Posted on 08/04/2018 11:42:34 AM PDT by simpson96
Edited on 08/04/2018 12:50:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Back in the day, one of my shipmates in Navy boot camp took advantage of our first liberty to have a massive tattoo made on his forearm of an eagle circling its claws around his boot camp company number. Can you imagine going through life like that?
As for fashion, circa 1900, makeup on women was mostly reserved for sex workers of the day. And men wore morning coats and hats outdoors. Times change, but at least makeup is mostly non-permanent.
I moved my family to Canada in the early seventies. On moving back to the US around 1980, I was shocked at the nonchalant use of filthy language by young women I encountered. Just shake your head and move on.
Groucho sang of the Tatooed Lady thus:
“When her muscles start relaxin’,
“Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson,
Nope. Tats don’t belong on women. Dolphins, tramp stamps, `sleeves’, none of it works for me.
A PSA cautioned: “when you turn thirty, you’ll reach an important financial crossroad: buy the minivan or laser tatoo removal”.
Phelan - just one of the meth communities on the high desert. No pun intended. When I was in high school the joke was - when Phelan got its own high school, it would be Phelan High or High Desert High. What a place, only second to Adelanto there in the desert.
Can't wait to see the backs and arms of the trash today who tat their arms and backs when they're lying in the sun on the decks of their retirement homes in their 60's, 70's and 80's.........
I'm thinking newspaper cartoon pages after being soaked in water for a week.........LOL!
I sometimes see the water aerobics call at our local gym (because I’m watching my children in the pool). You’d be amazed at how many of those older women - older than me, and I’m in my 50s - have tattoos.
They only last so long.........FWIW, they’re a total turn off for me.
I was gonna say. They must be short of pretty girls in that burg
yes, really
well she should run then
Stupid.
Woof...
Men did NOT wear "morning coats" as a "normal" daily dress, in 1900! Such clothing was for formal occasions and it is still worn for daytime weddings, in America and for other special events in the UK!
Re "makeup" at the turn of the century...it really depends on what you are calling makeup! Lipstick? Yes, that was only for women on the stage and prostitutes.
Powder and perhaps a wee bit of rouge? Lots of women, just "normal" women, wore that.
Tattoos?
For most of western history, only FREAKS had tons of tattoos and nobody was getting tattoos on their private parts, eyeballs, nor face!
Re "dirty" language....that all started in California in 1964 and was well underway, sadly, when you moved to Canada! So just WHY weren't you at all aware of it?
You wouldn’t believe the “collegiate” students I deal with while working as a tutor on campus.
I won’t eat in the cafeteria since I do not want to be angry all the time at their use of foul, HOSTILE language - those are fightin’ Words!
I went to this school 25 years ago. We did NOT let expletives fly so glibly, men or women, and as every other word! Certainly not so publicly...they don’t even care if the occasional child is there eating!
My husband also does not care for them.
the town prostitute is a virgin, man.
= = =
And so are all her Johns.
Yes. I would not call her ugly at all, and this is clearly not a good photo situation.
Unfair to attack her based on that.
Tattoo lookum bad on squaw
Very very bad
Why self ink your body ?
Its permanent That’s Scaaaaaary
Think about how different you’d be in life 10,20,30 years from now
Maybe temporary tattoos should be it
Then you can put something else there
Every other week
Not where I sit....
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