The Feminine Upper Arm

I always where 3/4 sleeves. I think cap sleeves look childish.


Diane, here's a website with swimsuits with sleeves....


Swimsuits for sun protection

I wish there was a return of more modest clothes in general.

Er, I meant to spell that 'beautiful'. Now then, I was thinking along the lines of being flappy and proud. To that effect, I bought last year a sleeveless royal blue blouse. I haven't tossed it yet, but neither have I worn it.

Osso--

Courage! Not everyone makes loud, opinionated comments about other peoples' wardrobes.

Chai--

Neither you nor I are jackassy enough to announce breatlessly, "We Worship Beauty", but we have enough common aesthetic sense to deplore flabby, pudgy flesh being exposed in the names of Sexual Liberation and Current Fashion.

Chai, I was joking, but those look good.

One lesson I learned one day has stayed with me since. A woman I know who has a very attractive figure, even in her late fiftyish years, was ahead of me in line wearing speedos. Her bottom was hanging down even with the support of the speedos. I'm sure she never thought to look at her backside. She looked great from the front and I guess she thought she looked good all the way around. Terrible mistake.

After that I have always look to see the rear-end view!

Isn't it a rule among older women that after lovemaking, you leave the room walking backward? And to never look down...

While it may not be the most aesthetic/attractive sight, I admire larger women who wear what feels comfortable and damns the rest of us. Somehow, that 'don't give a shite attitude' makes them look just fine to me.

What are you supposed to do if you're large, just sit and sweat in a long top and pants for the sake of others?

Nah.

And does anyone really give a kerap about the size of someone else's arms, anyway?

Nah.

Nods to Mame.

I don't get the total avoidance of sleevelessness for decades by zillions of women.

Women quivering re their flivvering mass, thick or thin.

Really, teens and self absorbed twentylings can get over it.


Geez, it's 2007.

It's a sort of sleeve purdah.

My arms may flap - I will eye your disgust with some sardonic thoughts.







Drags out royal blue blouse..

Noddy, did that formerly male writer expound on travel?

Tell me about your sardonic thoughts. Would I be able to have sardonic thoughts while wearing a sleeveless blouse? I'm most likely too much a wimp.

Stick with me, kiddo, I'll bring out your nascent sardonicity.







Twirls blouse....


(Some on a2k think I'm nice. Others think I'm passive aggressive. Both may be true. I think of myself as, er, drywitted.)

The shame of flabby arms over, say, a century, is rather startling as a motivation for design, growls osso, follower of several fashion links on an at least weekly basis.

Finally, at last at last, Noddy and I disagree.

My only problem with my sleeveless blouse is that it needs ironing.



Well, I lied, as I admitted before that I've had the blouse and not worn it, intimating qualms.

On the other hand, it's been wrinkled.

By the time a women "looses" her looks she has acquired something far more feminine then the vanity of flesh and that boys can not recognize.

ehBeth- Problem with the library steps, is if I fell out of bed, I would land on those wooden steps, Yecch.

I have found that recently I have just about stopped wearing sleeveless shirts, except for when I go to the gym. If it is hot, I will turn up the sleeves of my short sleeve T shirt. (No, I do not keep a pack of cigarettes in the sleeve. )

Sleeveless, babe, go sleeveless. You'll feel so much cooler. Flapping be damned! Hell, I go sleeveless at work and there's nary a word except a compliment on the color of the blouse, if applicable.

Maybe they're all just skeered of me. I can go with that.

But when it's cooler out, I do go with 3/4 sleeves. Love 'em.

Diane--

Ogden Nash said it:




Mame--

You make excellent points about rugged individualism, self-confidence and devil-may-care, comfort-loving attire.

Upper arm flab is not the most unattractive area of the human body. I'm much more distressed by flabby mid-rifts--particularly if the flab surrounds a navel ring. The absolute rock-bottom transgression is if the navel ring includes a fake diamond.

All the same, I am of an era that Dressed for Public Appearances. I don't mean that my parents dined in evening dress--simply that part of putting the proverbial Best Foot Forward was being neat, clean and not-tattered when out of the house.

Of course I adore sitting in my colorful draperies, craning my crepy neck and deploring what I consider to be a conspicuous lack of sartorial splendor. I blush to admit the connection but Mrs. Grundy and I are distant cousins.


Osso--

Go with the blue sleeveless blouse. Flap for the Gray Panthers.

I'm inhibited--you are artistic.

The male writer was a college professor at Colby.

http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/030508jennifer.shtml

http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Not-There-Life-Genders/dp/0767914295/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-5805506-0965726?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184513213&sr=1-2

Our first disagreement! And we're both so marvelously articulate!

Diane--

You are not a wimp, but if a sleeveless blouse puts you in unabashed touch with your sardonic nature and incisive wit, go for it.

Amigo--

You're well-intentioned. Thank you.

Phoenix--

Are you sure about no cigarette pack accessories?

Jespah--

Undoubtedly you are both confident and magnificent whatever the sleeve length.

Bitchery-doo-dah time:

Should pictures of women in sleeveless blouses be posted on A2K?

Tank tops?

I love Ogden Nash...

The trouble with a kitten is that
eventually it becomes a cat

The rhinocerous is a homely beast
forhuman eyes he's not a feast
farewell farewell you old rhinocerous
I'll stare at something less prepocerous

Noddy, do you mean women of A2K from gatherings - those pictures? Or just random women?

littlek--

Inside joke.

I'm sorry. I wanted to be cryptic, but achieved only obscurity.

BPB--

You have no opinions on feminine arms?

Why only women? Where is your sense of emancipation, Noddy?

Here this guy has his wings surgically removed

Calamity Jane--

I don't think that this guy has very flashed me on an asphalt parking lot.

Now, for equal-opportunity bitching, what about all of those "solvent" men who boast chain after chain of bling over undraped beer bellies?