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June 06, 2004

Women's clothing designers should be punished!

They were called Pedal Pushers when I was a little girl - and they were cute on teenage girls.

Now they are called Capris - and they make them in every possible size. And that's the problem. Ony little girls and teenagers should wear them. They don't look right on women over 25. In fact, many of them look so wrong, that they remind me of the dreaded 'flood pants' of my youth - when someone wore pants so short that you could see the skin between the socks and the pants.

They even make them in my size - too big to mention. There was a woman much larger than me waiting for a plane last week, and she was wearing them. They made her calves look like overstuffed sausages that needed a shave.

Of course, this woman was trying to be fashionable - the whole make up thing with too-obvious lip liner and way too much skin showing between the bottom of her top and the top of her bottoms.

Designers who think of these things should be horsewhipped - no, wait - that is too kind. They should have to try these things on their aunts and mother's and grandmothers and watch them try to be comfortable or look good in them for a day. That ought to do it.

Bring back the shirtdresses my mom wore in the 50s and 60s. They were pretty, flowing, cotton dresses that buttoned from the waist up. They looked good on lots of people - not just the skinny minnies.

This will never happen. Too many designers are men who are interested in women looking like boys. And that's a whole different discussion.

Posted by Beth at June 6, 2004 09:57 AM