Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Stout Women May Wear Draped Skirts
"The graceful model, illustrated on a woman of full figure, will convince the most skeptical that women of avoirdupois need not shun drapery."
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1913,
Draped Skirts,
July,
McCall's Magazine,
Stout Women
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Oh my goodness! I now have a new way of describing myself! I'm not a woman with a menopausal spare tire; I'm a woman of avoirdupois !!!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds so much more...je ne sais quois ! LOL
I like the idea of tossing that word around...it'll baffle the young. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe time when a 32" waist could be considered "stout" has long gone, I suspect.
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