tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989533506466407562.post376479770882771204..comments2023-07-24T23:37:47.191+10:00Comments on Curve Creations Closet: Why I used to think dressing like a grandma was a bad thing ~ How I couldn't relate to pinup/vintage growing upAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15348511940151304223noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989533506466407562.post-7757421139751420022016-01-15T14:53:09.156+11:002016-01-15T14:53:09.156+11:00Ah that may explain a lot of it. To my knowledge, ...Ah that may explain a lot of it. To my knowledge, my grandmother didn't get a full education due to her social status, so therefore no senior year book photos. I'm finding a lot of the comments I've received on this to be very interesting. Thank you for sharing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348511940151304223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989533506466407562.post-23436904322483441852016-01-15T14:51:18.320+11:002016-01-15T14:51:18.320+11:00I think Australia like Finland was quite poor duri...I think Australia like Finland was quite poor during the war, but also I think our sheer distance from a lot of things meant there just wasn't the same abundance of culture, unless you had wealth. interesting to read your comment! Thank you for sharing!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348511940151304223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989533506466407562.post-17735044945232068342016-01-15T00:06:29.545+11:002016-01-15T00:06:29.545+11:00So interesting! My maternal grandma grew up on a ...So interesting! My maternal grandma grew up on a farm, and I have a single glamorous photo of her... all the rest are snapshots of her by her house or climbing on tractors. My other grandma loved to dance and dress fancy, although she was limited by her situation in life, so her pictures have a little more of the traditional pin-up look. I think one of the reasons a lot of US gals have a single lovely picture of their grandmothers as young women is that they were senior portraits taken for their high school yearbooks, which have always been a big deal around here. I have a very similar black and white photo of each of my grandmothers, and I suspect that may be why... Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08213240635054488156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989533506466407562.post-85022714942445188042016-01-12T21:18:58.671+11:002016-01-12T21:18:58.671+11:00I have been thinking about this too! I live in Fin...I have been thinking about this too! I live in Finland, and here was a lot of wars in the "pinup time", and after those we were a poor country for some time and we lost a lot of land to Russia. My both grandmothers were poor, no cameras, and their parents except for one mom, died in the war. But this is normal here in Finland, no one's grandma has been anywhere near pinup glamour or anything else rich. And actually people here in Finland don't know that puffy skirts and victory rolls and red lips etc. are anything 50's or pin up. Old people remember the 50's as a poor decade and really don't know anything about those things. Hardly anyone listened to Elvis or watched James Dean's movies. Those were popular in the 70's or something. I love the whole American 50's pinup thing, but no one really understands that :DAlisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221098681926044091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989533506466407562.post-46809317453161386492016-01-12T14:03:42.106+11:002016-01-12T14:03:42.106+11:00I've seen quite a few aussie ladies recently p...I've seen quite a few aussie ladies recently posting side by sides of themselves with old portraits of their grandmothers, which is what prompted my post. I think well to do families had the polished look but my grandmother was the daughter of an aboriginal woman and a fisherman, the middle child of (from memory) 7-8 kids. There wasn't money for fancy things.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348511940151304223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-989533506466407562.post-25761984304824908542016-01-12T13:16:30.815+11:002016-01-12T13:16:30.815+11:00I'm exactly in the same boat as you, as both m...I'm exactly in the same boat as you, as both my Grandma's grew up in poor/hard working backgrounds and never really dressed up in expensive pinup style outfits, only handmade simple frocks and I've only seen the odd photos when they were young, no where near the 1940's/50's pinup style! Maybe it was more a USA/England thing!?Miss Milla Cherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195014123427327376noreply@blogger.com