I'm 60. I remember the big thick fall edition of Vogue, how we looked forward to it! I made most of my clothes and good fabrics were readily available. I haven't lost my desire for style but the lack of good fabrics is just so disappointing. I have a wealth of styles in my head, and a great many sketches but no fabrics to create them with :(
@stellarsjay17737 ай бұрын
I agree about the lack of suitable fabrics. Fabric stores seem to full of quilting fabrics.
@reginamemoriesforever-vc8ql6 ай бұрын
This is disheartening 😢
@arribaficationwineho326 ай бұрын
I stopped reading Vogue.
@donnasherwood2836 ай бұрын
you are 100 % correct all by deliberation
@d.annejohnson56316 ай бұрын
Get to the fabric district in NYC.... There are a few stores which sell mill ends of fabrics used for designers... American,not so much European. European designer fabrics could be found in Milan,...
@versuskid42327 ай бұрын
I worked as a coordinator for trunk shows at a high end luxury department store in Beverly Hills years ago. Whenever we had something for Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, Bill Blass, Christian Lacroix, Chado by Ralph Ricci Mrs. Bloomingdale would come in to see these collections and place an order. I would get excited to see clients like her instead of an a-list celebrity who usually drops by. I was always curious and anxious to see which looks she would order from these collections. It was fun to see how a haute couture client selects their picks from these designers. This gracious woman has devine taste and respect for couture with great style. For me she’s one of the all time best dressed socialites up there with Nan Kempner and Lynn Wyatt.
@samanthab19237 ай бұрын
Makes me think back to reading Suzy in the Daily News & W. Mercedes Kellogg, Ann Bass, Pat Buckley, Nancy Kissinger, Blaine Trump.
@jtrain56152 жыл бұрын
Every time Betsy Bloomingdale says, "it's different today" she's really saying, "it sucks today."
@lizziebkennedy7505 Жыл бұрын
She’s right.
@ghostmanscores1666 Жыл бұрын
The age of swans
@sealisa1398 Жыл бұрын
It's historical, keep it in perspective.
@virginiaboone81639 ай бұрын
@jtrain Amen!!!!
@blackvirgo098 ай бұрын
She's right
@joannemcmillan92017 ай бұрын
She’s right about things being different. Models used to really model a dress so you could see it. Now they dash down the runway like awkward colts. And most times the customer saw very little.
@Kandid-k7 ай бұрын
Awkward colts 😂🤣 sadly I understand your frustration
@matta89317 ай бұрын
This was a time when high fashion had class. Today , fashion pretty much has no class.
@terry41377 ай бұрын
You’re right!
@SJ-ni6iy7 ай бұрын
Today’s fashion is measured by it’s shock value. It has to be extremely ridiculous or a new way to be over the top vulgar.
@terry41377 ай бұрын
Oh my! The good ole days! They dressed with elegance and class back then…what the hell happened?
@misscleo3787 ай бұрын
My grandpa blames the 60s and the counter culture/ hippies.
@mediterraneanworld6 ай бұрын
Some people dressed very well, I think over time people realized much of what we did was unnecessary and uncomfortable, for example, men wearing suits to work. While in some professions and situations yes it made sense, I remember how uncomfortable it could be. I do agree that people do not take care as to how they look and that the dominance of youth culture sucks all the oxygen out of the room.
@AFAskygoddess7 ай бұрын
I'd say Betsy lived a charmed life. Lucky her.
@truthseeker4446 ай бұрын
After watching this I wondered who her English mother was, so I read her Wiki page, and realised this docu only shows the good bits! When her husband died his long term on again/off again mistress sued his estate for palimony, as he had promised she would be taken care of for the rest of her life, but when he died Betsy cut her off. The said mistress was murdered before the suit ended, her estate was awarded $200,000. The mistress was also a drug addict and occasional prostitute, Alfred apparently had some really weird sexual preferences, like beating his partners with a leather belt! So as they say, "all that glitters is not gold", imagine getting into bed with that dude every night! Betsy also had legal woes with customs, as she had given the wrong prices for a collection of French couture gowns that she bought, so it might all look charmed on the surface.
@goldenage3232 жыл бұрын
I don't understand all the hatred towards this lady in the comments. Funny how many comments say she is superficial. Well... she is being questioned about her wardrobe and fashion memories in the golden days of haute couture. Not about nuclear science ! Not to mention all the people calling her ugly... says a lot about who is superfial in this equation... This lady exudes such an elegant and refined vibe, while remaining very humble. Her wardrobe recreates the history of high fashion, when designers had actual taste and clients were real ladies who came to buy the clothes, not some 17 year old instagram fashionista. Y'all will say this is all thanks to her husband's fortune. Well... be it. She was raised in a rich family and married rich. What's the problem with that ? Thanks Miss Bloomingdale for giving us a chance to look at your wardrobe that is a living representation of fashion history and societal evolution.
@gustacano17492 жыл бұрын
Crazy
@lizziebkennedy7505 Жыл бұрын
Intense jealousy.
@CuirPhotodotNet Жыл бұрын
....she is the California girl who lived a great stylish life....she is not ugly....
@user-lb4cg3ty5w Жыл бұрын
You are joking right?
@CQ-3697 ай бұрын
Rich people can be talented too. They invented "style", after all.
@BuckWinthrop10 ай бұрын
What an incredibly elegant and kind woman. I enjoyed this immensely. Absolutely no arrogant vibes from this icon. Unlike her friend Nancy Reagan who was like dry ice.
@eveyholmes8 ай бұрын
She came to the restaurant I managed in Beverly Hills, many times.
@erhs797 ай бұрын
I was at this event ..... it was pure Magic !!!!
@tchrisou8127 ай бұрын
I would love to here some stories and I imagine everyone here would too.
@Linda-pw8gx Жыл бұрын
She lived through a most wonderful time
@PrincessDie187 Жыл бұрын
What beautiful granddaughters
@CuirPhotodotNet Жыл бұрын
....stunning looking....outrageously healthy hair....real California Girls.....
@kerrya21282 жыл бұрын
Intersting story👍She seems a brilliant lady with a great sense of fashion and tastes💖
@miguelvelasco81733 жыл бұрын
She’s terribly humble. Sounds like a lovely woman.
@elinaerni3282 жыл бұрын
Nice storyteller, but outwardly she is absolutely unsympathetic and too masculine - and all these magnificent dresses on a woman with a creepy old hairstyle look completely uninteresting
@gustacano17492 жыл бұрын
What?. Humble is the last thing that person was. Disgusting and superficial.
@patr70 Жыл бұрын
@@elinaerni328 She was in her 80s here.. how will you look in your 80s?
@thecompendium96077 ай бұрын
All the rose colored glasses in these comments are sending me! Couturiers still exist, they're just not the same names as in the past. Chanel, Dior, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Hermes...they've all gone corporate and make most of their profits from perfume and cosmetics. None of them are true luxury brands anymore.
@rickydep2 жыл бұрын
4:20 with the beautiful Lynn Wyatt. Bestsy, in her day, was quite gorgeous.
@monicaturk80012 жыл бұрын
good taste , slim but not a pretty face .
@briancooney71832 жыл бұрын
Lynn Wyatt is a legendary personality who has done tremendous good for the homeless and the city of Houston.
@MissPerriwinkle7 ай бұрын
fashion industry::: one of the biggest pollluters on earth.
@stuartaltus27523 жыл бұрын
Excellent documentary of a woman style, great taste and intelligence.
@andrewmiller48853 жыл бұрын
yes well money just doesn't buy cloths, it also buys great taste , lots of "friends" and massive respectability . These people have advisors around them about everything , including what to serve for dinner .
@apebass22152 жыл бұрын
@andrew miller Money can't buy charisma, elegance, or intelligence. There is more to life than money.
@heathergustafson42377 ай бұрын
People are more interested in quantity not quality. If they added up all the purchases then look at 1 very good sweater, you can probably buy the better sweater. There are so few really good designers anymore. I’m sick of looking at people wearing their pajamas everywhere. Grow up!
@arianemontemuro79017 ай бұрын
Today's fashion is trash This is beautiful
@stephanebelizaire36272 жыл бұрын
Bravo !
@user-ir8mf7km6w Жыл бұрын
It's nice but it's a 1% experience.
@BlowinFree Жыл бұрын
Exactly. That’s why there has been a documentary made on the subject. It’s marvellous to have a glimpse into a fabulous bygone era.
@jakecavendish34707 ай бұрын
"Earliest remembrance." 💀. I'm a bit confused as to why she thinks couture isn't hand sewn anymore, all the current documentaries on couture show that it is still all hand sewn. Did she mean to say that nowadays _only_ couture is hand sewn?
@michaeldougherty83443 жыл бұрын
This is great
@jemandjemand23626 ай бұрын
if you can afford haut couture, you have real style and a lot of money
@t0nyc0nde7 ай бұрын
"Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale?" Really? Is it 1947?
@marklauzon1867 ай бұрын
Ill always think of her as being really good Friends with Nancy Reagan. Nothing wrong with that...I just remember the two of them together. I wonder,tho,why Folks thought French Couture would not necessarily be found in LA. I would think it would because of Hollywood and Film Stars and yes,even the weather. Maybe more so than New York.
@m.h.89145 ай бұрын
I was proud my grandmother had class when all those other grandmothers were trash, lol. Gatekeeping grandmas.
@jazzvictrola71042 жыл бұрын
It's interesting how there will be a stylish dress, but in whatever era, it has the look of that era. A stylish dress from 1962 will look like the styles of 1962. As far as I'm concerned, women's clothes were never so stylish as in 1925-1929!
@bellcullen63357 ай бұрын
These Bloomingdale girls are hella pissed they didn't get that 'ture!
@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca95346 ай бұрын
Betsy granddaughters are the brand new blond swans of the 2000's
@andrewmiller48853 жыл бұрын
Someone here has said ......."I am more interested in Alfred Bloomingdale "...... I couldn't agree more. I would love to know about the money behind these women and the men that made it. I'll bet there would be some riveting stories to be told on that topic. I couldn't care less on how their wives and mistresses are spending it.
@briancooney71832 жыл бұрын
Ugly and depressing statement in my opinion.
@lizziebkennedy7505 Жыл бұрын
@@briancooney7183 decent people bother you?
@CFinch360 Жыл бұрын
If you 'couldn't care less' why are you even watching this video much less making making negative comments about it?
@andrewmiller4885 Жыл бұрын
I suggest you go read all the comments on this video. Few of them are positive. It is not uncommon to critique these women who live like Queens, because they have been fortunate enough to marry brilliant businessmen who were already very wealthy millionaires and even went on to make billions. They wear the clothing of brilliant, but sadly many homosexual designers whose praises they sing, until many died of AIDS. Then they didn't want to know them. These are people who live for self. Yes, it would have been a little better if we got at least some information on Alfred Bloomindale himself. At least he worked for a living. Their wives however live a frivolous life of endless clothing, parties, Champagne, and caviar, as well us throwing a little of their husband's money behind their favourite crooked politician. They do after all need to look as if they have a couple of brain cells at least. Betsy Bloomindale I will say though, was one of the nicer people, and believe me they are few and far between in THAT WORLD. I should know.
@guldenaydin99187 ай бұрын
🌈💝
@Sotzume2 жыл бұрын
Although the clothing Bloomingdale wore was often beautiful, I find it odd to celebrate a super rich superficial person whose best friend was Nancy Reagan. Even more odd and perhaps, truly disgusting is that during the height of Bloomingdale's profile during the Reagan years, the very men who made her fashion were dying of AIDS for which the Reagans not just did nothing but allowed the men who suffered to be vilified. Bloomingdale had very little to do with the haute couture she wore...she was, I'm sure, advised and educated by the courturiers who clothed her. She had the check book that's it.
@gustacano17492 жыл бұрын
She was disgusted. Her daughters are very hateful ladies.
@selfself881310 ай бұрын
She had so many facelifts that she truly ‘led’ with her chin’
@selfself881310 ай бұрын
Your grandmother was truly no one to be proud of. Read about Vicky Morgan and her very dark part. She was a tiresome snob and a dreadful phony. Monied beginnings, but daughter of a doctor is no Astor or Vanderbilt. You point with pride because of her attire. To my mind, pointing with pride is more about achievement, not something on someone’s back. Seems there is an apple not far from tree thing here!
@annesand71578 ай бұрын
Not sure why people are calling her elegant. The vandal that surrounds them is definitely not elegant.
@racheldee7517 ай бұрын
How is it her fault that they were sexually immoral and got AIDS. Eww gross
@makdle66 Жыл бұрын
I have no problem with people living in luxury, my problem is that while they do others die of hunger daily. This era feels like the entire world is nearing the french revolution after Antoinette decided to tell people to eat cake while they couldn't afford anything, its a great documentary of historical value but not for the clothes, but as a record of socio economic events before a cycle ends and another begins again. We humans are the only animals stupid enough to keep tripping over and over and over the same rocks and then cry about falling.
@TASconfidential9 ай бұрын
People don’t die of hunger because of rich people. People die of hunter because of bad politicians and poor fiscal leadership in the state and jurisdictional level .
@alexanderbulow45682 жыл бұрын
what a superficial life!
@jazzvictrola71042 жыл бұрын
...but wonderful!
@Angel_Energy Жыл бұрын
lol are you jealous that you could never 😅
@m.h.89145 ай бұрын
Truly these ladies have stress that most of us will never relate to. I'll take my middle class vacay with my yoga pants over all this social pressure. Plus, half of them still stress about money. No thank you.
@karllansing79275 ай бұрын
for rich people. not working class like me.
@massimosquecco89563 ай бұрын
Are Betsy's pearls real?
@ceasarandrepont12437 ай бұрын
okay
@fd99877 ай бұрын
Pretty boring. Bunch of old buddies with too much money and not enough to do.
@akrenwinkle Жыл бұрын
00:39 Air kiss not even close.
@virginiagrundman40127 ай бұрын
As much as I love fashion, they're just clothes. You have to wear clothes or you get arrested. I'm 71 and pretty much wear either old preppie or bohemian. I've kept my designer stuff but can't be bothered to wear them. Except...the shoes😅
@tomasinacovell42932 жыл бұрын
I hate that flicker you added, it's very annoying!
@w.urlitzer1869 Жыл бұрын
high hair and money. until the bank collapses.
@618B3 жыл бұрын
I am more interested in Alfred Bloomingdale.
@rubaidaallen27643 жыл бұрын
Me too. I'm currently reading a book about that woman he had an affair with years ago. She ended up dead 🤔🤔
@briancooney71832 жыл бұрын
Poor you.
@lizziebkennedy7505 Жыл бұрын
@@briancooney7183 why? He was the guy who paid for all this.