Dungarees on women. Your thoughts please?

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Just that really. I've noticed them creeping into shops. Would you where them? Could a 31 year old get away with it? They look so comfy! My toddler wears them so well..hmm...(ponders)

I ended up obsessed with dungarees last year.

In my head, I like them, I like this whole look (the one on the left).

I ordered several pairs and looked a total tool.

Haha Chicken that's brilliant.

OP, I empathise with your dungaree-curiosity but personally wouldn't be able to style it out. I did rock a floral McKays pair in the early nineties, of which I have very fond memories, but If I attempted any dungaree-wearing now it would be for nostalgia's sake, and not very cool. I'm quite sad about that though.

Oh crikey.

I think a pair of black skinny dungarees look fabulous on the right person.

I noticed Sharon Horgan was wearing dungarees in Catastrophe (the new sitcom) last week and was a bit hmmmm....so are dungarees back in now? Her character is meant to be pregnant but in the early stages, not so pregnant that you'd need to wear dungarees.

I did love dressing my DD in dungarees (and so much easier for nappy changes)!but she got to hate them - when I got them out the drawer she's say 'no dungers no dungers'.

My favourite 80s pair were peppermint green with stripes

Skinny young and flat chested they look great.

I often wore them in the 80s with nothing but a tan or occasionally a lacy bra if it was cold

The actual Noddy Holder in nowt but a lacy bra and dungarees is an image I now can't get out of my head...

Today 07:28 Lweji

"I think you mean the 80s."

Maybe late 80s then because I don't remember the early 80s. I had quite a few pairs in the early 90s though. They make me think of the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air and programmes like that.

I also had a denim pair in the early 90s (era of baggy jeans and hooded tops) and when they got a bit worn out my mum suggested chopping the legs off.

So then I had denim dungaree shorts with frayed edges which I wore with a hooded top and espadrilles all summer long and I ROCKED!

Yes, early 90's with floppy velvet hats, tie-dye t-shirts and platforms or sketchers.
There was a lot of fabric around in the 90's.

I really fancy a pair of skinny dungarees now.

What noddy said

Unless you're super slim and very funky they look a bit prisoner cell block H

Awful,sorry unless you were one of those lucky people that looked gorgeous in anything (there are such folk)

Very cute on teens and pregnant women.

yeah, I noticed Sharon in Catastrophe wearing them, and I thought, 'its' too early' but she did look nice.

I always think of Come on Eileen.

Yes, yes, yes. I love them. There was another dungaree thread yesterday which was far more positive than this one.

There's a disgustingly beautiful lady at the baby swimming classes I go to, who wears them, denim, quite 80s style, and looks ace, but then she is ridiculously pretty, and slim the cah

They are not for the Dumpty of figure.

A lot of hate for dungarees on here and I'm not sure why. Are they any worse than high waisted jeans? I have a skinny pair that I wear with fitted t-shirts. I even have a denim shorts version I wear in the summer.

I would draw the line at wearing them with a checked shirt.

Because dungarees look crap on the vast majority of people, that's why - unless you're young, slim, tall and leggy like the model upthread. Anyone who looks that way would look good in a bin bag.

Maybe late 80s then because I don't remember the early 80s.

That's what I thought.
I remember them in my teenage years, and that would be second half of the 80s, but don't remember them in the 90s.
Not important, though.

Definitely mid to late 80s - made famous by Dexy's Midnight Runners, Bananarama, and the late. I remember them well - but even then knew that they wouldn't be a good look on my 5 foot 1 skinny frame.

I don't hate them, I really like them. I invested way too much time and effort trying to find the perfect pair last summer. I must have ordered and returned a dozen pairs in my quest. I was going for a slim fit pair with a fitted t-shirt

I'm 5ft 9, size 8 and was right at the back of the boob queue, so in theory they should look OK on me.

They didn't!!!

I had a baggy pair as a teenager. I was born in 76, so it must have been very late 80s/very early 90s

I had two rather fetching pairs as a teenager in 1999/2000. One was khaki and the other navy blue. You could zip the legs off and I often used to attach legs from the other pair for added 'style'.

And I wondered why no boys ever fancied me...

I would not wear them now but I think if you're skinny/ flat chested like Alexa Chung yo could probably get away it.

Even that model looks shit in them. Nuff said.

They were in in the 1980's and 1990's during the rave/baggy scene and then later mid -90's the trance/hippy one where they took the form of splendid patchwork feckers adorned with moons and stars and if my memory serves me well,some velvet tie dye efforts too.

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