In Olden Days A Glimpse Of Stocking Was Looked On As Something Shocking...

[sandyRoe]

If people from 100 years ago could see how some young women dress during the summer would they think they'd come out in their underwear?

[mikey4444]

Because some young people today have little sense of what has gone on before the day of their birth, and even less sense of what is polite and respectable. Otherwise how else could you explain the wearing of immodest pajamas in supermarkets and the complete disfigurement of their skins ?

[mikey4444]

I wasn't traumatized or even shocked wolfie, as I have seen it all before !

[Zacs-Master]

Mikey your ephebiphobic comments are what people have been saying for centuries:
What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
Plato 4th Century BC.

[mikey4444]

Zacs ...thanks for introducing me to a new word. I haven't come across
ephebiphobic before but I have now and I will try my best to use it all sorts of ways in the future !

Twas ever thus, its true. But the unwise tattoos and nightclothes wearing in public is hardly confined to teenagers. The woman this morning, for instance, was in her mid 30's I would estimate, old enough to know better.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8484116.stm

This happened recently in Cardiff, in the same store I was shopping in earlier in the day. If you noticed, she said that she was "only popping for a packet of "fags"...says it all really !

[Zacs-Master]

Well, Ness from 'Gavin & Stacey' is a role model to some.

[EcclesCake]

Thank you Sandy & Daffy

I find a 20st bloke walking a rat on a rope more offensive than tattoos or jim jams........

[mikey4444]

wendilla...ditto for my old Mum as well.

She passed away 20 years ago but she had never really got used to the modern world. The "living together" bit was shocking to her because it meant that some rumpy-pumpy was going on, before a trip up the aisle, a grave sin in her book. But most of us are getting relaxed about that these days. Illegitimate children are the norm nowadays in some schools.

My Mum was the sort of person that would follow somebody who had thrown some litter on the pavement, and give it back to them ! And she got away with it every time ! One rather tough looking young lad told her that he didn't need the cigarette packet any more...."Neither does Swansea young man" she replied, and he meekly dropped it into a litter bin ! I think we need more people like my Mum !

[mikey4444]

Eccles ......I presume that remark was meant for me ( 13:58) I wonder why you thought it necessary to say that ? I am unaware that I have been as rude as that to you. I am not offended, just surprised.

[Old_Geezer]

One buys furniture that looks "distressed", why not a fashion for clothes that are ripped ? Logic isn't applicable to fashion anyway.

[agchristie]

It isn't just a Summer issue either. Night's out, Winter, etc

Must be more warm-blooded these days!

[wolf63]

//I find a 20st bloke walking a rat on a rope more offensive than tattoos or jim jams........//

Mikey - are you confessing to walking the Yorkshire Wolfhound in your jammies? :-)

[mikey4444]

Wolfie...no, of course not, and I am still waiting for an explanation from eccles.

[EcclesCake]

Mikey, I'm not sure what you want me to explain.

We have differing views of what is offensive in the conduct of others.

[mikey4444]

But why would a man walking his Yorkie be offensive to you ? Can I assure that while Willy was entirely naked, apart from his snazzy collar, I was dressed very demurely, in street wear, not night attire !

[Mosaic]

Interested in the statement 'Edwardian underwear wasn't revealing'. Well, it's all in the angle and the interpretation. Those big frilly knee length knickers didn't meet at the middle - they were two separate tubes with a windy gap where the lady's means of entry lay. Now I'd call that revealing. And that's at the core of why dances done in the Moulin Rouge were so titillating, and why they were given the name can-can, which is a play of the French word for 'see you enn tee'.

And you think history's boring?