Fashion is a strange beast:- apparently THE thing to do is to wear your knickers so that the waistband shows above your dropped-waist skirt or trousers. Of corse it only really works if you have not an ounce of surplus flesh on your hips, and a flat as a washboard stomach! And you really need to wear brightly coloured thongs or boxers. My M &S knickers just won’t do!
It’s not just a strange beast but also a cruel beast. Nowadays companies like Gap touring their wares online include plus-size models in their “catalogue” but you don’t see many plus-size models on the catwalks of the major fashion designers shows. And the fact is that dropped-waist trousers and skimpy cropped tops suit skinny boyish figures than those with rather more than an ounce or two of surplus flesh. And those dropped-waist are so unforgiving that even gram or two os surplus flesh is instantly transformed into a rather unsightly bulge!
Most of us learn to ‘dress defensively’ in the long run, choosing to wear what flatters and feels comfortable but sometime we have to make fashion mistakes as we go through the learning process. We might now laugh at the idea of ladies wearing a padded bustle, giving them a nicely prominent rear, but is it any odder than wearing tight leggings and a cropped top to show off your shapely backside in a selfie? Embarrassing photos for your grandchildren to laugh at!
We’ve been watching a seemingly endless series in Spanish on Netflix, basically a kind of bio-pic of Simón Bolívar. Last night’s episode featured an English gentleman wearing a ridiculous short wig with tight curls round the edge. Could such wigs ever come back into fashion, we wondered. After all, there are enough weird and wonderful haircuts around - mostly among young males!
Fashion makes most of us quite conformist!
Eva Wiseman was writing in one of the weekend papers about the current fantasy of “tradwives”:
“Tradwives are women who live, online and sometimes in Utah, as idealised homemakers. They cook, clean, raise children, and then perform and document these tasks (tasks more often, of course, taken on by those living in poverty), gaining millions of followers and dollars along the way.”
It’s romantic view of the little woman, the homemaker.
Like the “yummy mummies” who document how they are effortlessly bringing up baby while being perfectly groomed, these “tradwives” can make harassed wives and mothers, juggling holding down a job with raising a family, feel inadequate. Of course, the videos they post don’t usually show the nasty mundane tasks like cleaning the toilet, putting the bins out, cleaning up baby sick. Such activities are not sufficiently romantic!
Here’s a link to Eva Wiseman’s article.
And since I seem to be on a bit of a rant about women, here’s a link to an article about women being ambitious.
Life goes on, stay safe and well, everyone!
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