Comments on: Meg and the Silk http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/ 73% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Sat, 19 May 2012 02:40:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ming http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Ming Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:42:04 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-86 I've noticed that even in modern days, there is no lipstick that can turn a lady to an insta-ho quite the way a bad blush job can. The last Charles Dickens movie I saw on PBS was "Little Dorrit." Little Dorrit's trampy/conniving sister didn't make a MOVE without those bright pink spots on her cheeks. Clearly that's the hallmark of ill repute. <strong>Rebekah:</strong> China dolls; secretly slutty? I’ve noticed that even in modern days, there is no lipstick that can turn a lady to an insta-ho quite the way a bad blush job can.

The last Charles Dickens movie I saw on PBS was “Little Dorrit.” Little Dorrit’s trampy/conniving sister didn’t make a MOVE without those bright pink spots on her cheeks. Clearly that’s the hallmark of ill repute.

Rebekah: China dolls; secretly slutty?

]]> By: Sophia http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Sophia Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:18:30 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-76 LOVE (and own) that book. Haha! Meg needed to learn that beggars can't be choosers. Haha! LOVE (and own) that book. Haha! Meg needed to learn that beggars can’t be choosers. Haha!

]]> By: Ming http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Ming Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:23:47 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-67 That's weird, i just read Little Women AND Little Men last week, and this incident was not in my book. Do I have an abriged edition?! Curses! It did have the part where Meg goes to visit a friend and they get her all tarted up and tipsy. <strong>Rebekah: </strong>Something about that incident puzzled me--- Meg stooped to wearing lipstick, but not rouge. Does that seem like Extremely Arbitrary Cosmetic Morality to anyone but me? That’s weird, i just read Little Women AND Little Men last week, and this incident was not in my book. Do I have an abriged edition?! Curses!

It did have the part where Meg goes to visit a friend and they get her all tarted up and tipsy.

Rebekah: Something about that incident puzzled me— Meg stooped to wearing lipstick, but not rouge. Does that seem like Extremely Arbitrary Cosmetic Morality to anyone but me?

]]> By: Leslie http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Leslie Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:58:53 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-61 My pattern for a plain ankle length long sleeved dress takes 5 yards. Meg must have been making a mighty big dress..... <strong>Rebekah:</strong> I'm sure it had an outrageously full skirt, but still! My pattern for a plain ankle length long sleeved dress takes 5 yards. Meg must have been making a mighty big dress…..

Rebekah: I’m sure it had an outrageously full skirt, but still!

]]> By: Leslie http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Leslie Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:47:41 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-60 You're the sweetest girl in Ian's world. Plenty Good enough! <strong>Rebekah:</strong> People started telling me how "sweet" I am more than ten years ago, and it's always puzzled me. I don't feel sweet, and I don't see how I <em>act</em> that way... ... but the ballots are in. You’re the sweetest girl in Ian’s world.
Plenty Good enough!

Rebekah: People started telling me how “sweet” I am more than ten years ago, and it’s always puzzled me. I don’t feel sweet, and I don’t see how I act that way… … but the ballots are in.

]]> By: Leslie http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Leslie Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:38:54 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-59 I sympathize with Meg wanting to "be like the rich kids". Bless her heart, she worked hard all her life and had unmaterialistic parents who really didn't care about the whole money thing...but who had a lot of wealthy and influential friends. If you want your kids to be happy being poor, you've got to do like my grandparents did back in the depression--raise them among equally poor people. For the record, we ALL marry too young. There's no such thing as being "ready" for marriage, haha. Some things in life there's just no way to really prepare for. So if you were a March girl, which one would you be? <strong>Rebekah:</strong> Note to self: Make poorer friends. Though I hadn't noticed the parallel until now, a rich friend took me shopping last Christmas and persuaded me to spend <strong>$50</strong> on a winter coat. That was/is a lot of money for me, but I'm happy to own a warm coat. No regrets. She encouraged some less practical purchases, as well. Wonderful girl, but a bird and a fish can't go shopping together. I wouldn't be any March girl, overall, but we have some common traits; I love pretty things and resent cocky suitors, like Meg I enjoy writing, slang, and straightforward people, as did Jo Ian declared me "the sweetest girl in the world" yesterday, which suggests he doesn't get out enough. I relate much more to Beth's shyness. I fretted about my nose for years, like Amy. Unlike Amy, I didn't marry a family friend and live out my days in luxury. Not an option, as we failed to make wealthy friends. Loogootee had a shortage of handsome millionaires. A bit tenuous, you say? Well, we can't all be heroine material. I sympathize with Meg wanting to “be like the rich kids”. Bless her heart, she worked hard all her life and had unmaterialistic parents who really didn’t care about the whole money thing…but who had a lot of wealthy and influential friends.
If you want your kids to be happy being poor, you’ve got to do like my grandparents did back in the depression–raise them among equally poor people.
For the record, we ALL marry too young. There’s no such thing as being “ready” for marriage, haha. Some things in life there’s just no way to really prepare for.

So if you were a March girl, which one would you be?

Rebekah: Note to self: Make poorer friends.

Though I hadn’t noticed the parallel until now, a rich friend took me shopping last Christmas and persuaded me to spend $50 on a winter coat. That was/is a lot of money for me, but I’m happy to own a warm coat. No regrets. She encouraged some less practical purchases, as well. Wonderful girl, but a bird and a fish can’t go shopping together.

I wouldn’t be any March girl, overall, but we have some common traits;

I love pretty things and resent cocky suitors, like Meg
I enjoy writing, slang, and straightforward people, as did Jo
Ian declared me “the sweetest girl in the world” yesterday, which suggests he doesn’t get out enough. I relate much more to Beth’s shyness.
I fretted about my nose for years, like Amy. Unlike Amy, I didn’t marry a family friend and live out my days in luxury. Not an option, as we failed to make wealthy friends. Loogootee had a shortage of handsome millionaires.

A bit tenuous, you say? Well, we can’t all be heroine material.

]]> By: Dylan G http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Dylan G Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:59:01 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-57 Google books is such an underutilized resource! But I have to vote for libraries still. I was thinking of you this weekend, I went to a second hand bookstore and while the books were 5% off the marked price, they can't beat the library. I was thinking, "Rebekah would totally agree." <strong>Rebekah:</strong> Totally agree... Not only do I enjoy holding a long-loved book, but my elderly Mac makes it mighty hard to scroll through pages at Google Books. Furthermore, I'm a near-compulsive purger; there aren't many books I'm willing to haul with me from state to state. Graduation approaches, so I need to start paring down, not stocking up. Google books is such an underutilized resource! But I have to vote for libraries still. I was thinking of you this weekend, I went to a second hand bookstore and while the books were 5% off the marked price, they can’t beat the library. I was thinking, “Rebekah would totally agree.”

Rebekah: Totally agree… Not only do I enjoy holding a long-loved book, but my elderly Mac makes it mighty hard to scroll through pages at Google Books. Furthermore, I’m a near-compulsive purger; there aren’t many books I’m willing to haul with me from state to state. Graduation approaches, so I need to start paring down, not stocking up.

]]> By: jean http://jauntydame.com/2009/10/meg-and-the-silk/comment-page-1/#comment-56 jean Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:54:03 +0000 http://jauntydame.com/?p=100#comment-56 This was always Meg's little attachment - the need to be like the rich kids. Obviously all that transcendentalism didn't take with her. John should've sent out to Walden Pond to live in a shack and poop in the woods! <strong>Rebekah:</strong> I've always been a sucker for pretty things myself, but my city has more thrift stores than hers. Re-reading the book has me thinking that Meg married too young. We're all petty and make mistakes sometimes, but she seemed like such a little girl in 'Good Wives'--- a good-natured kid, but a kid nonetheless. This was always Meg’s little attachment – the need to be like the rich kids. Obviously all that transcendentalism didn’t take with her. John should’ve sent out to Walden Pond to live in a shack and poop in the woods!

Rebekah: I’ve always been a sucker for pretty things myself, but my city has more thrift stores than hers.

Re-reading the book has me thinking that Meg married too young. We’re all petty and make mistakes sometimes, but she seemed like such a little girl in ‘Good Wives’— a good-natured kid, but a kid nonetheless.

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