This Sunday and perhaps for a while I'm focusing on dust bowl fashions. Dust Bowl is really a
location of America, but the time frame I mean is 1931-1935. The styles still had many 20s elements but also flowing ruffles and necklines and laces. I love the looks of that time.
This Sunday I have Lane Bryant scans from 1932,
Wish they had plus-size models like that now days. Not sure if I would be thrilled with ordering double-extra sizes. When I was a kid they called the plus sizes for girls "chubbies". I wonder how many young girls were hurt by that!
ReplyDeleteJane,
ReplyDeleteAs a gay boy who was "Husky", I feel your pain....:-(
They called the plus sizes for girls 'chubbettes' in the 40s. And I honestly don't think it was anything to be ashamed about, especially in this LB catalog.
ReplyDeleteStout was a very common term, and not offensive at all. Extra size isn't meaning to demean, its just being honest.
I think we flower up too much our descriptions for plus sizes today so we don't feel as if our size is being acknowledged, but we *want* it to be. Well, you can't have both ways. So we get this wave of perfumed words used to describe stout or fat, because those words are offensive.
Nope, they are not, just honest.
Dear Shelley,
ReplyDeletePlease turn these into patterns! I love everything shown here. Is there more like this you could post? Other views of the dresses shown?
It's all fabulous and would look great on me. The model/picture is exactly my figure. It's wonderful to see. And I love the dresses from this period. I think I have found my style.
Thank you, Leanne.