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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

[836am]

Husband and wife should each wear what they want. There's nothing wrong with making suggestions, but trying to change someone's style when they're happy with it probably won't end well.

[noodledays]

totally agreed.

[due27south]

Exactly this. Dress your age sounds like an awful "comment" too.

[0nthemend]

My thoughts exactly.

[stacyinthecity]

I don't see anything wrong with how he is dressing. So long as it meets job dress codes and is socially acceptable in public, I don't care.

If the wife doesn't like how he dresses, that is her problem, not his. She can make suggestions, but if he doesn't take them, she better stop because he is going to feel henpecked if she keeps going after him about this which is really not a big deal in the grand scheme.

[buckeyeschild]

This

[paksenarrion2]

100% agreed. As long as he meets job dress codes and isn't wearing ripped or stained (or otherwise publically inappropriate clothing) then who cares. If he is comfortable, more power to him.

[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!

[girlredefined]

I'm gonna have to go with "who cares?"

[girlredefined]

Meaning I would never try to dictate what my husband wore.

[theoldbray]

Same here.

[copperflame]

What is the background to the story, if I may ask?

[ma_ee_uh]

Ew, I don't think wives should tell their husbands what to wear. Nor do I think there's an age limit to t-shirts and sneakers.