Comments on: And then there was—the shirtwaist https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:54:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Diana https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-614000 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:54:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-614000 I was in high school in the early 60’s and fondly remember my favorite dress. It was a peach shirtwaist. And, believe it or not, I still have my circle pin that I received as a gift on my 16th birthday!! And I also had an A-line skirt with four buttons on the belly! Good times!

]]> By: Beverly https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613884 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:36:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613884 Oh, and Ken Mattingly doesn’t look at ALL like Gary Sinese. (Love him in Apollo 13, though!)

]]> By: Beverly https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613882 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:36:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613882 We always called them shirtdresses.

I was a kid in the 1960s. Had a couple of BORING circle pins. Never wore them.

But my big sister and I had Mondrian dresses: A-line sheaths, sleeveless, but not low-cut. With a Mondrian-inspired print.

We also went to Cape Canaveral in 1969 and saw the Saturn V, the Crawler, and the gigantic VAB. Our whole family were space buffs; it was thrilling.

In the late 1990s, I got the chance to interview two of the old astronauts: Pete Conrad, and Alexei Leonov (CCCP). Also interviewed Freeman Dyson, Robert Forward, Robert Staehle, Robert Zubrin (hey, there’s something about Robert here), and some others. The least interesting was the Planetary Society guy, a pinko and Not an engineer or rocket scientist (Louis Friedman).

]]> By: Tom Murin https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613700 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:43:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613700 When I hear “shirtwaist” it is usually because of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

]]> By: MollyNH https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613570 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:49:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613570 Scott,
that’s nice *she planned to return the revolver*
a lesson in manners, lol
but what of the mom ?
Sending *someone* other than oneself to get
$10,000 worth of jewels ???

]]> By: scottthebadger https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613440 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:58:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613440 I have seen references in books from the early 20th century to a woman wearing a shirtwaist and skirt, now that you mention it. I have a great fondness for kids books from the first quarter of the 20th century, when kids would read 300 page books. Like the Radio Boys series, the Motorboat Boys, Motor Maids, and Ralph of the Railroad series, and a series that has one of my favorite lines, the Girl Aviators. In this series, there are two brother/sister sets. The boys love building aircraft, and the girls love flying them. In one book, one of the girls is sent by her mom to get $10,000 worth of jewels out of her safety deposit box. So she stops by the workshop, and asks the boy working on the new plane, ” I am going to the bank, do you have a revolver I could borrow”?

]]> By: Mrs Whatsit https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613309 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:17:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613309 I am a little young for shirtwaists but not too young to remember trying them on. Nope, not on me. They are not entirely gone today, but now they’re called shirtdresses with buttons from top to bottom and a straight cut or princess seams, more forgiving than that sharp divide between the close bodice ending at the belted waist and the full skirt.

The picture is just wonderful, all those women looking great in the wholesome old-fashioned cut and that one rebel looking just as great in her sexy flowered sheath.

]]> By: MollyNH https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613239 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:00:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613239 they look like they are standing around a giant ketchup bottle !

]]> By: Ann https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613236 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:49:14 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613236 Some updated versions.

Can’t really picture Donna Reed in any of them.

]]> By: Mac https://thenewneo.com/2013/06/12/and-then-there-was-the-shirtwaist/#comment-613226 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:15:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=28774#comment-613226 Now that you mention it, I think I usually encountered it followed by the word “dress.” So I guess a “shirtwaist” is a blouse, and a “shirtwaist dress” is what most of the ladies in the picture are wearing.

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