Teresa P-W
Former college lecturer.
Currently write teaching materials.
Location US
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I’m going to say “Bobby Jones on Golf.” It is often recommended not for golf but for it’s brilliance on how to teach something. I’ve read it but not really been able to spend time with it like I would like.
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Editability was a feature I used. I posted a FAQ for upcoming assignments, for example, that could be quickly edited and updated.
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One thing I teach students to do and I use myself is incorporate feedback. My lesson plans had a spot to add notes right after class on what worked or did not so I could make adjustments when I did that topic again. I also used techniques like minute papers on more difficult classes both to get responses and to allow the students to ask questions that I could...
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I think the move will continue to be away from campus as students seek out specialty skills from several sources rather than a long-term experience in one place. Campuses are also are struggling to define their own mission more and more and students know that too.
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When I started, I had to wheel a TV down the hall into my class to show video…at a major university. Now computers are on most classrooms and videos are accessible.
The biggest frustrations were finding where the last prof left the remote and handling complaints from profs that were angry if I moved desks or chairs despite the fact they are equipped with...
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Blackboard, D2L (Desire to Learn) and Angel are formats I’ve used as an instructor. Initially I liked the calendar and being able to post grades but later I dealt with assignments online. I never really used the “teacher posts stuff” features because they felt badly organized and I had a lovely class web site full of art and video, which they could not yet do...
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It makes sense for conveying basic information, the same way a large university has classes of 300 students or more or I watch a training video to fix pipes under my sink…there’s no personal contact just information to transmit. My kid goes to school and watches videos made by others most of the day now to learn history, science, music, etc. It can’t replace...
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I like the suggestion of cameras off most of the time but on to speak or for guest speakers.
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Teresa P-W replied to Alex P
At the same time, the pandemic exposed weaknesses of tech-based models that either need to be addressed or make us recognize the limits of what we can do.
Different techniques are probably going to have to be developed for different areas of study. The methods for the Italian classes described would not quite work for my public speaking classes and not at...
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My kids have been in online schools for 10 years. During the pandemic we kept hearing online school does not work but my kids’ school grew significantly in size. Certainly it can work but needs to be done well.
I stopped teaching 10 years ago to write educational material and am still working to make products flexible for teachers in various teaching...
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Katharina in “The Taming of the Shrew” uses language that is especially cutting and sarcastic. Even when she fakes being changed, she uses such hyperbole in praise and obedience that the audience is not fooled while Petruchio’s ego is stoked. She’s wonderfully “mean girl” and yet so funny.
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I live in the American South and had to look this one up. It is certainly growing an Internet myth (and sine they all have the same wording, clearly one person wrote it and everyone repeated it), but the idea of rowdy listeners protesting and making noise and throwing their cheap snacks that came from the kids show is the common understanding. As the class has...
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Teresa P-W replied to Clare Shepherd
I agree. Imperialism is, I think, what we used to call modernism, which was very much in vogue at that time…that there is a perfect form of each type of thing we need to identify and elevate. I can see Shakespeare being caught up in that (but faring better than phrenology).
However, I think the timeless compliment is deserved. We read very little from 400...
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Very much enjoyed the ‘gloomy’ article.
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We have nonce words that survive in small groups like our families. My oldest son’s imaginary friend he called Charlie Tooden so we referred to our other children’s imaginary friends or any similar situation as ‘toodens.’
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Most of the examples I would not count. The syllables are not created words, nor are the misspellings. Some malapropisms are new words in a sense but not likely to ever be used again as they are tied to their context. The younger child on Bluey said ‘trifficult’ when confusing trying and difficult and the family had a good laugh, but even though it is a hit...
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Personally, I love this process of looking for patterns and trends. Just on my own, I’ve been looking at how the word ‘but’ is used in the Bible and it has been so interesting.
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As we’ve seen, many of the new words were new combinations of old words (you understood “wireless printer” the first time you heard it) or borrowed from other languages, to which the well-educated or elite would have had more exposure than others. Besides that, I think it would be odd for a noble to execute a playwright and have to admit they did not...
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The 1,700 number seems very high. Clearly people are being exposed to more words through Shakespeare than other early sources that be lost or rare. His immediate friends were probably actors (at one point he was with traveling actors) who spent more time swapping stories than reading sermons and academic texts, so he could have borrowed a lot of words he heard...
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It would not be unusual, perhaps, for Shakespeare to use terms as defined in religious texts given the dominance of religion at the time. It would be less likely that the instructional, in the sense of academic books would be informing his language since those would have been largely confined to their university libraries. This is why genre should be taken...
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My first title when I worked in newspapers was compositor. No block letters in the 1990s but plenty of squeezing text to fit.
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I can see ‘plagiarizing’ or copying a well-known figure’s speech from another play, the way we might now quote a movie line or song lyric, to talk about that person or their situation. If plays were the primary mass media, that kind of cross-referencing makes sense.
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I do volunteer editing at Gutenberg.org and it is our style to remove spaces in many cases although the overall goal is to save original texts. I can see where it would matter in some cases.
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I wonder if putting the verb forward in the sentence helped too because because people were listening to the words rather than reading them. When listening, you only have one chance to hear what is happening and catch main ideas, so putting the verb ahead of the subject helps put the emphasis there. The playwright had the option of putting important words...
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When learning Latin, one of the translation options for present tense was with ‘do.’ I run, I am running, I do run were all offered as the same translation but I did not even teach the ‘do’ version to my students because it seems defensive and out-of-place to our ears.
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We might still use a double superlative for humorous emphasis, I think.
“I had my most funnest day as a teacher!”
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Poets and songwriters use these choices a lot, I think (often become oft). I looked up ‘Death be not proud’, which was 100 years after Shakespeare, though still in the same language era, and see thou and -est verbs together there too. The -est verbs often have an apostrophe removing the e so a syllable is not added, suggesting the verb choice is about style...
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I’m most familiar with ‘thou’ from the King James Bible and old hymns. When it pops up in Shakespeare, I tended to assume it was conveying respect or speaking in a plural. It’s quite funny to realize it is the opposite case.
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I think it is important in understanding others but also when you are the one who wants to write clearly. I wish I had learned more grammar in school. I got the most exposure while teaching my sons Latin.
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I don’t think foreign language is the correct view. Most words will be familiar and will not have to be decoded, even by beginners. We treat poetry as having to be interpreted and understood and some words examined for shades of meaning, but not as another complete language. I think that is a better approach for Shakespeare.
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I think the prefixes are particularly striking and effective, especially when they made the words have an opposite meaning. Richard III’s ‘discontent’ speech repeats several other words with opposite prefixes like ‘dissembling nature,
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It seems there would have been political implications with the use of French at the time that would not have been an issue with Latin since the French were often an enemy. The example about making fun of a French aristocrat would have made sense, of course. .
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Latin words have a lot of endings that can be recognized like -us and -a. They also share roots with a lot of French and Spanish words. It would be interesting to know because it is a clue about the character who is speaking…their status or how much they have traveled, for example.
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I think it is both together that most people think of…the language of the era (so saith I) and the clever, memorable phrases (there’s something rotten in the state of this football game).
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One result of fewer constraints is that different characters or groups can be shown to speak in very different ways or different ways at different times.
Another is that I could write a long monologue with little to no punctuation and give complete control to the actor and director for how it is to be read.
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The language is very rich with images and puns and historical allusions. It’s easy to miss things, even when you’re the one performing it on stage (I have done this a few times in amateur productions). We rarely take the time to make our language so rich unless composing a poem or song.
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Biggest lightbulb moment is that the ModiMed is not restrictive like the Mediterranean diet. It focuses more on getting nutrients in than leaving food groups or ingredients out. I think that is a sensible approach.
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Honestly, the main barrier for me is probably in my mind. My mother’s history of always dieting and frequently changing between fad diets left me angry at the whole process. As soon as I could work, I got a fast-food job to have a decent hot meal each day and to buy things for school she refused to do so she could pay diet coaches. I vowed not to hurt others...
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I read a book on resilience years ago (The Survivor’s Club) and was able to see how both short-term and long-term positive approaches to problem-solving make a difference. We tell our kids all the time, can you rephrase that complaint into looking for a solution?
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Buy or make a whole-grain bread once a week.
Replace afternoon crackers (crisps) with nuts 2-3 times a week.
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The affordability issue, in the U.S. anyway, comes from the fact that poor neighborhoods have higher prices at their grocery stores. It is often due to higher insurance costs, labor costs, local taxes, etc. It puts people in a position of choosing to travel a longer way to save on groceries (then is that savings offset by paying for gas/petrol, bus fare, time...
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Nuts, seeds, vegetables…these are the things that do not grow well where I live so there is a price increase just to get them here. I keep a variety of things in the house since we do cook but rely on deals (what the store has in that looks fresh at a good price) rather than set out to buy things I want.
With four kids at home we opt for quick processed...
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Teresa P-W replied to Larisa Elkina
I love pumpkin soup as well.
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We love yogurt parfaits…vanilla yogurt, cereal and blueberries.
We also make peanut butter smoothies…1/2 cup peanut butter, 1 banana, 1 cup vanilla yogurt, 1 cup milk, and a dash of cardamom mixed in a blender. You can add ice but it is better if the banana is frozen.
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The diet would work well for personalizing a nutrition plan. Fruits and vegetables are interchangeable here, for example, which works better for feeding my family with small kids. We eat vegetables at dinner, but fruit with other meals because that is what the kids prefer and I know they’ll eat it. Many eating plans push vegetables or allow only a few fruits...
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I understand it to be a plate that is 3/4 vegetables and 1/4 lean protein (fish or chicken breast without seasoning, the flavor is all from peppers). “Superfood” fruits (blueberries) and grains (quinoa, oats) are allowed and limited amounts of nuts for snacks. Sweets are permitted as treats but only with artificial sweeteners. I may be mixing in elements of...
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Teresa P-W replied to Patricia Ballard
Knowing the price of fish in my land-bound area, it is hard to imagine smiling all the time while dieting. ;)
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It was my understanding that the Mediterranean diet was largely debunked because the original researcher intentionally conducted his research during Lent when fewer people in the region were eating meat. I’m curious about new research.
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The idea that brain plasticity can be inhibited by functions in the rest of the body…that the brain has to be well-fed for it to work well. I knew this was important for children and brain development but had not considered it might still be important for older people since the brain is generally formed.
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The U.S. labels list some nutrients like carbs, fiber, fats and sodium. It then gives percent of recommended daily allowance of a few select vitamins and minerals. People do not use them often. I sometimes compare two packages to see which has more fiber, but that’s all.
The numbers are often seen as deceptive because small packages will be marked as...
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Yes, I had heard of all of the supplements mentioned as promising for depression. Omega-3s are supposed to help pain and B vitamins boost energy, so it makes sense if they do those things they could help with depression too.
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We love to cook with beans and have them in chili, soup and tacos. Blue cheese is wonderful in my favorite turkey burgers or cheese scones.
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One theory I’ve read is that commercial bread production has sharply increased the amount of yeast used to get a lighter texture customers like and a higher yield. This may be contributing to the problem.
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Teresa P-W replied to Anna Cattaneo
My Italian grandfather would only eat his mother’s recipes so grandma made them every day of her married life. They lived to 93 and 100. It was a lot of red sauce, beef, pork and pasta. The only fish I recall was fried calamari at Christmas. Could be the bickering that kept them going…
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Fish is not highly recommended in the U.S. because it is hard to get fresh in most of the country. The dairy lobby is very strong so dairy is strongly touted, though controversial among health experts. Legumes are rarely encouraged as only green vegetables are really promoted as healthy.
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I heard another speaker define brain plasticity recently and I can see how making behavior changes (like new habits to take care of yourself) could aid healthy changes in the brain.
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I think this is a good approach. Clearly neither food nor exercise affect everyone the same way and general guidelines ignore genetics, illness, interactions with medication, etc. I have a friend whose illness requires constant red meat consumption and a cousin who would die if he ate any red meat due to a tick-based allergy. We should be encouraging people to...
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I mentioned before that my mom tried every fad diet and diet service, so I recall a lot of these. You cannot sustain it because you get bored, or are at a restaurant out of town one day, or just run out of bananas. At some point your body will start craving the nutrients you’re leaving out.
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Teresa P-W replied to Peter Kenyon
There was an attempt to do this with public schools during Obama’s term. It led to a lot of wasted food (kids would not eat a pile of unsalted beans for lunch) and charges of hypocrisy (the private school Obama’s kids attended had a menu of processed foods). Kids started bringing food from home and even now the schools are trying to discourage that. It was an...
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I have not used a tool like this. I have considered it as a way to identify any food-based migraine triggers.
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The U.S. has them and they were recently revised to severely decrease carbs, which were prominent in the previous guidelines. The new ones are still under fire for minimizing protein and healthy fats, a dangerously low level of salt and using a debunked study as its basis. The childish graphics don’t help either. (I used to have my students critique the...
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Cost-consciousness—I tend to shop my favorite store sale ads and build meals around what is on sale.
What the kids will eat—we adopted three young kids who have some food issues and we introduce new things slowly and eat their favorites often.
Time—I cook a lot, but prefer meals I can prepare in the morning (like slow cooker) rather than in a late-day...
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The traditional diet has been a fad in the U.S. for some years, the latest thing promising to help people lose weight. I tend to be turned off by these things because my mom was constantly fad dieting while I was growing up (she never lost weight) and as kids it often left us hungry, short of money, and being punished for eating something we were being pushed...
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Sleep. I’ve seen how my mom’s dementia has been affected by sleeping problems.
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This is not something with an easy answer.
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You can’t change the past or DNA, but all of the other factors allow for some change.
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The definition sounds good, but is not very strong in detail. It seems like “realizes potential” is a long-term goal, not a place most people are. Also, someone can be “contributing to their community” without being healthy as we see people fall from visible positions due to hidden issues quite often.
The ability to function has to be part of the...
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Convenience food is more convenient and cost-efficient. Fresh vegetables spoil quickly, processed crackers (crisps) don’t. Where I live, plants do not grow well so nothing is ever local except the pork and beef roasts.
We’re also trained to seek solace in food or punish ourselves by denying certain food. That’s how it contributes to mental health, I think.
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These are good guidelines for learning. Online learning requires more interaction in writing for retention and to exchange ideas and feel a part of things.
A barrier for me is that I often do not comment if similar comments have already been made and I have nothing new. This class is also very far from my area of experience. Not sure how to overcome those...
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Hi, I am Teresa from Tennessee in the U.S. I am interested in the topic broadly right now.
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I would make an exhibit of headwear. Henry’s hunting hat, the veils and headpieces from weddings, Victoria’s black lace and select from whatever else was available.
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Her clothes are more solid colors and not as form-fitting. This is appropriate to growing older gracefully.
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That was cool. I did not know any of that.
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I think it is a lot of different places. A designer might put something on the runway or a character might have a look on a tv show that starts a trend. In 2008 it was an unpopular U.S. politician that set the trend in eyeglasses for the next ten years because they were unusual and looked so good on her.
I think there are anti-fashion trends too. Donald...
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Perhaps she’ll be most associated with lace, both in her wedding dress and clothes of that era and the headdresses she wore with the black mourning clothes.
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Not too long ago, there was an age that you gave up blue jeans and sneakers (they were not allowed in class where I went to college and I’m not really that old). Personally I think there should be an age that you give up leggings, and I think that age is 4.
Otherwise I think we see clothing changes at the move to professional jobs and when kids move to...
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The U.S. can have a variety of traditions, as people bring diverse backgrounds or simply do their own thing. Certainly white dresses, lace and veils are common, though I have never heard of orange blossoms being more common than any other flower.
(I was married in a suit at the registry office because I wanted zero fuss, another tradition I think more...
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I can understand the tradition of having a trousseau, since there was a big change to ‘grown up’ clothes after marriage. We just don’t have that now. That being said, I would gladly have accepted a gift of nice business attire timed to my marriage and graduate school graduation.
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Teresa P-W replied to Delta Iturralde
Part of why they look old is that photos at that time required you to be still for several minutes so it would not be blurry. That’s why so few people smiled, it was too hard to hold a smile that long. Having your face frozen and stiff that long would make it tense and look old and wrinkly.
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People are generally more careless with taking photos since bad ones can be discarded with no cost invested for time, film or processing. Staged photos are usually for gimmicks (the moon in a basketball hoop) or to impress others in a beautiful place.
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I looked at Haiti. Not much was mentioned about the dress in wedding traditions, but in photos it appears that dresses are white for those who can afford them. Some other interesting traditions are that there is no cake at the reception…it is served at home days later and the whole bridal party walks to church and enters together along with anyone else they...
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I’m trying to picture the process by which the queen gives undergarments to an important family and I’m not coming up with it. Did people just take home a surprise bag after a visit or did they discuss and negotiate? It’s so hard to imagine.
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Similar elements include gold floral embroidery, decorated collars and sleeves, long tails, subtle indicators of rank like colors and symbols and a high price. We’ve seen the dark blue several times too.
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Probably the cardigan sweater. I wear them in cotton all year long and can think of five more colors I’d like right now.
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I agree with others that it seems to have gotten a bad name needlessly. It seems very supportive and the extreme tightening was by choice, not required. The tying would be tedious and likely someone dressing themselves would keep it simpler. At my stage of life, anything that will get rid of bra straps seems worth a try.
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Support hose were popular years ago. They shaped your legs to look sleek. The pressure they put on your legs was supposed to boost circulation and I think many people still wear them for that reason. I used to wear them when I worked in a standing job.
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Today a lot of fashion is about using our technology like hi-tech watches and sleek pants or jackets that allow us to carry our stuff. Artificial fibers created in labs are part of fashion too, with athletic wear becoming daily wear but I hope this one will pass.
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Probably the animal skin hat associated with Davy Crockett is the article of clothing most connected to the state I live in: https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Davy_Crockett The hats appear at school football games and in songs connected to the state. Everyone who could get them wore them at one time, of course, but Davy Crockett’s legend ties them to...
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I think he wanted the Tudor look for two reasons. 1. To liven up the duller style his father had introduced. 2. To exert British dominance by pointing back to a strong era and tradition and away from some more recent history like losing the Colonies and the rise of Napoleon’s empire.
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I tend to keep old things too long. I still have the sweater my grandfather got for playing basketball in high school. I had to stop wearing it because it was getting worn in some places. I still have some gowns that I wore doing plays in the ‘90s.
I tend to donate things in good condition but usually because it doesn’t fit and I lack skill to adapt it or...
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I love the idea of having long-lasting attractive metal buckles that could be reused on different items like shoes, bags, shawls, belts. I’ve gotten in the habit of saving the metal items from things I have to throw away because they can often be used to repair something else.
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The Inconveniences of a Modern Drawing Room is mocking high fashion for laughs and perhaps to suggest they tone it down a bit. The fashions are probably exaggerated but based on real features. People are struggling in doorways and stepping or bumping into each other. They are unable to retrieve dropped items. They look glamorous and foolish.
We do mock...
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I think the prints are sending the message that you should not be foolish or lose your dignity in the pursuit of fashion. We see the same thing when people mock runway fashions or catalog offerings.
It’s probably exaggerated. We don’t see men in pink short suits...
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Clothing changes seem to move in rebellion of what came before. When I first started teaching, I commented that students were wearing what my mother had worn as a teen, the stuff my peers had avoided. They vowed their style was here to here to stay and my teen-year style, like skinny jeans and ruffled tops, would never come back. It did, of course.
I don’t...
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They likely went out of fashion due to expense and upkeep. I imagine they started as an attempt to look young and went all sorts of directions from there.
Hair now tends to stay long and male and female styles are pretty similar. Both sexes often either wear a brush-up or let long layers hang down (or put them in a simple updo).
I think the factors...
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People still read instructions online for tying a necktie or bow tie or folding a pocket handkerchief despite efforts to get rid of these styles.
Some articles of clothing are sought to be restricted to particular ethnic groups, more or less successfully. A museum in the U.S. apologized for allowing a group of patrons to try on a formal kimono during a...
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Teresa P-W made a comment
I’m not working outside of home now, so my clothing budget has cut back but we spend more on a good suit for my husband when he needs it. It’s his equivalent of court clothes, I guess, since he has had to do public events with the governor and other politicians at times.
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I think today clothes send a message about how much you care about being on trend or rebelling against trends. So many of the styles that catch on now are meant to look inexpensive, though they still might cost a lot for people willing to pay, so only rare occasions are about showing off wealth.
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When I was researching this period for some writing, I was surprised how quickly the fashion jumped from what we associate with Shakespeare to the Pilgrims to Three Musketeers to George Washington. Charles II seems to be a marked transition from Three Musketeers toward George Washington.
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Teresa P-W replied to Mary C
Love that blue.
