Christmas Family Gathering

[EcclesCake]

Eurrghh! Have a family lunchtime gathering to attend. All the ladies wear dresses and the men are blazered or sports jacketed.

I hate daytime formality and having checked my wardrobe I cannot find anything suitable for a winter daytime formal. I will once again buck the trend and wear trousers.

I really hate these things.......

And on Christmas Day I will be expected to dress 'nicely', why For Funks Sake I'm in my own home....my house, my rules!

Am I the only one that feels kowtowed by convention and formality?

[boxtops]

How many blokes these days have a "blazer or sports jacket"? There's nothing like that in my OH's wardrobe!

I can't see anything wrong in a nice pair of trousers and a top for events like this.

[ChillDoubt]

And on Christmas Day I will be expected to dress 'nicely', why For Funks Sake I'm in my own home.
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By whom? If anyone doesn't like the way I'm dressed in my own home, they know where the door is.

[ummmm]

I wouldn't. I don't like Christmas so I def wouldn't go formal about it.

[Prudie]

Chill maybe you haven't experienced the mother/daughter thing. Don't know if eccles means her mum but mine certainly made a deal of making me dress up on Xmas day until her dying day, showing her the door wasn't an option.

[EcclesCake]

I'm a rebellious black sheep in the family but I don't wish to disappoint or cause offence so I find myself kowtowing more often than is comfortable for my rebellious side.

I might go out and buy everyone a onesie for Christmas and insist they are worn on Christmas Day!

[ummmm]

So glad I'm from a laid back family.

[ChillDoubt]

I've seen the mother/daughter thing Prudie, but Eccles will be in her own home, so it's HER rules IMHO!

[beattie819]

I know how you feel Eccles .I don't own a skirt or dress, so its easy to pick the black trousers and top. Like you I am also expected to "dress nicely" on Christmas day, but they soon change their tune, as we live in rickety old farmhouse, no central heating. We all end up in warm stuff. I had the idea of onesies last year, but its too darn cold to go to the loo in one of those.
Stick to your guns and have a very lovely Christmas!

[EcclesCake]

It is the thought of having to peel off the 75% of the onesie to go to the loo that puts me off.......well it is one of the reasons.......looking daft is another :-)

On the whole I'm comfortable with convention but there are times when I think to myself that it is all quite silly and women should be able to wear trousers in 2013 for a family lunch without attracting the 'look' from more senior members. Even the family members younger than me conform to the dress code!!!

[giveup]

I personally feel that trousers are perfectly acceptable for any occasion these days(and unfortunately I'm not young) but wear what you like,I'm sure you'll look lovely. Its their problem,not yours.

[murraymints]

Now that we will be spending Xmas day at mums it will be casual dress ...hooray....I've told mum I may come in jammies ...she's cool with that too, hope someone gets me a onesie...Patrick !

[EcclesCake]

I can honestly say that I have never seen any female member of the family wear trousers to a formal gathering......apart from me!

For the men blazers and sports jackets are standard off duty wear.

It's quite a stuffy family!

[Canary42]

I love the idea of getting them all onesies Eccles, especially tasteless Christmas ones like these --- Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

LOL

[DTCwordfan]

Black tie here.

Just the black tie and nothing else.

[murraymints]

Canary .....that's exactly what I want !!!

[EcclesCake]

If only I had the cojones.........

[FredPuli43]

Goodness, the nightmares of my youth. We would go to my aunt's some years. Dress, black tie. Long dinner, ladies to withdraw, led by my aunt, leaving men and the teenage me to our cigars, brandy or port and very bad jokes. Followed by party games last played in about 1910. Dire.

As I am now here at Christmas, I will take Christmas Dinner at lunchtime with my daughter at a hotel restaurant and dress will be traditional Newmarket day formal viz. I'll be wearing lemon yellow corduroy trousers, waistcoat,check shirt and hacking jacket, daughter will wear something tweedy, far too old for her but conventional. Dead comfortable.

[sunny-dave]

I am now struggling with the thought of the estimable eccles in a fluffy bunny onesie ... I may have to have a lie down :+)