[EN] just another weirdo obsessed with the past. vintage style and fashion history geek, appreciator of old things in general. [PL] historia mody, styl vintage, filmy i starocie. opowiadam o tym, co dawniej i pokazuję to, co dziś z tego zostało.
i understand this so much. back in school i was so insecure about my big body and now everyone says i have great body because of it is big. but how am i supposed to overcome the trauma of teenage when i was made fun because of my body and just think i am pretty? it will take a while but i am learning to love myself for everything.
What you said at the end reminds me of the actress from "Dirty Dancing". She didn't like her nose and had a nose job after the movie. And then she didn't get hired anymore because the movie industry thought no one would recognize her. She wasn't special anymore.
amazing and perfect video. I had a boyfriend who told me I need to change my butt shape. I was running 3 miles a day and had lost 100 lbs and he tried to convince me I needed “the Brazilian butt” workout because my butt wasn’t a “bubble” shape and if I was “properly motivated” and really wanted to “look my best” I would work to change my body shape. (He constantly spouted “I just want you to be healthy” but then I was never small enough with a small enough stomach but my butt was too small??) I went from 200 lbs to 130 in a year in a half. I had a complex for a long time and now I’m focusing on Botticelli and loving myself.
I honestly don't know how your channel showed up in my reccomended, but I'll just say that as a man, I find this fascinating. I guess men have a pseudo-equivalent of beauty standards (for lack of a better term) in the desire to be more muscular, but it's not as intense as it seems with girls.
When I was little, my grandparents (and all other relatives from the countryside) would always comment on how I'm always pale and untanned. I just never saw the appeal of tanning, even though my mother kept telling me (still does sometimes) that it's healthy when done in moderation.
Man I remember when I had a teacher who literally explained to me that each country has their own beauty standards which made me realize that there is no such thing as perfection. The only thing you need is to accept your self and see beauty in your self.
I love how people are blaming costume designers for the things the actresses said. Like millions-budget movies couldn't afford professional costume designers? No, honey. It's cause the actresses chose to exaggerate and even manipulate what happened to make themselves look like martyrs... They said they should've hypervalented and compared it to childbirth lmao.. stop falling victims to celebs lies.
Something fascinating about the woman in that portrait at 11:33, she had breast cancer and elected to have her breast removed surgically. One of the only written accounts of such a surgery from the patient's perspective. She wrote in detail about the experience, no anesthesia. She lived for years after so the surgery was an enormous success.
So all the bad behavior girls of the 1800s had broken ribs and livers cut in half. Thats some bad ass pain control those women had. 🤤🤤😲 You're my favorite Polish Madame !! 💗😊
whenever I was in middle school I loved corsets (still do), and wore them to school every day. I walked up and down stairs and sung for an hour straight (which may not sound like much but I was 11 at the time and needed to take more breaths). My friends always asked if it was hard to sing in it and I would let and they ended up feeling no difference except for actually standing up straight which is what you are supposed to do, I had to stop wearing them to school because my LA teacher said that it was offending her. I started wearing them to school again in 7th grade and none of the female teachers minded.
Even being middle class in the 1960s we owned few clothes and commonly hand washed and altered our clothing. Fabrics didn’t have any stretch, and I think this was one of the reasons we didn’t gain weight, because there was no give, and your clothes wouldn’t fit, and clothes were expensive.
I'm not seeing much citation, but alot of opinion in this video. I appreciate the insights, but will research further on my own. The MUM site someone posted was good. I'm appreciating the comments with links to sources!
This reminds me of an article I saw recently about how The Young People want to dress like grandmas from the Wall Street Journal. (Also reminds me of Rachel Maksy's Whiskey Grandpa aesthetic xD)
So emotionally evoking. And that last shot of you as a nurse straight to camera with eyes wide is phenomenal. Stop and print that. Thank you for putting real woman on Broadcast. 👏🙌
2:42 Dont know what was sexualized or not back then but they sure designed some extremely penis-evoking buildings like the one above. Woah Peter bilt backdrops. 😁
I have to talk about the nose part! I would have never thought about changing my nose if it wasn't because of all those standards. And because many people do it, I feel like we are less having kind of a big long nose and so I think my nose is soooo biiiiig compared to others.... Even though I know it's perfectly fine...
I think the dried apple part was referring to a pomander, which could either be a literal dried apple ("pom" is a root word for apple in many languages) or a small round sachet stuffed with herbs and spices and was thought to ward off the plague.
I have no idea how youtube got me here in your channel, and now im obsessed with your videos and with fashion history, and the funny thing is that i was never into fashion, anyway, thanks my dear!
Recently my sister and I have taken up cross-stitching! It's so fun, and there's no shortage of patterns and ideas. I also like how I can get results quickly, and the repetitive stitching is calming. I love making items from video games specifically, one pixel translated into one stitch. So far I haven't done more that a 40x40 stitch project, but I'm getting better! I also love to relax with tea. I have a teacup that wasa a gift from my best friend that is perfect for the amount I like. My favorite is Earl Gray, specifically Bigelow because it has more bergamont oil. I like to add some suger and almondmilk, Ive found other milk to heavy, grainy, or sour in tea. The last time I had tea was when my friend (the one who gave me the cup) and I made Chai and sat outside to watch the Pink Moon on April 26. It was great.
That moment they started knocking (tapping? Wrapping?) on the book, after the last 'hit', my computer's speakers made a 'thump' sound. I shit you not! It was just so well timed, it's amazing! Why did my speakers make the sound? Because I switched off the computer's power without unplugging it from the power socket, so some residual electricity keeps flowing between the computer and the speakers.
Do you notice in Poland that beauty standards are still skewed towards thinspiration and diet culture? I know in the US bigger butts are in, but I wasn’t sure if that translated over to Poland or the rest of Europe yet. I feel like most influencers from Europe I see are still “thin” and every time I go to visit my family I still get comments on my “big hips and thighs”
Once I hit puberty my mom (who grew up in a european, diet-centric thin culture) would consistently comment about how my hips and butt were “ok for Hispanic girls” but too big for a “polish girl”. Thank god for some reason despite all my other insecurities I never let it get to me because I’ve managed to stay pretty self confident when it comes to my body, which is naturally pear shaped! But it could’ve done some serious damage and equally led to an eating disorder if I had believed what she said. Now but hips/butts are “in” and I couldn’t be happier! Too bad all body shapes can’t be appreciated and “in” all the time
Beauty standards are simple though : society make you think you are ugly because you should like the opposite of yourself, whatever your body looks like at the time…
Gosh, I love seeing someone say this. Beauty standards are just bullshit. I struggled with them for so long. I always tried to wear clothes that were currently in trend and I always felt SO uncomfortable in them. By now I have finally found my own style that I personally like and that I really feel comfortable in. I figured out that I feel comfortable when a lot of my skin is covered, so I prefer to wear long sleeves and turtle necks. I don't even really have insecurities about my skin, but showing it makes me so uncomfortable lol. As it's getting warmer outside I started wearing shorter stuff again and I feel way more confident than before. Probably I just needed that kinda time off and finding the right style for me. I also dyed my hair and it honestly boosted my confidence so much. It's not the entire hair, just a part of it in blond (naturally brown), but I suddenly started liking my hair when I used to hate it before. Recently I also started trying around with different hairstyles. My hair is curly and has a lot of volume and as my face is quite round it would always look even rounder when I wore my hair open and in full volume and I hated it. Now I started wearing a little braid at the top to remove somd layers of the volume and I'm suddenly really starting to like my hair. So idk, the advice I can give based on my experiences would probably be that (Mostly regarding clothing and stuff because that helped me the most with overcoming my insecurities): Top priority is that you are comfortable. It's okay if you are comfortable with the current beauty standards and it's okay if you are not. There is a style for everyone. Don't be afraid to be bold when choosing your style. I used to be afraid to wear jeans in any other colour and shape that the standard blue ones, but after multiple "Fuck it, I'll just buy this and go for it" I have found some super comfortable and cool looking jeans. So always dare to leave your comfort zone, there may be a lot of pleasant surprises waiting <3
"Colors are for females" tell that to every much more colorful male bird. Sexist clothing and fashion stereotypes are just one more obnoxious form of control. And for what ?? They dont even know theyre just slaves to trends in tradition. Self righteously ignorant for the protection of more misinformation and absurd personal limitations.
As to the things that contained, for example, arsenic, which was put there with full premeditation, while it was very well known to be poisonous weren't cases of "it didn't click". It were the cases of "hi, it is me, a filthy rich and grossly greedy and cynical manufacturer, but there's no legal restrictions keeping me from putting poison into things people eat or keep at home, nor to list them among the ingredients so I don't care, LOL". Also I don't see how wearing jewelry made of hair is more disgusting than wearing wigs or extensions made of natural human hair nowadays. Also #2 Me: *Victorians killing animals only to take their decorative bits, what a waste!* Victorians: * *Start putting the whole actual killed animals on their heads* *
One distinction though: women of good social standing never left home without gloves and a hat, ever! Evening gloves (and styles of them, and the dresscode they involved, or dressing for an evening at the opera etc are another issue. My grandmother was born 1906 and lived to 99, 5 years old. She never left the house without gloves and hat or barét or at least a silk scarf. She was my best friend and closest family member and I learned all I know about her era of life, fashion, housekeeping etc from her, as well as life skills to manage through hard times, rationing; also the womens rights movement, adaptibility and social duties to the less fortunate. I wish everyone had the experience of a close relationship to someone of her generation, I miss her dearly.
I honestly always found big noses to be more attractive. I don't find small noses to be ugly though, it's just that for me personally it makes a face look more interesting and special. Same with me prefering chubby women and short, non-muscular men. Obviously that is just my type but I always was so confused about the beauty standards when I was a young teen . I started questioning myself, since even the people I was attracted to thought I was making fun of them when I gave them compliments for the body parts they were insecure about. Now I'm a little bit older and don't give a shit about trends and social norms anymore and I'd recommend anyone to do so, too. My point is we've all got a very subjective view about the definition of an aesthetic human being and I hope everyone realizes that ugly people don't exist and as long as you're comfortable in the body that is your own and no one else's it doesn't matter what (the majority of) people think.
