Dressing rooms? Pah!!

IpreDictDeatH

Just wondered do kids still get forced to try on clothes in the middle of dunnes or was that just a thing my mothers generation did? When i say clothes, i mean trousers. Ive awful memories of being forced to dress down to me little undies to try on school trousers.

Ryaller

"Step out, step out, come on."
I don't want to mammy, everyone's lookin' at me...
"Sure who's looking at you? Nobody's looking at you."
"Ah look at him, isn't he lovely"

Ugh...

Ann22

My mother did stuff like that...she used to make me stand in my knickers in the front room when she'd cut my hair. 10yrs of age, I was and mortified. My dad, two brothers sitting there on the sofa and half the street looking in the window. Fcuk sake!

The Don

My mother used to force us to do this aswell. Used to hate having to go get new clothes.

Puddleduck

Anyone remember the huge communal changing rooms they used to have. Youd have to strip down to your skivvys if front of a whole room of strangers.

Capt'n Midnight

I used to hate cloths shopping, you'd have a duffle coat on outside where it was -4 and then into a cloths shop at sauna temps and you weren't allowed to take off the coat, just pumping sweat

Firetrap

Puddleduck wrote: »

Anyone remember the huge communal changing rooms they used to have. Youd have to strip down to your skivvys if front of a whole room of strangers.

Some of these places still exist :eek: I know Penneys have them.

Mimikyu

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Ann22

Firetrap wrote: »

Some of these places still exist :eek: I know Penneys have them.

My friend was in Penny's a couple of years ago trying on something and she spotted a girl who worked with us at the other end of the room with nowt on but her knickers. The girl turned round and waved and strided over to my mate with a beaming smile on her face in her bare diddies:eek:. My poor friend is tiny so she was eye level with this one's chest. No shame to her at all, chatted away to my mate for about 10 mins:o.

Nools

you all have me in stiches reading that! i was the same i was a victim of "come here we see if it fits" (mother stretches the undies around your waist to see if they are the corret size)

frapp

i got goosebumps reading the above comments , brings back bad memory's lol

mental07

IpreDictDeatH wrote: »

Just wondered do kids still get forced to try on clothes in the middle of dunnes or was that just a thing my mothers generation did? When i say clothes, i mean trousers. Ive awful memories of being forced to dress down to me little undies to try on school trousers.

Yep, I was often made try on trousers and jeans in the middle of Penneys! Mortified!! :eek:

Koloman

Ann22 wrote: »

My mother did stuff like that...she used to make me stand in my knickers in the front room when she'd cut my hair. 10yrs of age, I was and mortified. My dad, two brothers sitting there on the sofa and half the street looking in the window. Fcuk sake!

Social services would be knocking on your door for that these days!

Monkey61

I think that has lead to my lifelong fear of clothes shopping; especially trying things on. Even though the changing rooms are private I still get a shiver of terror at the idea.

"Your only a child, nobody's looking at you" - at least nowadays with people so concerned about such things I suppose mothers can't get away with saying stuff like that anymore. It was the same when we would go swimming on the beach or wherever and I'd want to hide behind a towel to get changed, while my mother would rant about how nobody was looking. It was a lie mother - everybody was looking!

girloperfection

Id be mortified when my ma made me do that in the middle of Quinnsworths clothes section! oh the memories!!

Mrs JackDaniels

Puddleduck wrote: »

Anyone remember the huge communal changing rooms they used to have. Youd have to strip down to your skivvys if front of a whole room of strangers.

ugh used to hate that, I saw things no child should ever have to see!!

Mrs JackDaniels

Firetrap wrote: »

Some of these places still exist :eek: I know Penneys have them.

Do people actually try clothes on in pennys? :eek: