Sepia Saturday this week:
Copenhagen and bicycles?
These women have different kinds of attire. Many hats, some are the cloche style. But some women actually show longer skirts (over against the wall) while most seem to have mid-calf length skirts.
New York in the 20s.
No bicycles here. But the clothes on the women are interesting to consider. Cloche hats are popular, but not for everyone. And all the women I see have their skirts at least mid-calf. Did you notice the furs?
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Update Sat morning at 7 am mountain time.
Hey politicians who have miffed so badly by using money in the wrong wrong wrong places, and hiring inept untrained dolards to run the agencies of our government!!
I AM MAD!
My family is flying the skies this week and next. It was lucky that my youngest son had already flown to Florida on Thursday Nov. 12...before the FAA was hit by the ineptitude of governmentally run agencies on Nov. 13.
But he and his wife will be flying home to Colorado in the next week. Can things be fixed by then? Things that may not depend as much on old copper wires as the low paid, over worked technicians who are used to systems that did need upgrading, but instead were given something that wasn't at all SMART! (Smart being the name of the new system that had been installed without proper testing and left thousands of Americans at risk either in the air or sitting in airports.)
Yes those sitting in airports were just as at risk as those flying in circles without support ... airports full of people not prepared for hours of boredom, stressed to the max, many sick, the very young and very old and sick suffered the most.
I guess I should be grateful that no disasters have happened. That somehow the backup systems kept those planes in the air safely. That they eventually could land and hopefully some had taken off which had been sitting for 3-4 hours on the tarmac. Can you imagine the toilet situations?
There had better be some reckoning!
From a concerned mother.
The hustle and bustle of big cities hasn't really changed! Just the clothes and the autos.
ReplyDeleteAnd perhaps the number of zombies walking around with their heads in their phones!
DeleteThings sure have changed!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to a big city in years...well, except airports. Which brings up a sore spot todaay!
DeleteI always like to see old pictures like this. The men look hardly different from decade to decade, just hatted out hatfree. But women's clothes change a lot.
ReplyDeleteWhat a strange culture we live in, where the birds are the species that attract females by the males being more colorful!
DeleteYes. Yesterday's flight mess. Here we are, watching our nation's infrastructure crumble while the gabillionaires party the night away at Mar-a-lago and ICE agents mask up and go snatch innocent people off the streets.
ReplyDeleteAs to furs- don't tell anyone but I have a lovely, lovely black mink jacket in the back of my closet. My husband bought it for me many years ago from a friend and I love it so much and yet, can never wear it due to the fact that no, we shouldn't be killing animals for their fur but dammit! That mink has been dead for a very long time! Could I wear it and just tell people it's fake? I suppose I could just wear it around the house.
A mink coat is the best warm thing in the world...and bless their hearts, those little critters knew it. I am so cold in the unexpected damp here, again. I sit inside in my quilted coat over two layers of indoor clothes, with a lap blanket and a pup to keep me warm, and feel chilled. Rain will hopefully stop in an hour or so for a while and I'm going to the store to get something for tonight's dinner. I forgot to bring my soup that I made for just this kind of weather. Wait, I could fix the rice and Indian curry...that would taste great. Just enjoy the lives of those minks! And say a bit of gratitude when you wear the coat. I admit to having picked up a mink collar in a thrift sale once, and wore it in the 60s in winters. Before I knew better, I tell myself.
DeleteAwful countries like Canada and Greenland took in some planes.
ReplyDeleteAnd who's going to say Thank You! I feel so bad for those stuck in planes, as there are only so many hours of extra snacks, as well as fuel. What a sad state of affairs. Thank you Candada!
DeleteSlippery keys Canada!
DeleteThe photo of that huge crowd of people walking along that city street reminded me of what the crowds I walked to work with in San Francisco must have looked like. Buses from all over the east bay poured into the San Francisco bus terminal at the same time & all those riders disembarked and hit the streets of the City at the same time. I thought it was fun. People often recognized each other & exchanged friendly greetings as we walked along. As for the catastrophe in the air ports - I thought it was linked to the failure of Microsoft all over the world?
ReplyDeleteAs far as they're telling us that the Microsoft failure before the AI communication Air Failure were coincidences. I will bet a million dollars that they get linked when the stories are told, and rearranged so blame stays away from the continuing inabilities of those in government. Yes, getting off street cars or busses, walking through crowds, used to be quite fun. I'm not sure it is these days. I thought of you when I noticed the clothes...wish you'd said something about that.
DeleteMostly what I noticed about the clothes of the women in your crowded city sidewalks picture were the women's shoes - most flat, some with low chunky heels. When I was walking to work on rainy days on San Francisco's wide city streets it was like a slip-a-thon. We were wearing those high heels with metal-capped stiletto slender stalks and whatever the soles were made of were slippery as all get out on wet pavement. Women were slipping all over the place & the men walked with their arms held out waiting to catch those who slipped. I finally found some non-slip rubber bootie things that fit perfectly over my heels & I kept one pair at home, & one at work!
DeleteOh yes, those feet of all those women workers! I think sometime they started wearing sneakers and changing into heels at their desks…but it was after I was working in the world that required heels. Nursing homes are fine for low heels, where I would visit folks.b
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