He says: Scout, since you brought up fashion a couple of posts ago, I thought you might enjoy this quote that describes Aunt Alexandra's habiliment (a good word that I believe I saw for the first time in "To Kill a Mockingbird"):
Protective garments?? Ha, ha, aren't you glad women don't dress like that anymore?!
You know, I put off reading this book for years because I was under the impression that it was a drab story with a heavy-handed moral, and worse, that the moral was no longer relevant. Well, maybe we'll talk about the moral later, but I'm here to tell you now that there is a lot of humor in this book!
Today was Sunday, and Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord's Day. I guess it was her Sunday corset. She was not fat, but solid, and she chose protective garments that drew up her bosom to giddy heights, pinched in her waist, flared out her rear, and managed to suggest that Aunt Alexandra's was once an hour-glass figure. From any angle, it was formidable.
Protective garments?? Ha, ha, aren't you glad women don't dress like that anymore?!
You know, I put off reading this book for years because I was under the impression that it was a drab story with a heavy-handed moral, and worse, that the moral was no longer relevant. Well, maybe we'll talk about the moral later, but I'm here to tell you now that there is a lot of humor in this book!
She says: Atticus, it's such a testament to how women are viewed in general when we consider how restrictive their clothing has been through the decades. Everything and anything to enhance the female form and figure. Irritable would be an understatement if I had to lace myself into a corset every Sunday, I would be down right homicidal.
Funny, as liberated as we women of today consider ourselves, we're still a slave to fashion and all it's discomfort. For those of you who have ever spent any length of time in a pair of 6 inch platform heels, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
I agree with you 100% it is a terribly amusing book despite it's heavy topics.
Funny, as liberated as we women of today consider ourselves, we're still a slave to fashion and all it's discomfort. For those of you who have ever spent any length of time in a pair of 6 inch platform heels, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
I agree with you 100% it is a terribly amusing book despite it's heavy topics.
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