women wearing trousers

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also wearing black clothing. Did anyone else have a granny like this. She used to hate black and women wearing trousers she used to hate it and would comment.

Cant remember how we dealt with it but did anyone else have a granny like this when they were younger?

I was told off for wearing trousers by my boss in the public sector in the mid 1980s even though they were grey business-style trousers.

Both of my Grannys (born at the start of the 20th century) wore skirts all the time.

Never trousers - they never set foot in a pub in their whole lives either!

Well with all the gender neutral and transactivism going on it's better that everyone wears trousers at school and elsewhere. More neutral than boys having to wear skirts no matter the gender or trans issue.

I always complained when I was at secondary school (mixed) that girls could not wear trousers in Winter even, but no discussion allowed.

My late gran always wore a dress with a wrap around pinny on. Never ever saw her wearing trousers. Mum does and has done for years even when it was a bit meh to do so, what will people think etc.

Throughout my working life in a professional job I refused to wear a skirt ever. Always had black tailored trousers, low heels or ankle boots, and shirts and a jacket. Didn't impede my progress up that said ladder where someone could have upskirted me lol!

My granny would be 117 now and she wore trousers in the 70's. In fact I still call a certain type of 'older ladies' trousers (you get them in Bon Marche) 'granny trews'.

Sloe - my teachers also wore trousers in the 70's!

My mum is 80 and lives in them - always has done since she had children and stopped work. Carried on wearing them when she went back though

My gran wears trousers, I have some old photos from the 60's and she is seriously stylish. She still dresses beautifully in a mix of skirts and trousers now she's in her 90's.

My granny was born in 1912 and she always wore trousers or slacks as she preferred to call them . She died a few years ago and I have her old photos and her and her sisters are wearing trousers in the few photos of them all together. She wore a skirt to my wedding and she complained bitterly about it - she thought tights were the bane of her and every other womens life. She wore three colours - black, navy and maroon . It’s funny when she was older, towards the end of her life (she lived into her 100s) she used to love seeing what my kids were wearing, she delighted in all the different colours and patterns you could get for kids and babies clothes. She thought leggings were the best thing since sliced bread and she’s remembered that being “a wonder”.

I don't wear trousers apart from one pair of jeans. I've never thought they suit me.

My Gran (born 1920s?) always wore trousers, apart from my parents wedding where she relented briefly and wore a skirt.

Mind you, according to the local church who refused to take DF for sunday school, she ran a 'house of ill repute' or a we would call it these days - a pub so wearing skirts was probably just something else she did to piss off the judgy feckers

Plenty on here won't leave the house without slap and staggerers. Same thing.

One of my grandmothers never wore trousers or black clothes, but she was a fan of pastel colours and tended to avoid most dark colours. She also wore a hat whenever she left the house.

The other grandmother wore trousers quite a lot and sometimes they were black. She was quite glamorous sometimes and had been fashion-conscious when she was younger.

They were both born in 1915.

I don't remember either of my GMs wearing trousers or black-although I don't remember either of them commenting about others clothes!

My MIL only ever wears "slacks" in the house or outside if going out for a walk in the Winter.
Always with tights or pop socks.

She'll generally change into a skirt for visitors!

Both my nan (1917) and gran (1919) wore trousers more than skirts or dresses. I can barely remember my nan wearing anything but trousers. Neither had a problem with black.

Lots of my female teachers wore trousers in the 70s & 80s.

My granny used to wear a tracksuit and greet people with a punch on the shoulder. She was a card.

Comfort mainly I would think. Also I have a problem with my legs at the moment, both have about 4 layers of dressings and bandages, mummified up to my knees - can't get any of my shoes on other than manky slip on gardening shoes. How bloody awful would that look under a skirt?

I don't recall either of my grandmothers wearing trousers, they were born in 1908 and a few years earlier than that. My mother wears trousers lots though, she was born in 1937.

Back in my mum's and MILs youth it was a fashion crime if you went out without matching coloured shoes and bag.

That was late 40s/50s.

Littlewhistle - that's not true at all. My female teachers were wearing trousers 35 years ago. On teacher never wore anything BUT trousers.

I asked my father whether his mother ever wore trousers in the 1940s. He said yes, to play golf and possibly occasionally to go into town. She was always quite decorous and conventional. So it might not have been common but I don't think it can have been at all unheard-of. I think it was much more of a practical, casual, dress-down look though, so I can't imagine many women wearing them to work. Probably the equivalent of wearing sportswear to work today: too casual for most workplaces, especially if surrounded by men in suits. Men and women all dressed much more smartly for everyday purposes than we do: I remember my grandfather wearing a suit on the beach!

'One' teacher, obviously, not 'on'.

Slacks - great word, I'm going to say that all day now , slacks, slacks slacks! And frocks. Slacks and frocks!

I doubt either wore trousers during peacetime but they were both born in the 1910s so I wouldn't really expect them to! Mum did in the 70s though. My friends very glamorous mum (90) wears trousers and has been known to wear Gloria Vanderbilt jeans.

My dear old Granny would be over 100 if alive today but she wore trousers and was proud to do so. She said women had to help with war work in the munitions factories etc and they had to start wearing trousers to be practical and she just didn't stop.

My Granny is 95 and still going strong - haven't seen her in trousers since I was little. Back then, in the 1970's she did own a couple of pairs of what she referred to as 'slacks' but rarely wore them.

Mind you, my Grandad was never seen in anything other than a suit and tie, even on his holidays.

My mum mostly wore skirts/dresses until the mid 80's as most women did back then.

My grandma used to comment occasionally on girls never dressing as girls anymore, and she did usually wear dresses, though it was very cold she would occasionally wear trousers.

It is bollocks that women teachers have only been able to wear trousers to work since 1997. I was at school in the seventies and early eighties, and many of mine definitely wore them then.

Personally, I rarely wear skirts or dresses unless absolutely necessary (my DD1's graduation this year was the first time in a long time). Jeans and tracksuit bottoms are far more comfortable and practical.