In an email dated Thu, 11 Sep 2003 8:20:27 am GMT, "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>When I saw photos of our school's 16 year-old leavers at their prom, wearing >bra tops and not a lot else, my reaction was "Good heavens! They're half >naked". That caused me to be frightened of what the consequences of this >obvious tease might be and made me think I was now out of tune with them so >it was time I left teaching. I took early retirement at the end of the >following year. Now they've dropped the waistline as well and adorn the >navel with a piercing to draw attention to that naked area, and I get even >more worried. I'm beginning to sound like my mother. > >Jean in Poole > Jean and the spiders, You think you are feeling old - technically I haven't made it over the hill yet but this morning I decided that my father at 79 is probably feeling younger than me. I'm doing the 45 minutes drive to work (you know - I live 4 miles from work but it talks that time) and doing what I normally do when I'm driving - sitting in my car watching the world go by and not moving. Anyway, I'm about stuck, about 5 minutes walk from the local senior girls school and I see this girl walking down the road with hipster trousers on and a cropped bra top, afgan coat (open naturally) on her way to school (I know this because she's carrying all her school files in her arms - who needs a bag!). I just felt so old because when I was at school what she was wearing would have been classed as 'party wear' - no way would I have worn that regardless of my figure. In fact, I've been a feeling 'old' alot lately - I've been a career consultant for about 3 years and have always expected my clients to wear buisness dress when they attended however, what they believe to have been buisiness dress defies belief. Some think that shorts and washed out tee shirt is ok regardless of the weather, others think that cropped tops and see through tops are ok - and the larger the lady the worse the offender!! I'm off to count my grey hairs -- Regards Liz Beecher I'm <A HREF="http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee";>blogging</A> now - see what it's all about To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
