This picture is real

by DK

14 comments

1 Sarah/froylein { 03.14.08 at 12:02 am }

Not soooo uncommon among the younger generation, but I’d still like to see a secular blogger also take a stand against frum women that financially and emotionally exploit their hubbies. Those exist, too.

2 Sarah/froylein { 03.14.08 at 7:32 am }

Sorry, I’ve got a seriously bad memory for faces.. Is that really N. Portman or some other young lady with a high forehead?

3 C-Girl { 03.14.08 at 7:34 am }

Headscarf, vegan shoes… Natalie is such a hip frummie. Is this what happens when the cool people move into Williamsburg?

4 DK { 03.14.08 at 8:21 am }

That’s Nat.

5 Sarah/froylein { 03.14.08 at 8:35 am }

She’s traded in her old home for Willi? Hope she knows what that plae is like in the summer.

6 Sarah/froylein { 03.14.08 at 8:37 am }

Oh, BTW, one of the fashion mags I occasionally read says headscarves are back en vogue.

7 DK { 03.14.08 at 8:38 am }

“Oh, BTW, one of the fashion mags I occasionally read says headscarves are back en vogue.”

Sarah/froylein,

Been reading “Jewish Observer” again, huh?

8 Sarah/froylein { 03.14.08 at 11:02 am }

Nope, newsstands here don’t sell that one. It was either the recent edition of Glamour or Instyle. I don’t wear headscarves though as they, as my great-grandmother rightfully reasoned, were worn by women before regular washing of hair became common. The wigs, BTW, were a custom Jews picked up in 18th century CE Central Europe; they had been in fashion among their Christian peers from the 16th century CE on, who had rediscovered an Ancient Roman fashion of wigs for married women.
There’s been some arguing about the “Islamization” of fashion in the recent years, e.g. through higher necklines,more skirts, a shift to opaque tights in mainstream fashion, but I just get the impression that women now simply have got more choices to pick from compared to the two previous decades I’ve experienced, where you could only get the one style that was in fashion.

BTW, I might be able to put you up in the summer should you be in Europe. I don’t keep kosher though.

9 POLJ { 03.14.08 at 11:06 am }

There’s been some arguing about the “Islamization� of fashion in the recent years, e.g. through higher necklines,more skirts, a shift to opaque tights in mainstream fashion, but I just get the impression that women now simply have got more choices to pick from compared to the two previous decades I’ve experienced, where you could only get the one style that was in fashion.

What the hell are you smoking and can I have some?

10 C-Girl { 03.14.08 at 11:42 am }

Yes, it’s true, POLJ. For example, back in the 80’s, frum women chose between printed potato sacks, plain potato sacks or miniskirts worn with a bustier, ripped leggings and lace glove-lets. Most chose the fashionable option, much to the rabbis’ dismay. Nowadays we have funkyfrum and tznius.com. No longer do we have to sacrifice fashion for a good yiddeshe heat rash.

11 Sarah/froylein { 03.14.08 at 11:54 am }

POLJ, just for the record, I’ve never even smoked a single cigarette.

C-Girl, this also - somewhat - holds true in secular fashion. Just look at the 1980s: mini pencil skirt + blazer jacket with shoulder pads or oversized t-shirt with a strange print + leggins or peg top pants + pullover with bat sleeves. Tennis skirt and Lacoste polo shirt if you wanted to be considered “preppy”.
The 1990s were all about trousers (501 mostly) and the odd two years of mille fleur-print skirts and dresses that were fully buttoned in the front. Nowadays any major clothing store offers a range of skirts and dresses in various lengths and shapes as well as trousers of about any cut.

12 themicah { 03.17.08 at 12:24 pm }

The hasidic actor apparently quit:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap.....-Actor.php

13 yoseph leib { 03.19.08 at 2:30 pm }

right, chaval… Avrumi is one of the coolest people out there. He signed up for a casting call on the chulent mailing, and wound up getting offered one of the biggest parts in one of the coolest movies… and the day after the pictures came out, his children were no longer allowed to go to school. I wonder, once he sent back word that he was dropping out of the picture, if the kids were let back in?

14 Sarah/froylein { 03.19.08 at 3:17 pm }

Yoseph, I dare say his kids deserve a better school than that.

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