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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
"jmcquown" wrote in message
... Victor Martinez wrote: Helen Wheels wrote: What, not even muumuus? Aw... Well, maybe some kinds of dresses are ok: http://www.utilikilts.com/ In very hot weather that would allow for a nice cool breeze I have an item of apparel related to a corset. Its one of those crushed velvet lace-up things that push up your boobs that look appropriate at SCA meetings. Providing I didn't have to breath heavily (as it was *tight* being laced up) it was the best thing on a summer's day. For the first time in *years* I had the delight in feeling a cool breeze underneath my boobs. It was *wonderful*. My bodyshape suits "buxom wench" type style. Shame its been out of fashion for several hundred years :-) Yowie |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:00:48 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: jmcquown wrote: I do think people should dress for their body-type, as well. I can't stand seeing a 250 pound woman squeezed into something made with lycra so all you see are bulges and bumps. Wear a short skirt or dress if you wish, but make sure it *fits*. Buying a tight stretchy dress isn't going to make you any smaller. I've always been a "big girl" (but not fat - at least not when I was younger). Because of the difficulty in finding what I wanted in stores, I've always bought a lot of my clothes from catalogs. I notice (with some dismay) that one of the "large woman" catalogs includes shiny red leather pants suits among its offerings. They'd look great on any young, firmly built, proportionately tall woman up to about a size fourteen. The notion of a size forty wearing such a getup (in shiny red, yet) boggles the mind! Several years ago, I remember seeing a woman in her mid-70's, who must have weighed close to 400 pounds, wearing a bright purple jumpsuit, about a size too small for her. The result was reminiscent of the "Grape" character in the old Fruit of the Loom underware commercials. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
I'm watching "The View" and one of their "hot topics" was whether women should stop wearing certain types of clothing as they get older (the example used was women who were over 40 shouldn't wear "Juicies" work-out clothes. You'll have to clue me in on this. I don't know what "Juicies" are. Workout wear and t-shirts, the difference being that a "Juicies" brand tracksuit is $300, whereas I got a nice velour set at Stitches for $20. *** I was ill a few years ago and lost a lot of weight. I was being sized for some kind of bracelet or watch and had to get a "large" size, much to the surprise of the sizer. I told her I had big bones. She said, "I used to think "big boned" was just how some people said "Fat" but you don't have any fat on you and yet the diameter of your wrist is really big..." You simply cannot start with the bodyframe of a Mack truck and expect to build a sportscar on it (At 130 pounds, friends and family thought I looked "Frighteningly anorexic." People always presume I'm 30 lbs lighter than I really am.) --Fil |
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"Yoj" wrote in message m... "Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: point. No, you can't wear sweats to the office. No, your skirt can't be up to your bum. No, you can't wear tube tops. Yes, you may wear slacks; tailored style (like khaki's) but not skin tight. You may wear sleeveless blouses but not tank tops. You'd think some of this would be common sense but apparently it wasn't. Wow... my employer is very, very relaxed regarding dress code. Many folks wear shorts, t-shirts and sandals to work. I'm talking engineers here, so it's not a pretty sight... ;-) Most people wear jeans/slacks and button-down shirts though. I'd never wear a t-shirt or shorts to work. -- Victor M. Martinez Engineers and computer programmers can often get away with dressing in a manner that would earn another type of office worker a reprimand. Joy Back when "hot pants" were first in style - probably 1967 - I had a friend who bought a new outfit while visiting her family in NYC and wore it to work in DC. She was young enough and built right to wear it, and besides it was gray with white polka dots. Not really flashy, just different. And it wasn't like mini skirts weren't around. Everything was fine until lunch in the company cafeteria. Then after lunch our area supervisor sent for her. She was away from her desk and when she got back he called her in a chewed her out for wearing such a thing to work, etc and she would lose her job if she ever did such a thing again, etc, and besides where had she been earlier when he first sent for her? She had been downstairs in the office of the editor of the company newsletter having her picture taken for the next issue cause they thought she looked so cute and stylish. Jo |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
Victor Martinez wrote:
Wow... my employer is very, very relaxed regarding dress code. Many folks wear shorts, t-shirts and sandals to work. I'm talking engineers here, so it's not a pretty sight... ;-) Most people wear jeans/slacks and button-down shirts though. I'd never wear a t-shirt or shorts to work. One good thing about working at the university is that nobody cares how you dress. I wear jeans and a t-shirt most days. You can't see a difference between some teachers and their students. OK, some of the older male professors do wear suits and ties, and one female professor usually wears a jacket suit, but there's another female professor who has retained a sort of hippie-ish style, with long flowing skirts or jheans and long flowing hair that she sometimes wears in plaits or pigtails. One teacher sported green hair for a while. Most younger teachers wear t-shirts and jeans. And so on. I would hate to work in a place where I would have to dress up. -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
In message .com,
Enfilade writes I love the fact that there is a choice. For decades, the fashion designers seemed to rule the world. Certain styles just could not be worn, and skirt lengths were dictated. Then, one year they blew it. In the same year, we had maxi, midi and mini skirts and pantsuits. Women liked having a choice and never completely allowed the designers to dictate to them again. To be fair, a lot of people learn to dress from their parents and friends. This is difficult when your parents and friends are in a very different line of work than your own. For example, poor Dylan. His dad's a bus driver and self-employed editor. His mom works in a restaurant. His brother works in a call centre. His friends hold blue-collar jobs like graphic designer, portrait framer, security guard. Where was he supposed to learn how to dress "like a doctor?" Puts me in mind of a doctor I used to know when I worked back in the Health Service. Strangely enough, she popped into my head the other day too. Spooky ... but I digress. She worked as a GP, but has been asked to act as a consultant on the massive new build that was going up which would vastly increase the size of the Margate Hospital. She wore leather. Looooong black gothic-y skirts. Mini-skirts. Lots of eye-make-up, and peroxide blonde hair. Her theory was that although she was a doctor, she was determined not to conform to stereotypes. She'd dressed like this as a student, and she wasn't about to give it up now! -- Cathi |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
Enfilade wrote:
snip Where was he supposed to learn how to dress "like a doctor?" snip I work at a medical school and it's easy to pick who's who by their dress. The ones with the sharp-looking shirt-and-tie getup and a white coat with a stethoscope hanging out of the pocket - they're the first year medical students. The scruffy looking one with a T-shirt and shorts on - she's probably the head of surgery, so be nice to her! |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
"dnr" wrote in message
... Because of the difficulty in finding what I wanted in stores, I've always bought a lot of my clothes from catalogs. I notice (with some dismay) that one of the "large woman" catalogs includes shiny red leather pants suits among its offerings. They'd look great on any young, firmly built, proportionately tall woman up to about a size fourteen. The notion of a size forty wearing such a getup (in shiny red, yet) boggles the mind! Since you mention the "plus-size" catalogs: I'm pretty much limited to LaneBryant stores here (not as "trendy" as Avenue, sometimes downright stodgy clothes) but Avenue has NO stores in this state and online is how you gotta get their faddish stuff (I like). I was shocked to learn from LB's website (they are owned by some Penn. clothing conglomerate) that they have *no connection whatsoever* with the LB catalog! Check it out for yourself...I will never buy anything again from the LB catalog, and had noticed over years that stuff from that catalog I'd ordered was always of inferior quality. As most of you know, I was very overweight most of my life. I too used to *try* to shop in plus size catalogues. However, it used to drive me absolutely bonkers that all the models in there were no more than a size 8! I knew that anything that made those skinny-minnies look fat would make me look like a house. But even when something looked nice on a model, I never knew how it would actually look on me - all of the models were at least 80 - 100 pounds thinner than me! Did they think that heavier models would make the clothes look bad and nobody would buy them??! If so they weren't giving women enough credit for having even two brain cells connected - and even less self-esteem! -- Hugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ |
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Age Appropriate Dress?
"Enfilade" wrote in message
ps.com... I'm watching "The View" and one of their "hot topics" was whether women should stop wearing certain types of clothing as they get older (the example used was women who were over 40 shouldn't wear "Juicies" work-out clothes. You'll have to clue me in on this. I don't know what "Juicies" are. Workout wear and t-shirts, the difference being that a "Juicies" brand tracksuit is $300, whereas I got a nice velour set at Stitches for $20. *** I was ill a few years ago and lost a lot of weight. I was being sized for some kind of bracelet or watch and had to get a "large" size, much to the surprise of the sizer. I told her I had big bones. She said, "I used to think "big boned" was just how some people said "Fat" but you don't have any fat on you and yet the diameter of your wrist is really big..." You simply cannot start with the bodyframe of a Mack truck and expect to build a sportscar on it (At 130 pounds, friends and family thought I looked "Frighteningly anorexic." People always presume I'm 30 lbs lighter than I really am.) --Fil I certainly couldn't have used that as an excuse - every inch on me was something I shoved down my throat! I have what Ben calls "itty bitty birdie bones". My wrist is 5 3/4" around (I have to take out *ALL* the extra links in watch bands and they *STILL* don't fit tight enough). I wear a size 4 ring. I'm down to 125lb at 5'5" and I still look a bit chubby around the middle and upper arms - the ideal weight for my height and my frame starts at 110lb which, given my teeny tiny bones, I should be at. My "range" is 110lb to 125lb, so I'm *just* within my correct weight range. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ |
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[OT] Age Appropriate Dress?
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... I remember back in the 1960's being allowed to wear slacks/trousers to school for the first time. Before that, girls could only wear dresses or skirts with blouses. It didn't matter how freezing cold it was outside waiting for the bus to school. Funny thing is, this harkened to my elementary school days when I lived in Bangkok and no one would have *wanted* to wear long pants, not even in the winter! They did allow (tasteful) shorts in school because it was *very* hot and humid 75% of the year. taking a short trip down memory lane School dress codes were very strictly adhered to - girls were not allowed to wear trousers, skirts/dresses hemlines no higher than knee length (checked by making us kneel and our hem had to touch the floor), grey knee length socks, navy or grey tights (thick wooly things that itched like mad) in winter and white ankle socks in summer, grey sunray pleated skirt or blue with white polka dot dresses (all the same style) for summer, black blazer, navy raincoat with the hood lined in red, pale blue shirt, navy juliet cap, grey beret or straw boater hat (detention for anyone caught in uniform outside school without a hat on), navy cardigan and flat black lace up shoes. I won't go into all the sports wear and other stuff except to say that our initials had to be sewn onto every piece in red embroidery thread. I went a little 'fashion mad' when I left school, I wore the shortest mini's the brightest colours etc (I had and still have very long slim legs). ;-) -- Shirley http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk |
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