In theatrical costuming, we do this with Velcro dots for quick changes!

Na....just amazed with your beauty and style. Don't want you clothes, would not.take anything from you....besides inspiration

Oh my God I want all your clothes❤❤❤❤❤❤

Great outfit - the colours really look good on you 💕💕💕

Best dressed for sure. Your style is not at all "costumy". It has a morden edge to the vintage take, is suuuper flatering and chic. I am looobing your channel and recommending to friends. Cheers from Brazil!

Absolutely love this video!

thank u so much my detailed brain needed a review of these exact two !!

I always wear my apron/cobbler’s apron when cooking or cleaning. I also crochet and try to mend clothes if possible though I’m not a seamstress. Love all these old fashioned things!!!

Omg I wore those as a child. My grandma put those little rollers in my hair with these brushes inside they hurt sleeping in them

Both with and without makeup you're features are that of a 1950's model.. Hollywood can use people like you in movies! - I'm not trying to flatter. I just know what I see 🙂

Definitely agree that survival bias is an issue. As a former Archaeology student we were taught this very thing. Just looking at my own close family and direct ancestors I can think of my grandma, my two great aunts, my dad, at least one set of great great grandparents, my partners grandma who were all larger bodied and two extraordinarily tall great great grandads! They are the ones I know of and have photos of! There are many many reasons why some clothes survive and not others. Poorer people re-used every scrap of clothing and fabric right down to eventually using it as polishing rags, therefore richer people’s clothing is more likely to survive and let’s just say, thinness was more cherished by socialites than by working class busy people. People are sentimental and tend to keep ‘the dress I met your father in’ from when they were in their teens and twenties, the same for wedding dresses when people often married very young, younger than today on average. A lot of women are slimmer as teens and in their twenties and gain sizes after having children. Those clothes get kept or handed down the everyday plus sizes get worn to death. There are periods that are popular for vintage such as the 40s where rationing was severe at least in Europe and people were not eating many calories so small sizes were more usual. In the 1950s and into the 1960s diet pills were handed out like sweeties and diet culture was damagingly rife so more people were thin who, perhaps today if they could just happily live their lives, would be larger (and happier!). Sample sizes and dead stock clothing having higher survival rates? Foundation garments such as corsets and girdles being the norm, cutting down waist sizes to an unrealistic size if you don’t want to wear those. ..So much to say on this one! Thanks for a great thought-provoking video!

I use a French coffee press. I have some afghans my grandma made love them. Her yellow rose dishes, old Christmas decorations from when I was a little girls. Many things. I love them and use them. Some of her furniture so well made love it

People nowadays can be so mean and judge mental. I think you’re beautiful, I absolutely love your style. I was born in the early 1950’s and I love your style. There was a song from the 1960’s some of the words were make your own kind of music sing your own special song😂

love your channel I had to subscribe

I look at my family's photos and crack up whenever I hear that folks of size didn't exist in the past! My gran said her mom wore her clothes forever, because there weren't a lot of shopping options in our city. She sewed her own things, and taught my Gran and all my great aunts to sew too.

Fabulous discussion. My daughter and I both have an interest in vintage fashion. I am an avid knitter and love to find antique and vintage knitting patterns and recreate them. I have noticed, however, that the vast majority of vintage patterns are definitely NOT size inclusive. I find this puzzling, given that vintage plus-sized clothing was readily available as you say. Maybe there are vintage size-inclusive patterns out there, but if there are, I’ve found very few. I wonder why … 🤔

Nice collection. The wool camel/beige hat is actually a fall/winter hat and attached scarf on either side is to protect ears and wind proof.❤

My aunt used to shop at a store called “The Stout Shop.” The styles were for “old ladies.”

I honestly had no idea that Lerner’s and Lane Bryant existed that long ago. I thought they started out in the 80’s or so. Thanks for the education- great video!

I loved shopping at Lerner's!

PS--as a man who loves women, I really like the style this young lady is showing here. So many young women just frankly dress like slobs. l also like women with curves, not stick figures or those who look like boys in drag. I'm out of this loop, but I remember my mother dressing like these women--every day! You don't have to spend tons of money to be elegant, not at all.

I grew up in the fifties and sixties. I can easily count on the fingers of one hand the number of fat women (and men, for that matter). Go looking here on YT at candid street scenes in old films; there are dozens on here. How many fat people do you see? Few. I think it's diet, particularly manipulated food mixed with chemicals. And yes, I speak as a guy who used to weigh over 300 lb until a health crisis in my sixties caused me to simply switch back to a vintage diet. No weight loss drugs, none of that stuff. I lost well over 100 lb, and being somewhat crippled, it was done without exercise and without starving. I wish all you fat ladies the best because I know it's not just a matter of eating less. Best wishes from Texas!

Hi! I just found you last night on Pinterest, while I was looking for posts to enhance my 40s mood board, and I've been binge watching your content. But since I've watched this particular video too, I think it's a great opportunity to say "thank you" for all the information and insights that you share and to leave this quote: “May you never be the reason why someone who loved to sing, doesn’t anymore. Or why someone who dressed so uniquely, now wears plain clothing. Or why someone who always spoke so excitedly about their dreams, is now silent about them. May you never be the reason someone gave up on a part of themselves because you were demotivating, non-appreciative, hypercritical, or even worse-sarcastic about it.” ― Sharouk Mustafa Ibrahim

I just found you a couple of days ago and I have REALLY enjoyed your videos. I have only now at the age of 56, decided to live the vintage life I have always wanted. ( menopause has a way of doing that! ) I literally have no idea what I'm doing tho so watching these videos are very educational. ( curly girl too ) I too have been a witch, just like you.....eclectic but mostly green and hearth. I didn't get into all the "things" that many deemed important to have but simply used everyday items. But I've recently gave it up. I'm just an old old soul. I crave the old ways. I'm just a Granny woman. ( a Claire who has a real life Jamie )❤😊 I don't associate as a witch but I still see the power of the moon and rituals of the Sabbats. I was raised and married into a Baptist family. God is still my Savior. But I just have a different spirituality. 😉🫠 ( and this is the first time I have written ANYTHING like this because I have always kept it private! )

Love your commentary and overall presentation.... Look forward to more videos!!

Hello dear you.. Thank you for your honesty. I've just discovered your channel and your authenticity is very inspiring. Hope you can shield yourself from all the people who don't understand this. Viel Erfolg, I wish you all the best in Vienna.

lovely😀🙏

If you look at modern clothing there is a lot less construction. It’s cheaper to produce. Back in the day people had a lot less clothing and were willing to pay more for it. I loathe fast fashion but are we willing to pay for USA made clothing? People getting a fair living wage?

I wish we still had solid, reliable wardrobes. I've read that cheap, fast fashion is the second most polluting industry after fossil fuels. 😢

This is absolutely true! My large grandmother designed and sewed her own dresses... she was beautiful! 😊

I have family pictures from the 20s. On both sides of my family the men and women had large bodies. I'm guessing the women were at least a modern size 26.

Your hair is gorgeous…you’re a very classy lady. Thank you for this honest and informative video

As a pubescent girl a bit plump, I remember the clothing section called husky. Yes, husky was how those figures were described and this was in the girls' section.

I was a child in the 1950s and very few people back then were obese and they made their own clothes. It wasn’t until the early 1980s when obesity became common.

Beautiful!!!

I think there was less obesity in the past and that can be proven but I can also remember the 50’s and after. There were much fewer obese people. I’m a size 18 now and I think that diet and more sedentary lifestyles have contributed to a greater percentage of us carrying more body fat. I’m not shaming anyone and I’m angry about any discrimination due to body size but that doesn’t stop me from facing the facts. I think a concentration on guaranteeing that all children get good nourishment, education and physical activity would be one healthy step we could take. Another thing we need to do is to denounce products passing for “food “ that are terrible for us.

I don’t understand why you would get nasty comments. This is the first time I see you on KZbin, and I see a lovely woman who is very stylish, elegant and lovely. You also express yourself in an intelligent, genuine and polite way, so I am planning to watch more of your videos to see what fascinating things you have to share about style, traveling and life in general. ❤️🌞🌎🌈

Look after Number One. (Hint: That's you.) L, T

Thanks so much for this. I have wondered about this for years. I’m a firm size 18. I was born in 1968 so reusing fabric was not really being done. I thought that there were just fewer overweight people “because times were tough” and that overweight people were just hard on their clothes. But listening to you I do remember a scene from Happy Days where Marion (the mother) was taking an enormous dress from a bigger relative and cutting it down to make shirts nobody wanted and even a scarf for Fonzie. (I couldn’t find it on KZbin) I thought it was hilarious that anyone would even bother doing that. I’m obviously from a different time. I will say you are correct it is a wonderous time for finding what you want. I ordered a gorgeous "vintage" dress from Amazon for less than $30 and I ended up ordering it in two colors. That would have never happened even 5 years ago!

It seems like women have been told since the end of the Stone Age that the worst thing that can happen to them is getting fat, wars and famine be damned, and the main reasons women even are getting bigger is the combination of sedentary lifestyle and fast food.

Just block em.

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Beautiful you are 😍 hlw I'm Mehndi artists,

Just my opinion but I think there were fewer overweight or extra large people because people were more active and everyone ate much healthier,yes there were some but not like today

You have a lovely look and what looks to be a beautiful apartment. I hope that you can choose a path that makes you happy and builds genuine connection

Ti ho scoperta oggi e mi sono già iscritta e ti approvo. Video originale e finalmente una donna vera che rappresenta una femminilità autentica. Hai classe da vendere!! A presto

Fabulous 🙌

FIRST TIME VIEWER love your style 💕 especially loved the way you make a bed exactly how my Gran taught me when I was a little girl with the bed quilt over the pillow xx it took me back to my time with her 🙏 Keep doing you xx

Very interesting!