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Offline Matthew

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Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #75 on: March 13, 2018, 08:45:22 PM »
Someone wrote to me asking to post this; she was having trouble attaching the image.

Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #76 on: March 13, 2018, 09:21:13 PM »
Someone wrote to me asking to post this; she was having trouble attaching the image.
I would still call that immodest, as tight as those tops are.
Seems to me, you have to go back to the 1400 or 1500s to find "fashion" which was modest.
Photos in order from:
1808
 1805
 1710
 1700's
 1600
 1500
 1400
Which is why we try to stick with the "fashion" of Our Lady:  loose, not revealing, does not call attention to oneself, and feminine.


Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #77 on: March 13, 2018, 09:32:22 PM »
I agree, form fitting is immodest, no matter what century.  

Overstuffed Sausage?/Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #78 on: March 13, 2018, 10:35:55 PM »

There has been for some reason a sudden arrival of Novus Ordo Latina women to our chapel.  Latina women are the most affected group by this dress-provocatively-to-attract-men mindset [....]

Your sentence was very confusing as you posted it: It appeared to contain an editing error that wasn't detected before posting, e.g., having some necessary words deleted by mistake.  You can't expect readers to understand your use of an entire clause as a compound adjective (must you even try?) when you fail to insert the hyphens (e.g., as in green above) that grammatically change that clause into a compound adjective that's correctly parsable.  Much better yet, how about "Latina women are the group most affected by this mind-set of dressing provocatively to attract men"?


Here is an example of the typical clothes they wear to mass, everything is always skin tight, like sausage casing.

Ugh!  Young Latina women, of whom there is no shortage in Central Florida, seem to consider obesity a characteristic to be flaunted instead of disguised, unlike women of nonLatina cultures in the U.S.A.   I'm fascinated that your, um, model displays what might be called platform buttocks: a characteristic that I've been told is typically negroid.  Altho' from the colonization history of the New World, we should not be surprised that such genes would manifest in various Latinas.  Pregnancy and recovery from the weight-gain once routinely recommended by physicians during pregnancies seems not to explain the majority of the obese young Latinas.  Perhaps if the young Latinas I am routinely sighting from day-to-day were of their "educated" class, e.g., college coeds or degree-bearing professionals, their attitudes and my overall impressions might be different?

We in Central Florida are enduring the arrival of on the order of 100,000 Puerto Ricans over the past 6 months (numbers waved around range loosely from 1/2 to 3 times that round number), blamed on the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, but to keep this on topic, I expect their clothing styles to be more of the same.  Perhaps you're getting some of our overflow?

Maybe your photo would be worthwhile in a CathInfo topic from 2 months ago in a different subforum:
•  <https://www.cathinfo.com/health-and-nutrition/40-percent-of-u-s-adults-are-obese/>?
From my perspective here, the "40%" is rolling-on-the-floor-laughably low as an estimate.


[....] and despite bouncing from one man to another all their lives, they continue with the same error, teaching it to their daughters.

So with all that "bouncing" from man to man, when do those Latinas find time to settle into a validCatholic marriage during which they produce "their daughters"?   Shouldn't spinsterhood act as a genealogical dead-end for Latinas who teach "the same error" [†] that left them as spinsters?

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Note †: You are wearing blinders that prevent you from considering another habit that I've been told Latina mothers teach to daughters; it could be a severe error in treatment of any man who has self-respect, thus killing a romantic relationship that might otherwise lead to a Catholic marriage.  But it doesn't fit your agenda, and I concede that it would be off-topic.

Re: Slow Boiling the Mass Fashions of Women
« Reply #79 on: March 13, 2018, 11:03:24 PM »
SO expensive!
We stick to used stores.  No one buys the modest ones, so they're always on clearance.   :)
Luckily they run constant promotions so you don't end up paying that price (I must say though, I do think it's a fair price for a quality product). I paid around $30 for the first dress I ordered. It really is hard to beat considering how customized they are. They are of excellent quality as well. If We could afford it, I'd buy more. 
You can find nice fabric at estate auctions around here for pennies a box, so it makes the most sense for me to make my own skirts and dresses for the most part.
Thrift stores are a good idea in theory for me, but in all my years of looking I've only found one dress that fit me right (that I actually liked). It might be worth my time to look around more once my girls get older.