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'm only 62 i don't own a dress or a skirt and am wearing trousers to my sons wedding

Why do so many people have such strong views on what women should and shouldn't wear? Shouldn't wear trousers, shouldn't wear black, shouldn't wear anything too revealing, shouldn't completely cover up, must wear make up, must wear heels.....do men have these rules too?

It sadness me that there are women happy to reinforce these ideas and police other women on what they're wearing too.

My Grandmother only ever wore dresses, they used to have a zip from the neck to the hem at the front. She wore them to garden and to weddings - just in different patterns.
I think she my have made them herself, my Father (her son) and her both died 30 plus years ago so I can't ask. It did strike me recently, when going through some photos, that the dress style would be quite trendy now - kind of Alexa Chung-ish

My own DM gave me a cat bum face when I wore trousers to a job interview. Would have been the 90s and she was around 50.

Both of my grans are in their 80's and wear trousers. One sometimes wears a long skirt, the other wears horrible polyester trousers over her beige tights every day.

Why do so many people have such strong views on what women should and shouldn't wear? I have opinions on male attire too

We were not allowed to wear trousers in my first job in 1985 in the City.

My Sil, 64, doesn't believe at trousers are right for any formal event, even a smart dinner party at home. She made my niece, then 28, wear a very very short black skirt to her grandfather's funeral in place of the black trousers my niece wanted to wear.

I read the op as black women wearing trousers. That would have been an interesting thread

My grannie never wore trousers, always a calf length skirt, blouse and stockings, never tights! With sensible brown Miss Marple style shoes

She lamented the fact that I wore lots of black and grey, and never wore a skirt. I’m still the same now!

I don't think my DM (88) has ever worn jeans. She never wore trousers until she was in her 40's. These days she doesn't wear them because she isn't very tall & can't be bothered shorten them.

I do remember my gt. gran tutting about women wearing trousers in the 1960's. I don't ever remember her wearing anything other than a long black skirt. Though she had long since been widowed, not sure if that's relevant. She was most definitely Victorian in her ways (born 1885)

I think I've lived in trousers for the last 30 years. During the 1980's I worked in an office where it would have been unheard of for women to wear anything other than skirts (and stilettos), even when it wasn't a client-facing role. This was small town in the middle of a rural area too, not a city.

My granny used to wear lovely polyester trousers with a stiff crease down the front.

Ah the memories.

Mum did a lot of sewing and made a trouser suit which looked very professional, but blimey, the fuss that Dad made when he saw her wearing it - you'd think that she'd committed murder. Grandma never wore trousers - but then she was very Victorian.

I sometimes wore smart trousers at work in an office and these would draw comment, "Trousers today?" as if I was wearing something really unsuitable like a spacesuit or a crinoline.

I think they'd be considered totally unremarkable today which is as it should be.

Thinking about it now, I don't think I saw either of my grandmothers in trousers ever. My Dad's mum used to wear 'overalls' and hairnets...genuinely. She was old fashioned though!

Yeah my granny said slacks too. She was born in 1910. She wore brown blue and beige ones that I can remember with a matching long waistcoat and a polo neck underneath.

I started work in 1999, and was told that until the year before, the women secretaries had to wear skirts, but professional level women were allowed trousers, presumably because they went on site visits.

My gran wore trousers. She used to scorn the schoolgirls walking down the street with bare legs in cold weather because not wearing tights gives you fat legs apparently

I don't remember my grandmother ever wearing trousers but I'm fairly sure she wouldn't have commented. The same fro black (aside from mourning, funerals etc).

She was a Victorian (by a couple of weeks) so of course had very different ideas about what was acceptable. Being a good person though, she could keep them to herself when it was for the best.

I was told to wear a skirt by a temp agency in the late 1980s after turning up for an interview in trousers - very smart trousers too.

My nan, who was born in 1909, never, ever wore trousers. I think, although my memory's hazy, that my gran, born 1920, occasionally wore "slacks", but I remember her more in skirts.

I had skirts only as uniform at my girls' school in the 80s. I hate trousers anyway, skirts and dresses all the way, just jim jam bottoms, but no trousers or jeans for day wear.

My granny is 100, she's never worn trousers in her life I don't think! Often made her own skirts. She's never commented on what i wear, although will occasionally say something like 'that's a nice snazzy blouse you've got on!'

I read the op as black women wearing trousers.

So did I!

My granny would wear trousers around the house but was never seen outside in them.

My mum disapproves of women in trousers.

She keeps reminding me that they are not allowed for papal audiences. Black is though. But it has to be a longer length dress or skirt. Not that a papal audience is likely....

She also disapproves of jeans - all jeans that is regardless of price.
Purple crimplene slacks are fine though.

My MIL (in her mid 70s) hates black clothing - she thinks it's for old women