Word for the Day, Monday, May 12, 2014-- screed

5/12/14 | xs

[xsmommy]

yeah and don’t think that isn’t part of his mental calculus as far as taking that job. he took the subway a little bit in HS until he got his license, and then that was that. living somewhere like that, is totally not who he is.

[xsmommy]

Lilly Pulitzer was a FL socialite who developed a style of dress that has remained popular since the early 60s.

From the 1960s to the early 1980s, Pulitzer's bright, colorful clothes were very popular, worn by elites such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Caroline Kennedy, and members of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Whitney families.[3] Lilly Pulitzer was a former classmate of Jackie's. After Jackie was featured in Life magazine donning one of Lilly's famous shifts, many preppy ladies followed her lead. The Jacqueline dress is one of Lilly Pulitzer's most successful styles. By 1984, Lilly closed down the entire clothing operation

[xsmommy]

Lilly was a bit of a ho-bag, it seems. I remember reading a long biographical piece about her and it said that lilly dresses are lined, bc Lilly used to fancy going about without underwear and so to camoflauge that aspect, she started lining her clothes.

[xsmommy]

feckless is a great word too! A++++

[Texan5]

I’ll second your slap-she looks like she’s thinking okay, okay I’ll hold up this stupid sign for the camera-but only this once.

I really think she is just such an angry person by nature that she can’t even fake a decent sad or indignant look for the misfortune of others...

[SoothingDave]

I suppose you could take the train in from somewhere more suburban-like. Where you could have a car and not have to fight for parking spaces. Is the job in Manhattan?

[Texan5]

Thank you!

I rather like the look of the Lilly Pulitzer shifts and other dresses...

[xsmommy]

wall street.

[xsmommy]

they are very colorful, but simply styled.

[secret garden]

Do it. I’m begging you. The rest of us are too far away.

[secret garden]

True story. At my son’s HS graduation, a bunch of boys wore bungee cords around their neck to make fun of the tasseled cords of the honor/special grads. It was funny.

[secret garden]

How do you like having an Aggie in the family now? Congrats to your son. Those four years flew by.

[xsmommy]

oh yeah, let me be the one to end up in federal prison! LOL!

[xsmommy]

that is funny! had someone thought of it earlier, i could see them somehow stringing skate laces with a puck at either end and wearing them around their necks.

[SoothingDave]

Gotta budget for fashionable suits, too. Not as bad as being a female, for sure, but still gotta dress for the part.

[xsmommy]

i could be wrong, but IT guys do not generally wear suits. i’d be very surprised if he ends up somewhere wearing one. They wear them to interview in, as would anyone else, but the daily garb i think is collared polos.

[SoothingDave]

I agree in general, but think a place literally on Wall Street would have a dress code.

But what do I know?

[xsmommy]

i am pretty sure i asked him what the people were wearing there, when he went for the interview.

[Texan5]

So much so that the first sewing project in my home ec classes in HS was making a dress from the pattern of the dress that Jackie made famous-I made a turquoise one. My aunt who was a seamstress made several of those dresses for the teens and young women in the family, all in bright solid colors. Wish I had a sewing machine and that pattern now...

[xsmommy]

turquoise is a very “lilly” color!