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TV Guy · 06-21-2020, 01:57 PM

It seems like jeans would have been the more practical choice.

Waterston_Fan · 06-22-2020, 08:54 PM

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It seems like jeans would have been the more practical choice.

I agree. Pantsuits don't bother me as much but what really bothers me is that she went to rescue her boys in a skirt in the Hawaii episode. Jeans or at least pants would be better than a skirt or dress.

Lisalu · 07-07-2020, 08:52 PM

My gosh, she wore a pantsuit EVERYwhere. The only time she wore jeans, I think, was in the camping episode in the first season.

AB · 07-08-2020, 04:53 PM

Pantsuits were very fashionable in the 1970s. Ladies wore them everywhere except church. My mom and aunts had several in their closets. My mom even wore them on our vacations to Florida. She only had a couple of pair of jeans that she wore to the garden and to do outside chores. I'm thinking Carol Brady was pretty typical in wearing pantsuits.

rcbrad · 07-08-2020, 08:10 PM

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I agree. Pantsuits don't bother me as much but what really bothers me is that she went to rescue her boys in a skirt in the Hawaii episode. Jeans or at least pants would be better than a skirt or dress.

I imagine she was already wearing a skirt and it would have been kind of silly and a time waster to have her change clothes to begin searching for her boys. She was very worried about her finding them and that they were all safe.

I do not think that women wore jeans as much in the 70's when looking back to that era.

TV Guy · 07-11-2020, 01:01 PM

There was still some cultural resistance to jeans in the 1970s that was leftover from earlier days. My parents didn’t like us wearing jeans to school - they considered jeans as sloppy clothes for home. And I remember an I Love Lucy episode were Ethel refuses to be seen on the subway in her blue jeans.

Bonniegirl · 07-11-2020, 02:59 PM

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Pantsuits were very fashionable in the 1970s. Ladies wore them everywhere except church. My mom and aunts had several in their closets. My mom even wore them on our vacations to Florida. She only had a couple of pair of jeans that she wore to the garden and to do outside chores. I'm thinking Carol Brady was pretty typical in wearing pantsuits.

Yep. My Mom and my Aunts too ! ! They were liberating themselves from wearing dresses all the time, but jeans were TOO casual for public wear , so pantsuits it was !

Bonniegirl · 07-11-2020, 03:03 PM

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There was still some cultural resistance to jeans in the 1970s that was leftover from earlier days. My parents didn’t like us wearing jeans to school - they considered jeans as sloppy clothes for home. And I remember an I Love Lucy episode were Ethel refuses to be seen on the subway in her blue jeans.

I was just thinking of Ethel not wanting to wear her blue jeans on the subway " ! And Lucy said something like " I don't think anyone will notice your blue jeans when I have a loving cup on my head " !

TV Guy · 07-11-2020, 10:11 PM

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I was just thinking of Ethel not wanting to wear her blue jeans on the subway " ! And Lucy said something like " I don't think anyone will notice your blue jeans when I have a loving cup on my head " !

LOL. That is one of my favorite Lucy episodes.

Lisalu · 08-11-2020, 09:29 AM

I think you're right. My mom grew up in the '50s, I grew up in the '70s. In "her day" girls weren't even ALLOWED to wear jeans to school. In "my day" we surely did wear jeans to school and everywhere else, but my mom's generation had that long held aversion to wearing jeans which were considered unladylike. My mom is in her mid-80s now, and I don't think I've ever seen her wear jeans. However, even in the 1970s, when she would have been a peer of Carol Brady, I don't remember her wearing polyester pantsuits, either. I don't even remember what she DID wear, only what she DIDN'T wear (isn't that funny?)

06-21-2020, 01:57 PM	#1
TV Guy Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 25, 2001 Location: Boston, MA, USA Posts: 3,419	Why did Carol wear pantsuits to the Grand Canyon? It seems like jeans would have been the more practical choice.

07-07-2020, 08:52 PM	#3
Lisalu Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 21, 2016 Posts: 36	My gosh, she wore a pantsuit EVERYwhere. The only time she wore jeans, I think, was in the camping episode in the first season.

07-08-2020, 04:53 PM	#4
AB Member Eternal Member Forum Icon Join Date: Dec 26, 2006 Location: The South Posts: 59,428	Pantsuits were very fashionable in the 1970s. Ladies wore them everywhere except church. My mom and aunts had several in their closets. My mom even wore them on our vacations to Florida. She only had a couple of pair of jeans that she wore to the garden and to do outside chores. I'm thinking Carol Brady was pretty typical in wearing pantsuits.

07-11-2020, 01:01 PM	#6
TV Guy Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 25, 2001 Location: Boston, MA, USA Posts: 3,419	There was still some cultural resistance to jeans in the 1970s that was leftover from earlier days. My parents didn’t like us wearing jeans to school - they considered jeans as sloppy clothes for home. And I remember an I Love Lucy episode were Ethel refuses to be seen on the subway in her blue jeans.

08-11-2020, 09:29 AM	#10
Lisalu Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 21, 2016 Posts: 36	I think you're right. My mom grew up in the '50s, I grew up in the '70s. In "her day" girls weren't even ALLOWED to wear jeans to school. In "my day" we surely did wear jeans to school and everywhere else, but my mom's generation had that long held aversion to wearing jeans which were considered unladylike. My mom is in her mid-80s now, and I don't think I've ever seen her wear jeans. However, even in the 1970s, when she would have been a peer of Carol Brady, I don't remember her wearing polyester pantsuits, either. I don't even remember what she DID wear, only what she DIDN'T wear (isn't that funny?)