LizzieMaine
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waingirl said:I think about that all the time! Let's buy up some land and make our own "golden era" housing development. Forget the cookie cutter homes of today, we'll have wonderful nostalgic homes and cars on our streets. Some developments have strict rules, we'll have them too, everything in your yard and driveway has to be from the golden era. lol But, we would probably end up as a tourist attraction!:eusa_doh:
Daisy Buchanan said:Hiya Waingirl!! I would move to a "golden era housing development" in a second!
Looking like Billie Holliday: good. Singing like Billie Holliday: very good. Living like Billie Holliday: dangerous.Lady Day said:I get told I look like/resemble/remind them of Billie Holiday
Ah yes, but in my vintage town it would be the husbands, see, who.....Marc Chevalier said:And then there's a nice old-fashioned town called Stepford. It has these wives, see, who ...
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LizzieMaine said:Reading over some of these experiences makes me wonder if the remarks folks get might have as much to do with age as with fashion -- the idea that a younger woman who breaks the stereotype of how a younger woman is supposed to look and act nowadays is somehow an oddity. Not to generalize, but I get the feeling maybe the cultural tendency toward cattiness tends to peak somewhere around the mid-to-late twenties, and to swim against the cultural tide at that age becomes a real challenge. My sensible felt beret is off to all you who do it.
I can remember getting occasional odd looks when I was in my teens and 20s, but now that I'm past 40, I hardly ever get noticed at all, and when I do, it's always positive. (And yes, I've also gotten the "Gee you haven't changed a bit!" remarks from people who havent seen me in years!)
Elaina said:I also think it's region too.
Mojito said:My younger brother does like to tease me about wearing dead women's clothes.
Amy Jeanne said:South Jersey = Mostly bad. I get more BAD comments here than good. LOTS of stares a giggles. The "good" comments are appreciated, but they are usually awkward (ie, "That's cool! Is that from the 70s?")
North Jersey = No one even gives me a second glance!
Philly = I get mixed responses. Depends on where I go.
NYC = I'm completely invisible. I once wore a full 50s circle skirt with petticoat, "schoolmarm" cardigan, and saddle shoes with bobby sox and NO ONE asked me if I was on my way to the hop/Grease Convention.
London = Same as NYC, although my husband says he has been called "Elvis" and "Fonzie" in the streets.
Devon = My goodness, it wasn't much different than South Jersey! So many stares, but in England they aren't so mean about it. And the stares actually came from well-dressed people so they didn't bother me as much as the South Jersey stares that come from people in their oldest, dirtiest sweatpants. To be honest, I didn't know if they thought we were strange or if they were checking us out!!
NicolettaRose said:But that leads me to my question, what is the deal with negetive comments? I mean its not like anyone here is dressed offensively.
I think the reason behind the negetive comments is, people are insecure with thier own images and afraid of being different.