All right...I'm going to say this and wait for the fallout (as if I care!)...you can't "make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

The Ad..although funny certainly depicts no ladylike behaviour to me. A "lady" can go anywhere and adapt...on the other hand..many young ladies today would fail dismally in certain social situations.

These days...even male executives are attending classes on how to behave socially and this Ad clearly shows...clothes alone do not make a person...

When I was a teenager, there were a number of very popular young "IN" girls that were always around the local milk bar.  I never came across any of them at the annual Departmental Ball.

Yes, I've seen some of those girls hanging out at the milkbar too, they grow into loud mouth women with no manners. Have a feeling H&M clothes would make no difference. Who is H&M btw? 

 

My memory of the 'IN' girls hanging around the milk bar were that they were usually hanging off the arms or necks of the 'IN' boys like some sort of decoration, and well and truly knew their place, which was in the main to leave all the talking to their bignoting loudmouthed boyfriends.

All the 'OUT' girls would have passed on the departmental ball realising it was just an opportunity to be seen or to brown nose the boss and his wife and in the main as boring as bat sh.te.

Know nothing about H. & M. and darned if I know why this advertisement would make you feel feisty Amelia when all it's doing is making young women appear pretty human  i.e. picking food out of their teeth, not shaving their underarms, slouching, looked p.ssed off, having muscles etc. etc. etc.  might shatter a few illusions but women are human. 

Sadly though the advertising world still clings to the doctrine of youthful female beauty....given ladies/females/women comes in all shapes, sizes, colours, cultures and ages.

I like the ad. It normalises women (albeit young women only) as being individuals with their own style. I have never had much time for old fashioned, stereotypical notions of what a "real lady" is.

 

 

"It's not unusual"...

Just looks like the normal rubbish used to cause a stir...

Women are what they are....The female gender who have their own personalities and their own way of life....

Each to their own...

The one cleaning her teeth with the pitch fork must have dentures. No one in their right mind would do that to their own teeth. Proves, they are not normal.

Times are  [have] a changing......

Having grown up in the 50s the difference in what is termed a Lady then to now is very different.                Imagine how women that have memories pre WWII, if I can see the difference born in the 40s they must be in shock!    I have to cringe when I see some females, especially in the newspapers at the races! 

Going into the city in the 60s one would not be seen dead without a hat and gloves on, without stockings on.  Even if it killed us in the heat.

Talking of a Lady, my friend in Hampshire, UK just sent me this!  LOL

 

 

I still think good manners very important..and always will..

Good manners change with the times.

I remember the day when a gentleman always lifted his hat to a lady upon meeting and saying goodbye!  It was considered good manners.

It was considered good manners to let a female through the door first and also open the door for her.

All these things have faded away.

My late father always lifted his hat to me, his daughter.     [from the age of 18 ]

So much has changed over the years.   Even on public transport nobody gives their seat to a pregnant woman even!  I think society today is overloaded with bad manners more than good manners.

Men attribute this to equal rights, well I don't see a man pregnant!   Perhaps they should be the world may be a better place if men had to experience some of the things women go through.

The young women drivers today are terribly aggresive.  Not sure why, are they trying to prove a point?

Loved the ad 

Nothing wrong with their behaviours - all very lady like

 

Camelot....& true love....remember the movie?

Now I am amazed at reading this story...did not know they were married!

 

Vanessa Redgrave, 80, and actor husband Franco Nero, 75, stun the crowd with romantic routine on Italy's Strictly Come Dancing

 

 

 

British acting legend Vanessa Redgrave looked elegant as she took to the dance floor with her husband Franco Nero on the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars in Rome on Saturday night.

 

 

 

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