Sunday scribblings Swing Era

My mom
Sunday Scribblings "If I had to live in a different time in history!"

If I had to live in another time in history it would be the swing era. Where the clothes were beautiful and romantic. Where woman danced til the wee hours of the morning and never worried about calories.
The era my mother lived, where she looked like a doll on the way to work. With amazing high heeled shoes, and a big smile on her face! Where hairdressers were pressured to fit in as many clients as they could with nary a break to pee!

Where being a virgin was revered not laughed at! Where girls wore dresses on a date. Where Doris Day sang " If I had a secret love" and people really did have secret loves.
Where men dressed dapper, could ballroom dance and were forced to romance a woman before he bedded her.
Simple times where cars were an extravagance, oranges a treat, and going to the movies was exhilarating. A time where staying home to raise your children was expected, not criticized.
A time when movies had happy endings, and single parents were rare. Where ethics were high, corruption was covert. Weekly dances were a place to connect and sharing a milkshake was romantic. Expectations were less, everyone had less, needed less, and wanted less.

A time when Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire danced people out of their doldrums, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby crooned and humored their way to the top. While Jack Benny, the three stooges Red Skelton, Laurel and Hardy, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis jolted people into laughter with slapstick simple humor and crazy antics. A time when Shirley Temple warmed every one hearts, and Judy Garland mesmerized audiences with her voice and vulnerability.
To sum it up I loved the era, the values, the arts, the fashion and most of my life I wished I'd been born two decades before I was. I loved Blondie and Dagwood any comedy or musical from that era had my attention. Waltzing, jiving and jitterbug would have made me belle of the ball! Humor was clean yet sprinkled with innuendo, romance was alive, everyone knew their place, watched their money and were neighborly! It was basically La la land fraught with back alley abortions, hidden abuse, racism and sexism rampant, prevalent female oppression , there was war, hunger and unrest, in reality, I'm so glad I live now!