http://technomom.com Purposefully perverse since 1995! Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:12:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 http://technomom.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-24083 Robin Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:48:32 +0000 #comment-24083 Dear Cynthia, Stumbled across your blog on "fatness" and it was an interesting and well written read. Things have sure changed. I can recall when I was fat (yes, I broke down, conformed and lost weight)in the early eighties the shops for larger sized women carried near shameful sounding names. One felt they should almost put a bag over their head to just walk in the door! Larger sized women were referred to as "Portly". I remember wondering what the W behind the size stood for..I wondered if it meant Wide..and when I was told womans I wondered what all the smaller sized women were in terms of gender? Actually the choice to lose weight was not one of "conforming" but my own...I sincerely enjoyed the journey and I neither adovocate that others do the same or try and push others to in that direction. It was simply something I wanted to do for me. I did want to point out one little thing about your article...back during the time when Marilyn was alive clothing was sized quite differently. Though I don't think she would have ever been what is now our size 2 she was never what would equate our size 16 nor even close. Size 12 was a very SMALL and admirable size during the late 50's and early 60's...if you ever watched I Love Lucy you will recollect Lucy longing to make it into the ideal size...size 12. I remember the ladies all dreaming of making it into a 12, dieting trying to get into that dream size 12..it was in magazines with the Diet Cola ads, all of the Diet Advertisments. (I am 51 so I have some recollection...and remember my Mom finally making the dream size) Also for your consideration...sizes are indeed larger now than they were some 30 years ago. I currently wear a size 4...I possess some of my clothing from high school and also do some shopping at vintage shops for older, designer clothing from the late sixties and seventies. Believe me..clothing from today is much more generously sized than it was in the past. My size 6 blue jeans from high school are much smaller than my size 4 from today! Clothing manufactorers are crafty..they know women want to feel small so they have made patterns larger. I have been taking a class for my Masters on Women in Western Civilization and am researching this for my currently for my thesis. Women are even cognizant that certain designers like Liz Claiborne routinely cut about one size larger than actually marked--yet they love the idea they can purchase that size smaller they so long for. Just thought I would share! In all kindness, Robin Dear Cynthia,
Stumbled across your blog on “fatness” and it was an interesting and well written read. Things have sure changed. I can recall when I was fat (yes, I broke down, conformed and lost weight)in the early eighties the shops for larger sized women carried near shameful sounding names. One felt they should almost put a bag over their head to just walk in the door! Larger sized women were referred to as “Portly”. I remember wondering what the W behind the size stood for..I wondered if it meant Wide..and when I was told womans I wondered what all the smaller sized women were in terms of gender? Actually the choice to lose weight was not one of “conforming” but my own…I sincerely enjoyed the journey and I neither adovocate that others do the same or try and push others to in that direction. It was simply something I wanted to do for me.
I did want to point out one little thing about your article…back during the time when Marilyn was alive clothing was sized quite differently. Though I don’t think she would have ever been what is now our size 2 she was never what would equate our size 16 nor even close. Size 12 was a very SMALL and admirable size during the late 50’s and early 60’s…if you ever watched I Love Lucy you will recollect Lucy longing to make it into the ideal size…size 12. I remember the ladies all dreaming of making it into a 12, dieting trying to get into that dream size 12..it was in magazines with the Diet Cola ads, all of the Diet Advertisments. (I am 51 so I have some recollection…and remember my Mom finally making the dream size)
Also for your consideration…sizes are indeed larger now than they were some 30 years ago. I currently wear a size 4…I possess some of my clothing from high school and also do some shopping at vintage shops for older, designer clothing from the late sixties and seventies. Believe me..clothing from today is much more generously sized than it was in the past. My size 6 blue jeans from high school are much smaller than my size 4 from today! Clothing manufactorers are crafty..they know women want to feel small so they have made patterns larger.
I have been taking a class for my Masters on Women in Western Civilization and am researching this for my currently for my thesis. Women are even cognizant that certain designers like Liz Claiborne routinely cut about one size larger than actually marked–yet they love the idea they can purchase that size smaller they so long for.
Just thought I would share!
In all kindness,
Robin

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