How Did The World Get So Ugly? [ Why are ordinary things so ugly, the Victorian Age vs Modernity. ]

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[Dr. Sivana]

We still talk about how brain dead it was

So, the only items you could have gotten prepared standard would be garlic bread (without cheese), 90% of the salad bar, spaghetti (assuming they still had the parmesan "fairy dust"), drinks, and ham/cotto salami/supreme subs (which use cheese slices). Even the Cavatini used the pizza cheese, and did the meatball and Italian Sausage subs.

[Dr. Sivana]

From making flour sacks in pretty prints because they knew the poor used them to make clothing to colorful designs on linoleum and full color illustrations suitable for putting up in your house in magazines there were bits of beauty widely available to people who did not have much money.

My wife really enjoyed a book called "The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish". One of the themes of the book was that unlike peasant European women, lower-financial echelon American women had access to patterns and manual sewing machines that enabled them to dress in the current fashions with clothes the make themselves. It is on her bedside right now, and I strongly recommend it based on my wife's raves to the ladies on this forum for its information on what makes clothing attractive, and the history of ladies' fashion in America, as well as the theme mentioned.

Amazon link

[metmom]

The clothes worn these days is appalling.

The “distressed” jeans, especially, with big tears and holes in them, are hideous. My grandmother would be turning over in her grave on seeing that.

[NorthMountain]

You’re the one bitchin’ and whinin’, sweetiepie.

And you absolutely DO NOT speak for me ... so quit saying “we all” anything. It’s not true.

[metmom]

He’s got a good point, but honestly, he’s posting a video about beauty and things becoming so ugly and he’s walking around with a head of hair that looks like the underside of an old dustmop.

Seriously, he couldn’t have at least combed his hair and gotten a trim for the video?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sounds like a book I would enjoy. I am very interesting in what is sometimes known as "distaff history". How ordinary people actually lived.

You could even rent time on a sewing machine in many fabric stores to make things if you could not afford one at home.

There were also civic women's clubs where you could find other women to sew with and teach you how to do things.

Mostly gone now. Can't get people out of their houses with a crowbar.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

LOL!

So my pointing out CP (hmmmm CP....) continual bi*ching about America is.... somehow complaining.

Yeah.....

Don't worry sugar butt. I would never presume to speak for you.

[cherry]

We can look in the mirror....we did it in a million little ways...gambling,porn,sloth,drugs weed on up,leaving the church,eating and drinking horrible unhealthy foods...

[NorthMountain]

I would never presume to speak for you.

LOL!!! And yet you did.

Kwitcherbitchin!

Guess what, sweetheart: some people have opinions different from yours. Get used to it.

[Track9]

Obummers pillbox is exhibit one.

[Republican Wildcat]

Very good point.

But also - you look at protestant church buildings built, say, prior to the 1960s and they still had stained glassed windows and traditional shaped architecture. Even buildings 1980s and prior had colonial-style architecture. 1990s buildings of all types accelerated in “generic” appearance.

And like noted above, even “cheap” buildings for fast food restaurants had nicer aesthetics than the totally dull looks of today.

[FreedomPoster]

North Korean guard tower is the meme comparison I’ve seen for Obama’s library.

Hideous.

[Dr. Sivana]

Not only that, but it is getting VERY hard for my wife to find nice fabric in person, and a lot of the on-line stuff is of poor quality.

She misses Hancock fabric. Jo-Ann is kind of sad, and largely for quilters (who makes quilts in Phoenix?!)

The local stores are largely for quilting or upholstery materials.

She is tall (5’ 10”), and getting the right proportions off of the rack is tricky.

[aspasia]

In the video he says about the lamp post, "It does its job, and a little bit more."

Now there's the kicker. That little bit more is totally unnecessary to the function of that lamp post. I've learned that my house doesn't keep the rain out because it looks pretty.

Rule of thumb: Adornment is superfluous for function.

The principle was nicely explained in a little beginner's book by the didactic socialist John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture

“Ornament, as I have often before observed and now insist, is the principal part of architecture […] but it must be kept quite distinct from construction, and never pretend to be construction; it is to be seen at once for what it is—something added, something loved, something delighted in for its own sake; and it is to be no part of the structure, no mask of it, no concealment of it.”