In their Spring Fashion 2010 issue, New York Magazine proclaims Christina Hendricks the Woman Of The Hourglass:
NYMag is a snobby Bolshe rag, but I must agree with them on this one.
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Pope Voluptuosus I
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I was wondering what took you so long…
HaHa!I told on you and Smitty.
Wearing lingerie as outer garments, along with alluring bras under sheer blouses, was common during the Carter years and into the Reagan ones. UCLA Medical School or something like as I recall issued a dress code banning the sheer blouses, which were prolific, worn by nurses and secretaries. Probably UCLA were not the only ones doing this. The puritans reasserted themselves with the Clintons and remained with the Bushes and Soeteros. But there is reason to believe that the urge in the lingerie/sheer direction is due for reassertion. It was rampant following WWI, as movies of the era show, including sheer skirts — in polite society, which is NYMag, supposedly. During the Napoleonic era it was rampant. French influence since the Revolution always trends towards license, or as they say, “French traditional.” In this connection, it is noteworthy that the Soviet, which descended from the French Revolution, was puritanical, at least officially. Tolstoy’s later life (he was a proto-Communist by then) was a misguided effort to overcome the guilt he experienced over his Russian Aristocrat traditional and hard-driven promiscuity with his serfs, his slaves, which were many. Generally, it is the wealthy or super-affluent who think to wear lingerie as outer garments and/or sheer blouses and skirts. Their circle of acquaintances and circumstances of living are not usually of the kind as to result in their being forced into a back room, so they are relatively safe in the webs their wealth weave. As general affluence spreads, however, the danger level the wealthy and super-affluent face because of the clothing they wear increases. Persons come into their circles and circumstances who lack refinement but have money. Money is a poor screen for safety — therefore, the bodyguards of the rich and famous, who are really no more than tripwires. Still, the transfixing power of the feminine form is hardly to be gainsaid, no matter the circumstances of its presentment.
Spot on, Rev.