Posted on 03/11/2010 8:50:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix
I have a HUGE pet peeve. It is western movies in which the characters are wearing embarrassingly modern clothing. Most often it is the hats. If you look at photos or illustrations of the Old West at the time, the hats look very different from what we usually see in the movies. For example, yesterday I watched "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre but I couldn't get over the fact of the silly looking hats that folks back then did NOT wear. One IMDB commenter stated that those hats looked like something people wear on their way to a Garth Brooks concert.
One of the few movies that seemed to get authentic Western look was "Tombstone" which helped in appreciating that excellent movie. Unfortunately most of the Western movies are completely off-base in their costuming. Another thing that really bugs me about Western movies is when they have women dressed in jeans. Back then women ALWAYS wore dresses. NEVER pants. Any exposure of female legs or even outlines of their legs was considered as nudity back then. Oh, and when women rode horses...they only rode side-saddle.
Okay, sorry for the rant but way too many Western movies are RUINED by costume designers too lazy to research for authentic clothing.
It truly was change we had, no bills ever...:O)
If you think glen was bad, you should have seen Elvis’s first movie......
I read a book once by a woman who grew up on a small ranch in NM. She rode side-saddle working cattle, and said it was a shock when she first saw a woman riding like a man.
It may have varied by region.
Creighton Abrams was the battalion commander of 1/37 armor which led the rescue of Bastogne. D company 1/37 Armor was the first unit to enter the city, and according to the unit legends when I was in that Battalion in the mid 80s, Abrams commanded the lead tank. And yes they were in the 4th Armored Division.
Hubby has a picture of his great grandparents taken when they are about 25. The picture was taken about 1900. They were nice looking people but they looked like they were almost 60. Life was hard and it showed. I imagine they cleaned up for the picture but can you imagine...A bath a week, your clothes washed once a week and the leathery skin from being in the sun all the time. I clean up ok but I would look dang ruff with a life like that.
Well, there is nothing wrong or aging about weekly baths and fewer changes of clothes, although now days that wouldn’t work for most people, but as far as the sun goes, many people and especially men, work outdoors just like they always have, construction, roofers, yard men, farmers, all of the outdoor work still gets done.
When I read old books from the 1800s, the women were covered from head to toe, in one of my collections of women and wagon train crossings, they talk about the difficulty, but they also point out how they had to put their collective foot down to get some of the husbands to quit pestering them about abandoning dresses for pants, the women absolutely refused to lose control of their femininity.
I wonder what some of our current men would think of slender, fit, young ladies with soft, milky white skin, instead of tattooed couch potatoes that live on fast food and big gulps and are 20 to 60 pounds overweight and have no muscle tone.
I thought I was the only person on this earth who used the phrase, “smelling like a goat”
When you sheared them and had to sort the mohair, your hands were so soft from handling it, better than any hand lotion...handling about 400 pounds + of mohair (except the shearing after breeding season) You put the adult breeding male mohair it another part of the barn and it went to shipping to texas without any sorting... smelled bad..
I wouldn’t be the guy to point that out. You don’t want to know how she got that nickname.
My overly sensitive nose would object to the weekly baths. Some of my customers cease to bathe at the first sign of cold and they aren’t too regular in the summer either. I can handle the smell of someone who is doing an honest day’s work fine. I can’t handle old sweat, cheap liquor and stale cigarettes.
Oh I definitely agree that most men would rather see a woman from the pioneer days than trailer park trash. Even the ones still in their teens look like blobs.
Zippers! My pet peeve is zippers or incorrect corsetting. LOL My husband leaned over to me during The Young Victoria and said, “WOW, no comment on the zippers?” LOL I was too awestruck by the baseboard heaters in the scene where they were discussing how cold the castle was and whose responsibility it should be to lay the fires.
Trailer park trash? Wow, I think that is a euphemism for working class white people.
Nope. That is for non-working white people who live on the dole. Plenty of them to go around. Redneck Hicks is for working class white people. Soon to be extinct.
Your image of people that bought or live in manufactured housing is ridiculous, racist and deeply bigoted, I’m afraid that you have lost credibility with me.
And...Don’t forget the zippers in the women’s dresses in the movies. Zippers didn’t exist in that era.
Hey I used to live in a trailer and on more than one occasion. I wasn’t on the dole, not do I have any tattoos. (My son does have a few that I objected to, but what does mom know.) You won’t be the first person to call me racist and you won’t be the last. Racist means I hate you for your race or color which I don’t. Now if I just plain dislike your rear because you are sorry as heck, that is a different story. Half of my relatives are trailer park trash so I am quite familiar with the term. It fries my fritters to be working my rear off so that they can sit on theirs and draw a check and get free cell phones and medical. So I think I am being kind calling them trailer park trash.
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