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I'm always a bit disturbed by folks who have a hobby or a theme party concept and warp their whole lives around it. I mean, that's a lot of work. What do you talk about with that person?

Is she on the pill then? If so, she is cheating. Anyway, all women were supposed to have 2.5 children back then. From what my mom told me, having more was considered Catholic and was therefore unacceptable, but not having children was even more frowned on.

Also, I notice that the first lady says that they don't drink, but then she has a picture of her surrounded by the liquor swilling accouterments of the era. You couldn't be an adult in that age without having three-martini lunches. Anything else would have been Unamerican.

Well, they are Brits but the 30s-50s Brits liked the booze just as much as your typical non-Southern Baptist Yank, so your point is still quite valid. :)

Yeah, the modern world sucks for a Brit! No Great Depression with 25+% unemployment. No Germans pounding you with rockets or Japanese killing your soldiers out in the Pacific. Far lower chance of getting nuked back to the Stone Age in some sort of NATO versus Warsaw Pact war.

Simply terrible!

Yes, but holding all the peoples of the world accountable for their inability to be properly American was also common back then.

Wasn't aware that equality was something that one was supposed to have to battle for in a marriage. Sometimes I read people's complaints about relationships and all I can think is "if you're reacting against modern marriage because you think that's what it's supposed to be then you were doing relationships wrong long before you decided that they were crap."

You need something to do on those cloudy and/or foggy days.

My first instinct was to make fun of these people, and then realized that in the Firefox tab right next to the one in which I was reading the article, I had "dresslikeapirate.com" open. I am a pot.

Pathetic. And they're basing their ideas on old movies? Do they really think Depression-era secretaries wore mink stoles and diamond necklaces over their silk ball gowns?

Also, 1940s woman should wear a much shorter skirt -- in keeping with the fabric rationing of the time -- and regularly spend nights trying to sleep in her basement while air-raid sirens blare. And her husband sure as hell wouldn't be eating homemade-jam sandwiches every day, since sugar rationing made jam a luxury.

Actually, that would be a cool and honest approach. "I want my house and clothes to look glamorous, like something out of X sort of movie." People work their asses off making sets and costumes look cool in movies, after all.

I've been assured that in an earlier era students were all well-prepared and could read Newton in the original Latin as preparation for a lecture that focused on the finer philosophical points of his approach. Moreover, they came to class well-dressed, behaved like gentlemen or ladies, did their homework on time, and held their professors in high esteem.

I don't believe a word of it.

ahh, good ol' gaius marius ...

Now don't sugarcoat. There was certainly strategic hair in the face, just the bangs mind you, and the occasional hair in the mouth if it were just cute and not spittle gross.

Humidity frizz, now THAT never used to happen.

When folks in my favorite time period got hair in their mouth, it was because the rats hadn't been properly shaved before grinding 'em up for the sausages! Yarr!

And you know there will be the "topper" in that movement who says they actually can't deal with technology and have reverted to caveperson style. Then they will lord this over the other historical reenactment geeks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerzan

ask and thou shalt receive.

living in a douglas sirk movie is marginally less degrading than living in some sci-fi author's world or one of those creepy adult harry potter fans with the matching scarves. it has the bonus of being a somewhat novel mode of fleeing from reality/building an aesthetic womb, and is far more stylish.

historical fanfiction made flesh by ebay.

also that is a banging car and i would totally slap wiseguys and kiss dames if i had a car like that.

I will confess to understanding the urge to, as it were, role-play an idealized version of some other time/place. There was one girl I was involved with briefly whom I bonded with largely over a shared fondness for, for lack of a better term, chivalry roleplaying. As in, we had gone out with a group of friends, all kind of dressed up, and wound up spending the entire night with me opening doors and walking on the correct side of her and offering her my arm, and things like that.

The difference is that I enjoy play-acting the Chivalrous Aristocrat; I'm not under the impression that I am one, or that such people ever existed, or that the time when they nominally existed was superior to ours. Also that I cut the crap as soon as real life returns.

I dunno; a Jetsons-style home would be rather keen, within the limits of 60s architecture.

That's actually something like my response to it; dressing like a wizard or a Starfleet officer for an event seems perfectly fine to me - Hell, I dressed up as a sort of scrungy vagrant and wore greasepaint the time I larped as a hideous sewer-dwelling Nosferatu, and I've considered costumes for SF cons - but wearing an outfit like that day-to-day and going on about how this fictional world (or an idealized version of a bygone age) is superior to the real one bugs me.

Now, dressing up in one of the suits Alex Baldwin wore in The Shadow...that's just snazzy.

No, dhex, the stuff he wore while walking around in public as Lamont Cranston - the stuff from Brook's Brothers. :)

man, that makes a lot more sense. i was a bit worried before.

well there's a suit underneath the cape, no? (i've never seen the film)

somewhat related to the original topic:

http://www.aristasia.co.uk/

something of an explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristasia

http://aristasia-central.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Blondes+and+Brunettes

so if you took the revolutionary traditionalist approach of evola, took the whole turn of the century chthonic ideal at face value but then turned it into a sole-gender enterprise, it would look something like this. in some ways it's a mirror of the burroughsian fantasy of an all male anti-venusian confederacy of free states.

My grandmother was a perfect "old days" sort of housewife. She always had a pot of soup ready for the kids when they got home from school and kept their homey old house in Montana clean.

The thing is, I don't remember my grandmother on my mother's side very much. When I was about 7 she committed suicide with a shotgun. Needless to say, our family is well aware of how much that whole cultural milieu leaves to be desired.