Nothing says woman quite like a dress

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I like purses.

I normally have a purse, and then use it daily until it starts to fall apart, then I get a newer purse.

I think none of my pockets will hold a CVS receipt.
 
When I still needed to carry around a diaper bag, my wallet and everything else went in there.
By the time I had my youngest, I just used a plastic tote bag as a purse/diaper bag.
 
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Oh yeah I got so annoyed as a kid, because all the fun fantasy and sci-fi shirts were for boys. I don’t understand why ladies can’t get cool dragons on their shirts. Or Star Trek jokes.
 
But girls get Disney Princesses. :roll_eyes:🤢🤮

Nothing wrong with that but the Princesses in my days were all dreaming about finding a man to marry. Getting married was not the primary driver in my life even then.
 
I hate carrying around bags. I’m always afraid of losing them or someone walking off with them. I want pockets!
 
I am always happy when cooler weather comes because my jackets become my purse.
 
I admittedly find them handy. I’ve often had to carry medicine and a bag helps. And if you get a bigger one you can put a book in there!
 
I grew up in the late 80s with Ariel (who I think we can all agree is the absolute worst role model ever marketed to little girls), Belle, and Jasmine. The trainwreck of Ariel aside, Belle wasn’t too bad. She was interested in intellectual pursuits, had a cool horse, sang well, and wasn’t hanging all over some man until the end when she was impressed by the self-sacrificing love of the beast. Jasmine was trying to escape marriage, possibly entirely, unless she found her true love. Snow White and Aurora were’t really available to me at he time, but based on what I’ve seen, they were fairly one-dimensional princesses who got saved by fairly one-dimensional princes. The moral of Cinderella seemed to be that if you were pretty and not a complete jerk, your life would improve. She was maybe one-and-a-half dimensions? I’d don’t know much about the princesses in the interim. I don’t think Mulan was really interested in men though. Does she count as a “princess”?

Meanwhile, my daughter’s generation begets Anna, who holds the honor of being the first Disney princess to reap the actual realistic outcome of escaping one’s childhood problems by diving into the arms of a man, and get’s completely humiliated and almost murdered by a predatory creep. And our favorite, Moana, who remains single throughout the story, as teenage girls should.
 
Sarcelle said:
But girls get Disney Princesses. 🤮🤮🤮

Nothing wrong with that but the Princesses in my days were all dreaming about finding a man to marry. Getting married was not the primary driver in my life even then.
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I hear ya. I was also never a huge princess lover. And I’m glad both my girls are not into the whole Disney Princess thing…nor Barbie…and I thank the good Lord 🙂
 
I like Tiana and that was the only Disney princess movie I saw.

I haven’t seen Frozen but I’m planning to. I like the fact that this movie features familial love rather than romantic love.
 
There’s romantic love too, as Anna does redeem herself with an example of a decent man later on in the story. I never saw Tiana. I think that must have been after my time. The last couple Disney movies of my childhood weren’t really “princess” movies. (Lion King, Toy Story, etc.)
 
Tiana was in the Frog Prince which came out before Brave and Frozen.

I liked the movie because it was set in New Orleans.
 
The romance between Kristoff and Anna was still in its infancy at the end of the movie.
There was no happily ever after in that film although there is a hope of it.

I think this is more realistic than the happily ever after trope.
 
Yeah, it wouldn’t make much sense to lamb-bast Anna for stupidly hoping into the arms of one guy at the beginning of the story, then finish up with her getting married five seconds later on a rebound. But to be perfectly frank, any woman who marries someone just because he kissed her (sometimes without consent) or danced with her at a ball and seems better than an abusive step-mother is also realistically still in the “infancy” stage of her relationship, whether she wants to admit it or not!
 
I don’t politicize my clothes. Clothes are first and foremost a practical and comfortable choice. I’m equally female whether I’m out hosing down the trash cans, hiking up a hill on a windy day, bench testing motors, relaxing on the couch, sipping afternoon tea on a fancy veranda or attending a black tie ball. Obviously some of those activities call for a dress and others don’t.

I have no idea why someone would be so hung up on their clothing that they’d read so much into what women have on. Either they must not have enough to do in life or else they wanted to write some column that would engender controversy and get a lot of hits to their page.
 
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JimG said:
I was startled by the title of this article, and even more startled by its content. To many women, it must sound like a heresy. I’m just curious what CAF readers think. Is this just retro thinking or do others have the same view?
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What do I think about it? “Startled” does not begin to do justice to the sentiment. I would describe the author’s thoughts with words more like ludicrous.

I don’t know where this woman was living but she gives the distinct impression it was not with a normal society, given the range of years she mentions.

My mother’s use of pants goes back to World War II. The last place my mother was still wearing a dress – and only because of the social convention – was in the church. Everywhere else she was in vogue with her pantsuits. By the end of the 60s, my mother had divested herself of her last dress, hat, and gloves. She was a wonderfully elegant and fashionable lady who had no use for the narrow-mindedness of social convention about how women were to dress.

Frankly, I would not be surprised but what she put fire to her last dress, hat, and set of gloves.
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Her heart “recoiled in Horror” at the sight of her aunt in pants? Dramatic much?
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You are kinder than I. I took it as a sign that she is seriously troubled.
 
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My grandma is 93 (born 1925) and while she definitely has owned skirts, 90% of my memories of her are of her in pants.
 
My maternal grandma was born in 1912 and I never knew her in a skirt. I’ve seen photos of her at my mother’s wedding Mass in a purple dress, but she wore a pants suit to the reception. I was always fascinated by photos of her as a young woman in dresses, because she never wore them in my memory. Even though she wore pants alot, she still wore restrictive Lycra undergarments underneath. My mom tell a story of watching her try to get into an unstretched pair.
 
Wow, if I put everything in my pockets that goes into my purse, I would look ridiculous! I would rattle as I walked, and probably wouldn’t be able to sit down!

I usually have at least one book in my purse! And i carry a tape measure (the metal kind) and a UV light for testing possible uranium glass. And a Rosary and a prayer book and Tylenol and my allergy meds (JIC I have an allergic reaction and my tongue swells), and several small notebooks (budget, writing ideas, datebook), and a rather large wallet for my vast riches, and food, and sometimes a bottle of soda, and…

I don’t buy multiple purses–it makes no sense for me to switch out a purse everyday.

But I do buy more expensive bags made of leather because they are more durable, especially when I cram so much into the purse. I’ve had my current purse for 2 years and it definitely looks ratty and needs to be replaced, but I love it so much!
 
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