Just one minor thing

[eridani]

Howzabout laying off the "pantsuit" thing? If you work in an office and are female, it's either that or a skirted suit. Guess which option does NOT look ridiculous if you are wearing knee-high support hose? Lots of us nwomen over 60 need those things.

Finally, I've caught up with grandma and great-auntie. They wore what used to be called "housedresses" and let it all hang loose with their visible support hose, but that just will not fly in cubicle country.

[dkf]

1. Okay, I never did get the pantsuit thing.

What is the big deal anyway?

[eridani]

9. Just another snark

My gripes were with her policies, but the MSM just can't seem to quit yammering about pantsuits, cleavage, cackling, and all that other irrelevant crap.

[Orsino]

47. I never understood this as a dig.

So pantsuits are her trademark. So what? I rather liked that.

If it was making fun of her for being a woman, or for being a mannish woman, or a woman somehow lacking in fashion sense, it was never clear.

[ruby slippers]

2. I hear you, but look how nice she looks in a dress.......

I'd like to see her dress again like this....at least just once in awhile....

[msallied]

5. Wow! That dress looks gorgeous.

I am really looking forward to seeing what Michelle would wear to that event. She's such a great dresser.

[eridani]

39. It does look pretty good

And if she danced all night, the long dress would have hidden the support hose. Of course in 1993 she wouldn't have needed them.

[SeattleGirl]

42. I think she looks beautiful in that dress. n/t

[eridani]

7. Well, yes. I do have long dresses that I wear sometimes going out

We are talking major safety issues in cubicle land, not to mention on the campaign trail.

[JI7]

44. that's a really nice dress and looks great on her

[msallied]

3. Personally, I think I look hot in a pantsuit. lol

[SeattleGirl]

4. I've never had a problem with her pantsuits.

Hell of a lot better than tromping around day to day in a dress or skirt.

Comfort wins out every time for me.

[msallied]

6. Most definitely. For me, it's the pearls I can't stand.

But that's a personal taste thing. I think they look so damn matronly. Bothers me. lol

[SeattleGirl]

8. I would like the pearls better if they were smaller.

But as you said, it's a personal thing.

[ruby slippers]

11. pearls are a Barbara Bush thing.....

[ruby slippers]

10. you girls are lucky. When I was in "high school", we HAD to wear

dresses (actually, all through school except "gym day"). I graduated in 1970. No slacks/pants for us back then. It was girdles and garters, too......you have it good today.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Oooooh, I remember those days.

Graduated in '73. Though I have to say, by the time I was a senior, my school had significantly relaxed the ancient dress code.

[ruby slippers]

13. we;ve come a long way, baby.....eh?

[SeattleGirl]

15. Yes we have!

Occasionally I wear a dress, like for court appearances, but overall, I am not "required" to wear dresses or skirts. In some cases on my job, it would be pure folly.

[eridani]

14. Jeebus. I remember the garters

However at Catholic schools you might luck out with mandated bobbysox. Still, it was better than the 40s when they made girdles out of fawking RUBBER. Not kidding. An older feminist saved one to remind us young tads that we could have had it a lot worse.

[SeattleGirl]

16. Oh gawd!

RUBBER?

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[ruby slippers]

18. I also remember the Kotex garters we had to wear, too...no sticky pads

Sorry, gentlemen, for the visuals, but gosh were those things horrible, too.

And, the stocking garters used to leave welts in my thighs....

[SeattleGirl]

22. ACK! Those were the things of my nightmares!

And the pads were the size of mattresses!

[eridani]

How do you know if an elephant has "that time of month"?

Your mattress is missing and there's a dime on the dresser. The price dates the joke.

[SeattleGirl]

29. Oh, hells! I remember that one!

:rofl:

[eridani]

24. There were secret undergrounds of female friends

--that would show newbies how to use Tampax, and explain that no, you didn't "lose your virginity" that way. Those hooks in the garters, and how they would get caught in............well, let's not go there.

[SeattleGirl]

25. OMG!

You are bringing back my nightmare years! :rofl:

[ruby slippers]

27. I pinched a few skin tabs myself.......

and don't forget those curlers.....every night and we slept in 'em, too....

[SeattleGirl]

30. And orange cans too!

:rofl:

[Raine]

17. I lOVED mini skirts

I liked to show off my legs, course I was about 18 then. *sigh*

[SeattleGirl]

19. Mini skirts came into vogue for my age group before the invention

of pantyhose.

Try maneuvering around in a mini while at the same time trying to keep the ends of your garter belt from showing! :rofl:

[ruby slippers]

21. I hated mini skirts. My legs were heavy....but that was all you could find

than AND you had to wear dresses to school......

[Raine]

26. Yeah I liked them but some were super short

I got in trouble and sent home from school cause my skirt was too short. :-( I hadn't shortened it, it came that way! :argh:

[eridani]

34. Not in Catholic schools, nosiree

Yardsticks and hemline checks. And after school all the waistband rollups could make you look like you were wearing a bicycle tire around your waist.

[SeattleGirl]

35. Yeah, THAT was a fetching look, wasn't it?

:rofl:

[sandnsea]

20. Huge battle in my house

We finally got permission to wear slacks, but never jeans. That was around 1970, I was in 8th grade. Although I never had to do the girdle and garters because they had pantyhose by then. Now all I ever wear is jeans, I didn't even wear a dress to my parents' funerals. I didn't think they'd have recognized me, ya' know? lol.

[ruby slippers]

23. yeah, I just wore slacks to a Baptism a month ago.....it felt great....Me in

pants and the priest in a dress....!!!!!

[SeattleGirl]

28. Keyboard!

:spray:

[ruby slippers]

31. it's ok, now. I have to get to bed.....I just

had a long day. My husband just had a knee replacement and is in the hospital and I just got home at midnight and was trying to catch up but I really need to get to sleep.

Glad that Hillary's pantsuit dilemma brought us so much flashback....And, sorry about your keyboard.....Night!

[SeattleGirl]

32. Sleep well!

[msallied]

33. I'm so loving the modern age.

My daughter has all sorts of cute little jeans that we've bedazzled or frayed the edges on. lol I'm a jeans lover. Could not imagine my life without them. They're all I wear, really, to the chagrin of many. I do have some slacks that I pull out for job interviews, but that's about it. lol

[SeattleGirl]

36. I used to customize my jeans.

Especially in the 70's bell-bottom age. I'd take fabric (usually a paisley print), split the sides of my jeans where they belled out, and add more fabric to make the bells really big.

Oh god.

I'm gonna get arrested by the fashion police!

:rofl:

[msallied]

37. Hey it's all good. I bet your were pretty damn fashionable back then! :)

My mom grew up in the 70s and I've seen pictures of the same thing. hehehe... gotta love it. What I won't miss are some of the fads I was forced to endure in the 80s. Stirrup pants. *gag*

[SeattleGirl]

41. I'll see your stirrup pants and raise you some puka shells.

And granny dresses!



:rofl:

[coyotespaw]

38. As a man in my early thirties...

I have no idea about anything mentioned in the above threads.

:hide:

[eridani]

40. Well, now you have an edumacation

Better than a secret microphone in the women's locker room, no?

[coyotespaw]

45. True, but once you've unlearned things, you can't unlearn them...

Well, maybe I could, but it's past closing time...

[SeattleGirl]

43. No doubt.

This thread has become a doorway into the women's locker room of the 1970's!

:rofl:

[coyotespaw]

46. I can't remember the 70's...

of course, I turned 5 in 1980...

:yoiks:

[TeamsterDem]

48. I agree. The "pantsuit" remark seems sexist even if it's not intended that way. n/t