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?

My grandmother never wore trousers. She even did gardening (yes, even the really hard jobs) in a skirt; straight and tweedy. Vair posh she was! Grew great fruit and veg though!

I don't own trousers either! Always wear skirts; not straight or tweedy, and I'm not much of a gardener either

(oh, and both grandmothers spent lots of time on the continent so had no problem with people wearing black; they didn't wear it themselves, mind - it's terribly ageing!)

My daughter went to secondary school from 2003 and she chose to wear a skirt (fully pleated and a bugger to iron) because the only style of trousers allowed by the school was "hideous"

Yes it can't be a coincidence that the trousers schools allow are the most unflattering uncomfortable, itchy, wpuld make a skeleton look fat heap of material known to man.

My dds refuse to wear trousers on the basis that we have yet to find a pair that look nice, fit properly, don't trail across the floor, and dont make you walk like you have pissed yourself...

I trained to be a teacher on the 90s. We were told by our college not to wear trousers on our first day of teaching practice as some schools did not allow female teachers to wear trousers- different schools had different dress codes.

I don't think I ever saw my mother and certainly not my grandmother in black. And no long hair, either!

I wonder if the next generation to become old (ie the Baby Boomers) will reject beige? Beige is really such a terrible colour in my opinion, but I suppose it's what previous generations thought of black. But what goes around comes around and no doubt youngsters will be shuddering at all the old people going round in (what they think is youthful) black whilst they are embracing beige and crimplene.

My mum didn't let me wear trousers until I was about 10 or 11. She said they looked horrible.

She wears them all in the time, now!

I don't own a skirt.

AcrossthePond55 my gt gran of similar vintage also wore a corset into her 90's. I don't know if she was still insisting on it when she went into a home aged 93. She was only in there a few months before she passed. I do remember my gt. aunt (who lived with her) saying that her mother never had back problems because the corset made you carry yourself properly. She was always telling me off for slouching.

GGM also wore large pink bloomers: they were getting very difficult to buy in the 1970's!

I remember going to a party when I was 11 and the birthday girl said it was "casual dress". I remember having a pair of blue crimplene slacks & a white jumper, and being extremely upset that I couldn't wear my best dress!

Trousers weren't allowed at school - and in fact the boys weren't allowed to wear long trousers either until they were 13!

My gran, who would be over 100 now, used to wear trousers.
I do know a lady in her 50s though who thinks women wearing trousers is inappropriate as it 'blurs the boundaries between male and female'

I remember the mum's sending letters and causing a fuss that us girls be allowed to wear trousers in junior school. It worked.

I'm 34.

My grandmother, in her 90's, wears trousers all the time. She even wore them to my sibling's wedding (nice ones, not black).

I've worn trousers to interviews. And been offered the job. In one case, in male dominated industry where the way to be respected as a woman was not to dress in anything tight/short/revealing (though I realise plenty of skirts are none of these) - I suspect wearing trousers actually helped.

My gran never owned a pair of trousers in her life

My gran died 15 years ago in her 90s and she worn dresses and trousers so not a new thing. only recently have schools allowed girls to wear trousers.

When I was in infants school 33 year ago the female teachers wore trousers! My gran wore slacks as she called them in the 70s! Women wore trousers in the 50s etc

My husband's nan has never worn trousers. I don't think she has an opinion of what other women wear though.

And if long hair was good enough for Jesus it should be good enough for him

I'm going to use this on my mum next time she comments on a man's long hair!
She's only 70 but never wore trousers until she was in her 30s. Now she lives in them. I had to wear dresses / skirts to church until I was a teenager and point blank refused but now I'll take any excuse to dress up.

When I left university, you had to wear a skirt to job interviews where men would wear a suit.
I once got told off for wearing trousers while interviewing a politician - by phone

My granny is in her 80s. She wears trousers, but only at home. If she's going out or if guests are coming round she has to put a skirt on. If friends unexpectedly pop round and she's wearing trousers she always apologises, like I would if my friends came round and I was still in my pyjamas!

My MIL never wore a pair of trousers in her life. She was 80 when she died last year. My BIL once took her on a skiing holiday - she didn't ski, just went with them - and there are pics of her in the Alps in her skirt and her American tans and a pair of moon boots.

When I was temping in the 80s, I used to regularly go to offices with no-trousers dress codes.

I’m sure my lovely infant teacher wore trousers in 1968.

I imagine my English grandmother wore slacks, though I can’t remember. I assume the Indian one wore a sari rather than salwar trousers as she was from the south and died in 1937 or thereabouts.

I remember getting a job in a nursing home and I was told residents really couldn't deal with women in trousers . I never saw my granny in trousers.

These are just

Dealing with women in trousers..seriously wtf

Would love to hear how all these people would actually defend the thought processes

My dgm only wore trousers once I think in the 70s but she was born 100 years ago

My headmistress would not let the borders go out in trousers or jeans, had to be a skirt or dress

My grandparents were Plymouth Brethren and women weren’t allowed to wear trousers. My mum used to encourage us into skirts to keep the peace and as a kid I was happy enough, but as a rebellious teen I started rebelling and my Grandpa would never say anything but would just raise his eyebrows and make an exaggerated sad face. Back when flares were in I wore a particularly wide-legged pair of jeans and he said “oh how lovely dear, you’ve worn TWO skirts to come and see us!”

MrJohnson I can assure it certainly was true that teachers where I live were not allowed to wear trousers. There was a big uproar when a young teacher started wearing them and was taken into the Head's office and told that it wasn't acceptable. She stood her ground and, when he realised there was nothing he could do about it. more and more teachers followed her example. ( I know this because my mother taught there)

I can remember going in on a Saturday morning to help at a coffee morning and being told to make sure I wore a skirt

So it was one school. Plenty of other schools had teachers in trousers for decades before that.

Remember in the 80s at this school no teachers wore trousers. I remember one teacher wore cords but she did not last long