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?

She taught in schools then that allowed this. Many schools did not.

We weren’t allowed to wear trousers at secondary school in the early 80s. PE was short skirts with matching PE knickers - no tracksuits for the winter. I don’t remember any female teachers wearing trousers, and just accepting it, although we did moan about the no trousers rule for us.
When I took my driving tests (three of them) in the late 80s, the instructor advised to me wear a skirt as it gave you an advantage with the examiner.
My dm, who never wears trousers, used to be convinced that women who wore trousers all the time were gay. I wear trousers all the time and I’m straight!

I like to have my downstairs curtains open by 8am on weekends in case someone thinks there’s been a death.
I’m 50 and Haven’t worn a skirt since I was 12.

My mom is a little perturbed that I don’t wear a slip or underskirt. But she always thinks I look lovely anyway and always tells me so. I love my mom very much.

Sorry brasty I didn't mean she wore trousers as a teacher. Just when I saw her.

minipie Thanks, yes that makes more sense.

I had actually forgotten how women and teenagers all used to wear slips or underskirts. I never had one, but many of my friends at school with more traditional mums, still wore them. Can't really remember what the point of them was.

My granny is in her 70s and she wears black trousers with a white shirt/blouse every single day.

I often wear a slip now under unlined skirts to stop them getting tangled round my legs.

Tbf nearly all my skirts are lined; some dresses aren't but are knitted or jersey so don't need it.

My grandmothers don't wear trousers. They don't object to other women wearing trousers. One of them doesn't like pregnant women in skin tight clothes (not sure why). Same one doesn't like overplucked eyebrows and overweight women in leggings.

I went to secondary school in 90s and wasnt allowed to wear trousers, I "campaigned" on this issue and failed!

My nan's are 98 and 92 and both wear trousers. One of them has a tracksuit (I kid you not) but she only wears it in the house. Cracks me up!

InsomniacAnonymous
If my father were alive he'd be 117, my youngest daughter is 24.I think that's probably very unusual. We were allowed trousers at school in the 1970s, but only during cold winters.

I started a job in 2000 - 2000! - where there was an "unwritten rule" in my department that women didn't wear trousers. "Unwritten rule" meaning the boss made it plain he didn't approve but knew fine well he couldn't enforce it.

Needless to say I totally ignored it. But JEEZ.

My grandmother got in trouble for sending my aunt to school in the winter with slacks...1950s. My mother thought that she needed to wear a slip under her blue jeans! I didn't receive a job in the 80s bc boss said that "I can't see myself hiring a woman who wears slacks."

My Grandma was born in 1910 and never wore trousers in my lifetime. She was very short and round though, so I can't see how she'd have suited them. My Mum wore them in later years, I'm not sure she did when she was young. She did think it was a bit unseemly to go out with bare legs when she was young, she would never have done it, although she got used to the idea and wouldn't have thought anything of it these days. That attitude may have been born of the lack of stockings during and after the war. She also wasn't keen on us wearing black as girls and young women, I think she thought it was too sophisticated. She'd never have worn black herself as it didn't suit her. It was still common in the 70s and 80s for women to be told no trousers at work.

Slips help keep your modesty (remember Princess Diana?). But are useless under blue jeans

Just popping on to say that I left my high school after my GCSEs in like 2010 and the school I went to had a uniform which was solely skirts. It was an all-girls school, I don't know if that makes a difference, but we were not allowed to wear trousers, only skirts with a single pleat in the front. We were also required to wear 'gym knickers' for athletics and dance in PE lessons at school, with a short pleated gym skirt over it if we were out at the athletics centre for a lesson.

Both my grandmothers (born 1926 and 1923) wore trousers. I never saw my maternal grandmother in black though.

1 of my grandmothers never wore trousers and we always had to wear a skirt or dress when we visited her.
My other grandma wore them but only rarely and mainly in the house. She always wore a skirt to church or when she was ‘running her messages’
She was a farmers wife and would herd the sheep in a skirt and welly’s
I was this strange goth granddaughter who was a vegetarian and I was viewed with suspicion! she died earlier this year and I miss her terribly.

I'm short with fat thighs and ample cleavage. I've yet to find trousers for work that are flattering. I either look like a burst sausage or like a wee girl in my mum's dressing up
clothes. The struggle is real and I'm terrified of the dreaded camel's hoof.

On the other hand, a lovely pencil skirt or a below the knee dress with heels makes me feel like a Queen though

My DM of 1932 vintage, has never worn trousers as a married woman.
She wears a hat at all times out of the house, in public.
However, I did find a pair of trews up in the attic. They must date from the 50s. Reddish tartan and wow! such a tiny waist

My first school you could wear what you like ie skirt or trousers when I changed schools and had to wear a skirt I was how can such a sexist rule exist. I hardly ever wear a skirt or dress. Just isn’t me.

My mum hated seeing my wearing black as she associated it with deep mourning. She had no problems with me wearing trousers though, she was wearing jeans herself in her 80s! We weren't allowed to wear trousers at school, they just weren't part of the uniform (1970s) and I was 'discouraged' from wearing trousers at work (early 1980s) and wearing them was seen as an act of rebellion!!!

My cool arty granny wore trousers often but never jeans ! My mum wears jeans and trousers and always looks
miles more stylish than me ! She's 81...

When we were first married (1979) the (rude)elderly man next door told me women's bodies weren't designed to wear trousers! I wasn't aware that men's were either. Isn't it the other way round, the trousers are designed to fit the body? I still wear trousers or jeans most of the time. Much more practical, especially when dogwalking!

My granny was very self conscious about scars in her legs and wore ‘slacks’ all the time ... if she wore a skirt she had the thickest tights