Haughty Women 2 of 2

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Haughty women are...

... women who have a room designed just to suit their hair color - and know they're worth it.

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Haughty women are...
...women who lean precariously on the balcony railing to make you forget the ad is for men's pomade.

...women who can wear eye shadow in uniform and kill with a glance while still on the phone.



... beguiling women who wear makeup for "[their] greater glory".



And as a bonus, this hilarious story "Tall Girl in Hoops" from the Australian Women's Weekly, February 29, 1956: "She was tall, aloof, and haughty; exactly the sort of woman who could wear a crinoline."  Yeah, it makes that much sense.

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Comments

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

I would really like to know what happened in the crinoline story - it's brilliantly absurd! And yet now I find myself amazed some fashion dick hasn't tried to put us back into hooped skirts.

Mind you, the way things are going in the US it'll be veils and burkhas before too long, andwe'll wish for crinoline!

[misstia]

you got that right, unfortunately.....i'm surprised there's not a national call for women to start dressing modestly......

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Google the title, if you really want to know. :)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

How could I have forgotten that link?!? I even had it on my desktop.

Here's a link: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/4810815?zoomLevel=5

And the full PDF file is HERE (http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/printIssue/220929).

Here's the (shocking?) conclusion, which makes as much sense as the drug-crazed rest of it.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

When I grow up, I want to be a wealthy haughty woman too.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Me, too! If you're rich and you go around with that facial expression, you are "haughty." If you're poor, you're just "a stuck up bitch who thinks she's better than everybody."

Well, I AM better than everybody! ;)

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

I read your last line and automatically reached for the Like Button.

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

This was a great collection of ads, thanks for posting them. Now if you will excuse me, I have to redecorate my house so it goes better with my eye color.

[ladymech.livejournal.com]

I was curious about the Alexander Smith ad. There's another one on eBay. It's for redheads. It's not as awesome as the one here. The colors for redheads? Teal and peach.

Also, what's the difference between a brown hair and being a brunette? Please don't say brunettes are supposed to have black hair. It just doesn't make sense. Shouldn't black hair be called raven or something like that? I'm over thinking this.

And what colors would the silver-gray haired person use? They made a Colorama book apparently. I'm going to try and snag a copy when I can afford it. I bet the brunette gets to decorate with red.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Teal and peach? Say it ain't so! I wear teal but I'm not decorating with it.

To answer(ish) you question: I have an ad that calls black hair "brunette" and brown hair "brownette". Which as I think we all know IS NOT A WORD.

[ladymech.livejournal.com]

Don't you want to "wear" your decor? C'mon!

I agree with you about brownette not being a word, although it seems like brownette could be a word for people with light brown hair, while brunette is dark brown. Sort of like how there's auburn for dark red/brown hair.

[tree_and_leaf]

...women who can wear eye shadow in uniform and kill with a glance while still on the phone.

As the Duke of Wellington said, I don't know what they do to the enemy, but by God they frighten me. (Though his troops were frightening in an entirely different and less efficient way; she looks like she's just been putting the fear of God into the port-admiral).

[whoseline_wlsc]

I'd really love to have that green chair in the first ad! I really like it!

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

What happens if the brunette dyes her hair?

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Why would she ever? She LOVES her brown hair. :D