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I like this photo of Hazel English because it’s one of the few vintage look attempts that has an authentic hairstyle from the mid- to late-60s with an actual bit of clothing that would’ve been worn by someone with that hairstyle. In addition, her makeup is era-accurate, which many vintage cosplay types also get wrong.

Most people way overdo it when they attempt to look like someone from a different time. But Hazel and her stylist got it exactly right.

Inference Engine

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She’s pretty, looks both fun and intelligent, is not obese and doesn’t appear to be full of unwarranted judgement and entitlement like nearly all American women. She looks like she could be someone who is an actual friend and not a competitor vying for power with you in any sort of relationship, romantic or otherwise. At a glance, it seems like you might be able to talk to her without having your reputation dragged and your life ruined on social media for internet clout.

Yes, that’s a lot to infer from a photo, but there’s a reason we claim they are worth a thousand words.

(That’s not the new Japanese prime minister btw, that’s Saori Araki, a former Japanese pop star.)

Prep

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Definitely not “grotesquely emaciated.” I’d say extremely thin. But look at her arms! They are fuckin’ jacked. No one with arms like that is anywhere close to emaciated.

All that’s going on here is someone who was already fit and skinny and prepped to look like that in the outfit she wanted to wear. Still not that healthy, all told, but not that bad. Prep == eating a bit less for a few weeks and then dehydrating yourself for a couple of days before the event.

Again, no one actually emaciated would have such nice arms. It’s just not possible to do. At all. It’s just the FA nutters and women’s intrasexual competition reacting to someone who looks great. And they are burning with envy and hatred.

Cetacea

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That’s one of the things I like about Sydney Sweeney. She’s only “regular” beautiful. Sure, she cleans up nice but she looks like about the average girl did during the 1980s — before all the obesity, people walking around looking half-dead due to poor diets, and the horrible tattoos1.

It’s not that Sydney is unattractive. She actually is beautiful! But so were the vast majority of women before they became purely cetacean and disfigured themselves with tattoos. And don’t fuckin’ argue with me. I was there; I remember.

  1. Sydney to her great credit has none.

Looks

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I have been working on a longer post about the sociology and cultural ramifications of 1980s music videos. But as break from that, this image from a ZZ Top vid reminded me of a common woman’s look from the 1980s that’s completely disappeared now.

Those very tight tops with mid-rise (also tight) jeans were extremely common during the 1980s. Almost always braless too, of course, which would be verboten now. It’s a look that most can’t really pull off these days because it requires being svelte. But most women were back then! And no tattoos. The women from then are so much more attractive to me because their skin had not been devastated with horrible tattoos as is almost always the case now.

I wouldn’t want to go back, but damn not having terrible tattoos everywhere would be a real positive thing.