Posted on 10/30/2013 10:13:14 AM PDT by Stoat
So much for Women’s Lib.
An eighth-grader took cues from a 1950s etiquette book touting white gloves and girdles in a quirky bid to be popular at school a couple years ago — and now, she’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Teenager Maya Van Wagenen cleverly chronicled how she used tips from the decades-old “Betty Cornell’s Teen-age Popularity Guide’’ to gain an edge as a student new to Brownsville, Texas.
She followed some of Cornell’s sage advice, which included the gloves, white pearls and girdles, as well as how to properly squeeze pimples, shave one’s legs for summer and deal with “figure problems’’ by choosing grapefruit and wheat toast “with [a] small amount of butter’’ for breakfast.
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Okay, that sounds weird.
Grace Kelly would be so proud................
Curious coincidence ping.
I wanna know how to properly pop a pimple....
I always use a sewing needle soaked in rubbing alcohol to weaken it first then gently remove the curd inside then wipe with alcohol then a littl dab of neosporin.
But most doctors says “don’t pop your pimples, just put some expensive prescription cream on it”....
/johnny
It looks like a cute book. It’s hard to go wrong being tidily dressed, having good manners, and treating people kindly. White gloves and pearls will get you some novelty points!
Rubbing alcohol is my universal remedy!
Hopefully this and other important information will be disclosed in this young Lady's forthcoming book. I'm only seeing "Betty Cornell's Teenage Popularity Guide" listed as being out of print and unavailable at Amazon, and I'm seeing no listings for it at all at eBay.
I regret that I will be of limited assistance in this particular matter, as a stoat's face is covered with fur and as a result we rarely concern ourselves with things such as pimples as they are not visible.
Funny. My young kids can sit through old Hitchcock films and I swear the girls are just infatuated with how classy women dressed in the 50s.
“I wanna know how to properly pop a pimple.”
The two Vs! Vicegrips and Vodka,,,, in no particular order.
I share their appreciation, and I'm just a scruffy male stoat. This related article and the book it tells of may be of interest:
Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth and Humphrey Bogart in glorious technicolour! Golden Age of the movies captured in stunning new book
I wish more people would be willing to put more civility into our so called civilization.
Funny but my favorite western of all is ‘Open Range’ its a great shoot up the bad guys western and a great morality tale of what a man should stand-up for. I remember that Charile and Boss would always take off their hats, would rise from their seats when a women entered the room and would never set down until the lady was seated. Tell me what’s wrong with that. Maybe if our boys were taught to respect women and not to ever treat them like ‘street walkers’ then girls wouldn’t grow up feeling like the have to be one to get a boys attention and respect.
But I digress the main reason I brought this up is that this movie has a great love story between Charlie and Sue and the love was all based on respect for one another and not sex. To me one of the most romantic scenes of the movie is when after Charlie ask Sue to marry him and see says yes, he still asked her for premission to kiss her. I guess now days such a act would make some women wonder what kind of man is he? Maybe he’s not all man? Maybe he’s gay?
To me I would think that he just told her that he respects her and will never take her for granted.
Well maybe I am off the mark and getting more old fashion in my old age, but that’s my two cents.
Ladys I pinged you as I respect your thoughts. Am I wrong?
Beat me to it...
Same! Just so elegant and classy. A shame we have devolved so quickly since then. I wish I could have experienced classy times.
I agree that craving acceptance, collective conformity to the group, judging others and oneself by peer reactions, status symbols and market values is not what this country should be about. But the white gloves and nylons must have been nice for a few years to at least make the ulcers, heart attacks and other psychosomatic tensions a little more palatable. :-)
*sznicker*
Rubbing alcohol is my universal remedy!
So is regular alcohol.... everclear makes a good barter currency / antiseptic / aww to hell with it get drunk...
When the SHTF
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