Attire Today

[Khandro]

Around the middle of the last century, children dressed like their parents. Nowadays, parents dress like their children. Has infantilism become epidemic?

[ummmm]

I wear pretty similar clothes to my kids day to day. Same as my mum actually. I don't think my mum looks like she dresses too young, she's quite young looking and has a lovely figure. She wears what she considers appropriate clothing when she goes to church and whatnot...and swears by her crocs for pottering about. Crocs is when you see the age difference!! :-)

[Bobbisox1]

I dress younger than my 72.5 years, people of that age years ago dressed older, I'm happy in jeans and a top or a sweater in the house and when I go out ,it's usually dressy tops and trousers if I'm here, long dress or skirt and summer top when I'm on holiday , or crops and a top

[Spicerack]

andy-hughes

//It is a popular belief in western culture, pumped up with monotonous regularity by a gleeful media that all Arab women who appear in public in varying degrees of modesty confirmed by the way they dress, are subjected to such decisions by husbands who rule them and the way they behave.//
Not just husbands, andy. There are the morality/religious police to worry about.
There are no 'varying degrees of modesty' with them whatever you've convinced yourself of.

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // There are no 'varying degrees of modesty' with them whatever you've convinced yourself of. //

Clearly there is - there are women who go out with their heads covered, some wear a hijab, and some wear a burka, so there is a choice in the level of modesy.

[10ClarionSt]

Thanks for the "Best Answer" Khandro! I don't get many of them!

[Tilly2]

All I know is that on a daily basis I wear jeans, a tee shirt or a sweatshirt and I have been doing so for the last forty years.
Not at work though. That was a different kettle of fish.
At home, I am still dressing as I was when I was a student in the seventies.

[10ClarionSt]

I wear smart casual. In my opinion anyway. I only had one pair of jeans, and only wore them once. Levi's. They were awful to wear. Never had a pair since. Jeans look scruffy anyway. I think it's comical when I see someone wearing jeans with a shirt and tie. Gives me the impression they must be bi-polar.

[Spicerack]

andy-hughesSpicerack - // There are no 'varying degrees of modesty' with them whatever you've convinced yourself of. //

'Clearly there is - there are women who go out with their heads covered, some wear a hijab, and some wear a burka, so there is a choice in the level of modesy.'

Is that a joke? If it is, I ain't laughing.

[retrocop]

Clearly there are muslim women forced to wear their garb. Otherwise why would these Arabic women be described as 'brave' for wearing western attire.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/13/rebel-women-fight-back-wearing-western-clothing-saudi-arabia-10734434/

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // 'Clearly there is - there are women who go out with their heads covered, some wear a hijab, and some wear a burka, so there is a choice in the level of modesy.'

Is that a joke? If it is, I ain't laughing. //

Why would it be a joke? It's a statement of fact.

Because you, and a lot of other ignorant Westerners presume to know how Islamic culture works, and how much women are dictated to, you assume that all Muslim women are subservient, and I am simply pointing out that it is not so, and the choice of covering women wear may well be their choice, rather than their husband's.

I know it doesn't fit with the lazy cultural stereotype we all learn from the media, but that does not mean that things are different from the way our media likes to present them.

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // Clearly there are muslim women forced to wear their garb. Otherwise why would these Arabic women be described as 'brave' for wearing western attire. //

Clearly there are, I did not say that there are not women forced to dress to please their husbands.

What I did say was the a blanket assumption that this applies to all women is incorrect.

Choosing Saudi Arabia, the most conservative and repressive of the Muslim enclaves and spinning the story to infer that it applies across the Muslim world is to pander to established Western prejudices. Saudi is not the only Muslim nation, and it does not represent all the others- to suggest so, is to suggest that we all behave like Belgians because we are part of Europe.

As I also pointed out, taking a false assumption of negativity and expanding it to infer that this is the way entire nations behave, is the kind of thinking that creates and boosts terrorism.

[douglas9401]

I know one thing for sure, some folk are buttoned up really, really tight.