The dressing-down trend of America in general and Seattle in particular (buy, ticket)

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by toughguy

Tee-shirt tucked into jeans = square!!

Yeah, it's square NOW, but it wasn't during my first trip in the 80's. So maybe Seattle was ahead of its time or it's always been that way.

[CityGirl72]

OHHH the 80s

You are so forgiven - the 80s is the time I see my exes (boyfriends) all with tucked shirts and flipped up collars - with the izod alligator

[CityGirl72]

PS - I agree on the "hamper" look

I hamper dive much more in Seattle than I used to - of course that could just be of lack of time from being a parent - I haven't figured that out yet

[Ira500]

No, CityGirl72, it's not from being a parent, it's that you're "'stylin."

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by CityGirl72

OHHH the 80s

You are so forgiven - the 80s is the time I see my exes (boyfriends) all with tucked shirts and flipped up collars - with the izod alligator

Yeah....scary times----good music but man...what ever made us think zipper shirts and balloon pants were cool?

[PencilMeIn]

Oh the fashions we have donned. 70's.....favorite clothes.....jeans, pale green T-shirt with faded butterfly, fringed moccasins, suede neck band with peace sign, bandana around my head with feathered roach clip hanging from it. Oh....yeah I was cool. LOL.

My kids laugh when they see mom and dad dressed like that in old pictures.....boy, have we ever changed.

Pertaining to this thread, though, there is a HUGE difference in dressing casual and dressing sloppy. Casual can be clean, neat and classy. Sloppy.....well it's just sloppy.

[sberdrow]

Originally Posted by cobolt

Yeah....scary times----good music but man...what ever made us think zipper shirts and balloon pants were cool?

hey man when did they become uncool? Whats better than being 15 riding with your buddies on our bike, listening to Photograph by Def Lepard on our Sny Walkman, as it bounces against your studed punk belt. Looking at the hot chicks walking down the sidewalk, thinking you had a chance with them. AAAHHH good times, goood times.

[seattlerain]

Originally Posted by sberdrow

hey man when did they become uncool? Whats better than being 15 riding with your buddies on our bike, listening to Photograph by Def Lepard on our Sny Walkman, as it bounces against your studed punk belt. Looking at the hot chicks walking down the sidewalk, thinking you had a chance with them. AAAHHH good times, goood times.

How about being 15 in the summer of 1969 listening to Aquarius by Fifth Dimension, or Honky Tonk Women, by the Rolling Stones on a transistor radio while riding a Schwinn Stingray bike...

[sberdrow]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

How about being 15 in the summer of 1969 listening to Aquarius by Fifth Dimension, or Honky Tonk Women, by the Rolling Stones on a transistor radio while riding a Schwinn Stingray bike...

in 1969 I would be riding down the sidewalk on my bigwheel, listening to my mom screaming "stay outa the street damn it".

[Katarina Witt]

This was a fun thread to read. Dress is casual in Denver, but in a different sort of way. Shorts, sandals, and ski jackets are popular in the winter. Women do dress a little better here, from what I just read. (I haven''t spent much time in Seattle.) The moms at the pediatrician's office where I work usually come in dressed fairly nicely if they are working. Ditto the dads. My own DH works in an engineering office and they all wear jeans.