2 posts tagged “retro”
Just when I was starting to have anxiety about college (more on that later), I find this educational film on YouTube. I watched the whole thing with a mix of envy and horror. (I want to take classes in Foods & Nutrition and Applied Art in Home Decorating and have gabfests with the girls after the Sunday football games!!....but I don't want to live a life where my ultimate goal of college is to learn how to be subservient to men. Hmph.
Anyway, my favorite part probably comes around 11 minutes into the film, when they talk about their classes in sports, and this little gem comes in the narration:
"Some girls liked it so well, they took extra courses to qualify themselves to take jobs in physical education."
Ha.
What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?
How weird; I was just going to write about this the other day.
I am obsessed with the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. I pester my grandma with questions about what it was like when she was growing up, I have boxes full of reproduction and real vintage fabric from that era, and I drool over dresses and clothing from that time period. Sometimes I fantasize about being a 1950's housewife and wearing aprons and fixing fabulous suppers and having a bunch of little kids running around in the cul-de-sac wearing cowboy hats and riding stick horses. And it makes me happy. I think that it is perhaps the simple, worry-free, Norman Rockwell type image that I have in my head of it all that makes me want to revisit the time period. In reality, I know that it was pretty much like life as it is now, except with more social stigma and less civil rights and cuter clothing standards.
There is this guy at my office who seriously seems like he stepped straight out of the 1950s. He wears a suit and a porkpie hat to work every day (everyone else wears jeans or business casual), had a flat top hair cut up until a couple months ago, keeps his office sparkling clean & neat, and always talks and greets people so cordially, like everything's just swell. He is a pretty cool dude. I guess I could just take a lesson from him and live in the now, but keep the good things from that time.
