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To: Constitutions Grandchild
Ah and leaning the teapot on the cup to pour. Or rattling the cup on the saucer. Or just picking up the cup to drink without picking up the saucer...........gentle manners that have been forgotten. Fashion do's and don't that no one hears anymore.

How irritated are you by girls that let their bra straps show? I still have a set of ribbon fastners that pin in your garment and hold your bra and petticoat straps IN your clothes.

401 posted on 01/21/2009 11:47:23 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW; free-n-TX
I have to admit, it was like taking a frying pan in the face when I realized I was an anachronism before I got off the launching pad. I was stunned, to say the very least.

I don't approve of bra straps showing, but it appears to be a “trend”. Trends were not tolerated in my mother's home. Classics, manners and quiet decorum were the only tolerated styles and behavior. Appropriate leave taking — especially on the part of children — was demanded. I spend half my time these days trying to figure out who is in the house or where they've gone. I wander around like a dolt going, “Hello? Anybody still here???”

Oh, and you only made a figure 8 in that teacup, you didn't stir as though you were making fudge. ;-) You dressed for dinner, learned how to direct the meal to set your guests at ease. Those days are long gone, my dear friends.

I guess it's all okay, but I have so much “stuff” that isn't used anymore. My son's fiancee says, “it's like walking through the doors and going back 20 years” — I hate to tell her, but it's more like 100. ;-)

428 posted on 01/21/2009 12:03:46 PM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: DJ MacWoW
How irritated are you by girls that let their bra straps show?

It ranks right up there with letting their thong underwear show above their low rise jeans.

I call it the Britney Spears look. Everytime I see her name now, I think about what I read from some columnist, that she put the 'Ho' in Tangipahoa Parish.

632 posted on 01/21/2009 11:38:05 PM PST by SuziQ
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