Re: She who knows not fashion
Posted: January 17th, 2024, 3:59 pm
A discussion of women's fashion reminds me of a book I had read about many decades ago. I though the book was called Who Built the Jails, but I can't find any book, related to fashion, with that title.
Anyhow, the book was about how women are the ones that built their own misguided (at best), fashion expectations. I.e. women built their own jails! Women are the ones most critical of other women with regards to what is right-or-wrong with regards to fashion. Men, generally, don't give a hoot.
Of course, high-heel shoes were a topic in the book. A few weeks ago, The Economist had an article on high-heel shoes as it relates to France. Sales are way down, and most younger women are wearing flat black, boot-looking, shoes. Over 50% of the younger French women don't a pair of high-heel shoes, but almost all have those black shoes. Thus breaking the bars of those self-imposed fashion jails.
PS: watching Perry Mason last night and Perry, Paul and Della have to run to get away from some dogs defending a home. Della trips and hurts herself. Why? Because she was wearing high heel shoes!
Anyhow, the book was about how women are the ones that built their own misguided (at best), fashion expectations. I.e. women built their own jails! Women are the ones most critical of other women with regards to what is right-or-wrong with regards to fashion. Men, generally, don't give a hoot.
Of course, high-heel shoes were a topic in the book. A few weeks ago, The Economist had an article on high-heel shoes as it relates to France. Sales are way down, and most younger women are wearing flat black, boot-looking, shoes. Over 50% of the younger French women don't a pair of high-heel shoes, but almost all have those black shoes. Thus breaking the bars of those self-imposed fashion jails.
PS: watching Perry Mason last night and Perry, Paul and Della have to run to get away from some dogs defending a home. Della trips and hurts herself. Why? Because she was wearing high heel shoes!