What did your parents not like you wearing as a child?

[TazzyDrunk]

They didn't like me wearing make up at any time.

Anything with the playboy bunny logo.

I completely get it now and totally agree. However when I was 12 it was all the rage.

To be honest my mum and Nan had very similar styles and they bought/oversaw my wardrobe.

Bikinis were a complete no until i grew breasts... of which I was around 14. I hated being in the beach in my plain black school swimming costume and ended up with dodgy tan marks.

My mum didn't like me wearing very very short mini skirts when I was 17 or 18 in the mid 1960 era, but a bit later on,she then kind of liked them.and started to turn up her own skirts and dresses about three inches,making them knee length ha ha

Another who desperately wanted black patent shoes as a child - I can genuinely see no reason why they should have offended mothers so much! They were still in the same boring Clark’s styles!
Also I wasn’t allowed an ankle chain as a teen because they were strictly for ladies if the night only (seriously there was no way that dull 15 year old me was ever going to be mistaken for a prostitute).
Strangely I’ve never heard my mum mutter a single word against anything my dd has ever worn.

Make-up, black clothes, fashion clothes, anklets, jeans. I wore jeans for the first time at 18.

Leggings. To be fair she had a point 🤣

Shell suits, she was totally right though, they were hideous.

Also, anklet bracelets! They were only worn by prostitutes and loose women apparently. In hindsight it was a bit odd as my mum didn't mind me wearing all kinds of weird shit, but anklets were a total no.

Was allowed pretty much anything, although DF would’ve laughed at leopard print and still does. Grandma didn’t like my all black goth look. Money for clothes wasn’t in huge supply though. Only big no no was bare legs / no socks. Only tarts went around in bare legs. 🤣

KevinsCarter

Very similar to you.

With the addition that everything had to be tucked in. Trousers could be worn for playing out but not to go to school or visit relatives, that had to be a dress.

Another one whose mother thought anklets were a sign to men you were a prostitute.

I finally got my ears pierced at 14, but only because my mum was thinking of having hers done and she wanted to know how much it hurt.

I was born in the 60s so by the time I was old enough to be expressing myself through appearance, Sid V was on the scene. So my poor parents went through Punk, then onto a weird Ska phase where all I wore was black and white, then I became a New Romantic which was quite a fire risk with all those nylon ruffles, then a bit of a Goth.
Generally my father ignored me. My mother tut tutted but secretly revelled in my freedom. Probably the worst thing for her was the constant changes of hair colour. She was convinced I'd be bald by 25.
By the late 80s I was power dressing, working in the City and a flat-owner, catching the 7.52 to London Bridge every morning. My father started listening to my opinions then.

Coloured nail varnish
Any black clothing

Bicycle pants. I also wasn’t allowed to get my ears pierced until 16, my Dad thought it made you look like a dairy cow!

Anklet = prostitution

Flip flops

Pretty much anything vaguely fashionable.
It was school uniform or tracksuit and trainers. I did have one party outfit.
When I was 16, they grudgingly allowed me to ditch the tracksuits and wear jeans or a skirt and a top.

Those T-shirt’s with beads on the sleaves or anything with glitter, velvet or sequence. All “look cheap, common and tarty” . Ditto anything with sports logos. Or anything that made me look “fat” (I was a ballerina).

My mum was awful, in every way. My ds is wearing anything that he is comfortable in or makes him happy. He once asked me what the point of clothes where. I said well, we need to cover our private parts. We need to make sure we are not cold, but other than that we can try and wear clothes that makes us happy, that shows people who we are. He said “glitter makes me happy, can I wear glitter?”.

I walked up and down oxford street to find him the most glittery top I have ever seen.

You shine son, you keep being you.

Oh and I once sneaked out to a new kids on the block concert and bought a t shirt. She binned it the evil cow!!

Oh and I still have “put my hair up” (I’m now 42) as otherwise it looks cheap or I like the hair loose women would wear. Yawn...

And also I had to be fully dressed and made up before breakfast as only common people have breakfast in their “nightwear”.

Ghastly woman will have a heart attack this Christmas when we will all spend Xmas day in “scrubs”

I wasnt allowed out unless my top or t shirt was tucked into whatever I had on my bottom half. "It looks so scruffy" according to my mother

Pink. I was a plain, bookish and mousey child. Pink was for pretty girls.

I had pink carpets and a pink kitchen fitted in my first house. Even now, many houses on I have pink downlighters in the kitchen!

Shoes that weren't Clark's or Start Rite. Oh how I wanted platform sandals from my local shoe shop like all the other girls in my class....

Oh yes, I forgot about the bare legs thing. She had a thing about seeing women with veiny legs, mottled purple in the cold, and would hiss "look at the state of that!" It was tarty, apparently. Tiny skirts were fine as long as there were tights with them.

I think my aversion for the current tucking-in trend stems from the 90s, when my mum tried to force me to tuck everything into my jeans and it was also a requirement of our school uniform regulations. I just can't get past it in my head that it looks "square".

I was allowed into town when I was almost 11 and bought a snake skin print leather-look maxi skirt with a split to the thigh. I don't know WTF I was thinking but I was in a serious sulk when my DM returned it. Looking back I obviously thought I was a 20yr old in my head.

Not much fortunately. There were many things she didn't like or thought were a bit common but ultimately if I liked it I could have it.

She never let me buy the latex boobtube like britney used to wear, I was around 7 and very upset 😂

Jeans and nothing on trend after my dB was in to platforms and long hair I was very plainly dressed