Current fashion.

Jeans and a shirt mostly, I don't care about trends.

Stained Class wrote: »

Having said that, 'all liberal an' all', If I see any of my kids gettin an eejit tattoo, Ill fookin slit their idiot throats!!:mad:

A tad harsh.

anncoates wrote: »

What's really depressing is when you're old enough to realize how much current fashion is a direct facsimile of the 80s.

The stuff looked fucking bad enough 30 years ago.

I think 90's fashion is emerging again now Moreso than 80's. 80's has been big for the past few years though.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I reckon if I went to work with a green mohawk it would cause shock. Not just work - anywhere.

Last year I got a call for a job while I was sitting in the hairdressers having my hair cut, it was a sort of semi mullet/mohawk type of thing that was highlighted blonde on top and my natural dark brown around where it had been shaved. (I had it like that way before Miley Cyrus decided it was on trend) It probably sounds mank but anyway, I used to have to get it cut regularly. The job was a bit above my station at the time as I was used to working behind the scenes and would have been required to deal with the public. I was given a 24 hour window before I had to meet my employer in person for an interview and panicked.
I ran to the chemist and bought a semi permanent blonde and dived into it when I got home. Never felt so uncomfortable in an interview in my life with my strawberry blonde/ginger hash crop.

I got the job however and after a couple of weeks once I realised my co workers and boss were ok, I went and got the sides buzzed down to the roots again. Some of my customers loved it, my co workers said it suited me and that I shouldn't have worried so much about it. I won't be tempted to change it to accommodate the job market again anytime soon. They'll either hire me for who I am, or they won't.


(just to be clear, I was a dispensing assistant in a chemist and I worked in the area of health administration in general and I'm well into my 30's too)

Deleted User wrote: »

Dresses are great for people who know feck all about fashion - a whole outfit in one go! No messing.

An entire outfit? No shoes and accessories to go with? A dress is fine in summer, in winter requires a bit of thought if you don't want to suffer the cold, so that might be a pair of leggings or tights and mmmm..what shoes will I wear with these. Will I bother with the cardigan? maybe a sweater.. no..no..I'll just wear the long jacket and if I'm indoors I'll just bear the heat with it on.
But wait, the neck is exposed, a scarf might do..but which one works best with this colour?! Damn it, I'll just wear a little tee underneath and that nice shiney necklace will pick up where there's nothing else exposed.

I have one dress and it's not really a dress, it's a suit and jacket without legs and I only wear it when duty calls. Jeans are everyones friend.

Pretty much dress like Larry David,if Larry David did his clothes shopping in charity shops.

Polish lads get all the good stuff though,crafty beggars!

Been wearing jeans, black t-shirts/sweatshirts/hoodies, steel toe boots & leather jackets since the 70's, still have the same Mascot leather motorcycle jacket.

The only thing that's changed is my waist-line & my hair/beard has gone grey

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh I don't accessorise :pac:

If I wear jeans I need to find a top to go with them and shoes are more difficult with jeans for me. Just way more thought is needed for jeans.

I wear a lot of the same dresses in summer and in winter, but in winter I wear tights and a long sleeve black top/body suit under them. I've had the same pair of boots for years that I get heeled and toed and that's what I wear in winter or I also have a pair of ugg biker boots which I wear if I want to be in flats. One summer I bought a pair of really really pretty sandals in Clarks but they were a kind of a bronze colour so for about two years I only bought dresses to go with them because they were comfy and I didn't want to think much about wearing something else. Then I found a pair of them online in silver and so I could buy different coloured dresses again! That was a very exciting time :pac:

Yeh dresses are much much easier for me than jeans. As well as anything, I find dresses make me look curvy, where jeans just make me look fat. I've a tiny waste but hips and boobs so it's hard to get jeans to fit properly

I don't doubt they look great and are very flattering on you but for me it's just not practical, even sandals while comfy and walkable in are out unless it summer because I don't drive and have to walk everywhere means I wear flats all the time. I also can't walk in heels, I have an emergency pair of slingbacks when the suit comes out and a pair of ankle boots with a step heel that get dusted off occasionally but that's about it. I lived in cons for years but wear a comfy pair sketchers when doing most of the mundane stuff.

The younger loves her dresses and skirts and she's got the hang of looking well down, it's just that every morning it takes her an hour to do the dressing part even with clothes picked out the night before so if we've got to get somewhere fast and she hasn't at least and hours notice we just won't make it! I can be showered and dressed and ready to go in 30. I pulls my hair out.

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Thats the worst about these trends, once they catch on they take up the bulk of the stuff on sale. Which is great if you're into it but its getting harder and harder to find regular stuff I'd be used to. Even online you search "jeans" and you'll get 20 pages of pretty boy twigs modelling every color of skin tight chino under the sun before you get to anything remotely wearable for an average person.

Yeah. I sometimes go into the lad's section of shops or pass through it and the clothes are usually that metrosexual hipster look. If you're into that style, you're fairly fooked.

pharmaton wrote: »

I won't be tempted to change it to accommodate the job market again anytime soon. They'll either hire me for who I am, or they won't.

Well that would be the ideal but it's not the reality. You were lucky with that employer or maybe your hair wasn't as OTT to them as you thought it might be.
I wouldn't be keeping my hair blue or green just to make a point to a prospective employer.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Well that would be the ideal but it's not the reality. You were lucky with that employer or maybe your hair wasn't as OTT to them as you thought it might be.
I wouldn't be keeping my hair blue or green just to make a point to a prospective employer.

blue or green hair wouldn't suit my eye colour though so it's not one I'd choose to wear personally. The other way does so it happens to work for me. I also found that I was more inclined to get work when my hair was slightly "different" than when it was just a regular crop job of one solid colour. I've a few theories on why that might be though but ultimately it was seen as a positive, which is why I wouldn't be inclined to chop and change to suit someone elses ideals. (people see you as more outgoing, fun loving, possible risk taker, stand out from the crowd kind of individual and adventurous, courageous but over all friendly and down to earth, all a plus for my most recent employers) Put it this way, they'll either love it or hate it but they won't forget it.