Ordinary women from the 30's and 40's in trousers

[isiswardrobe]

This posted started with me looking at pictures of women in suits, thinking that I would have a section in that post with women in trouser suits. Then I thought that it would be better to make that into a post on its own, but when I started looking I realized that I would need to split it up. Ordinary women versus the movie stars. Women did wear

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[reynardo]

I started work in the NSW Public Service in 1984, and there were women there who could tell me about the Great Trouser Revolt. In the early 1970s, if a woman turned up to work in trousers she would be sent home to change on her own time. So one day, by arrangement, just about every woman in the Public Service turned up in trousers. Management couldn't send them *all* home, so they were allowed to stay. And the world didn't end and the ceiling didn't fall in...

[isiswardrobe]

As late as that! Wow! hard to understand now, I think.

[joysdaughter]

My earliest trousers were a pair of overalls of my Grandfather's, that I wore to help with the gardening - 50's! (I'd be in my early teens.) I then wore trouser suits in the 60's - very smart I thought myself. I don't think I ever wore them to the office I worked in though, just for leisure. Now, thank goodness, I wear them a lot.

[rum_inspector]

I want that striped beachwear!
Wonder if those are "real" pants or wrap around trousers

[virginiadear]

I used to be acquainted with two or three ladies who worked for a well-respected department manager who, although the company which employed them all permitted trouser suits (but they did have to be suits), was adamant about none of the women working under her authority ever showing up to work wearing other than dresses, skirts and blouses, or skirted suits. This was in the late '60's, early '70's, and she was, by all accounts if rather surprisingly, fine with the fact that the very young women in the office were wearing mini-skirts, sometimes so mini as to be almost micro-mini

[mandie_rw]

Good collection of pictures! Love that striped outfit.

Funny that everybody's got a story about trousers...seems that the first time my own grandma wore trousers in "public" was to my mother's college graduation. In 1984! She was one of those ladies, I guess... (And now she says she hasn't worn a skirt in nearly twenty years!)