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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 4, 2024 4:38:00 GMT -5
Remember many years ago, this is what you would see when you went to Church on Sunday - hats, gloves, pretty dresses. My mother was always dressed in her “Sunday Best”, as was I. My mother resembled the lady in pale blue, second from the right. How has society changed? What do you see today?  |
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Post by groo on Mar 4, 2024 4:57:07 GMT -5
I always saw your lot as a pretty scruffy bunch. I do remember Rev Sam W lambasting his congregation because a few of his parishoners were not wearing hats, but we always had clean underwear and clean thoughts.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 4, 2024 6:30:20 GMT -5
I only go to churches for weddings and funerals now, but I did attend Mass sporadically as a child, if I was staying with my grandparents. I recall having to wear a dress and some sort of head gear - like a small veil pinned to the head.
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Post by jimm on Mar 4, 2024 7:12:06 GMT -5
In the ' 50s and'60s ppl got dressed up to go shopping - not just church. Dad always wore a jacket and tie, and Mum (hmm - don't remember exactly, but not ordinary house dresses). As a schoolboy I'd wear a jacket and tie just to get a haircut.
Rock n Roll, and the bodgies, changed everything. Or was it Woodstock and the hippies?
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 4, 2024 7:15:43 GMT -5
I was raised in a secular family, I only saw my family in churches for weddings etc, and some years after you by the sounds of it... more this
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 4, 2024 8:02:28 GMT -5
One also dressed for travel back in the day. In the sixties I wouldn't have gotten onto a plane or train without a coat and tie. Pretty sure the same was true for intercity buses/coaches, but possibly not..
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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2024 9:04:50 GMT -5
vinny
yes
men in jackets
ladies in dresses, suits
airports were elegant places
also the theatre & ballet
now even here, folks are rather messy
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Post by tinaja on Mar 4, 2024 10:26:24 GMT -5
Don't get me started, it's early lol.
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Post by sophie on Mar 4, 2024 11:58:37 GMT -5
Here, people tend to dress up for certain occasions (like going to the opera) but what is considered dressing up has changed. Some really interesting outfits especially from folks younger than me, but some older than me are sporting unusual hair styles/colours, fabric combos, and the actual clothing and shoes.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 4, 2024 12:43:32 GMT -5
I like how nowadays you can basically dress however you want, within certain parameters
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 4, 2024 12:44:04 GMT -5
I have seen people wearing sneakers at the Met.
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 4, 2024 12:50:15 GMT -5
I have seen people wearing sneakers at the Met. I'm currently rocking some plum velvet sneakers. Would totally wear them to the Met. |
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Post by Webs on Mar 4, 2024 13:07:41 GMT -5
It's a choice really. I personally wouldn't show up to the theater in jeans and sneakers unless it was a last minute TKTS booth ticket.
I have special "Opera shoes" that are kind of brocade and are wearable in most weather. But I might change into them when I get there because they're not really comfortable for long term wear.
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 4, 2024 13:28:20 GMT -5
I wouldn't wear jeans, I'm not an animal.
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Post by psw on Mar 4, 2024 13:53:47 GMT -5
The Met in particular has said that formal wear is not required, encouraging younger and less affluent individuals to come to the opera.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 4, 2024 14:10:48 GMT -5
I think everything is cool as long as you don’t smell.
Which of course then starts a conversation about public restrooms and homelessness etc, but if I’m sitting near someone at the opera, I really need them not to smell.
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 4, 2024 14:30:55 GMT -5
The Met in particular has said that formal wear is not required, encouraging younger and less affluent individuals to come to the opera. Which is lucky because I don't have any formal wear. Mind you I also don't have any tickets to the Met. |
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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2024 14:51:22 GMT -5
dad joke - i thought you meant the mets www.mlb.com/mets/rosterwhen i went to the royal ballet in covent garden, i wore my miyake frock & ballet flats. people were, for the most part, dressed pretty elegantly. |
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 4, 2024 15:28:08 GMT -5
Last fancy event I went to was the Ballet,
I wore the sneakers, midnight trousers, a beautiful multi-colour silk top, with a dark teal wrap that I made myself. But dress code seems to be whatever ... there were quite a few women wearing embroidered vaguely folk art tops...
Ballet was Frida in case you need to know...
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 4, 2024 16:10:24 GMT -5
I get dressed up for the opera too — I wear my one pair of good pants with a black sweater and scarf of some sort
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Post by fishface on Mar 4, 2024 21:29:26 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Mar 4, 2024 21:40:40 GMT -5
fish
true
they have that prarie amish vibe
i actually like getting dressed up, esp rarely/ if i had to do it every day, id feel differently
i can dress boho when i go to openings
i wear a straw hat in summer
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 4, 2024 22:08:01 GMT -5
I used to be really into a wide variety of clothes but working from home in the pandemic broke that and now I just wear a rotating cast of t-shirts and fleeces with the occasional fancy excursion into the black cashmere sweater.
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Post by groo on Mar 4, 2024 23:09:37 GMT -5
On somewhat formal occassions I've been known to wear a white suit and a sword, but I would never wear these to the opera - unless, that is, I was a cast member and it was necessary.
When I come to think of it, I have worn a sword on stage - as Sergius, in "Arms and the Man".
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 5, 2024 2:54:27 GMT -5
OMG Laura Ashley was big in the 70s/80s.... but maxi dresses weren't usually her prints, the prints were bigger and louder. (Uh oh fabric geek) Mum had a beautiful maxi dress in a dark burnt orange plain fabric with handkerchief sleeves and an embroidered cobweb on the front panel. We, helpfully, called it the spider dress. But looking back it was lovely. |
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 5, 2024 5:44:16 GMT -5
This is mum and dad in either the very early fifties or very late forties. Mother isn’t wearing a hat, I don’t know why.  |
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Post by jimm on Mar 5, 2024 5:48:42 GMT -5
Phar that photo made me smile - they look like a nice, happy couple.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 5, 2024 12:41:19 GMT -5
OMG Laura Ashley was big in the 70s/80s.... but maxi dresses weren't usually her prints, the prints were bigger and louder. (Uh oh fabric geek) Mum had a beautiful maxi dress in a dark burnt orange plain fabric with handkerchief sleeves and an embroidered cobweb on the front panel. We, helpfully, called it the spider dress. But looking back it was lovely. i saved up for a laura ashley dress after high school! on my first london trip, i went to the boutique & bought a purple floral dress back in the day when they were made in wales those prints! there was also one place you could get liberty of london prints. i made a skirt & a huge scarf that i could tie into a bag |
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 5, 2024 15:16:20 GMT -5
Phar that photo made me smile - they look like a nice, happy couple. Thank you, Jimm. I didn’t realise my parents were such a good looking couple! Mum was certainly very pretty. Even then Dad was beginning to lose his hair! |
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Post by lisamnz on Mar 7, 2024 15:56:20 GMT -5
OH, absolutely. they're even called 'prarie dresses' often. |
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