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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 24, 2017 12:01:55 GMT
That is true Piggles love, like Milady Dewinter in the Three Musketeers (Faye Dunaway), her clothes and hair were really over the top. I am a shoe fanatic and would love to be able to buy expensive ones like Prada.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 24, 2017 17:19:12 GMT
I've never had good feet. Heels killed my feet, and are probably responsible for my back problems. I'm a sneaker person at heart.
I was watching a documentary on a purse museum, I think in Amsterdam. It had centuries of haute couture purses, from ones women wore under their dresses, to embroidered boxes, and everything imaginable. The owner was saying most women like haute couture, but few can wear those ethereal, size -10 outfits the models wear on the catwalk. They can wear haute couture purses, and such purses have been in demand as far back as humans have worn clothing. There were some really cool ones, though I wouldn't want them. Can't imagine buying anything because it's a way to show everyone you can afford it and they can't, but apparently I'm in the minority. Even my daughter is all about wearing clothes with designer names. Never cared much about it.
Also, I found the designer clothes were often expensive versions of clothing sold under other names for a whole lot less. The fugal New England Yankee in me can't see paying more for the same thing but with a fancy name.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 25, 2017 13:11:39 GMT
That is why I have always wondered love why these models have to be so skinny as they do not represent many real women. I had a lot of designer clothes once but they have all gone now, not that they would fit. I was a size 16 then but I am afraid those days have gone. I loved going into the shops and find something really special although I agree piggles hunni, I don't believe in paying for something that is expensive and no different to something of a lesser price. I always made sure I went to places where there wouldn't be a cheaper version.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 25, 2017 21:32:28 GMT
We want to see beautiful people. We don't want to see ourselves in the ads, but I agree, it's out of control. Look back at ads from the 40s and 50s, and the women were shapely, but not anorexic. Then we got into the fashions that only fit petite, slim women, with Twiggy at the helm, in the 60s, and it's been down hill since then.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 26, 2017 14:09:05 GMT
I thought the fashion of the 1950's was lovely and as you say hun, women had real shape and the clothes were so flattering. When I see youngsters these days, there is nothing pretty about the way they dress. Yes come to mention it love, I think it was Twiggy who started it all off.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 26, 2017 18:07:58 GMT
What bothers me about the current fashions, and I realize times change, is that what passes for acceptible for women is what prostitutes wore in our day. I should also add that New England is conservative, but what I see on women announcing everything from the news, weather and sports, would be better on cheerleaders. Skin tight clothes, showing as much cleavage as possible without being X rated, and everyone seems to think that's great? Talk about feeling old and totally out of touch!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 27, 2017 9:14:42 GMT
I know what you mean Piggles love. I remember a neighbour being quite upset when I was about 10 saying she had seen me with earrings on. She was totally mistaken as my mother would never have allowed it but anyone would have thought it was the end of the world!! Girls are going around now with skirts up to their bottoms and as you say, clothes that would have been worn by prostitutes when we were young and it is accepted. I can just imagine the horror this would have caused in the 1970's and previously.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 27, 2017 19:59:31 GMT
Jo, I remember my mother freaking out over the peasant skirts, because they mixed different patterns. That broke the cardinal rule of clothes making, never more than one pattern, stripe, check or plaid with a solid Worse than having dust on the mantel, lol
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 28, 2017 9:35:10 GMT
Haha, my mother's reaction would have been the same Piggles love. She was a keen dressmaker so everything was very neat and proper. I don't know what she would say if she saw youngers today. If nothing else it would make her think that I wasn't that bad after all lol!
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 1, 2017 17:39:56 GMT
Hahaha, I know what you mean! If my mother could see what some women are wearing, doing with their hair or with makeup, she'd decide I was pretty mild in comparison! One good thing about all the fashion changes, though, is that we can wear other cultures fashions, and it's no longer considered a bad thing. My friends and I used to exchange clothing at school(we lived in a dorm), and I came home for one vacation with a bright yellow coat a black friend lent to me. My mother was so horrified about what people in our little, rural, all white town would think, she bought me a London Fog coat to wear instead. Wow, talk about leverage. I had wanted that London Fog for a while, but it was always too expensive. Not if wearing that bright yellow coat was my only other option
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Post by Bean on Mar 2, 2017 9:08:09 GMT
I'm very intrigued by the current make up trend of fake tan and massive dark drawn on eyebrows - it's everywhere!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 2, 2017 9:29:38 GMT
Yes Bean sweetie, eyebrows have recently become very popular for some reason lol! Fake tan always manages to look fake, I gave up on it years ago.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 2, 2017 16:59:07 GMT
I think she also had collagen treatments to her lips, which is a trend right now. When I was young, it was the raccoon eyes and wild pastel lipstick colors such as tangerine. The lipstick trends are going back to dark blue, dark purple, black, etc., and this is the latest way to make their eyes pop! Personally, I don't think it does anything for them, and have a feeling I would have liked her before she had the work done and painted herself. I'm sure the adults, especially my grandparents era, felt exactly the same way about the raccoon eyes and the irridescent pastel lipsticks. It wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I met a make up artist, and learned how to choose and apply make up. As she said, when we walk into a room people she think "wow, she look great," but not be able to put their finger on why. That was the total opposite of the raccoon eyes in white and black, with thick eye liner, or the trend for bright colored eye shadows and liners that followed. I remember one coworker whose eye make up always reminded me of a clown. Fads, and so many of us followed at least one. Clothing trends are the same. We went through the miniskirt era, then the microskirt era, the see-through blouse era, which as my father said often revealed more than he really wanted to see. That's the problem with fashion trends, people who really shouldn't wear them do anyway, and it just isn't a pretty site. My parents and grandparents thought miniskirts were ultra revealing. Now I think the current skin tight stretch clothing makes them all look like sluts. It's what we're used to. Oh, and remember the Egyptian eyes or Cats eyes eyeliner trend of drawing it way out to the side, and connection the bottom and top rows of liner the way Egyptians used to do. I think that was started by eye liner manufacturers, lol
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 3, 2017 9:05:39 GMT
I agree Piggles love, they don't look good these days. As you say they look slutty but not even pretty with it. I loved wearing eye liner and now it is back in fashion, I feel as if I am too old to wear it.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 3, 2017 20:19:23 GMT
Jo, 1960s eye makeup style: hair-and-makeup-artist.com/womens-1960s-makeup/Despite what we thought, we didn't look very good, either. In hindsight, I would never have worn that eye makeup, if everyone else weren't doing it, too. It's the same now. These are the new eye makeup styles, and since everyone is doing it, they all think they look great. They will change styles as everyone else does, and never find their own style, and that's okay. It will be acceptable, and that's what matters to them. I don't think you're too old to wear eye liner. I wear it, and I'm older than you. You're too old to wear funky colors and lots of it, but find a muted version of your eye color, and it will just make your eyes look a bit bigger, without being really noticeable. I rarely bother with eye shadow, but if I do, my liner and shadows are all shades of greens, nothing vibrant, just enough to give my eyes some interest. If you really enjoy it, do it. I probably bother once a year or so, at best. We weren't raised to show the amount of cleavage being shown now, and tight, revealing clothes were for THOSE women, and all of that seems to be the IN style now. It will pass, and it's just my opinion, but I don't think women's clothing styles are going in a direction that will gain them any more respect or equality from men. If anything, just the opposite. That will come back an bite them, and leave them with an awful lot to undo, if they ever expect men to take them seriously and treat them as equals.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 4, 2017 10:05:10 GMT
Thanks for that super link Piggles hunni, I have bookmarked it and will read it later. What great reading. I remember the mascara when you had the block and the little brush and you had to wet it every time you wanted to use it. Obviously I didn't then because I was still a child. The trouble with me wearing eye liner love is that I now have a fold of flesh which covers the end of my eye so it is impossible to get a nice like and flick at the end. A minor face lift would be so nice.
You are so right, in an age where women want equality and want to be taken seriously by men, some of the fashion is more slutty than ever.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 6, 2017 16:35:27 GMT
I think the old eye liner we had to wet would do the job on any kind of skin. Still, you can use a dark eye shadow just above your eye lashes. It's not a fine line, but it does the job of accentuating the lashes. This isn't the best description I've seen, but it shows the basics: www.wikihow.com/Use-Eyeshadow-as-Eyeliner I never used the cream, as it made the shadow clump. Using a cheap artists paint brush with most of the bristles cut off will give you a very fine line.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 7, 2017 9:06:56 GMT
Thank you for that Piggles love. I don't usually wear eye shadow but this looks a really great way of using it.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 7, 2017 21:19:15 GMT
Since the thread is two months old, now, we should probably close it and move on to March
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 8, 2017 9:18:35 GMT
I quite agree love.
Hugs Jo xx
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