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Wood Street, Waltham Forest, London |
Crimplene ladies sing dis song. Doo dah! Doo dah! With
apologies to Stephen Foster, I can just see these to ladies breaking into song,
and dancing their hearts out when they spotted Philipp Ebeling* and his camera.
The picture speaks to me of a completely different life than
my own. These two ladies, curled and coiffed, properly wearing crimplene frocks
and nylon tights, with their handbags and carriers, were probably on their way
to the local Tesco, then on to the café for a cuppa. It’s London. It’s England.
And, though I first thought this a picture from the fifties, from the looks of
the cars on the street, it’s now.
I live in what is euphemistically called an “active adult
community.” We’re all over 55, and some of us are ten, twenty, even thirty
years older than that minimum. While a few of us do sport canes, or walkers
when we’ve just had our knees replaced, not one of us would dress the way these
two ladies do. We dress more like our daughters than our grandmothers.
Different places, different customs, different expectations.
Interesting.
*You can see more of Ebeling’s extraordinary work here. The picture above is from his London Ends collection.
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