Brightly-coloured trainers

[AleisterCrowley]

They seem to be the 'fashion' these days for both sexes- bright red/pink trainers .
They look awful, and utterly ridiculous.

And 'track suits' are never acceptable casual wear,unless one is exercising/walking home from gymnasium etc

[Slarti]

Another good way to wind people up is to challenge Mr Portillo in the clashing colours game.

Slarti

[Rhyd6]

Have to admit that I rather enjoy seeing Mr Portillo in his brightly hued apparel. Makes a change from boring suits especially those worn with an open neck shirt and no gaily patterned tie to relieve the monotony. Coloured trainers and track suits are fine until the age of ten after that they're a definite no-no.

R6

[JMN2]

Ban every garment except brown corduroy suits and tan desert boots for over 12 year olds.

[Slarti]

Ban every garment except brown corduroy suits and tan desert boots for over 12 year olds.

Never worn corduroy after suffering a baby's nappy leak on them.
Unlike other materials, you just can't get it out of corduroy.

Horrible stuff.

Slarti

[hermit100]

I have some bright pink boots. I love them. I know that a woman in her 50s should not be wearing bright pink boots which just adds to the pleasure of wearing them.

[bungeejumper]

I can't quite get used to the sight of sweaty deck shoes worn with no socks. If I did that, my wife would refuse to let me back into the house unless I threw them out of the window.

But the real way to offend people is still to wear socks with sandals. There isn't a single logical reason you can think of why it should be so off-limits, but for some reason it's socially taboo. Like Americans trying to use cutlery, I suppose.

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

I have some bright pink boots. I love them. I know that a woman in her 50s should not be wearing bright pink boots which just adds to the pleasure of wearing them.

Boots are fine. 50s is young.
It's bright orange and pink yoof trainers I have a problem with

In my day it were plimsolls for sport - Dunlop Green Flash. Not to be worn casually (or at all, if I could get a note to get off games)

[JMN2]

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But the real way to offend people is still to wear socks with sandals. There isn't a single logical reason you can think of why it should be so off-limits, but for some reason it's socially taboo. Like Americans trying to use cutlery, I suppose.

BJ

CAMRA beer festivals and sandals with 70's design terry cloth socks.

[poundcoin]

What to wear with red trousers ?
I bought some in a bargain sale somewhere years ago thinking I would "cut a dash" whilst out , a la Mr. Portillo. However I have never dared wear them for fear of looking a prat .
Maybe they need to be washed numerous times to get a faded look ( much like myself) !

[redsturgeon]

What to wear with red trousers ?
I bought some in a bargain sale somewhere years ago thinking I would "cut a dash" whilst out , a la Mr. Portillo. However I have never dared wear them for fear of looking a prat .
Maybe they need to be washed numerous times to get a faded look ( much like myself) !

I would wear a long, floor length coat and hope not to have to take it off.

John

[poundcoin]

I would wear a long, floor length coat and hope not to have to take it off.

John

Ha ha.....I do have a white disposable boiler suit , maybe that would do instead .

[UncleEbenezer]

I would wear a long, floor length coat and hope not to have to take it off.

John

Didn't have you down as a flasher.

[bungeejumper]

...

But the real way to offend people is still to wear socks with sandals.

CAMRA beer festivals and sandals with 70's design terry cloth socks.

Fair enough, I'll give you that one. Not to mention folk singers with leather tankards hanging off their belts. And jerkins. Was there ever such an appropriately named garment?

BJ (former folkie guitarist, 30 years out of rehab.)

[UncleEbenezer]

I possess a pair of perfectly comfortable but reportedly utterly vile mustard coloured cord trousers that can reliably induce expletives from the fashion conscious.

I take great pleasure in wearing these eyesores whenever a meeting with the fashionable arises. I look like a prick but it is so worth it to provoke and needle acquaintances I perceive as shallow victims of the garment industry ...

Status anxiety is not one of my problems, fortunately.

Do you also have physical attributes for such occasions? A paunch you can induce to bulge out through the buttons? A bald patch you can thinly comb over? Wonky or discoloured teeth?

[Rhyd6]

I have a pair of bright yellow Mary Quant ankle wellies which I bought in the 60s. I call them my low flying custard boots. As they've got older and become fashion conscious all my g/daughters have coveted these boots but I only take a size 3 and by the time they realised how "cool" they were their feet were several sizes too large. I still wear them and I walk the dogs wearing a red and white striped pair of ordinary wellies. I am reliably informed I look like Pippy Longstocking whoever she may be.
One day, when I'm about 95 I may start wearing purple.

R6

[kiloran]

I am reliably informed I look like Pippy Longstocking whoever she may be.
R6

I didn't know either, but a Google revealed this:


No comment!
--kiloran

[UncleEbenezer]

I am reliably informed I look like Pippy Longstocking whoever she may be.
R6

I didn't know either, but a Google revealed this:

No comment!
--kiloran

That pic is completely alien to the original stories which were part of my childhood, many decades ago. Indeed, I recollect my mother talking of Pippi Långstrump (translated as Longstocking) as having been a childhood role model for her.

I guess an extremely active and capable girl heroine just doesn't fit our modern narrative of history, that says girls were always portrayed as passive and decorative so they could be oppressed. So the stories have to be corrupted into things like that abomination.

[kiloran]

So the stories have to be corrupted into things like that abomination.

I guess I missed the

--kiloran

[bungeejumper]

Ye gods, those plaits. Didn't I see that character in a German soft-porn film, back in the 1970s? All tits and bums and beer and an oompah band.

BJ