I am reminded of a certain female science professor I knew while an undergrad at a liberal arts college in New England. She was 60ish and her typical uniform consisted of a mid-calf plaid wool skirt, white athletic socks, navy blue velcro athletic shoes, usually with a starched white blouse, and chin length hair set so it DID NOT MOVE.

Pantihose with jeans...elderly ladies wear that all the time, as they claim the pantihose keeps them warmer. They're indoors with central heating, so I don't know why this is an issue, but there you have it. (My Mom is guilty of this.)

On the pantihose with jeans, socks with sandals line of thinking....my MIL ALWAYS wears pantihose sock-thingies with sandals. UGH. Says its more comfortable.

Jodanne, I've noticed with my parents, as they get older their metabolism doesn't keep them as warm. Temps that were warm a couple years ago, are now too cool.

I saw something today that wasn't scary, but definitely interesting. A couple were coming out of a store, and both were expensively dressed. (they got into a mercedes) but he was wearing black slacks with a navy cardigan. It was definitely a cardigan sweater, but it had the brass buttons we usually see on navy blazers.

Today as I was waiting at a traffic light, I saw a couple young ladies walk in front of my car. One was wearing tights under her dress. That look didn't really scare me, the problem was the dress was banded at the bottom, and it hung to right below her bottom which called a lot of attention to it. It wasn't huge, but definitely not something she would have wanted to call attention to.

just got ivied. Look for something here in the next week or so.

Yesterday, as I was leaving the grocery store with my husband, I saw a woman entering: she was in her 60s or early 70s, and was wearing a plaid, pleated miniskirt.

Saw a lady today, it was hard to judge her age. She was dressed pretty young, and was rather slim, and was shopping for camisoles and short skirts at a booth at our outdoor market. But it wasn't her outfit that stood out. It was her skin. Her skin was so brown and leathery that she looked halfway mummified. Have you ever seen a mummy at a museum? They have no flesh left, just withered skin stuck to bone. She was not wearing a br@ and while the girls were small, they were hanging south. Her shoulders were somewhat stooped and the little extra weight she had was all in her midsection. I think she wore dentures. Her hair was dark with ends fried from sun damage, long, braided, and looped up. All in all I would say she was postmenopausal and likely in her 50's or 60's, but hard to say. I overheard her mention she was Hawaiian and that likely explains the source of the damaged skin. Her skin was so dark that it was hard to believe she was Caucasian, but her features did not seem especially Polynesian.

Location: Bengies Drive-In (Baltimore)

At the drive-in, lots of people where really comfy clothes because the theater usually does either a double or triple feature, so movie-goers are there from dusk until at least 1:00 am, if not later. Some weekends they do a dusk-til-dawn night. So pajamas are actually pretty common (most are more like sweatpants and a t-shirt though).

I can accept all that because if you're watching 2-4 movies all night you want as much comfort as possible!!

However, two nights ago, my boyfriend and I were people watching before the show started and saw a rather large woman wearing really short and very see-through white shorts WITH NOTHING UNDERNEATH!!! Her lower-back tattoo and her -- ahem -- crack were completely visible. It was almost as if her shorts were soaked -- they were that sheer. She may as well have been wearing plastic. It was awful!

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It was her skin. Her skin was so brown and leathery that she looked halfway mummified. Have you ever seen a mummy at a museum? They have no flesh left, just withered skin stuck to bone.

There's a lady who regularly shops in my store that looks like that. She's really nice and always patient with her daughter...but that skin! Way too tanned. She's leathery and brown in some areas but orangy in others. Also never wears a bra. Most of her outfits are okay (sleeveless tops, skirts or bermudas), but it's the no-bra and the bad skin that are just wrong.

This one will haunt my nightmares for weeks! LOL!

Picture a middle aged man, gym trunks, and wrestling singlet pulled down so his naked pot belly was exposed. His one claim to public sensibilities was a windbreaker, unzipped unfortunately.

Gaaak!

Gaak, indeed, garnetsue! Thanks for that!

I have a few saved up. None as egregious as that one, though!

1) A female colleague, who is rather large and busty, and also generally a very manly dresser showed up in a floral-print empire waisted baby doll top. That was so out of character, that it was shocking enough, but what really got me was the placement of the empire seam- not under the bust but running right across the fullest part. Don't know if it was a fit issue or a not very supportive br@.

2) Student in my class. Typical sorority uniform. Too tight/short tee advertising Greek party. Miniscule denim mini, modicum of modesty preserved by the 3" of so of dangling threads from the fraying hem. A grungy cotton friendship bracelet on one wrist, a silver and emerald David Yurman bracelet on the other. Classic rubber/foam flip-flops on her feet which were thoughtfully wrapped around the back of the lab stool, soles up, allowing me to observe that they were worn almost paper-thin at the heel and the toes, creating a lovely ombre effect as the various colors in the layers of the soles were exposed.

Now I like to mix high end things with low end things, and I also like to get plenty of good out of my clothing before tossing them, but that's going a bit far!

I was in Target on Sunday, and I saw a 35-ish mom trying to manage her rather large brood. She was in shorts and tank top; nothing unusual, but what caught my eye was that she had a little ponytail at each TEMPLE, and the rest of her hair was loose.

At a restaurant near the beach I saw a woman with her date. The woman was late 50ish, and a bit "fluffy." She was wearing a very short skort that was at least two sizes too small, and a short top that exposed her belly rolls. The poor fit made the shorts ride up to expose her cheeks in back. It was like watching a train wreck! I couldn't look away.

Starlight- I have a photo of myself sporting that hairstyle from when I was 8 and I did my own hair that day. Perhaps mom let daughter do mom's hair?

I am still not over this one. When I was in NY last weekend I saw a woman from the rear that I assumed to be a teenager. She had long blonde hair halfway down her back and was wearing tight skinny jeans with high platform wedges. When she turned around it was obvious that she was 60+. Of course, she was wearing the obligatory caked on makeup and dark red lipstick, LOL.

I don't know why but this phenomenon seems to be more common in NY than it is here in New England. I remember seeing this more often when I lived in NY. It's the inability to grow old gracefully and appropriately and trying to recapture a lost youth. I'm not saying older women have to dress like a granny - far from it, but this kind of thing just looks pathetic!

Saw a young woman this evening, walking with grocery bags. She was perhaps early 20's and doing an "I give up" look in head to toe black. She was was overweight an apple shape, probably into plus sizes. She wore a shapeless rayon long sleeve blouse, long skirt in similar material with slits up both sides to just above the knee, black knee-high stockings, black crocs, hair up in a bunlike style, plain glasses, and her skin was very pale, so when her skirt blew in the breeze, it showed off the contrasting color of her knee and lower thigh.

Well, I got a part time job at disneyland while I finish school and well the scary things are amazingly common. The one I can think of hte most is from earlier this week. There was a woman walking by where I work and she had a shirt rolled or folded up to under her b88bs so her whole midriff was showing. At first I onlye saw her out of the corner of my eye but a male coworker was not interested and I asked why he looks like it was gross and he had me look again. She looked to be like 50+ and was trying to look like she was 16. Granted she was thin but still. So that is the update for now. I am sure I will have more as it is really hot now and the guests don't always dress that great. Btw, sorry if anyone is a fan of dland and doesn't dress fashionably when they go it is just the really crazy stuff I notice.

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1) A female colleague, who is rather large and busty, and also generally a very manly dresser showed up in a floral-print empire waisted baby doll top. That was so out of character, that it was shocking enough, but what really got me was the placement of the empire seam- not under the bust but running right across the fullest part. Don't know if it was a fit issue or a not very supportive br@.

I see this constantly -- I wish there was a sign in the dressing room that indicated where the seam is supposed to go so they will just not buy it! I'm larger and have a big chest too...and I stay away from shirts like that for a reason!

Anyone remember Fran's mom and grandmother on the show The Nanny? When I lived in Miami I saw women dressed like that all the time.

oh those episodes are the reason why the first time i bought ANY animal print it was a giraffe and it was last fall. and it's a demure shoe by linea paolo pump with curved heel.
those outfits haunt me...

Today at the gym - A 50ish woman with bleached, spikey hair and in full makeup with lots of jewelry. She was also, shall we say, very well endowed. She was wearing a short, extremely tight hot pink tank top with spaghetti straps, and a very short, tight denim skirt. I didn't notice the footwear because I was too distracted by the rest of the outfit. Fortunately, this woman was in good shape. Oddly enough her workout wear (black shorts, black racer back top and nice athletic shoes) looked more appropriate on her than her other outfit.

Butterfly, I see women doing the seam over the bust thing all the time at my work. It really makes you think if they know that it isn't supposed to do that.

Well, I have seen some doozies at work recently. I have seen sheeeer dresses including one white one where you could see her white thong underneath. Yep, it was there in front of kids no less. I see shorts way too short and all of that hot weather stuff. Well, that what I can think up for now at least. The weekend took a lot out of me b/c I worked the whole thing. I hope everyone else had a relaxing one.

Long time lurker, first time poster.... I was jarred into getting an ID to post on this board after what I saw yesterday!

I was in Sak's Fifth Avenue - ostensibly a very nice store, which also happens to be at the very high-end mall in my city - when I saw a woman in her fifties wearing a translucent sarong tied around her waist over some barely-there bikini bottoms, nearly flattened flip-flops, and a midriff baring, long sleeve grey sweater. She was easily showing ten inches of belly with the wrap tied so low. She did have the body for it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should!! And it was so out of context in a store with so many other well-dressed and covered up people!

Just had to share that one, I'll probably start posting more frequently now.

I work in NYC on 8th Avenue, so I see lots of interesting characters everyday. But yesterday... well... this lady was the scariest of them all, I think. She was a plus size with very large "girls" and she was wearing a strapless dress that had a stretchy section on top that was supposed to be fitted around the b*st and then float away from her body on the bottom. Well, I guess because the dress was strapless, she decided to go bra-less, and her "girls" sagged so low that the stretchy part on top was fitted around the top of her chest, and the "girls" were noticeably hanging around UNDER the stretchy part. And then the rest of the dress was just hanging from there, doing absolutely nothing for her shape.

And then this morning, as I was walking into work, I spotted a seemingly homeless man with long, wavy hair, wearing the same exact metallic silver flip-flops I'm wearing today! The scary part in that is that he's a man, and I'm a woman!