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?

Yes, Errol, I remember my primary school teacher in the 70s always wearing crimplene trouser suits. She made them herself and they had matching waistcoats too!

It's about time crimplene made a comeback. I can't wait to wear a nice pair of pull-on stretch trousers - in fact I have had a sneaky look at the Damart catalogue and thought how practical they look. 70s crimplene trousers used to bag dreadfully though; I can remember my mother having "knees" in her trousers after she stood up!

OMG crimplene !

My gran turns 87 today and she wears trousers and has done for as far back as I can remember. She'll wear a skirt for special occasions, but other than that it's trousers.

My mother is teacher and skirts were required up until, I think, the early 90s. She changed over to trousers after that but only started wearing jeans in the last 5 years or so. She's 62 and very rigid about some things.

And now, the new generation comes - my DS who's 6, wears dresses. He has no desire to be a girl and isn't transgender or anything, he just likes to wear them. My PILs were total arseholes about it and it completely ruined the already rubbish relationship we had.

Many females wore trousers in times of austerity e.g. during the world wars as they did a lot of work usually undertaken by males and trousers were safer and available as uniforms. In the 40s a lot of females continued to wear trousers but they were very styled and usually for dressy occasions. Just look at some of the old movies. My mother never wore trousers and jeans just weren't around for females in her day. When did jeans become popular with females in the UK,

If my Nans were still alive they'd both be over 110 now. Never of them wore trousers. Other less old family members did, but called them slacks (which I thought sounded horrible!)

Still none the wiser. What texture is it?

Crimplene is like a thick nylon type fabric, very popular in the 60s & 70s and usually in ver lurid patterns! Pretty much impossible to crumple the stuff up, it just kept it's shape! (Very sweaty stuff).
My Mum and my Aunt (now in their 60s & 70s respectively), didn't wear trousers until the early nineties! Neither of them have ever owned a pair of jeans either 😯

I used to have to wear a skirt when visiting my grandad. I remember that.

SO did I - he was a nasty bugger to start off with, but totally against females in trousers.

Thanks for the Crimplene explanation Persephone. I've not been able to find a US link for it anywhere!

I think it's possibly the same polyester material that was made into trousers (and other clothing. We used to call it 'cast iron'.

Both my Grans wore trousers, although I think one mainly only wore them when playing golf.

My other Granny wore some lovely colourful trousers to my cousin's wedding and later told us that she worn the same ones to my Uncle's wedding many decades earlier! She did not like waste and clearly they were not worn out so perfectly serviceable still.

My dear Mum wore peddle pushers (black) with a black bustier on holiday when she was in her 20's. I have the photograph and she looked INCREDIBLE. However, all I remember during my time with her until she passed away was how 'unfeminine' trousers were and how dull and depressing black was.
These days all the grannies I know wear trousers 99% of the time (usually black or beige in a highly flammable fabric) teamed with a delicious beige jumper. Oooh!

My mum (86) doesn't wear (or I think even own) trousers. But she has no problem with me and my sister doing so. It wasn't how she was brought up (her mum was born victorian era) and it just wasn't done then.

My motyher born in the 1920s often wore trousers. She even had a man's suit thing ni tweed which was the height of fashion at the time. I am trying to think about the old family photos and what people wore. 1930s I think trousers were certainly being worn. During and after WWII definitely.

I went to visit my Great Aunt in Luxembourg when I was 18 and I was a bit of an indie kid at the time (mainly dark clothes and DM boots). She was appalled by all my clothes and made me change over and over again before letting me leave the house. She kept on asking me why I couldn't dress more like Princess Diana! It was just one of many bizarre things that happened on that holiday but at least I got to practice my French!

I remember being told by my mum that I HAD to wear a skirt to a job interview around 2000-2002, that trousers weren't appropriate office wear for women. I'm 36 now. (I thought she was insane and ridiculously old fashioned!)

In my area none of the secondary schools allow girls to wear trousers.

I'm only 42 and when I started working in the late 90s I wasn't allowed to wear trousers to work. And when I was at school in the early 90s, female teachers never wore trousers at my school.

My elderly mum has only ever worn trousers a few times. Although she never disapproved of other women wearing them, she just doesn't like them on her.

I know a lot of women, of all ages, who don't wear trousers for religious reasons.

My grandmother always wore trousers, my mum however believes that women should wear skirts, unless they are gardening, where baggy trousers are acceptable but you must change into a skirt to take anything out to the car or even answer the door. I asked my grandmother about it once, she said she hasn't worn a skirt since she left school and has absolutely no idea where mum gets it from. Mum whinges at me about trousers regularly. Black clothing is fine though, she loved my goth stage because of the flowy skirts

Skirts in mums mind must also be at least mid-calf length, if not ankle length, unless you are still at school, where they may be just above the knee, she even insisted I wore a hockey skirt for PE (I was allowed trousers underneath in winter though)

My mum would have been 91 this year and she always wore trousers. As do I.

I am in my mid fifties. I always used to wear a skirt to job interviews when young, as some older men were very against women wearing trousers. In some old fashioned workplaces women were still banned from wearing trousers.

My mum is 71 and has never worn jeans in her life but wears trousers a lot. My dad is 75 and must be the last survivor of the generation who got dressed up for the most mundane activities, e.g. smart trousers with a blazer and tie when going to the doctor's!!!

This is one of the best MN threads ever! Slacks, frocks, BLOOMERS!

When I was young some women wore trousers, but the majority wore skirts. During my life time it has changed to the other way round.
And yes, teachers were not allowed to wear trousers.

My mum (74) wasn’t allowed to wear trousers to work in the 1970s and 1980s

Where did she work? I wore trousers every day at work in the 1980s.

Fairy It depends where you worked. I too wore trousers every day during this time. But many teachers were not allowed to, or those working in solicitors offices.

My granny (born 1921, ex teacher) used to wear trousers all the time. Black trousers! Usually with a blouse and cardi.

She did like to see her granddaughters in pretty dresses but she was also very big on practicality. These days she'd be a feminist though I don't think she ever used that term.