Train Travel
When I first began writing this blog I admitted to being an advanced age. With it, comes many decades of bias, beliefs and what may be termed ‘old fashioned ideas’. Guilty as charged.
However, when it comes to modern day fashions for young females I hold back from being too discretionary, as I well remember wearing hot pants and thigh high boots, and have still got the occasional crochet mini dress in my closet (Now used as a loose fitting smock. So I look at the 12” bum-coverings that pass as skirts these days with little more than a hint of envy.
BUT – yes it had to come didn’t it? But, I do think we wore our fashionista garments with a little more decorum and restraint than today’s MeToo warriors. AND, I confess to having little understanding as to why those same young women would want to wear the piece of string, aka ‘thong’, which passes as panties, or in my day, knickers. Which brings me to a recent incident I witnessed on the train a few days back.
Two young girl complete with hair extensions, window-wiper eye-lashes, and other attachments got onto the train, exchanging intimacies in raucous laughter and high pitched giggles. After a few stops one of the girls got off leaving her friend to stretch out on the seat with her feet wide apart on the opposite seat. She was dressed in a mauve mini skirt, red halter top, with a large matching red and mauve polka dots tote bag. She immediately gave all attention to her phone.
An old lady (about my age) who had just got on the train came and sat next to me, eyeing the young girl over the top of her glasses with obvious disdain. After a minute or two she leaned over the aisle towards the young woman, and in a fairly loud conspiratorial whisper said
“My dear I must compliment you on your outfit, Matching your tote bag with your knickers is very unusual.” A beat, then, “Oh, my mistake dear, I see you aren’t wearing any.”
(Think about it!)
Full Disclosure: If you look carefully you will see that the home made crochet ‘dress’ has a black detachable underskirt, which could be interchanged with matching thigh high boots - which were disposed of decades ago. (And rightly so!)