What fashion items remind you of your parents?

Not really a fashion item ,
my lovely Gran after a perm would wear hairnet.
Brownish during the day , pink or blue to bed!
And always a half apron in the morning.

My Grandpa wore his bunnet on leaving the house .

My mum wore a housecoat over underware.
Then get dressed at midday after all housework was done or nails painted.

My father wore a clean nylon non iron (not true) shirt in every pastel colour you can think of and always a tie.

Cardigans. My mum would knit cardigans for all of us and anyone else who needed one. I never saw her without a cardi, summer included, though of course cardis were needed in summer back then.

Cherrytree59

Not really a fashion item ,
my lovely Gran after a perm would wear hairnet.
Brownish during the day , pink or blue to bed!
And always a half apron in the morning.

My Grandpa wore his bunnet on leaving the house .

My mum wore a housecoat over underware.
Then get dressed at midday after all housework was done or nails painted.

My father wore a clean nylon non iron (not true) shirt in every pastel colour you can think of and always a tie.

What is a bunnet?

My mother had a lovely Hungarian embroidered blouse, and I had a junior version. I still like them to this day and often see them for sale.

My mum used to like wearing suits. She had a tweed one for the winter and and lighter blue moygashel one for the summer. She would either wear a blouse or twin set under the jacket.

My mother’s black suede winter ankle bootees with a zip up the front. All the mothers seemed to wear them.

SpinDriftCoastal

My mum used to like wearing suits. She had a tweed one for the winter and and lighter blue moygashel one for the summer. She would either wear a blouse or twin set under the jacket.

Ooh Moygashel brings back memories, a type of faux linen if I remember correctly. Good for trousers as it didn’t crease.

I think a 'bunnet' is a beret (like a cap) Fallingstar my dad used to put his on too when he went off on his bicycle for work, he also put bicycle clips around his ankles to keep his trousers out of the way.
Dad wore Brillcream on his hair too, it was what a lot of men put on their hair in the day, horrible stuff. Mam used to play war with him for it rubbing off on the pillowcases

Fallingstar
Bunnet is a flat cap ( Scottish)

My mum was always very fashionable, I can remember mini skirts and dresses, even hot pants under little mini dresses. She then moved onto trousers and jeans, always smart and with it Even when she was terminally ill she had her hair coloured and cut the week before she went into the hospice.

My dad was always in trousers and shirts, not always with a tie, when he retired it was chinos or jeans and polo shirts.

Linen chino's & sunglasses curtesy of my father & pretty dresses & high-heeled shoes adorning my pretty mother.

Nan wore something called a duster coat in Spring/Summer in a pastel colour.

I think they are calling them co ords currently, my mum always liked to wear a skirt suit in coordinated colours.

Plastic rain hat (hardly fashion 😂)
Berets,
silk scarves,
leather gloves,
galoshes,
Sleeve garters
bowler hat (I still have my Dad’s)
Stiff collar
All enveloping house coat 🤷‍♀️
Costume jewellery
Petticoat/slip
Corset with suspenders
Roll on

moms suede boots and abeautiful suede fringed jacket.she bought a pair of the same boots for me too
any ever saw valley haper pta that saw her
she also dressed to the nines they tell me she drove buick special ragtop with her male saimese cat on the back of theseat
before me She was a rockabilly chick

grammother was designer

I don't think my mum wore anything fashionable.
Serviceable was more her thing.

I do remember a pair of pink iridescent dangly earrings in her jewelry box, though.

I remember mum’s black cocktail dress. It had a sort of train on the back. She wore it with her pearls. So glamorous. She always smelt of perfume - ‘Tweed’ I think - with a hint of Benson and Hedges. Dad was always very smart. He had his suits made by a tailor in Reading and his hats made too. He reckoned the shape of his head made it too difficult to buy them off the peg!

Dad - M&S wool cardigans

Mum - brooches; blue eye shadow; red lipstick

Both my parents wore a lot of crimplene. Trousers and ties in particular. Mum used to put a cardigan over her shoulders without putting her arms in. Most women did this.

My mother’s headscarves, cross-over pinnies, and always a hat and a good coat to go into town in. My father, collarless shirts and a waist coat indoors; a three piece suit with a tie outside summer (even on holiday) or winter, except when he was going to work. And Brylcreem! A different generation.

A scarf - my mum had a scarf to match every outfit and I have to say, she always looked very well put together!

Jaxjacky

Headscarves, my Mum often wore one. Matching pen and pencil set in his top pocket Dad.

Headscarves, yes. More practical than a hat if you're bending down attending to children all the time.
Mum's generation tied theirs under their chins or made them into "turbans" - our generation also wore headscarves but we tied them at the back under our long hair.

I can remember my mum having cardboard inside her winter boots, and a plastic bag to put her foot in.

They really did go without to make sure we had shoes and winter coats.

hollysteers

My mother’s black suede winter ankle bootees with a zip up the front. All the mothers seemed to wear them.

I forgot about the boots...I had a pair of black boots with a zip up the front, I wore them to school in the winter..

my mum always had a rainmate in her bag, it was like a plastic scarf with ties at the end, just incase it rained and spoiled her perm