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June 6, 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 9:57 AM
Comments
I second that, but I wear them anyways. Better than shorts for these dimpled thighs.
Posted by: BeeBee at June 6, 2004 10:38 AM
You are braver than me!!! And probably skinnier!
Posted by: Beth at June 6, 2004 11:03 AM
I wear shorts. If I wanted long pants, I'd wear 'em. I don't want to think about what they might look like on me. Ugh.
And I'm still, after all these years, idiotic about 'flood' pants. If Arthur's slacks or jeans start riding up to where I can see his socks - they're gone! LOL!!
Posted by: pam at June 6, 2004 11:08 AM
I wear shorts, too, even if I have dimpled thighs. I'm the same way about flood pants!
Posted by: Beth at June 6, 2004 12:23 PM
I have strong doubts I'm skinnier. I've gotten quite a few extra bits on this bod the last year. Before that I was really kind of stable. Not thin but not this, errr, large. But it's summer in Texas and I want to be covered but cool, so I wear baggy cut off pants. It's ok because I've decided to picture myself as Sophia Loren. Nobody yet has had the nerve to tell me I'm not. I can live with that. That woman would look good in anything.
Posted by: BeeBee at June 6, 2004 12:24 PM
Is that what it takes, BeeBee? I LIKE that approach, and have decided to picture myself as Meg Ryan. Yeah, that's the ticket. :D
Posted by: pam at June 6, 2004 12:31 PM
I'll vote for Sophia, she had difficulties looking like a boy. Laura Antonelli would her alternate.
Cheers
JMH
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs at June 6, 2004 6:00 PM
I like them, so I wear them in the summer. It's better and more citified than wearing shorts.
But the bottoms are kind of big around my calves and look sometimes baggy. That's my only complaint. Maybe I need to find more fitted ones.
I agree about getting back to some retro. Especially hats. How come no one wears them anymore? It's better than wearing sticky sunblock.( I need to wear it all the time)
I've decided to use a parasol. Someone is going to bring me back one from Japan.
They were handing them out at the Getty Museum when we were there. I also saw a real cute one carried by a young woman at the LA Times Book Fair a few weeks ago.(I hope a trend is starting--yet it's pretty old retro,considering they haven't been worn since the 19th century)
I'm taking a chance, but I'll let you know if anyone makes fun of me when I wear it.(right now I only see Mexican immigrants and Koreans in Korea town wear them.
Posted by: Peach at June 6, 2004 10:57 PM
I love capris. I think they are flattering on most people as long as they buy the size that fits them. Most people buy their clothes too small and it looks horrible.
Posted by: Sara at June 6, 2004 11:44 PM
I have to be careful with capris. I'm kind of short... actually I'm very short, so sometimes capris just look like high waters or even regular length pants.
Peach, come to S. Fl! We wear hats all the time! As a matter of fact, I'm going out with my kids today and wearing a hat in addition to sunblock. Skin cancer scares me.
Posted by: Boudicca at June 7, 2004 7:40 AM
Don't get your pants names mixed up. Peddle pushers are just above the ankles, capri's are just below the knee and clam diggers are just above the knee.
I love capris! Hide these dimples thighs and yet are cool to wear in the summer and look damn cute with sandels!
Posted by: Machelle at June 7, 2004 8:21 AM
Nevermind that. We're screwed all the way around.
Look at the little teenie boppers with their firm flesh.
They don't know what a roll is. They don't have to know. When they bend over in their low-cuts, all their showing is beautiful, tanned midriff.
Posted by: Key at June 7, 2004 1:56 PM
LOL - Beth I'm with you! I remember my mother wearing "peddle pushers" when I was a kid - they seemed to be the length of what we now call capri's. So, being a dutiful daughter I have a total aversion to looking like my mother. In other words, capri's make me think of "old lady" when I see them (after all when I was 5 my mother just seemed so old to me) - therefore I won't wear them. Mind you, this makes no sense at all - it's just one of those strange twists the mind takes when remembering childhood. *G*
Oddly enough at 5'9" I'd have no problem buying "regular" pants and calling them capris - I need a 34 inch inseam and most run 30 inches... I know this because so many pants I've wanted desperately to buy over the years, are just way to short. *sigh*
Posted by: Teresa at June 7, 2004 1:57 PM