Do people dress up more in Liverpool?

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

Just watching the news and they are reporting on Liverpool re Covid. The footage shows people out in bars and pubs and they are incredibly dressed up, especially the women.

My DC are in their early 20s, so similar age to those being shown. When they and their friends go clubbing they all tend to wear jeans and the women might wear a slightly smarter top but often not.

The report showed women in amazing dresses and heels, plus hair, make up etc all immaculate. Is it a "thing" in Liverpool or is it just that my DC and their friends are ultra scruffy? I live in Cambridge and am fairly sure that younger people here don't on the whole dress up like that unless it's a particular "special" occasion like a 21st birthday. Not just for a regular Saturday night out.

I don't have any issues to project.

As an underdressed southerner, I always wonder how much some people spend on their appearance. It must be a huge amount. Is it just wealthy women in Liverpool and Newcastle who dress up this much and, if not, how on earth do other women manage?

Appalled from an environmental point of view to hear that people wear clothes only once.

It’s a thing, I lived in Chester for a long time and when we went out in liverpool I always felt under dressed. In the south it’s more casual

@AlexaShutUp

It's a northern thing.

It's really not. It's a Liverpool thing though

There’s a huge disposable income in the NW, @fifthtimelucky. It’s an important financial services administration base, and nearly all the big logistics companies are based there. It’s come a long, long way from the ex-industrial Thatcherite era.

I went to university in Liverpool eons ago and stayed nearby in the North West for a couple of decades.
Going out on Saturday night was the highlight of my social life and I wore some stunning clothes. It was the 80s after all!

My lifestyle, my social life changed immensely many years ago and
I don't do dressing up in a modern fashion sense now, I am too old and I like to keep my clothes for a long time so have developed my own, often called eccentric style. I love it and it keeps me happy.

What has persisted however is the effort I make. I always try to look groomed, even in a casual way and I have weather appropriate clothes and footwear. I really think I owe this to those years in Liverpool and her environs, (though thinking back my maternal family members always looked smart.) My daughter always looks immaculate too.

I was supposed to be going back up North this Autumn on a city break to show my wife the haunts of my youth. I was so looking forward to seeing the Women of Liverpool out on the town. Oh well, hopefully next year.

Property is cheap relative to earnings and lots of young people live at home until well into their late 20s.

Yes, it's a thing despite the comment about a Liverpudlian in a suit being the accused.(told to me by a Liverpudlian years ago). Good on them, everybody needs a bit of fun and dressing up in their life.

I live in Brentwood and I'd say Liverpool is definitely very similar in the dressing up stakes!

I lived there decades ago and it was a thing then. I never wear dresses or skirts, or anything remotely feminine, so it was an interesting time!

Absolutely a Liverpool thing. All the appointments are booked out on a Friday for hair, make up, nails etc - lots of wannabe WAGs.

It’s definitely not a North/South thing - just Liverpool. Most women in Manchester would be very insulted at being lumped in with Liverpool style!

I used to work with a cleaner from Liverpool. She used to come to work with her hair perfect and red lipstick on. She looked amazing.

OMG yes. DH and I went on holiday to Liverpool and were very underdressed going out, me with my no makeup, no brows, natural curly hair and flat shoes

It was snowing, blowing a gale and every other woman managed 4 inch heels.

I did not need to open my mouth for them to know we were not local

@inchyra : thanks. I certainly wasn't suggesting that Liverpool was all deprived, but surely there is still some deprivation there as there is in most areas.

According to some figures I've just found, 35% of primary and 43% of secondary pupils in Liverpool are eligible for Pupil Premium so I presume their parents don't have vast amounts of disposable income.

A slick of lipstick and heated rollers don’t require money, just motivation. I’d just like to know where that energy comes from .

Yes. My friend moved to Liverpool 6 years and pointed out that there are also very few tall people. I didn't believe him at first. But he's right! I love Liverpool. Wish I could live there.

Clearly the power of the Patriarchy is stronger in Liverpool.

@DailyFailstinks

It’s definitely not a North/South thing - just Liverpool. Most women in Manchester would be very insulted at being lumped in with Liverpool style!

This general lumping together of The North and Northerners infuriates me. I've seen a certain glam look on people from Essex. Does this mean that this look is a Southern thing, and everyone in Oxford, Southampton, Plymouth, Dover, London, Bristol, Brighton and Salisbury dress like this. Because they're all the same aren't they, being in The South?

Scouse women are fabulous 💁‍♀️

I went to uni there (and picked up a husband). Fake tan, false nails, eyelashes, hair done and full face of make up - all pretty standard there, not just so-called 'high maintenance' people. In fact my in-laws were once discussing how concerned they were about someone else in the family because she'd stopped doing her hair. I often wonder what they think about me 😂

Certainly I have never known any of them to pull their hair back in a ponytail and leave the house with no make up on.

I'm glad they have the time and money to do this. Personally I don't get it but each to their own.
What I did notice when I was in Liverpool was that it was the women who were dressed up with the men in football tops. Which I thought smacked of misogyny.

@Flaunch

Women in Essex are like this too ime. I felt like a fish out of water when I lived there - so I moved! They were all so well groomed. I’m a scruffy mare at the best of times.

Not in my part of Essex!

Midlands here. In at least 4 cities here if people are going clubbing or out late they get dressed up properly.

But why is it seem as a good thing? If everything is fake and it takes all day to get ready, what's the point?
I'd far rather be valued as myself, with my own hair, nails and eyebrows and spend my time and money on other things.