Showing posts with label The Delineator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Delineator. Show all posts

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Hipsters: 1902


Advice by cable from the foreign centers of style guide the artists and highly trained workers who are creating Wooltex styles. That's why they lead. That's why a Wooltex garment can be worn in any city in America or Europe with the certainty that it is au fait.
--From The Delineator--

Information is a commodity so valuable that people can be impressed if they merely think you have it.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Breast augmentation: 1902



--From The Delineator--

Perhaps instead of worrying about the sexualization of our culture we should worry when it becomes desexualized.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

THE Fashion Accessory: 1902


--From The Delineator--

We do crazy things with purses and shoes, but they don't match the shear exuberance of a lady's hat.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Spanx: 1893


Elastic ribbed union suits cover the entire body like an additional skin. Fitting like a glove, but softly and without pressure. No buttons down the front. Made for men, women and young people. Most convenient to put on, being entered at the top and drawn on like trousers. With no other kind of underwear can ladies obtain such perfect fit for dresses or wear comfortably so small a corset.
--From The Delineator--

 Being happy with the way your body is, is really kind of unusual.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Exercise: 1902

Soft cooked" cereals are swallowed without the necessary mastication, thus robbing the teeth of their NATURAL exercise, causing weakness and decay. Shredded Whole Wheat Biscuit, being crisp, compels vigorous mastication and causes the NATURAL flow of saliva which is necessary for NATURAL digestion.
--From The Delineator--

From now on, whenever I see the words "nature" or "natural" I will imagine them written in capital letters. They're supposed to be some magic words that make everything okay and good; at least it seems that way with many of the people who use them. (But these mushrooms I picked in the woods are NATURAL, they can't possible be bad for you!)

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Activewear: 1902



--From The Delineator--

The activity? Walking in a corset and not letting your dress get dirty.

Remember this picture the next time someone talks about modern fashion-designers hating women.