Live 1880, the best time in American history. (bull, good, oil)
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I try not to believe any leftist's myths...my observation was what I observe with my own eyes. There are so many "sloppy fat" people of both sexes, that our perception of what is "fat" has been altered.
As for the women looking like sluts, I agree. It's not just their clothes -- it's the bleached hair, the tattoos, the body piercings and yes, the lack of clothing. I never realized how many different colors of bra straps there are today! Who's designing this crap?
people ARE getting bigger and fatter, its a known fact, portion sizes have got much larger which may account for this, a single portion of say Fish and Chips/fries (which was the only takeaway at one time in the UK)can now feed 2 people.
large females walking about with the inevitable "strappy" top showing off large acres of fat are now commonly known in my county as "Lump-unts" . mind you the males aren't any better.
The good folks in the video are restoring a magnificent steam lorry. It doesn't date back to 1880, but it's a revenant of those wonderful times. The machine tool technology isn't much different as 1880 was the climax of the industrial revolution.
There's more interest in Great Britain in the history of technology. It's worth traveling there to visit many sites and attend events. It's a place to find craftsmen who seem to no longer exist here Perhaps if there's enough interest, some of the members of this forum will charter a plane and enjoy a very interesting field trip.
This video is great. You'll be drooling by the end .
Search back through this thread for the posts on corsets. Do not believe the leftist myth that today's women are fat. The problem is that they dress like slatterns.
I have a lot of old photos of family from the 1800's.
The ones from the 1800's were not fat. Not at all.
However a lot of today family members are way over weight and some are obese.
I have a lot of old photos of family from the 1800's.
The ones from the 1800's were not fat. Not at all.
However a lot of today family members are way over weight and some are obese.
Agreed -- all one needs is eyes to see! And it's not because they don't wear corsets (ouch!). I suspect it's due more to adulterants in the food, esp sugar and HFCS. I have seen the same thing in our family photos, and the overweight/obese ones of today do not overeat or drink to excess. What is it???
She lives an 1880s lifestyle. Walks or bikes wherever she goes, eats fresh food and uses mostly 1880s technology. I would argue that her lifestyle now is lower stress; stress is also an obesity factor.
She was fat but she could have slimmed down without the corset. Her motivation was to wear original 1880s clothing. The average waist size was 22-26 inches which is not unusually small. The waist looks tiny because they have other contraptions underneath to make the hips larger for the hourglass shape.
Most people were cooking fresh, locally-grown whole foods from scratch. There was not an obesity problem. Even into the 1920s after corsets were discarded for the most part, most women looked like stick figures in flapper dresses.
I see the same with vintage and antique men's clothing. Most men today could not fit into them.
I found a selection of photographs which are almost all from the old days. Only a few date back to the glorious eighties, but there are more than a few that the antiquarian will appreciate.
shows how many calories the average citizen of each country eats, shows that its not just the calories, alot of nations eat close to the same amount as us Americans, but we mostly live sedentry lifestyles, and i assume as Nor'Eastah stated that additives make it worse as well.
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I see the same with vintage and antique men's clothing. Most men today could not fit into them.
I have a book originally published in the late eighteenth century about a ship's voyage to Nootka Sound which is off the coast of present day British Columbia. The book includes a list of the crew with names, ages, and heights. The average height of an adult male is about 5'5'' which isn't much above the average for women today. I'm sure that one of the reasons for the heights of the crew is the fact that little people could scurry up the rigging more easily than bigger people. However, nutrition plays a larger role in this. People were taller in 1880 and they're still taller today because they're eating better. Japanese today are larger than those born before the war for the same reason..
There's a rather amusing video that Jas. Townsend & Son did on Youtube about the use of cheap fillers used by bakers back in the really old days (18th century and earlier). Some of these fillers were actually toxic. It's true that there's nothing new under the sun. Aristophanes wrote about insurance fraud nearly twenty-four hundred years ago.
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