequences but it hasn't stopped her from having five books published! FGS live and let live. There's a phrase, "don't judge a book by it's cover" and for anyone to suggest that someone has been brought up badly if they choose to have piercings or tattoos is somewhat sanctimonious.

I think there are two sorts of people, well maybe three.

Those who are genuinely offended and upset by how other people look.

Those who don't like some other peoples looks but take the attitude "Their body their choice."

Those who really couldn't give a monkey's about what other people look like.

foxie48 👏👏👏

@keepingquiet

"I am thankful that neither of my children have tattoos or piercings. I must have brought them up right. lol."

lol, or maybe you successfully brought up your children to keep quiet....

about tattoos and piercings in places mother will never see/ know about.

butterandjam

@keepingquiet

"I am thankful that neither of my children have tattoos or piercings. I must have brought them up right. lol."

That sounds very judgmental about other parents……..

I don't like tattoos, one son has four on his arms, one of which, the first one was a homage to his older brother, my stepson, who died when he was 18 and a great loss to my children, but as my husband said to him at the time, "he was your brother, but he was my son, and I certainly don't need a tattoo to remember him by, but I almost understand you doing it, don't get anymore" but he did! My other son has never been tempted, mainly because his girlfriend and partner of over ten years really hates them, but that aside I don't think he would anyway he's not easily led by what other people do.

Having said all that, there was an advertisement on tv, where a woman who had to have a mastectomy for breast cancer, had a climbing rose, I think, tattooed where the missing breast had been. For the first time I really got why she'd had that done, a celebration of her survival in a place that would be only visible to her. Although when I see people who have them in such obvious places as face neck and hands it makes me shudder, they're there forever.

I had to laugh when I read about David Dimbleby having one on his back, and why do people have them their back but getting to whatever age he was at that time, he suddenly has some sort of light bulb moment, "I must have a tattoo!" oh go away and behave, you affected old pseud why do it in a blaze of publicity Or pretentious inscriptions in say Sanskrit, Chinese lettering like the wearer grew up fully conversant with a language that is relatively obscure, worse still the geographical co-ordinates of where children were born. God why would anyone want that all over their back? I don't mind a discreet one, but oh wasn't it terribly daring to learn that Sam Cam smack arsed face's wife the new PM's wife at the time had a lovely little dolphin on her ankle, how very bang on trend and damn edgy, I couldn't help wondering if he had one too somewhere, something that would resonate, "Greensill" maybe?

Oreo

DM’s were ugly too when in fashion and worn with pretty dresses😬

Ooh, I still love a pair of DMs!
And some of the loveliest, least judgemental people I've known have had either tattoos or piercings, or both. Never judge a book by its cover...

ViceVersa 👏👏👏

One of my step-grandaughters, who is one of the lovliest persons I know has tattooes on legs and lot of ear piercings and she's a barrister

foxie48

The older I get, the less inclined I am to judge the choices others make unless they adversely affect other people. My mother hated pierced ears, but I had mine pierced and always wear ear rings. I'm not keen on lots of ear piercings but my younger daughter has several and wear lots of little ear rings. Her ears, her choice! She also wears a discreet nose ring. She's got 16 letters after her name and is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, I doubt any of her patients care much about her piercings! My older daughter has a large tattoo although she now regrets having it. However, it was her choice and she's having to live with the consequences but it hasn't stopped her from having five books published! FGS live and let live. There's a phrase, "don't judge a book by it's cover" and for anyone to suggest that someone has been brought up badly if they choose to have piercings or tattoos is somewhat sanctimonious.

I used to work with an elfin-beautiful and lissom young woman (hot chick lesbian) who had a glorious tattoo of a climbing briar which started from her foot, and twined upwards around her elegant leg until it disappeared into her very short shorts where apparently the wild rose flowered on her pudenda.

Lets just say, what was lovely then, is not on the varicose veins and huge thighs of a solid middle aged bodybuilder on steroids. Who now identifies as a man.

(Whatever happened to the rose?)

I got my first tattoo at 60!

Hate seeing them on women necks !

I suggested to my granddaughter that tattoos would look horrid in later life on a wrinkly skin. She said that, if she wore the same clothes that I wear, no-one would see them. That's me put in my place!

Your opinion only. I’m 68 and got my first tattoo 2 years ago and now have four. I also had my nose pierced recently.
I find them beautiful and don’t give a monkeys for other people’s opinions.
Don’t look if it upsets you so much.

keepingquiet

I am thankful that neither of my children have tattoos or piercings. I must have brought them up right. lol.

My niece has a nose piercing which she things is really radical, but no one really cares- she's well over thirty and not a teenager!

Judgy much

Neither of my sons seem to feel the need for tattoos, but three of my adult grandchildren have them. Some are quite nice actually, entwined flowers and curlicues.
I wouldn't mind a small one myself, but have been told that my skin is too old and it wouldn't look nice.

I don’t care what people look like as long as they are kind and caring people.

Babs03

I thought this thread was about the awful wide legged trousers dominating the fashion scene.🫤

But at least they are temporary and can be easily changed