What sort of pants did/do your grandmothers wear? Charlotte over at The Great Fitness Experiment just posted about skinny jeans and, while I was letting my mind wander all over pantsland (eww, that sounds dirty), I got to thinking about how the women in my family stop updating their fashion sense somewhere about their 30s. That is, they wear the same approximate thing that they wore when they were 35ish FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. So my great grandma wore lots of housedresses (like she did in the 1930s), my grandma wears lots of stretchy polyester pants (like back in the late 1960s), and my mom wears tapered-leg jeans (like she did in the 1980s). I will be 32 this year. I'd better get some classy fashion sense STAT. Otherwise, I am going to be wearing leggings and big sweatshirt/sweater dress things* in 2050. While I am riding in the flying car and taking my meals in pill form, obv.
*By the way, that model much be 8' tall because this sweatshirt hits me mid-thigh. (Clearly she is too tall, there is no way I am too short.)
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Grandma 1: stretchy polyester-type things, in vivid colors (think the @ green in your Twitter box). However, she was 35 in 1932 (! and I'm not even ALL THAT OLD), so clearly she morphed her fashion sense at some point.
Grandma 2: stretchy polyester-pant-type things, in dull browns. Also possibly a pair of jeans (even as I type this, I think, That can't be right.) I don't think she really ever had much of a fashion sense. When she left the house for something Fancy, she typically wore a simple Dorothy-Gale-type dress. Was that ever in fashion? For women over the age of 8, that is?
My grandmother wore the stretchy polyester pants and had them in EVERY! COLOR! with matching elastic-bottomed silky tops and different colored Keds (to match the pants).
My favorite comfy "at home" look is old sweats from the 80s/90s and a big sweatshirt. I don't dare step outside in this outfit but it's too bad that it's no longer stylin' (if it ever was!) because it feels SO good to wear.
This made me giggle! It's so true although I'd never realized it before. My grandma was also a huge fan of the polyester lovelies. Does that mean I'm cursed to live in those awful skinny-leg style jeans for th rest of my days? Could you imagine a grandma in those??
Um, Pantsland is my new favorite word. I will be using it regularly.
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