I remember in the 70's buying myself green crimplene flares and a
brown and yellow brushed-nylon smock top (aaaarrggghh !) and proudly
displaying them to my grandmother who reacted in exactly the same way
- "oooh, you look like an old married woman" which sent me sobbing to
my room.
Delia
> I feel Axwell's problem with treble-pitched male voices is a little
> analogous - except that the relative ages are reversed and the
> time-scale is more compressed in this case - to that of me
> mother-in-law regarding certain fashions. In the early 70s in
Britain
> the big fashion craze for girls was the smock. We all wore them.
> Mother-in-law could not understand why on earth girls would want to
look
> pregnant when they weren't. It fell on deaf ears when I said that to
us,
> it didn't spell pregnant at all; to her, smock=pregnant=end of
argument
> (anyone else there ever had a mother-in law? :) )
>
> For smock read treble tessitura; for pregnant read Sounds like a
woman;
> for my mother-in-law read Axwell (nothing personal, Ax! - what are
you,
> a lumberjack? That's OK)
>
> off to take some more water with it,
>
> Linda
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