Dear LPG readers, 

We are all so aware of the way that fashions change over the years and it seems to me that the older we get, the more radical they seem. Fashion is such a big word and encompasses so very many aspects of the lives we live.  

When I say this, I need to site fashion trends such as the need to have the most up-to-date mobile smart phone, follow the most fashionable Jewellery trends to be seen with, the ways we choose to watch, and now stream our visual entertainment, our choice of the decor in the rooms of our houses, the places we choose to go on holiday, the sort of cars we drive (if we still do) and so many more trends that we work so hard not to lag too far behind. 

Needing to be seen to be ‘with it’ perhaps is something that has become more important than ever for the masses since we emerged from WWII after years of having very little.  Many of us present pensioners were the children of the 1960s when everybody wanted to feel that the hardship of those times were well and truly over and by the late 80s, there seemed to be a need to be seen as part of the trend.   Since then Fashion has been something that so many of us often work very hard at keeping abreast of but, to my mind, fashion is like a train that each of us spend a lot of time trying to outrun or keep up with when we are young but, I suspect that, like me, as we get older we somehow come to the realisation that it is time to stop running as fast and as hard as we once had the strength to as we work out that we can survive without it.   

Clothing is a whole fashion genre of its own and when we think along those lines, lady’s fashion is perhaps the first category that comes to mind.  Skirt length, trouser width, fabric trends, shoe heal width and height, trouser length and boot length are just a few of the variables.  Our men have had their trends to adhere to too with the gradual shift from the more formal dress to the casual looks around today, but I want to talk about one particular fashion trend that has been around for a while and which I have a bit of a problem with. 

One might think that fashion, in all its guises, is there to be seen by and impress the people around its owner but there are some trends that I have always felt were designed to improve the posture and subtly be shared with a more intimate few.  I am talking about our underwear.  While pictorial news often reveals the trend towards showing more and more flesh off when it comes to women’s evening wear (if what we see warn by our trendsetters, the celebrities who find themselves near red carpets, are anything to go by).    

While those in the public eye sometimes force my obviously prudish eyes to blush somewhat, I find myself with a serious dislike for yet another particular fashion trend. Perhaps I am just getting really old but I have a real problem with the way that so many young men wear their trousers these days.  I have to ask if any other readers find the need for them to let us all know the colour of their underwear a little over the top? 

Most trends come and go but this one seems to have been with us for all of this century so far. It occurred to me to do a little research into where the need for so many young men to display their under pants while the waste of their trousers are barely being supported by their hips with the crutch practically at their knees or lower actually comes from. 

Apparently ‘sagging’ as it is called was predictably a fashion trend started by some of our world-famous music rappers.  I also read that it was born out of the way that prisoners often look because the wearing of belts by in mates is disallowed for safety reasons, but I have to ask if its origin and the need for so many of our young men to look ‘bad’ has anything to do with the amount of overcrowding in the country’s prisons that is sighted as a modern national problem … 

TS, Lee. 
 

 

TS shares what she found out about this fashion trend…

 

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