What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[Gregg Axley]

I've seen folks wearing a lot worse than pajamas up in the walmart.

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Dragon or other animal costumes?
Here I saw a man with shorts on, a Hawaiian shirt, and flip flops during the winter time.
Did I mention he had a ring float around his waste, like you wear in the pool?
Similar to this?

BTW this wasn't a frat prank, he was dead serious....

 

[vintageTink]

Was it at least a unicorn waist float?

 

[sheeplady]

I've never seen pajamas worn in our local Wal-Mart. I *have* seen them worn in our local art museum. Make of that what you will.

I have never seen PJs in the store.

Well, that's not totally true. I saw them one time, when it was "wear your PJs for $5" at a local school to raise funds for a classmate's funeral. (If you donated $5, you could wear your PJs to school for the day. The girl had died in a car accident and her family was unable to provide for a funeral. The school kids raised something like $10,000 through community fundraisers in a matter of two weeks. Those kids worked their darned butts off.)

 

[jamespowers]

Yeah, that's not really an option. Lol


Maybe they consider walmart an upscale place and wouldn't dream of being seen in pajamas.


I know. I understand bad hair days but you really can't be bothered to put clothes on? It'll make your hair less noticeable.

Gee, some people are lucky. I have seen parents bring their rat kids to school in pajamas, seen them walking around in pajamas and have seen them shopping in pajamas. Then again, I live near The Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum. :doh:

 

[Virginia Creeper]

I've seen plenty of pajamas at the store. There was a brief vogue in the early 2000s for young women to go out in pajama pants, much like the equally inexplicable trend in the later '90s for young people to wear scrub pants. Goodness knows nothing says "style" more than "blood and vomit wash right out of these."

 

[vintageTink]

I have never seen PJs in the store.

Well, that's not totally true. I saw them one time, when it was "wear your PJs for $5" at a local school to raise funds for a classmate's funeral. (If you donated $5, you could wear your PJs to school for the day. The girl had died in a car accident and her family was unable to provide for a funeral. The school kids raised something like $10,000 through community fundraisers in a matter of two weeks. Those kids worked their darned butts off.)

Good on those kids!

 

[vintageTink]

I've seen plenty of pajamas at the store. There was a brief vogue in the early 2000s for young women to go out in pajama pants, much like the equally inexplicable trend in the later '90s for young people to wear scrub pants. Goodness knows nothing says "style" more than "blood and vomit wash right out of these."

That's better than those knit pants with the words across the hiney.

 

[Virginia Creeper]

That's better than those knit pants with the words across the hiney.

True. And really, does anyone want their backsides to be described as "juicy?" That sounds like an unfortunate medical problem to me.

 

[jamespowers]

That's better than those knit pants with the words across the hiney.

The funniest thing with those words is that they are usually an antonym to how someone would really describe the person wearing them. lol lol

 

[vintageTink]

True. And really, does anyone want their backsides to be described as "juicy?" That sounds like an unfortunate medical problem to me.

Too much olestra, maybe?

 

[vintageTink]

The funniest thing with those words is that they are usually an antonym to how someone would really describe the person wearing them. lol lol

Maybe they're being ironic? Ironic hiney writing pants.

 

[jamespowers]

Maybe they're being ironic? Ironic hiney writing pants.

Hipster women pants.

 

[vintageTink]

Hipster women pants.

They'd have to be too tight and worn with glasses, a scarf, an iPod, a beret, hoodie or other ironic shirt, those sheepskin boots and patchouli.

I think it's hilarious that what they listen to now, stuff like Daft Punk...I heard in high school years ago.

 

[Gregg Axley]

That's better than those knit pants with the words across the hiney.

I see those in public every so often.
Some words can be read from a good distance away, and those are the people that don't need to wear those pants.
Tacky has become the new norm, for some unknown reason.
As many have said, casual day might have started it.
I always wear khakis and a button down shirt every day to work.
The more movies I watch from the 30's through the 50's, the more I see that unless you were working outside (on the lawn, house, etc) you dressed up. Not a real shock on this site, everyone knows that. In fact on Leave It To Beaver, heading into the early 60's, Ward will wear a golf shirt, IF HE'S GOING GOLFING. Otherwise if he has one on, it's around the house and he never heads out without putting something nicer on. June still has gloves when they go to visit the Rutherfords or she goes to visit a teacher. I'd say this started somewhere in the 90's but could have started earlier. The leisure suit was for leisure, but it was a suit. Hmmm.
However, you didn't wear a tie with it. I stand corrected, it appears to have started in the 70's.
I certainly won't miss clothes that have writing on them, I can go along with this one.

 

[Edward]

The more movies I watch from the 30's through the 50's, the more I see that unless you were working outside (on the lawn, house, etc) you dressed up.

It would be a grave mistake to take Hollywood as indicative of any kind of norm, in any period. Increased casualisation in day to day dress does seem to be a reality, though, if not perhaps to the extreme the flicks would suggest. Personally, I'm keeping n eye on the gay community. Some stereotypes really are true: where they lead, in a fashion sense, the mainstream will follow. When all the gay clubs have queues of well-dressed, be-suited young men outside them, you'll know mainstream fashion is about to take a turn for the better. Of course, then we'll all have to find something else to moan about, but.... plus ca change!

 

[LizzieMaine]

It would be a grave mistake to take Hollywood as indicative of any kind of norm, in any period.

Indeed. The look of Hollywood productions, whether movies or television, was specifically and deliberately to constructed to presented an idealized middle-class view of the world, despite the fact that during the Era the majority of the audience was blue-collar working class. The Hollywood moguls, most of them men with working-class backgrounds determined to assimilate themselves into the higher classes, felt their product should be a means of elevating the masses, not accurately depicting them as they were.

There were a few exceptions of course. There were people who really did dress like Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners," I knew some of them growing up. But I never knew anybody whose father wore a jacket and tie at home, or even a sweater and tie.

 

[jamespowers]

It would be a grave mistake to take Hollywood as indicative of any kind of norm, in any period. Increased casualisation in day to day dress does seem to be a reality, though, if not perhaps to the extreme the flicks would suggest. Personally, I'm keeping n eye on the gay community. Some stereotypes really are true: where they lead, in a fashion sense, the mainstream will follow. When all the gay clubs have queues of well-dressed, be-suited young men outside them, you'll know mainstream fashion is about to take a turn for the better. Of course, then we'll all have to find something else to moan about, but.... plus ca change!

You won't see change coming from the gay community over here. Your hope there is not well founded at all. :rofl:

 

[sheeplady]

That's better than those knit pants with the words across the hiney.

The only thing worse than that is those pants for kids. When I see a little girl wearing them I kind of want to stab my eyes out. Who wants other people looking at their child's butt? Seriously?

I won't mind when all the "brat," "spoiled," "sexy," and "princess" t-shirts and onesies for babies, toddlers, and children are obsolete.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The only thing worse than that is those pants for kids. When I see a little girl wearing them I kind of want to stab my eyes out. Who wants other people looking at their child's butt? Seriously?

I won't mind when all the "brat," "spoiled," "sexy," and "princess" t-shirts and onesies for babies, toddlers, and children are obsolete.

And they wonder why Honey Boo Boo Child is a cultural icon. :doh:

 

[vintageTink]

The only thing worse than that is those pants for kids. When I see a little girl wearing them I kind of want to stab my eyes out. Who wants other people looking at their child's butt? Seriously?

I won't mind when all the "brat," "spoiled," "sexy," and "princess" t-shirts and onesies for babies, toddlers, and children are obsolete.

Which is why my daughter will wear clothes I make instead f the dreck sold in stores, like g-strings for toddlers.
Makes me want to fish slap those parents.