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Forget what profession you are in, girls, prostitutes, and everyone else in the 1940's, dressed better than the pros and nons today.
I think it has to do with taste, girls. During the 1940's men sought class, especially in the prostitutes they hired. So, the ladies dressed for it.
Today, despite the term "slut shaming" being bantered about, men who hire prostitutes want them to look as slutty as possible. Which accounts for their popularity and appearance at truck and rest stops. I can tell you from personal experience, having seen, but not hired, many ladies of the evening.
Even a term like "lady of the evening" is out of fashion. "Whore," 'slut" and "ho" are still standard vernacular today.
While I don't approve of the "dress code," I am not above saying these girls should be given a break. Everyone has a story, and one does not know what each is going through. I doubt any of them are "experimental housewives" like Catherine Deneuve in "Belle De Jour."
These girls should not be faulted for the situation they are in. But society today should be blamed for lowest cultural standards I have seen in my almost 71 years.
Let's get standards back on track. Maybe then prostitution would not be a mark of shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 comments:
the bar cannot get much lower.
courtesy, decency, modesty, character, words we grew up with, are these virtues not being taught??
or are kids just not listening??
even such matters as not bothering with thank-you notes.
That would have been unthinkable in my day.
Victoria, You are so right! I sent my great-niece a check for $100 for her college graduation and never received a thank you note!
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