Posted on 06/18/2012 12:03:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
I agree. In a more civilized era, only young boys wore short pants, and little girls wore short skirts. Once getting past the rolling in the mud stage, everyone wore long pants, except in the tropics, or long skirts. Not only did it look more attractive on 98%, but you also didn't have to worry about the general public seeing your undies when you sat down!
When Dr. Sowell says "for a long time" you can be sure it's on the long side of 50 years.
He's so right. Democrats always swing for the fences on what they want and always walk away with a stand-up double thanks to "compromise." Throw strikes? Any RINO will tell you it's easier to just settle for the double. Next thing you know, runs are walking in as Dem' players advance to second on every at bat. Compromise.
Lather, rinse, repeat, and we get crushed game after game.
What about faces and arms suffering the same problems? What about acne? Should women go the burka route? Do ugly men get a free ride?
Also if you’re gawking around for short skirts automatically expecting a dynamite pair of gams to accompany them... so sorry, but the public really doesn’t exist for your titillation. (I mean the rhetorical you, not MnR.)
Everyone (other than my children) may wear whatever he cares to, consistent with local law. However, Dr. Sowell is talking about people’s looking in their own mirror and deciding whether they look nice. Anyone who doesn’t want to look nice certainly doesn’t have to, but one assumes that most people are spending money on clothes for a positive visual impact.
Thanks for the clsrification. Otherwisw, you had me nailed. :-)
Yup. Capitalism rules even in garments. As it ought to. There should not be any Bureau Of Suitably Beautiful Garments (even if fashion houses are always attempting to effect such a thing de facto).
That was my interpretation also but there seemed to be varying other intrpretations. I think he was saying, "If you have boney knees or other things that won't look good in that style, do you really want to wear it just because it is the current style?"
I suppose this could be debated about. Being an older dog myself, I think I can sympathize with my counterparts of the fairer (more or less) sex, who want to remember their youth with the associated garments. As long as it isn’t something utterly ridiculous like diapers that show. But I’m not a particular sex fiend, so YMMV.
I don’t think there’s an obligation to look like “the public” wants you to. My version of “scr*w y’all” is a long dress, a head covering, a baby, and sneakers, but if someone else’s is a skirt and tank top that belongs on a much smaller person, I’m okay with that. (Although I’m still thinking, “Don’t you have a mirror!?!” because I look frumpy, but they look OMG!!!)
Dr. Sowell is just raising the question ... “Do you think this looks good?” If you don’t care about looking good, that’s one thing, but if you do and you’re wrong, then you’re wasting your money and effort. People shouldn’t follow a fashion if it’s not flattering to them.
And almost everyone’s legs look better in hose. It’s not the most comfortable choice, but do you really want everyone to see where you banged your shin on the coffee table again?
It’s such a complex question. Modern women of dignified years who wear perhaps less than dignified revealing garments might be doing so for many and mixed reasons. Maybe some denial, maybe some reminiscence, maybe some a frugality bent on wearing something out before pitching it. The freedom to make yourself look beautiful is also the freedom to make yourself look ugly. Long live freedom. Long live the six packs and the full kegs. Long live any mode of dress that isn’t obscene or antisocial (no fishing tackle faces please).
My 57 year-old wife has GREAT looking legs and occasionally wears dresses and skirts that are 4-5” above her knees.
We dance quite a bit, and there is quite a bit of truth to the phrase “dancer’s legs”.
I agree. As long as you’re not shocking the horses, do what you want. Still, there’s a certain consensus about esthetics. If I’m noticing bruised legs with oozing bites, so are young guys. Maybe teenage girls want to try a different look.
Nobody sees my bruises - except that one on my arm from I don’t even remember what, and I’m wearing a sweater to church until it fades - because my skirts reach my ankles.
Best wishes to her. There are plenty of older football fans, so there ought to be some audience approval of multiple generations’ being represented.
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