Susanann, you think men can’t dress differently from day to day? Or are you just unable to tell the difference between a man who dresses well and one who doesn’t?
I’ve had about eight different hairstyles in the last two years. I wear different outfits for different occasions. I dress up or dress down to suit the event. I can wear formal, semiformal, casual conservative, casual funky, casual sporty, as I please. I can wear different watches, necklaces, hats, belts, shoes flashy or restrained, glasses or contacts. I have variety in my wardrobe and I don’t have a big wardrobe. Nothing boring about it.
And when my hair goes grey, I won’t be covering it up with colour.
Obviously, Susanann, you don’t frequent goth clubs. Last Friday, I saw at least five guys wearing skirts, and one in a vinyl catsuit with bondage straps.
Actually, both sexes used paint and powder (which usually contained lead!) during the 17th and 18th centuries. Men’s standard suit wasn’t codified until the early-mid Victorian period. Even then, they wore colourful waistcoats for a while after that.
I think I visited that weird tribe in Africa. They also had a custom about the father’s word being Law! She needed to be in the house by 7:00 PM. Fortunately with all the lip stretching she was able to slip me kisses under the door.
Okay, so what I wanna know is, what’s up with Loud Shoes?
Yesterday I’m walking along, and a woman is walking behind me, and all I can hear is the ‘klek klek klek’ of her shoes hitting the sidewalk, together with that awful skritching noise that sand grains make as they’re caught between sole and pavement. This level of footstep noise seems to be very common among women. Why?
Do women want to advertise their positions to the mugger around the corner?
Personally, I believe women do all the primping to impress other women more so than men. Look at the fashion magazines. Skinny waif models. Compare them to models in Penthouse or Hustler. Still slim, but definitely curvier. 9 out of 10 guys I know would pick Rachel Hunter, a healthy model over those sticks anytime. So don’t try to convince me that these models are displayed to impress men. Same goes for most of female primping.
As far as shaving goes, of course women do more body shaving now than in the past. That’s because swimwear, eveningwear, and casual wear is more revealing. Sure it looks naughty seeing a bush not fully contained in a thong the first time. After that, it just looks nasty. Plus, hair does hold in smells.
Luckily, I never did get a hairy back. I am cursed with serious eyebrows. Yes, I do trim them. I shave the middle section to give me two eyebrows. I did not originally do it for vanity. It just irritated me whenever I wore my glasses. As I get older, they get longer and wilder. The ears? They are right next to the face. I might as well give them a shave-over. Of course, I shave my whole head. I am so much more comfortable without that hair.
The pubes? No, I do not shave them. I tried it once, and had razor bumps from hell (I know what women go through). In Europe, where man-thongs are more macho, it may be more socially required, but I do not need to do that. If I know I am going to get some that night, I may give them a trim.
Speaking as a guy who wears either jeans or shorts and t-shirts nearly every day, I like the ease and simplicity. Same with the hair, cut it short, never have to worry about it. Then of course, if need be, I can get dressed well (suit and tie or whatever the occasion calls for).
Regarding there being nothing to “pick up [our] moods except [to] get drunk,” we can do lots of thing other than drinking, some of which are less expensive than buying random clothes. We (or at least I) can go do stuff with friends (always a barrel of laughs with my buddies), watch a movie (usually a funny one, such as The Big Lebowski), play some pool, go for a drive, look at women who do all the crazy stuff mentioned to look good, or do a whole smackload of other things.
A very big NO.
Having lived there for three years, with a Spanish woman sharing my bed, can tell you - when it comes to vanity, the Spanish females match and surpass American.
I honestly can’t say how dismaying I find this paragraph.
Has the shallow consumer-culture completed its hegemony? If you get a pick me up in your mood through the acquiring of such things you’re destined to be back down in fairly short order.
Am I the only one who sees this as treating symptoms and not diseases?
that started out a long time ago.
Ancient Greeks preferred their women to have smoothly shaven skin. So did Egyptians.
Smooth skin creates the illusion of youth, which is primarily what men look for in a women, subconsciously.
nope, you’re not the only one.
I go shopping for non-food and non domestic items stuff, twice a year (and yes, I’m a woman).
I hate shopping, I hate shopping malls, shopping rarely makes me feel good. It’s a necessity, adn i treat it as one.
Unfortunately, the world is ruled by big business, and the only thing BB is interested in, is money. So they tell us what to think, what to like, what to eat, what to wear…
everything, really. And very few people realise their whole lives are lived for them, not by them.
After reading this thread, I seem to recall something about it once being fashionable for women to be consumptive – that is, dying from TB. It was supposed to endow the sufferer with a tragic, poetic mystique. I’m thinking this was a 19th-century thing.
I also read somewhere that rotting teeth were once considered quite a turn-on in Japan. If anyone can verify or disprove, please do so. I distinctly remember reading this several years ago.
Nah. You know how kids of parents with bars through their lips, eyebrows and lips will freak out the old folks? Two words: Country Music. (I’m trying to remember which comedian came up with this. May have been Robin Williams, who also worked in what I thought was a very funny ubangi joke into his last special.)
Am I going to be the first to mention the use of corsets, bras and breast implants? Or the disporpotionate attention given to breasts in this country, period?
Since 1962, two million women in the United States have had their breasts enlarged.
Breast implants appear to be VERY much a ‘weird’ American female custom, imitated and duplicated in FAR smaller numbers by women around the world.
I have to interject that the shoes we wear today are not as bad as foot-binding. Foot-binding could result in three inch feet that were rotting in their bindings:
By the time a girl turned three years old, all her toes but the first were broken, and her feet were bound tightly with cloth strips to keep her feet from growing larger than 10 cm, about 3.9 inches. The practice would cause the soles of feet to bend in extreme concavity. http://www.sfmuseum.org/chin/foot.html
Not exactly your four inch heels of today.
Oh, and to the earlier comment about men being able to choose to be hairy or not but no man would want a woman who doesn’t shave because she’s a hairy ape…now that doesn’t even make sense!!
There are 282 million people in the US. Only 25 million are under the age of 18. That leaves us with roughly 131 million women in the US over the age of 18. So 2.62 precent of US women have breast implants, or there abouts (since some of those from 62’ on are surely dead). While I find the idea of them silly, it doesn’t look all that common to me. Not nearly as common as say, buying ugly shoes.
“Dr David Matlock is an LA surgeon who is leading the way in the brave new world of laser vaginal rejuvenation. An operation originally developed to help incontinent women has been adapted with a laser, with the sole aim of tightening the vagina.”
“vaginal rejuvenation”, my arse. Which is not an offer.
