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[theoldbray]

Husband (20s/30s) wears cargo shorts/pants and button/collar shirts/t-shirts.

Wife (20s/30s) says to husband that he should dress more appropriately for his age: cut the cargo stuff, opting for straight or tapered angle pants and less trendy shoes.

What say you?

Comments

[muliebrity]

As long as he dresses appropriately for work and social situations (no jeans to the opera or a polo shirt to a formal wedding), I think he can do what he wants. I mean, if my husband got to choose my clothes, I'd never wear pants or shorts. But as it is, I wear those 5 or 6 days a week. My comfort trumps his preferences.

[missingkeys]

Haha, this. My husband would love it if I spent my days going about my business in dresses. The below knee-length (yet rather low in the front) kind that really suit my figure, and which I personally like wearing, but which get in the way of every second thing I do. I wear them on occasion, he lets me know how much he loves seeing me dressed like that, but the rest of the time I'm going to be cycling, walking the dog, etc, and that's not going to happen in a fancy dress.

[muliebrity]

Wearing a cute dress is such an easy way to make a man (or at least my man) happy. Too bad it's not more practical!

[missingkeys]

My man too. :) I've found a couple of really cute, shorter dresses that I can wear with leggings, which I know isn't cool in a lot of cities but is very much the fashion here because everybody cycles. Even still, they remain fairly impractical. Silly dresses. If only they'd come with pockets!

[kitegirl24]

i'd wear dresses with pockets all the time!!! i don't know why they haven't caught on and made more of those....

[missingkeys]

I have no idea. I ended up investing in a running belt, simply because I *like* jogging in skirts and leggings, but the lack of pockets was just not on. It's too small, but at the same time I don't want to go and buy a full on fanny pack.

Hellbunny is the best brand I've found so far for dresses; most of their dresses have pockets. Alas their dresses are either too long for cycling or too short for modesty*, with nothing in between.

*Their mini dresses are fine, I think, for shorter people. But I'm a fairly average height and they don't really cover my butt.

[kitegirl24]

awesome thanks I'll definitely check them out! I'm pretty average too I think at 5'6" so hopefully they have lengths that work for my needs...

[missingkeys]

I might have mentioned: I'm 5'8", though only just. The long ones end generally just under the knee on me. (Totally unsolicited advice: when a friend introduced me to the brand she warned that while the halterneck dresses are fairly generous in the bust, the dresses with the two straps are definitely not. The advice online is generally to go up a dress size if you're above a C cup.)