Nannas.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Why have grandmas (nans) always looked the same? Coming home today on the tram, I noticed (at least for the first time consciously) that ‘nannas’ haven’t changed since I was a wee girl. They still wear the same overcoats and cable-knit cardigans and the same sensible shoes and pearl brooches as they were doing in the fifties and sixties. Times have changed, and fashions have come and gone, but nannas remain the same!

Is there something in the Nanna Rule Book that dictates what is appropriate Nanna Wear?

:stuck_out_tongue:

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Yes, the Global Granny General Garment Gowning Gameplan[sup]™[/sup] has predetermined period piece public place presentation priorities pending peculiar passages positively printed per plainly partway publicized programs.

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I too have noticed this odd phenomenon, and I have a theory that possibly accounts for part of it.

Years ago I was a volunteer for a service that provided company for elderly people who were almost house-bound. I soon became good friends with my elderly person, and visited Bertha almost every week for eight years, until sadly, she died.

She had a couple of hospitalisations and during one of these I realised the importance of The Perm to little old ladies. Bertha’s perm had grown out and her hair was straight, white and scary. It stuck out all over the place, and she looked like a derelict person.

Then I visited one day just after the travelling heirdresser, and suddenly she looked like her old self. Those little sausage curls, slight blue tinge, really make a difference to the way an elderly lady presents herself to the world.

It’s because white hair is, what, more porous? It certainly doesn’t lie down flat and shinily limp, like hair in the Pantene (Australian shampoo, very effective) commercials. It tends to stick up and out. I have a few white hairs in my moustache and they are sometimes so stubborn about which way they’re going to lie that I just cut them out. I do! I just cut them out and - sorry I was getting a bit campy there. Anyway…

If you are aged, and if your white hair is to be treated, the close curl perm is one of the few options available, and certainly one that’s usually flattering to the older face.

So part of the homogenous look is because all those ladies have variations on a basic hairstyle - the hairstyle that puts bread into the mouths of thousands of children of suburban hairdressers.

There - that’s my theory, and I’m both glad to have an opportunity to share it, and glad to share it with you, dear Kambuckta, whose absence has been painful, and the sight of whose name in a thread is, indeed, of immediate beneficial effect for painful ocular episodes.

Russettmaster

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Hey, no apologies necessary AutumnalBoy. :smiley: I’ve got the same happening with my eyebrows, and rather than resorting to eye-brow pencil or Grecian 2000, I pluck 'em. The white ones go every-which-way, and for some reason also grow extraordinarily long. Once removed, the brow does look somewhat patchy, (like a vegie-garden that has been harvested but with some silver-beet and carrots left to go to seed actually), but I’d rather live with that than the worry of dye running down my eyes if I get caught in the rain.

And Zenster? I had to read your post out loud to appreciate it properly. Now my monitor has spittle all over it. Thanks heaps…:stuck_out_tongue: