clapham_gull
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[Misc] What is it with old men and coloured trousers?
- Thread starter Icy Gull
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TOTALLY acceptable, great even.....as long as you are not 70 plus when it’s just weird and a bit desperate
Says the man who has been wearing Levis and T shirts (and often desert boots) since he was 14(the quality of Levis has gone downhill dramatically since the days when I sat in the bath to shrink them as a youngster)
I did have a pair of yellow elephant cords but felt so self conscious that I only wore them once.
Bang on re Levis, they're crap compared to 25-30 years ago, sizes and cut all over the place. I cant find boot cut cords anywhere either. and still wearing deseret boots/chukka boots today though.
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Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I was in Lubbock Texas and went to one of those “cowboy” retailers that sell things I love. Stetson hats, leather waistcoats, cowboy boots etc (things I can’t actually wear in England without looking like a COMPLETE dick sadly) and asked where the Levis were? I was shocked to be told “Real men don’t wear Levis, you’d have to be a gay from San Francisco, let me show you our range of Wranglers” I did actually buy a pair and the quality is amazing but just not my style of choice, the sit too high on the hips for me
It was the week Obama was inaugurated and I had an interesting but very short conversation with a Bush supporting local who asked me what I thought of Obama. When I replied that I was a fan he huffed and walked away
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
I’m guessing the one with stupid butlins style teddyboy suit on ?
Having said that I did have a pair of Rockabilly turquoise peg pants in 1985, not that I’d wear them now !!
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TOTALLY acceptable, great even.....as long as you are not 70 plus when it’s just weird and a bit desperate
One literally has to change one's wardrobe at 70? Nah!
I was in Lubbock Texas and went to one of those “cowboy” retailers that sell things I love. Stetson hats, leather waistcoats, cowboy boots etc (things I can’t actually wear in England without looking like a COMPLETE dick sadly) and asked where the Levis were? I was shocked to be told “Real men don’t wear Levis, you’d have to be a gay from San Francisco, let me show you our range of Wranglers” I did actually buy a pair and the quality is amazing but just not my style of choice, the sit too high on the hips for me
It was the week Obama was inaugurated and I had an interesting but very short conversation with a Bush supporting local who asked me what I thought of Obama. When I replied that I was a fan he huffed and walked away
I knew that, think I discovered that when I went to StLouis in 2002, Levis is fashion, rednecks wear Wrangler. No comment re your cowboy fetish
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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or indeed two tone ones -greeny/purple. I thought you were too young for that or did they come back?
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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i had them as well...
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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blue, black, beige etc are all 'coloured'
I had 'tonic' and dog tooth . . . remember 'waffles' ?
my first staprest was about 1981 I guess,a black pair of green line ones . . .wore them out, patches, thin, so bad my mum wouldn't let me wear them to school as I looked like a tramp ( Buckingham middle school) I hated my new school trousers so wore the sat prest underneath and took them off on the way! soon after I learned to use the sewing machine so I could take everything in!
Rinkmaster
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Everything else has gone grey so you may as well add a little colour somewhere
As you are now I once was, as I am now you will become.
When that magical day arrives and peer pressure no longer has any bearing while embarrassing the Wife, Childrean and Grandchildren gives give one a warm glow of satisfaction in a job well done.
Black is not a colour.
Says the man who has been wearing Levis and T shirts (and often desert boots) since he was 14
It's a matter of perception. I stopped wearing jeans when I was 25 - I see them as young people's clothing.
Mind you, I don't like coloured trousers either
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I kind of get that but what is the trouser of choice for you then?
Cavalry twills
Shiny arsed (after a few wears) cotton trousers
Shorts year round
Chinos
Cords
Track suit bottoms
Suit style grey/black/brown trousers
Genuinely interested