It’s that time of year again—August, when all the magazines put out their big style issues; those great, big, thick issues right before the school year starts up again.
My father used to love looking at the Fashions of the Times magazine that came out with the New York Times on Sundays, and he’d go through them religiously, and then state very emphatically that he couldn’t imagine anyone ever actually WEARING most of those clothes.
The hair, the makeup, the clothes, the shoes…it’s always fun to see the outrageous new trends and the old styles that sometimes come around again with a whole new twist.
When we were small, we always had what I called “fat dresses,” that required petticoats to keep them full and shaped. It was right before the simple shift styles of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, and we hated our fat dresses, so I read with amusement in today’s issues that “hips are back,” and that there would definitely be dresses highlighting them this fall. This was a dress that supposedly represented that trend:
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” (-Mark Twain)
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