is this a Northern thing - Saturday nights out

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

We're staying in Leeds for the weekend, visiting DS who recently moved here. Fabulous city, loads going on.

We went out for a meal last night and I was amazed at what people were (or weren't!) wearing. The women were all amazingly made up and wearing incredibly skimpy outfits. I'm not criticising, but I was amazed that they weren't frozen (no jackets). They all looked incredibly glamorous.

The cities I'm used to are Cambridge, Nottingham, Bristol and London. My dc, now in their 20s, and their friends are in jeans, t-shirts, maybe a pretty top on a Saturday night. These women looked like they were going to a cocktail party but were only going to the pub.

The men also looked a lot smarter than I'm used to - they were in shirts rather than t shirts - but not as dressed up as the women.

I've got a friend who lives in Liverpool who is always talking about her daughters taking 4 hours to get ready for a Saturday night out, but I thought that was just confined to Liverpool. However, the women in Leeds look like they have spent hours getting ready. Lots of them also had a fake tan and their nails done beautifully.

So are northern lasses much more glamorous than us scruffy southerners? And if so, why?

In fact when I was out in the centre of Leeds a woman asked us where all the cheap bars were as she could not believe the prices in town.
She was shocked when I told her these are the prices. Unless you get in a taxi and travel to an outer village expect to pay through the nose.
I’ve paid more for a coffee in Leeds than I did in the same coffee bar in Windsor.

Yes, gone are the days of Leeds being a cheap night out!

Girl who grew up in East Anglia too, but with Northern heritage. Yep… it’s normal.

This isn't just an English thing. I grew up in a rural northern Irish town where people would get their hair and makeup done every Saturday for nights out, dress and heels and basically everyone looks as if they're going to a wedding even though they're only in the pub.

I was going for a night out in Dublin and could only imagine how glamorous the women down there would be. I nearly cringed myself inside out when I spent hours with my curlers in, false lashes on etc, plenty of flesh on show, tottered into a bar in the city and every other woman was in jeans and jumpers

Vintage Gucci! Probably worth many times what you paid for them.

I thought this was an old thread as remember it from last year!