Random question - did your dad wear Jeans?

Never.
Nearest my Dad got to jeans were overalls.
As kids, we didn't start wearing them until we were over 16.
Mam always said jeans were for “scruffs” and wouldn't buy us any.
 
Jeans weren't even part of my old man's vocabulary. He was a manual worker - a fitter - but wore overalls at work and was always smart to go anywhere. I've got cine footage of him and my grandad in the mid-late 60s, paddling in the sea at Saltburn in the summer with us when we were little, and they both had suits and ties on, with their trousers rolled up to the knees.
 
Dad born in 39, he wore jeans as long as i knew him! but he would always wear trousers if he was going to the pub or for less casual occasions.
 
Dad was born in 1930, never wore jeans but would wear shorts on holiday. Always wore a shirt.

I am just imagining him wearing jean shorts. He would have looked strange in a pair of Daisy Dukes :)
 
I reckon the same blokes never wear T-shirts either.

Just shirts… smart shirts, casual shirts, work shirts, short sleeved shirts, maybe MAYBE the occasional polo shirt. But never just a normal round necked tshirt.
 
My old fellah wore jeans for work in the early 70s under his cover-alls.

at home and when leaving the house, always a suit, shirt & tie.

he once said to me it was the difference between the North & the South,

in the South men go to work in a suit and go out in workwear - up North men wear work wear to work and then go out in a suit !!.
 
Nope, never.

My sister bought him a pair once, never seen anyone look so uncomfortable. And he looked plain odd. Just didn't work for that generation (he'd be just over a 100 now).
And yep, I can't remember him ever wearing a T-Shirt. Shirt or string vest!
 
I didn't think my dad ever did until my mam once pulled a pair of massive bell bottom flares out of the back of the cupboard. I'd never seen him wear them.
 
No. There was a lot of austerity after the war and lots of foodstuffs for instance were either rationed or difficult to get hold of even in the mid-50s. Same with jeans I would imagine being an american thing and associated at that time with workwear. I was born in '50 and think it was early-mid 60s before I got a pair. I used to go out in a fancy coloured suit being a mod.
 
I didn't realise never wearing jeans was such a common thing for blokes of that generation. I just though it was my dad being weird.

I never wear anything but jeans unless I'm forced to wear a suit for a wedding or a funeral or something. Well obviously I do. I don't go out walking the dog in just a pair of jeans. That would be silly.
 
My dad was born in 32. He did have a pair of jeans but I think I only ever saw him in them once. Cords were his go to casual trousers.
 
no, never (he’s 82 now). Until recently he was rarely seen without a tie, even when just at home.
 
My grandad, born 1921 and died 1995 worked at a foundary and went to work in moleskine trousers and wore some form of thick apron, all spark proof I suppose as he worked near a furnace.

When not working / after retired it was always suit and tie, even to go and get his morning paper.

If he was working in the garden he would take off his suit top and tie and hang them on a peg on the inside of his shed door, then roll up his shirt sleeves and get to work. Even then he looked smart.

What always surprised me about him though was the length of his hair. He used to brylcream it back with a comb (he had a decent head of hair) every morning. When it was wet though I would say his fringe came down to the bottom of his nose, but always neatly clipped around the back / slides..always looked smart and in place.

Always popular with the ladies my old grandad was lol
 
SydneyRed said:
My grandad, born 1921 and died 1995 worked at a foundary and went to work in moleskine trousers and wore some form of thick apron, all spark proof I suppose as he worked near a furnace.

When not working / after retired it was always suit and tie, even to go and get his morning paper.

If he was working in the garden he would take off his suit top and tie and hang them on a peg on the inside of his shed door, then roll up his shirt sleeves and get to work. Even then he looked smart.

What always surprised me about him though was the length of his hair. He used to brylcream it back with a comb (he had a decent head of hair) every morning. When it was wet though I would say his fringe came down to the bottom of his nose, but always neatly clipped around the back / slides..always looked smart and in place.

Always popular with the ladies my old grandad was lol
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Very common hairstyle and my grandad was the same with the long “forelock”
 
pierrequiroule said:
No. There was a lot of austerity after the war and lots of foodstuffs for instance were either rationed or difficult to get hold of even in the mid-50s. Same with jeans I would imagine being an american thing and associated at that time with workwear. I was born in '50 and think it was early-mid 60s before I got a pair. I used to go out in a fancy coloured suit being a mod.
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Tonic Suit's now there's something......

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AytonMews said:
Very common hairstyle and my grandad was the same with the long “forelock”
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Yeah...there are photos of my grandad at the beach with his white shirt sleeves rolled up, cigarette in hand and hair all creamed back but with a bit of the fringe flopping down and he looks like a right F***ing cool dude...

He should have had a plain white t shirt and jeans on lol
 
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