[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Seems like all those guys did was see how far they could push obscenity under the guise of art.

That was their goal.

I always remember how in the "Great Leap Forward" one of the things the CCP did was make it a crime to have a goldfish.

Because it was something that was just beautiful for it's own sake and great Mao knows we could not have something like that around.

When you look at architecture in America before the 1930s you see a great deal of beauty for it's own sake.

Even after you see people, even poor people, encouraged to make things nice for themselves. 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.

That started ending in the 1960s when the Anti-Beauty people took control.

[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.