A Fashion Question

[FredPuli43]

Have women changed? (Answers under plain cover to FredPuli PO box...). I ask, because it seems to me that young women now buy clothes on a wear briefly and then change basis. The emphasis is on buying cheap but often, a practice that has made Sir Philip Green (Topshop etc) very rich. Thirty years ago, the women in my family would buy very few garments, more for the season or the occasion than now.My 25 year old, buying to go to the Derby, talks of not spending more than £60 or so on a dress. Years ago, such a woman would be thinking of spending a lot more but that dress would, with any luck, be good quality and would see her through Summer this year and for a few years; her mother has 'classic' frocks that have been worn every season for ten years or more.

So what do you women do?

[wolf63]

Fred - £60 seems suspiciously cheap (especially if you are paying for the dress) but it should still enable your daughter to look trendy for her day out at the horsies.

[joggerjayne]

The last time I saw AC/DC was on the Hells Bells tour. That must have been when we were still at school. We must have sneaked out for the weekend. We probably told the housemistress we were going home for the weekend. #irresponsible ... Thank god there were really no mobile phones back then, so it was hard to check up on you.

[tonyav]

Ah, so Angus wasn't the only one in school uniform then, jj ?.

[joggerjayne]

Yeah, we err, kind of ... changed?

I had my rock chick jeans with band patches sewn all over them.

[tonyav]

Mmmmmm, ok, let you off just this once then jj ;-)

[joggerjayne]

Are there any bands now who get the whole audience spontaneously joining in, in the way that we all used to shout ... ANGUS, ANGUS ... as soon as they started playing Whole Lotta Rosie ?

[McMouse]

I know this thread is about womens fashion but my male comment is that I bought expensive clothes and shoes when working, both for business and leisure. Now retired I generally buy lower cost comfortable stuff from M&S and wear it until it's not even fit for the garden.

[tonyav]

I've no idea jj, I've never been into HM music.

[cupid04]

I still have size 12 dresses in my wardrobe hoping one day they might fit again.
Well a girl can dream, can't she?

[joggerjayne]

Ooh, I was as a teenie, tony. Big time.

Mousey ... there's a lot to be said for "comfortable"

[tonyav]

WOT, cupid I had you down for a perfect 10.

[joggerjayne]

I think that's what Cupid means, tony.

She's a small 10, and will only be able to wear those dresses if she fills out a bit.

[tonyav]

Ah right, thanks jj, much happier know.

[cupid04]

At least I've got something to grab hold of, lol!

[tonyav]

Just how I like e'm cupid ;-)

[sebhfhion]

Hi Fred. I think its a generation thing maybe , or dare i say class thing? In days gone by clothes were expensive and fashions did not change that much so ladies added a scarf, or different belt, even changed buttons or lifted a hem. For my 'good stuff' I tend to buy good quality designer wear that i can bring out year after year, I don't socialise much so I can wear the same thing to different events. My daughter tends to buy designer stuff but is affluent enough to give it to charity shops after every season and buy new, i wish I was her size lol! I buy jeans and tops from places like New Look to do the gardening and things, why pay £40 for a t-shirt to do the weeding? The high street clothes are awful quality though and are little more than rags.

[FredPuli43]

I'll be surprised if the daughter gets a dress for £60, but she is of an age where she does do that. She's not one to regard the Derby or Ascot as a fashion show; last year, on the way to the Derby, she changed trains at Clapham Junction just so she could find a cheap hat. I have only once bought her 'classic', and it was , literally, the little black dress.


Fashion will always come around. At the Oaks ("Ladies Day") there was a lot of polka dot, full skirt, tight waist, dresses that belonged in the mid-1950s. All they needed was bobby sox !