double ++++ from the southern belle society!
Love your post.
I miss those days. Sometimes I watch old movies just to enjoy the fashions when people actually cared enough to put a little bit of effort into their dress. And it wasn’t just in the movies, you look at any old photographs, high school yearbooks, etc - people used to put in some effort, iron their clothes, tuck their shirts in, and generally make an effort to look refined. Now you get made fun of if you dress up too much, but in those days people actually wanted to look the best they possibly could.
My grandmother wore makeup, dress, heels and hose and fixed her hair to run to the grocery store for milk.
She would be appalled at what’s happened even just over the past 25 years. People still dressed up in the 80’s, mostly.
But whatever she did, my grandmother strove to never become ‘a controversy’. If you achieved notoriety, in her opinion, it should be for something good you’d done. Infamy wasn’t her schtick. Much less just plain tacky.