Our style trends follow cycles like everything else. The depression and the natural period of transition collided. the result has been a slowed transition due to people being reluctant to buy style for the sake of style.

The iconic styles to site were much more noticeable in hindsight.

are not at all the same. Style is great, fashion is not.

Really? You can't pull on a pair of jeans? Really?

WTF? Now it's OK to not even bother to get dressed at all.

pajama bottoms and Uggs.....are you kidding me?????

sweaty feet all day? Why do they want to look like Napoleon Dynamite? When is the skinny/tapered jeans fad going to end? Yes, I am a bewildered middle-aged woman, if you can't tell.

$25 for.

BUT, I only wear them up in the cold country, in the snow.

No freaking way I would wear them here in PHX.

Do you realize just how old and crotchety you sound. So people don't dress up to your approval, deal with it.

you don't notice chicks in PJs and boots and sweatshirts....who haven't even bathed?

It's called common sense. My Mother may not have had alot of clothes as a child, but she was clean and her clothes were clean and she looked like a star. Kids and young adults these days are a hot mess!

Jeans and a T-shirt who haven't even bathed either. Nor is it all kids and young adults, but older folks as well. It is been with us for years and decades, and will continue to be with us. Some people simply don't like to bathe, for whatever reason.

Geez, you sound positively ancient, "kids this and kids that". Lighten up.

sorry to offend...just cannot stand people that don't give a crap what they look like in public.

My Mother always told me to look my best, cause "you never know who you might run in to".

Now kneel in the corner and pray!

I know I'm old enough to be your brother, and you certainly don't want me prayin'. Who knows what I would call up

get with the times.

My fashion sense is horrible

OK so I'm sitting here wearing black knit stretch pants, a purple sweatshirt hoodie thing missing the hood because I cut it off, white socks with black socks over them (I hate wearing shoes) and a red fleece sweater/jacket.

And that's my more conservative type of outfit...

I have no fashion sense at all. But when I leave the house, at least what doesn't match is neat and clean.

G'd gives us all a little somethin'

I was always sorry the Nehru jacket thing didn't last longer.

My mom had a weird paisley one I coveted.

The 99% are being led by the media to dress and act like human flotsam, rather than individuals with inherent dignity and a sense of worth.

The foods that are advertised and sold to us are mostly garbage.

We're being dumbed down by the media, and especially by corporatized education.

We're being sold the line that we're very lucky if we get jobs that pay minimum wage.

The less esteem we have for ourselves, and the less sense of worth, the happier our corporate masters are.

We have a winner!

They do like us ignorant and depressed, don't they?

This thread has become kooky.

but also the introduction of knit fabrics over woven ones began this slide......

Yeah, they are all smoking, but look at how they chose to attire for the event.

This is a classic of Sweet Georgia Brown by Anita O'Day

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1240&pid=14496

Your grandfather probably saved up and made a considerable investment in his wingtips. Clothing that was worn on occasions was expensive and long lasting.

Clothing became cheaper relative to current income, and style became expressed in having the latest colors and fashions, rather than having classic designs.

This has degenerated into throwing on the latest cheap trash from Asia before going out.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos

The vest has two pockets and the pocket watch (on a golden chain) my late grandfather gave me makes a nice finish to the outfit. It's also a lot more convenient than my cell phone for checking the time.

sweats and such, as in nothing with a zipper. When I went out dressed that way I actually felt embarrassed and hoped with all that was in me that I would not run into anyone I knew. I guess it just goes to how one wants to present oneself to the public.

everything became instant so the need to or want to set yourself apart became more difficult as propaganda to be like everyone else became the mission to control the population.

if you have a nation of individuals with style, you have a harder time controlling them.

However, OWS are bucking that theme by rejecting the propaganda.

Hopefully, soon after, style will return.

Honestly, our style is now all over the place. We have 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, mixed up and confused.

Sometimes I dye my hair blue, wear a hippie skirt and a bowler hat. Sometimes I wear 80s Hawaiian shirts and a pith helmet... Sometimes I just don't give a damn and wear whatever is clean. Which happens to be my tuxedo t-shirt!

You may not personally feel that way, but there are some that do. "Dressing for success" is also following directions. A nicely shined pair of expensive dress shoes indicate more about a man than some men want to reveal. There is a real streak of perverse "non-status" in a lot of us.

I do dress for what people expect of me when I'm on the road, but in the office, I wear comfortable shirts, jeans, and most often tennis shoes or boots. I ride a motorcycle to work often and will wear leathers if it's raining. I work in a white collar job (book acquisitions editor) but I don't actually own but one white dress shirt and have worn a tie maybe 3 times in the last 6 months.

It's one thing to do so for yourself, but dressing 'smart' or 'to impress'? Unless it's job related, it practically screams of shallowness to me.

I person dressed "down" could be wearing 100 $ Lulumon yoga pants, 70 $ sports bra, 125 $ Lulumon sports top and 100-250 $ cross training shoes.

They might look like they aren't dressed for success, but oh their clothes if you know what they are saying tell a different story. And the young people they are trying to impress, know what they are wearing. For the record Victoria Secrets Juicy line is not in style anymore. Yoga outfits are in for casual clothes. Even Victoria Secrets has started selling them. Depending on the designer, they aren't cheap.

Do people still dress up... yeah go to a night club or a good restaurant and in general they do. The difference between now and 1950s is 1950s T-shirts and sweat pants were cheap and mostly designed as under clothes. Not things that signaled success or designed to be seen. Now modern designer fashion ware they are and are as expensive or more as the casual business suit of the 1950s. If you don't know the designers or the fashions that are in style you might be more dating yourself than actually understanding that these people ARE dressed well. The material costs of some of these things is very high, the sales cost is even more.

there is a difference between "dressing for success" and "looking like you just rolled outta bed".

And it tells Truth with a capital 'T'!

LOL!

Timeless *style* if ya ask me...after that - whatever floats your boat and allows you to express your own individuality

in the way they dress. Perhaps the way they feel about themselves inside is reflected in what they show the world. It could be a sign of the times.

of prison chic--baggy jeans/pants with underwear and butt hanging out. I'm also sick of the idea that bedhead passes for a hair styling.

To George: "You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.'"

Nearly every day
No particular reason
He just dressed that way...

with how unimpressive some people are. I imagine she would extend that to style. She was like your grandfather. Style personified.

From the People of WalMart. Would you ever leave the house looking like this?

She was born in 1921.
She said in college they went to football games in a suit, a hat, high heels, and hose. I don't know how they kept from falling down and breaking an ankle on the bleachers.

She gave me horrible stinky perms when I was little so I would have Shirley Temple ringlets. Then the kids made fun of me at school and I came home crying.
When I was older she wanted me to wear severe suits like Joan Crawford.

I got some striped jeans and some bib overalls in high school (early 1970s) and she was horrified. They were not "feminine"!

My dad took me to get a haircut and I got a Jane Fonda shag,like she wore in the movie "Klute". It was in fashion. Mom thought that was really horrible too. She didn't want me to fit in with the other kids.

When I went to college (1972) I wore jeans and t shirts. She got mad at me for not taking any dresses with me to college. I was sick of wearing dresses. I had to wear a dress to school every day for twelve years, even if it was freezing outside. I didn't wear makeup in college either, and had lots of dates, which really pissed her off. She thought I didn't have makeup on unless I had on lipstick. She didn't know about foundation. It was all about red clown lipstick from the 1940s.

The irony is that when I got grown, I got a good haircut and I have thick wavy hair that is beautiful. She couldn't keep from messing with my hair.

That were orange. I honestly think the time of hideous style was in the 70's. I have photographic proof. My parents and their friends dressed... interesting. Most people dress casually in jeans today. There is nothing wrong with jeans. They are practical and go with anything. I dress up for work but at home it is jeans or leggings.

No style here. Yet, hubby says that's when women look best.

I'm not saying your husband is a control freak.

The guy wanted her to not wear any makeup and have long straight hair.

long straight hair does not look good on older women.

Most women need a little bit of spackle to cover up the dark circles under the eyes or whatever.

I don't feel comfortable dressing much differently. Hubby just likes that look so it works well for us.