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Daughter even made two appointments - at the little dress shop in the neighborhood and at the Bridal Department in the big elegant department store. She did so mainly to confirm her first impression - that the neighborhood seamstress's little boutique that she preferred was indeed the right choice for her and who she is.
And yes, I've seen lots of prom dresses. I have a personal "thing" against the kinds of prom-dress wedding gowns that proliferate now. But that's merely my opinion and traces to how things were, and how we dressed for weddings when I grew up. Back then, you didn't show a lot of skin because brides were "supposed to be" more modest and demure. No strapless. No glitter. No froufrou. No tinsel. No Vegas. No "mermaid" fishtail type-thing. No my-designer-is-more-famous-than-yours. When I got married, the last thing I wanted to do was look like my wedding cake. I wanted plain, and simple.
I did not guide or steer my daughter. I kept my preferences to myself. If she'd wanted that kind of thing, I would have said "fine!" Because it was HER wedding after all, not mine. As it turned out, I was VERY happy with her choice - and it was demure and beautiful and she looked like an angel!
Btw - I also prefer demure for news anchors. I'm sick and tired of seeing bare shoulders, lots of neck, hair arranged alluringly. It's a NEWSCAST, and NOT a peep show! When I saw a photo of Megyn Kelly, sitting at a small table over cocktails with three men including Vladimir Putin and the Prime Minister of India I think it was - and I was HORRIFIED to see how she dressed. She looked like a high-class call girl. Tight-fitting peek-a-boo top with bare shoulders, bare arms, low neckline; tight short skirt with a slit WAY up-to-here; lots of bare leg; and a pair of spike-heel stiletto open-toed fuck-me shoes to finish it off. This was over last weekend and, thank goodness, she did not dress like a slut to conduct the actual interview. This was evidently for some cocktail party beforehand. Thank GOD she didn't dress for the interview like that!!!
The comment section with that article was full-to-overflowing with comments very much like mine. The basic argument was even off-camera, a female news anchor needs to remember a few things. Like: don't dress like a slut! You represent a big-time American television network, you represent the news division of that network, you represent a LOT of working journalists who, frankly, have nothing to trade on except their credibility, and you ALSO represent an army of women in the business who, in the early days, had to fight our way to those precious few jobs through the then-common presumption that you got where you were because you slept your way to it.
That undercurrent was VERY VERY REAL, back in the 70s when what few women who finally managed to break in and get hired for co-anchor positions were mainly there to be decorative. Or to be the younger "mom" to the usually older, distinguished-looking Alpha male "dad" anchor. That era was when I started my own career in broadcasting. And those women who did succeed were "traditionally" the lesser-of-the-two. The male anchor always opened the newscast with the lead story. NEVER did his female partner enjoy that stature. I remember reading an article about Joan Lunden, then the female cohost on "Good Morning America," who started complaining that she never got any of the big interviews with the big-name newsmakers on the significant hard-news lead story of the morning, because those always went to her male colleague, David Hartman, and then whoever replaced him. I think the sub-heading of that article was "he gets the prime minister, she gets the head lice" (as in - the segment with the school nurse on how to keep that head lice infestation at school from spreading to your kid - aka the "women's beat"
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It's a decorum thing, I guess. I'm in my mid-60s now, WinkyDink, so I'm a child of my own era. I can only guess you're not an old crank like me!
I'm glad that "Say Yes To the Dress" is not all tacky, episode-after-episode. Thank goodness for that! But, MAN, the one I saw featured wall-to-wall spoiled demanding daughters of rich daddies who were not exactly what one might called sympathetic characters. I kept thinking - that obnoxious entitled bride-to-be should shut up, count her blessings, and spend a few afternoons working with needy children, or helping downtown in a homeless shelter, learning how people who aren't blessed with too much money have to live.
..With A major Nudge From Russia, Cake Recipe Complete. 
