Monday, monday today, that brings to mind The Mamas and Papas ;). Watching Lucy Worsley on 'America History's biggest Fibs' was the catalyst. Surely Worsley with her 'little girl' image does not seem the right historian but there again she is Joint Chief Curator of the Royal Historic Palaces, she is a blue-stocking and much favoured on tv as a presenter. Anyway she dances her way through America draped in the colours of the flag, and it is interesting and informative programme.
Little girlism? A Xmas book, was a Japanese book of very simple things to make, it even has the patterns at the back
Look at those poses, meek, submissive, a broken doll? Well definitely not like the strident female politicians that occupy Parliament at the moment, but I know which model I prefer, even if they are strident.... And when you look at the patterns one can easily make them into more grown-up clothes, especially tunics.
There is a cult in Japan of little 'girlism' all cute and childish, I don't approve to be honest basically because it lives on the edge of porn or paedophilia's, but there again freedom of dress and speech? how difficult it is to live in this New World......
I agree with you that the Japanese focus on little girls is quite creepy (ick-those little white socks) and, I imagine, very limiting for Japanese women.
ReplyDeleteI often wonder if it started with Japanese Manga cartoons, but not a role model for young females I think.
DeleteI have to admit that I have basically resigned from the 'real world' Thelma. Cowardly perhaps but really it slips further away from me and I make little or no effort to get back into it.
ReplyDeleteYesterday our local comprehensive had to empty because of a hoax bomb threat. Children - and increasingly adults - spend most of their time scrolling up and down on their iphones or whatever and no longer do people seem just to notice the world around them. I don;t think I have much desire to live in this new world.
True Pat, but your grandchildren occupy it and how it evolves is important.
ReplyDeleteThe thing we must not do is demand that the 'old world' is the model. I would love to read the history books for our era in thirty years time ;)