my husband has brought a beige casual jacket.

[bananaandcustard]

which officially means he is dressing like an old man.

AIBU?

Mine has not bought beige. Worse.

Mint.

Where will you wear it? I enquired.

Here, there, everywhere. Around. He replied.

It is AWFUL. Even Hammond would reject it.

wtf is an Elbow-Clutcher? but on the basis of lengthy nail alone he was a bad un.

Mint?

Oh dear. There's no coming back from a mint casual jacket.

Oh ffs. Are people just having a go at my dad here. Yes... he smoked a pipe and owned a few pairs of corduroy trousers.

He also had a rather impressive German dungeon porn collection and he never knew I found it.

You can just never tell.

Hipster 50

There is to be sure a dodgy bit in the middle.

Hmm is it any worse than my dh and his liking for teenage American frat boy clothes? yes, yes it is

Hey, corduroy is damn comfy, okay?

You know what, I don't care if I'm a twenty-eight year old woman, in proud of my inner elderly gent.

An Elbow Clutcher is someone who grasps your elbow (thereby invading your personal space - which we do not like in Scotland) and is generally over familiar.

at "mint" item Lizard!

Now it's deffo a "LTB"!!

*I'm

Hipster/Old Duffer - can you tell from here

I'm fond of a touch of corduroy myself.

Mine has jackets with elbow patches.

'old duffer' that old?

I will be 49 next month. not 50. when do woman start wearing beige? is there any way to avoid it?
I thought I was a purple sort of woman and that hubby would forever be in jeans . I like him in jeans and jumper do we all end up old in beige?

Do people who end up wearing beige give up on life?
i thought i would be the sort of old lady that hit peoples legs with her walking stick in a crowd/market day or getting on a bus how can I drag a beige wearing fella around if I am wearing purple and having fun?

Perhaps he skim read this in Esquire and got confused.

and furthermore < is that a word> I thought that being old was many, many years ahead of us, not now. not beige.

NOT NOW< NOT BEIGE!

Mine has horrible comfy velcro Lonsdale shoes he bought from Sports Direct, that he swore were for popping out to the bins or whatever, that have somehow become his main shoes

You think a beige jacket is bad, my DH bought a beige CAR FFS. My parents also have a beige car (everything in their house is beige). A jacket you can get rid of fairly easily, a car…not so much.

You could arrange a terrible accident (red wine, curry etc). Do you have any animals that could be induced to attack and destroy it? Or if you prefer the more subtle approach, you could go at it with a seam-ripper and sabotage parts of it, then watch him complain about the shoddy workmanship when it falls apart.

All of this is however overlooking the serious underlying issue of the BEIGE impulse that drove him to buy this hideous article. He must never be allowed to shop unsupervised again. Sweep the house for SAGA catalogues etc and confiscate his cards. Drastic action is required.

I have a rather fetching pair of corduroy jeans myself.

But I wear them with Panache.

HTH

beige on woman is the work of the devil (hilarious on men).

What you need old duffer is a good pair of comfy trews.

[Elbow-Clutcher - I am Scottish, in Scotland. It would take a brave man to grab my elbie. I am betwixt old duffer and hipster; still a delusional hipster to be fair...]

My great granny always said "beige is not a colour, everything will turn beige eventually". Put me off this perfectly fine colour.

Panache bugger off. A good squirt of Tweed is what you need.

Honey, , you are as old as you feeeeeel!

I'm very old and I never wear beige.

I don't mean the perfume Panache!

I mean the attitude.

And, my MIL like Tweed perfume. Although I think they discontinued it in 1990...

Mine has horrible comfy velcro Lonsdale shoes he bought from Sports Direct, that he swore were for popping out to the bins or whatever, that have somehow become his main shoes

He probably spent ages thinking up a way of getting them into the house, then a way to make them acceptable bin taking out shoes and then a way to infiltrate them into daily life.

He loves those velcro shoes.

Wasn't Panache a 70's perfume of the same ilk as Charlie and Tweed?

Anyway women do wear beige; it's just renamed stone or off-white or mink or any other variant on very pale brown.

I'm reading this and giving thanks that my 50 year old DH is still clutching on to the ageing ska boy style of his formative years with his Fred Perrys and Ben Sherman shirts. No beige anoraks for him...yet.