LadyBeth

Sorry it’s been awhile since I posted. I’ve been busy at work and volunteering at church. Since I started wearing skirts and dresses all the time, I decided to indulge in my love of vintage clothing. The styles of the 40s and 50s wear just so much more classic and feminine, but also ladylike and modest. I’ve found that for a real vintage look, you have to wear vintage foundation garments. This means girdles! I wear an open bottom girdle daily. They are gartered, of course and you have to wear stockings attached to keep the girdle from riding up. Besides, vintage fully fashioned stockings are the ultimate in classy, beautiful hosiery. A comment made by a young lady at an online vintage forum says it best:
“It all depends on what you wear with them (fully fashioned stockings). I wear mine everyday with my vintage. I even wore them to the flea market yesterday. I just feel more comfortable in skirts and stockings than jeans and tennis shoes. I got tons of comments, mostly from older people saying, those are from my era!”

I mean, talk about a HUGE mistake. It’s really hard to believe they have been the only real choice in lady’s hosiery for so long. I guess a bigger mistake is today’s “bare legs” look which is, unfortunately making all stlyes of hosiery extinct. Maybe bare legs are in because everyone is simply fed up with pantyhose. They’re just so inchy, uncomfortable and cheap… who needs them? But really, there’s only a very few of us gals who have absolutely perfect legs. And besides, who really wants to bake themselves in ultraviolet rays or slather their legs in dyes and chemicals enough to make them unblemished and tan enough to appear in public. Besides, I think going out barelegged is just, well kinda disreputable and unladylike. Obviously stockings and garters are the only way to go and wearing them makes me feel so girlish and feminine. Really, every lady should try them… I’m a happy girl since I did and now where them all the time.

I’ve always loved the past, even as a little girl. I can remember watching classic old movies on TV or video and loving the way everything looked, the cars, the homes and especially the way the actors and actresses dressed. Everyone just looked more stylish and classy in those old fashioned style than the people I came into contact with in daily life. I always wondered why all the styles changed (or maybe “devolved” in a better word). But being a modern day girl, I wore modern day clothes for most of my life, t-shirts, jeans, crop tops, capris, etc. Of course when I grew older and discovered that lots of people shared my love of things past, I dfound that the vintage fashions I loved could still be found at thrift stores or online vendors. But I only bought them occasionally, a dress here for a dance, a pencil skirt there, just to wear something different to school. Things have really changed recently, though… I started going to chuch, was saved and devoted my life to the Lord. I deided thatI should start dressing like a young lady, not just occasionally or when I went to church, but all the time. I’ve since given up wearing pants and now wear skirts and dresses everyday. Since I also dress more modestly, wearing the vintage clothes I love all the time seems like a natural thing to do. All the dresses, skirts, blouses and suits are sooo ladylike and feminine, and I like that a lot.