US Vogue September 1, 1951 : Lisa Fonssagrives by Irving Penn
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The 50's are really not my favorite decade, but it is all so attractive. Women really were different then.
I personally think something has been lost in getting rid of all the etiquette and cotillion type programs and training that most women went through during these time. Blah, blah, blah now women are all liberated, but many are now grossly unrefined and unfeminine and slovenly (before you crucify me, men could stand to shape up these days, too).
There is something to be said about the way one carries oneself - it's not just for your own dignity, it also a service to others and to society. We live in the ugliest world now...and it's everyone's fault. The more rules we've broken, the more of a mess of ugliness and dysfunction we have to suffer through.
I personally think something has been lost in getting rid of all the etiquette and cotillion type programs and training that most women went through during these time. Blah, blah, blah now women are all liberated, but many are now grossly unrefined and unfeminine and slovenly (before you crucify me, men could stand to shape up these days, too).
There is something to be said about the way one carries oneself - it's not just for your own dignity, it also a service to others and to society. We live in the ugliest world now...and it's everyone's fault. The more rules we've broken, the more of a mess of ugliness and dysfunction we have to suffer through.
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^^^ LOL No actual rules have been broken these days, frankly. That’s giving them too much credit, dior. To do so would mean risks are taken and livelihoods/lives put on the line. These entitled, sheltered and spoiled children are sociopaths and narcissists that throw temper tantrums and bully others with cancellation until people give in to their obnoxious and silly demands and even sillier ideologies of first-word problems.
The veneer of the 1950s has always been so much more attractive, tantalizing than the reality of it. I would rather live and gladly suffer in this mess of this era than the 1950s, though— where men like us would always have to keep our sexuality on the DL, unless we’re fine with being deemed legally deviants and mentally-ill by society, and treated like garbage by the law. No doubt that the archetype of Vogue will forever be brandished by that era with its untouchable imagery of high, glossy, proper glamour. Still, I’m more enamoured of our time’s visionaries Gaultier/McQueen/Miuccia and their ideals of 1950s imagery than the actual 1950s— and that includes the designers of that era.
The veneer of the 1950s has always been so much more attractive, tantalizing than the reality of it. I would rather live and gladly suffer in this mess of this era than the 1950s, though— where men like us would always have to keep our sexuality on the DL, unless we’re fine with being deemed legally deviants and mentally-ill by society, and treated like garbage by the law. No doubt that the archetype of Vogue will forever be brandished by that era with its untouchable imagery of high, glossy, proper glamour. Still, I’m more enamoured of our time’s visionaries Gaultier/McQueen/Miuccia and their ideals of 1950s imagery than the actual 1950s— and that includes the designers of that era.
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