Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Ilse Koch: The Bitch of Buchenwald" video.

One reason for this is that women had an average lifespan of 64...they married early and without the pill, stayed pregnant for about 20 years. There weren't many treatments for thyroid disease and menopause, so hefty weight gain, and "female problems" tortured women as young as 27. Makeup was frowned on in most small towns and there were 2 kinds of fashion, child and mom, no teen fashions existed. Women depended a great deal on being "good" and getting into heaven as their reward for a shitty life of slavery to the men....
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Saltdine They are going to look at our generation of Kardashian beauties with total revulsion. The plastic surgery! The dyed hair extensions! The laughably ballooning butt's and breasts!
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@regenosis I am not sure I agree with the fat fetish part, but I'm definitely no expert. I just think the current fad for people trying to stay young with plastic surgery is going to be seen as grotesque in a few years. I think, based on historical data of fads, that the pendulum will swing back to a very natural look with less emphasis on weight...
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@Mimi-by3gz I agree that almost all women in the movies at that time had an incredible aura, and a lot of women copied it. I have a great photo of my grandmother, mother and 3 aunts taken during WW2. They obviously did their hair and lipstick for the photo, and looked fantastic. I asked mom about the photo and she said they tried to look like Rita Hayworth, smoke like Bette Davis and dance like Ginger Roger's. Movies were the only entertainment they could afford. When I was growing up in the 60's, teen fashions were barely on the market, so we copied the hippies for originality. We wore 2 dollar Keds sneakers and shrink to fit jeans to play in. My sister found that by wearing the jeans and sitting in a very hot bath, then letting them dry on, she got a perfect, perfect fit. It took forever for them to dry, and dyed your legs blue, but once Cher wore tight jeans on the Sonny and Cher Show, the look was high fashion. I loved the wild hippie style because you could experiment with anything and get away with it. You could buy a tablecloth for 25 cents at a garage sale and wear it as a shawl and you felt like a star!
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