tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post3592667636268200593..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: "A jacket"Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-56986726823311538322013-10-18T08:17:41.811-04:002013-10-18T08:17:41.811-04:00"Still, because this genre demands that The F...<i>"Still, because this genre demands that The Frenchwoman chastise The Anglowoman, we get a bit about how you "look like a rat" (!) if you wear a black sweater rather than a navy one. Whatever that means."</i><br /><br />But the English <b>do</b> look like rats, no matter what color sweater they wear. Here, I have <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/10-sandwiches-that-look-like-british-novelist-mart,34240/" rel="nofollow">proof</a>.<br /><br />It all goes back to the Thatcher-era when massive cross-breading experiments were done to help break the unions.Peteynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-40489109979678552202013-10-17T23:39:21.761-04:002013-10-17T23:39:21.761-04:00Not sure how it lines up, if the largest kids'...Not sure how it lines up, if the largest kids' sizes are a small or medium in women's clothing today. But the relevant issue for what constitutes bragging about skinniness is where one falls relative to one's own contemporaries. Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-53216229433502947182013-10-17T18:04:59.061-04:002013-10-17T18:04:59.061-04:00"And she advises buying a shrunken blazer (fa...<i>"And she advises buying a shrunken blazer (fair enough), and doing so... at a children's department. That is the ultimate taboo - a woman who mentions shopping in a children's department is, according to the rules of this sort of thing, announcing that she's tiny. Which, maybe she is, maybe she isn't - she might just be short, and since "kids" effectively means petites in up to an 8 or 10, it's altogether possible to be not-so-tiny (if not-so-big, either) and shop kids'."</i><br /><br />But aren't kids' sizes just small and medium-small adult sizes from the 1970's?Peteynoreply@blogger.com