Marc Chevalier
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Carlisle Blues said:^^
lol lol lol
Funny, but true! That really is a wax mannequin.
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Carlisle Blues said:^^
lol lol lol
jamespowers said:Pat! lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
If I had a dollar for every one I see around here.......
Lincsong said:Are you talking about your boss????
Viola said:I think of mutton dressed as lamb being more those forty year old women who wear lime green tubetops like some sort of Antique Eleventh-Grader, rather than older women who merely dye their hair and dress as elegant/glam WOMEN as opposed to teenage girls.
LizzieMaine said:You ought to read, if you haven't already, Ariel Levy's writings on "raunch culture" and its real impact on women. Puts a lot of these issues right smack into focus.
As far as the whole fashion end of things goes, I think it's perfectly possible to question the overall aesthetic of a style without attacking the person wearing it. To suggest that a baggy sweatshirt hanging over a pair of ill-fitting pants makes the wearer look short and stumpy is simply an empirical observation, without making any sort of moral or emotional judgement against the person wearing it. And, let's be honest, we *all* make those observations, even the most "let's all get along" of us. Anyone who claims not to is, frankly, full of it. The problem is when we start thinking -- and worse, saying out loud -- "that person is beneath me because she's wearing a baggy sweatshirt and poorly fitting jeans." My closest friend is a habitual wearer of baggy sweats and jeans, and I'd choose her company any day in the week over some of the well-groomed, flawlessly-elegant backstabbers I've met in my life.
Paisley said:I just read the whole article. Except for Ms. Collins placing the blame for slipping standards mostly on clothing designers, she didn't make one point that I haven't seen 100 times at the Fedora Lounge. Who knows--maybe she's a member.
Bingo, PSG, the Cult of Youth at work: "Your day is gone, you crazy old bag, nobody cares what you think anymore, now hurry up and die so we won't have to waste time and money taking care of you!"*snort*PrettySquareGal said:This is what is puzzling to me, and it seems to me that many take offense with her because she is "old" and lost her "right" to pass judgment on how women dress.
PrettySquareGal said:Maybe some of those 40 year old women like lime green and work out and look good in them, or like to dress vintage 70's? I have friends like that.I like to think in terms of "body" and not "age" appropriate. What looks good on one youthful body might look awful on another, and the same for older women. There are some very out of shape 20 year olds...I have a friend in her 40's who does triathlons.
Viola said:Lime green I will concede has nothing to do with age and something to do with coloring and a lot more to do with personality.
The actual cut of the top, though - I think some styles look good on some young women and not others and generally not good on more mature women at all. Its not actually very MANY styles that are limited this way though. And yes very in-shape older women can break some of these rules.
And Sophia Loren is using witchcraft! lol
Oh the horror... by which I mean not you, PSG, but the entire concept of "lime green" as a color. My poor oversensitive eyes hurt just thinking about it... and that's even with tinted lenses helping to tone things down.PrettySquareGal said:As a 42 year old (and by your definition, "mature") woman I can tell you that there are no "rules". You've given me an idea, actually. I want to find a lime green tube top and see how I rock it. I'll have to wait until summer, of course!
Diamondback said:Oh the horror... by which I mean not you, PSG, but the entire concept of "lime green" as a color. My poor oversensitive eyes hurt just thinking about it... and that's even with tinted lenses helping to tone things down.