Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

[Miss Tuppence]

Haha, thank goodness she followed that comment up with the re-enacting bit!

A few weeks back, I was walking through town with my sis, we happened to behind a group of real chavtastic teens, must only be in their teens just as they were really little- but that’s by the by. Suddenly I found two of the boys turning round smiling profusely and nudging each other, then started to say… ‘Oh my god, look at her… she looks like a walking doll…. And she looks like Mary Poppins!
I found this quite chuckle worthy… but Mary Pops:eeek:- I look nothing like her, and it’s the wrong era, though I did feel like bursting into song! Just a spoonful of sugar makes….

 

[Snowdrop]

Oh, dear. But Mary Poppins was fabulous!

Would that make you 'practically perfect, in every way'? lol

 

[Deleted member 12480]

Someone once told me I look like Mary Poppins, too. Xx

 

[crwritt]

We went out to a dance party a few nights ago, black and white theme, everyone looked wonderful. I am used to hugs and
air kisses from friends I haven't seen in awhile, once in a blue moon a kiss on the hand. Its all pretty normal. One gal I hadn't seen in some time came up to me and started exclaiming about my hair. I went to give her the usual hug and she grabbed hold of my hair and kept saying "look at you! I love your hair!"I got away from her by suggesting my husband dance with her,
and hoped to avoid her the rest of the night, but sure enough she managed to grab me by the hair again.

I was just so shocked each time that I couldn't say a thing!

 

[Lenore]

What is with the Mary Poppins comments? I've gotten them recently from some of my drivers...

 

[LizzieMaine]

There's a stage version of Mary Poppins that's been popular lately -- I saw a poster for a road company production in Boston a couple weeks ago, and Miss Poppins was shown with red lips, dark upswept hair, and a little hat. I guess for some people that's close enough to Golden Era vintage that they don't know the difference.

 

[Lady Day]

We went out to a dance party a few nights ago, black and white theme, everyone looked wonderful. I am used to hugs and
air kisses from friends I haven't seen in awhile, once in a blue moon a kiss on the hand. Its all pretty normal. One gal I hadn't seen in some time came up to me and started exclaiming about my hair. I went to give her the usual hug and she grabbed hold of my hair and kept saying "look at you! I love your hair!"I got away from her by suggesting my husband dance with her,
and hoped to avoid her the rest of the night, but sure enough she managed to grab me by the hair again.

I was just so shocked each time that I couldn't say a thing!

I hate people with no personal boundries. It's like when small dogs jump on the face of a big dog and the big dog barks and the small dog owner acts as if the big dog did
something wrong. That happened to my dog once and I put my hand right in front of the small dog owners face, almost touching her nose. Then I said, "Not too much fun, is it?"

When she grabbed your hair you should have grabbed her boobs and said, "I love your boobs!" I'm sure that would have kept her away for the rest of the night.

LD

 

[Drappa]

LD, you are a riot!

 

[Juliet]

LD , that's a great idea lol - I just hate that strangers think it's okay to grab you by the shoulders or touch your hair - what happened to manners???
I remember once, when I went out with a girlfriend, and some guy kept touching my hair after I asked him TWICE to please leave off. Finally I got mad and told him in an un-ladylike manner, if he touched me once more, I'd smack him so hard, he'll end up on a wall. And the guy just stares at me and says: "I don't believe you will! You're so pretty!" But then my friend added: "Oh, believe me, she will" and thank heavens he left. Ugh!

One very strange comment I got from my friend (not very close) : "Why do you have to be pretty? And why do you have to wear heels and dress like this? And your hair?!" When I answered that I like vintage fashion and generally find the era most comfortable for myself, he looked at me with a pained expression and asked : "But why do you have to?" Does someone understand this?

 

[MissMittens]

LD , that's a great idea lol - I just hate that strangers think it's okay to grab you by the shoulders or touch your hair - what happened to manners???
I remember once, when I went out with a girlfriend, and some guy kept touching my hair after I asked him TWICE to please leave off. Finally I got mad and told him in an un-ladylike manner, if he touched me once more, I'd smack him so hard, he'll end up on a wall. And the guy just stares at me and says: "I don't believe you will! You're so pretty!" But then my friend added: "Oh, believe me, she will" and thank heavens he left. Ugh!

One very strange comment I got from my friend (not very close) : "Why do you have to be pretty? And why do you have to wear heels and dress like this? And your hair?!" When I answered that I like vintage fashion and generally find the era most comfortable for myself, he looked at me with a pained expression and asked : "But why do you have to?" Does someone understand this?

Members of the same sex are always jealous of either a "chiseled" guy or a "pretty" girl that they think is prettier than they are. It's nature, I'm afraid

 

[Snowdrop]

Members of the same sex are always jealous of either a "chiseled" guy or a "pretty" girl that they think is prettier than they are. It's nature, I'm afraid

It is!! Unfortunately though, I think guys and girls act out the jealousy in different ways. In my experience, guys try to overcompensate and get all alpha-male and weird and girls, well... they just get plain old mean and catty!

LD - That is hilarious!! lol

 

[crwritt]

I hate people with no personal boundries. It's like when small dogs jump on the face of a big dog and the big dog barks and the small dog owner acts as if the big dog did
something wrong. That happened to my dog once and I put my hand right in front of the small dog owners face, almost touching her nose. Then I said, "Not too much fun, is it?"

When she grabbed your hair you should have grabbed her boobs and said, "I love your boobs!" I'm sure that would have kept her away for the rest of the night.

LD

I wish I was a quick thinker at times like that, but I tend to go into slight panic and freeze speechless!

 

[Juliet]

Members of the same sex are always jealous of either a "chiseled" guy or a "pretty" girl that they think is prettier than they are. It's nature, I'm afraid

That's the thing - it was a guy! I could understand it from a woman. And he seemed so genuinely upset , too.

 

[MissMittens]

That's the thing - it was a guy! I could understand it from a woman. And he seemed so genuinely upset , too.

I missed the "he" in your initial post.......in that case, he's probably having a gender-identity crisis of some sort. Maybe HE want's to be pretty, and wear heels....

 

[Juliet]

I missed the "he" in your initial post.......in that case, he's probably having a gender-identity crisis of some sort. Maybe HE want's to be pretty, and wear heels....

lol

I'll ask him!!! lol

 

[Berlin]

I missed the "he" in your initial post.......in that case, he's probably having a gender-identity crisis of some sort. Maybe HE want's to be pretty, and wear heels....

lol lol lol

 

[Lily Powers]

...One very strange comment I got from my friend (not very close) : "Why do you have to be pretty? And why do you have to wear heels and dress like this? And your hair?!" When I answered that I like vintage fashion and generally find the era most comfortable for myself, he looked at me with a pained expression and asked : "But why do you have to?" Does someone understand this?

I certainly don't understand that, but perhaps his gatekeepers, who obviously let him slip away from the asylum, might have a better answer!

 

[Snowdrop]

I'm really surprised that a guy would say that to you, Juliet. You think he has a crush on you, perhaps?!

I think all the rude comments I've ever gotten have been from other women.
I was at a dinner party last weekend, just chatting to a couple of guys in a purely friendly kind of way. The girlfriend of one of them came over and she commented on my dress looking old and asked if it was the 'real thing'. I just smiled and told her it was from 1952 and she replied, 'Oh, you're one of those people. Reminds me of my grandma.'

Before I could reply, her boyfriend stupidly came to my defense with, 'My gran never looked like that!'.

I think the poor guy was in for a beating when she got him home that night. lol

 

[grundie]

We recently moved home and due to a little bit of stupidity on my part I forgot to take my news keys one day and found myself locked out when I got home. I was in a tweed three-piece.

Waiting at the door for my wife to get home, two girls (8-9 year olds) who lived nearby, stopped at the end of our path and one said I looked really smart and that she wished her dad dressed like that. She also complimented me on the fact that my son (18 months old) had a three-piece suit to match the one I was wearing.

Although, I am worried by a colleague at work who keeps saying my dress sense is cool and really cutting edge. I think he thinks I am a hipster, NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Anything but that.

 

[Valya]

I was openly laughed at by some girls in class today...I was pretty humiliated. I'm not stupid, I can see them laughing. I guess I should just let it go, as they are not exactly the kind of people who appreciate taste, and all mockery was completely cancelled out as one of my teachers, who won a nation-wide most stylish man contest LOVED my outfit, so that made me feel pretty good