Reply to Serious Fashion Question

Forum Index » Beauty and Fashion

Reply to "Serious Fashion Question"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom was born in 1950, and she was never thin or polished. She was obese and although she mostly would buy pants and a shirt that went together, she never looked polished.

I was born in the '70's and you'll be SHOCKED to know I have also never been thin. I rarely look polished. [/quote]

We have one single picture of my great grandmother who immigrated from Sicily in 1905.  She is middle aged in the photo and super obese.  I think the picture is taken in the 1930s.  She is wearing a mumu.  So, yeah, people were fat even back then!  And like today, it was mostly poor people you don’t see in the ads or TV shows.

But generally clothes were much higher quality and intended to be worn longer so they just looked better on and people took better care of them. I still have clothes that my grandmother and her sister bought in the 1940s through 1960s and it hangs better than stuff I bought recently.  It’s wool with an “good hand” and lined and properly tailored.  My grandmothers family worked in the textile industry and she had her sister (who had worked QC at the mill prior to the Depression) often decried the decline in wool weaves even in the 1970s and 80s—and it’s gotten worse since then.
Also, people didn’t have as many choices.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics