Betty's Pub 20.1
Main Menu => Old inactive posts. => Topic started by: kiltedLaddie on January 20, 2015, 07:19:41 AM
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/katinthecupboard/16278532922/sizes/h/
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Not just an interesting picture, but a whole album -- 72 pages -- Mostly of classic Late 19th / Early 20th Century children's illustrations! What a treasure trove! They were reminiscent of the pictures in the old books (from their childhood?) my parents had when I was a little child. I even recognized a couple from "The Real Mother Goose," still in print and which I used to read with MY children.
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I love old style girls clothes. Back when a dress was a little more than just a sack with an opening for a head & arms cut into it.
And they don't even have to be that old. It wasn't until around 1999-2001 that it bacame almost impossible to find frilly dresses with puffed sleeves in teen & adult sizes in regular stores. These day's it rare to even find them in a little girl's size 6 or 7 anymore. Clothing designers don't realize that some people actually like frilly, cute, or feminine clothes other than just sissies.
Ironically Lolita costumes & dresses made in Japan & China turned up just about the time frilly styles became rare in regular stores. At first, Lolita dresses were hand made by the wearer after the frilly clothing shortage. But soon almost all Asian clothing stores started carrying a frilly or Lolita line of clothing. An an entire industry was built up & is making lots of money selling frilly stuff because you can't buy it in normal stores anymore. Imagine all the revenue stores have lost by discontinuing frilly pretty stuff.
You never heard of Lolita dresses or fads until after you couldn't buy a frilly dress in teen or larger sizes anymore. There used to always be at least wedding, flower girl, pageant, square dance, clogging, & other dance shops with lots of frilly stuff in larger sizes to buy. Of course the frilliest stuff was for special occasions, events, & balls but one was able to buy them in normal teen & woman's sizes if we wanted them. As soon as European & American shops decided we didn't need pretty or frilly stuff anymore, Asia made millions making & selling them as Lolita outfits... and they're shipping tons of them to America & Europe too. Many Lolita outfits are as extremely frilly as the finest custom sissy dress.
So if designers & distributors feel nobody wants these styles anymore, then why is Asia making millions shipping them to customers here? All you have to do is google "Lolita Dress" to see people are buying & wearing this stuff all over the world... not just sissies. Sure, they're not selling as well as an ordinary T-shirt or jeans, but a lot of people are buying them. Cute fancy frilly or feminine things have been liked by many for hundreds of years. Suddenly just over the past 15 years European & American "minimalist" designers decided we won't have them anymore.
I look down the street. 9 out of 10 cars are grey (silver grey). The few that aren't are black or white. We've given up everything fancy or colorful in our everyday boring hum-drum lives in the name of minimalism. It's getting to be the only fancy thing we see is a bird or a flower. The only color we see these days is just from the blue sky, green plants, & our electronic screens (monitor, TV, tablet, phone). If we still like colorful screens with dazzling fancy imagery, why should we give it up in the real world?