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Originally Posted by
helenr
if you want to 'blend in' you can't wear pretty dresses or skirts. you'd be the only one!
Sure you can wear dresses and skirts, some women wear them, sometimes more at certain times than other times. Besides, if you feel pretty in a skirt and want to wear it out, do it.
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Women today who didn't grow up in that era don't know what they are missing out on! coordinated nylon lingerie, wonderful plain or flat knit stockings, etc. helenr
Pure nylon stockings suck. I picked up some from a consigment shop once, they were rough and baggy. Sure they were sheer but they didn't feel as nice or comfortable as hosiery with a bit of spandex does. They're missing out on nothing.
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Originally Posted by
Missy Tanya
Soon as I saw the first episode of Mad Men, I was hooked.
Ah...Joan.
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But something has been lost. Women should dress up more for grocery shopping, errands, and just for house hold duties.
They should? Who's going to make them? What if they don't want to? Are you willing to wear dapper suits and fedoras in guy mode like Don and the rest of the ad men do? It's always funny to me, when transfolk who sometimes themselves as a people complain about not being able to wear what they want, say that women should dress up more...for grocery shopping.
Look, sure I could do the vacumming in a pretty dress and kitten heels. But odds are that would only happen if I was already wearing them for some reason. I'm not going to go, "oh I should dress up to do the vacumming because some people think women don't dress up enough these days." Would you want to walk around one of the HUGE modern supermarkets in an uncomfortable rubber girdle, saggy pure nylon stockings and vintage 50's shoes?
Retro classics have their place, and I like them myself to a certain extent, but the only people who should wear them are those who choose to wear them and want to wear them, not those who feel they have to wear them to fit some societal expectation.
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We crossdresser know how much work goes into lookin good.
"Some" of us do. But do we all "look good" despite the effort? Maaaaaybe so, or maybe not.
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Originally Posted by
deja true
You think women are hung up on the fact that guys don't wear sharp suits everyday? Or go through a tube of Brylcreme every week!
Hilarious.
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I think modern women look fine.
Me too.
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Sure the Stepford wives were kinda cute, but I sure wouldn't wanna be married to one!
"I must get that recipe."
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is a lot sexier than madras Bermuda shorts and polo shirts, fer cripes sake!
Mmmmm preppy.mmmmm Izod...so sexay, so hawt. Y'know, women should dress preppy all the time, like out of the 80's preppy handbook. The Fair Isle sweaters...the polos...the button downs and they should all change their names to Muffy or Missy. Mwah ha ha ha ha. Not!
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Realize that that's your fetish talking, please! I'm not really enamored of looking like my mother! Or acting like her!
I mostly remember some of my mom's 70's outfits....polyester pantsuits. shudder.
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Originally Posted by
Tricia Lee
I still haven't gotten over June Cleaver vacuuming the carpet in heels and pearls :)
Well, you could always do it youself :-) No harm in that.
But do you think that the majority of average women did that. No they didn't, and they'd often lie about it to marketers and whatnot and say they did, because they thought they were expected to, because that's what TV showed them.
Those times weren't exactly good times for "our people" either. Imagine being a young TG person in 1960, no internet, no books, maybe seeing an article about "perverts" in magazines? Or what about those women who didn't want to be June Cleaver, who didn't want to wear pearls or heels, who felt uncomfortable in dresses, how did they feel.
Veronica
Rondelle (Ron) Rogers Jr.