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		<title>Webitor&#8217;s Pick from Her Bookshelf: Let&#8217;s Bring Back</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia Cheng Mintz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had the opportunity to attend The Society Toronto&#8217;s event at The Bay&#8217;s White Space on Queen Street (you can read about it here).  The event featured Lesley M. M. Blume&#8217;s book of the same name, based on her Huffington Post column.  Let&#8217;s Bring Back, which Lesley&#8217;s website describes as a &#8220;sophisticated, stylish cultural [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, I had the opportunity to attend The Society Toronto&#8217;s <em></em><em>Let&#8217;s Bring Back</em><em></em> event at The Bay&#8217;s White Space on Queen Street (you can read about it <a href="http://www.delectablychic.com/2011/04/letsbringback/" target="_blank">here</a>).  The event featured Lesley M. M. Blume&#8217;s book of the same name, based on her <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> column.  <em>Let&#8217;s Bring Back</em>, which Lesley&#8217;s website describes as a &#8220;sophisticated, stylish cultural encyclopedia of nostalgia&#8221; includes such things as penmanship, charm schools, rotary phones and butter.  Even the look of the book has a vintage feel, from the outside cover to the typeface inside.</p>
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<p><figure id="attachment_3874" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3874" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Lets-Bring-Back-1.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="3874" data-permalink="https://www.delectablychic.com/letsbringbackwebitorspick/lets-bring-back-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Lets-Bring-Back-1.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="500,375" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-H70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1302198719&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.09&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="Lets Bring Back 1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;The Let&#8217;s Bring Back table display at the Society Toronto&#8217;s event at the White Space &lt;/p&gt;
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<p>The book is a very easy read.  Entries are listed in alphabetical order, with a short comment on why Lesley would like to see them return.  Some of my favourite mentions (along with my own views) include:</p>
<p><strong>Penmanship:</strong> I may not have had the best handwriting in elementary school, but nothing beats beautiful cursive &#8211; especially when written in fountain pen.  At 31, I think I&#8217;m one of the last who can properly read traditional cursive.</p>
<p><strong>The Middy:</strong> This may be a bias of mine as I&#8217;m a <a href="http://www.bss.on.ca" target="_blank">BSS</a>* Old Girl (you can tell her from a distance as the school&#8217;s uniform blouse consists of a sailor collar).</p>
<p><strong>Charm School: </strong> From a 21st century perspective, I think going to charm school (or attending a school which offers a &#8220;charm school&#8221; program) actually helps one in her (or his) career down the road.  Those who don&#8217;t know &#8220;the rules&#8221; of good manners of any sort are going find that they&#8217;re going to be passed over for promotions.  Related to this (and also listed in the book) are table manners.</p>
<p><strong>Latin: </strong> This once played a very important role for anyone wanting to go to university.  This is no longer taught at most schools and the Ministry of Education here in Ontario always talks about eliminating it (they often take the PC route of it not being culturally &#8220;diverse&#8221; but that, like the manners situation is a whole other post).  Besides, it not only makes it easier to learn other Romance languages, but (in Lesley&#8217;s words) &#8220;gives people a serious leg up in med schools and law schools.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Dressing Up:</strong> Seriously, we&#8217;re such slackers today when it comes to what we wear.  Dressing up, especially for dinner, used to be much more common.  According to an old boarders&#8217; handbook from my school (I believe it was published in the late 80s), skirts or dresses were required for weeknight dinners.  This is, of course, no longer done.</p>
<p>There are also things I&#8217;d like to bring back that weren&#8217;t in the book, probably because they&#8217;re more culturally related to the communities around me.  These are:</p>
<p><strong>Dim sum on push carts: </strong> You don&#8217;t really see much of that in Toronto anymore.  Most of the time, you order dim sum from a slip.  Sure, it saves on rent and space and the food is fresher, but was really neat to</p>
<p><strong>Quiet Sundays: </strong> While I do enjoy the convenience of being able to shop every day of the week, save for holidays like Christmas, I also miss the days when everything was closed on Sunday.  Sunday shopping didn&#8217;t exist in Ontario until I was 12 years old.  In elementary school, Sundays meant playdates, finishing projects for school or making cookies.</p>
<p><strong>Miss:</strong> How many unmarried girls and women actually use Miss now? I think I was one of few women who used it prior to getting married  Isn&#8217;t it interesting that while Mrs. is still common, &#8220;Miss&#8221; is seen as antiquated?  As of late, the only place I saw &#8220;Miss&#8221; in print was regarding the Royal Wedding.</p>
<p>The  book itself can be seen two ways.  One (which was probably  Lesley&#8217;s intention) is a social commentary of how our society has  changed over the years (some of the entries are from well before  Lesley&#8217;s time), yet the book can also be seen as sarcasm (as in: Do we  REALLY want to bring some of these things back?). I&#8217;d like to believe it&#8217;s the former, but I&#8217;ll leave it up to the reader to decide.  In the mean time, what would YOU want to bring back?</p>
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<p>*BSS is the Bishop Strachan School, a private girls&#8217; school in Toronto.</p>
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		<title>The Society Toronto Does Nostalgia at The Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lesley M.M. Blume, a columnist at the Huffington Post was in Toronto on April 7 to participate in a panel discussion for her book, Let&#8217;s Bring Back.  The event was hosted by The Society Toronto and held in the White Space at The Bay Queen Street.  The after work cocktail event featured nostalgic, Mad Men era drinks [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesley-m-m-blume" target="_blank">Lesley M.M. Blume</a>, a columnist at the Huffington Post was in Toronto on April 7 to participate in a panel discussion for her book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Lets-Bring-Back-Encyclopedia-Forgotten-Yet-Delightful/dp/0811874133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1302230058&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Let&#8217;s Bring Back</a></em>.  The event was hosted by The Society Toronto and held in the White Space at The Bay Queen Street.  The after work cocktail event featured nostalgic, <em>Mad Men</em> era drinks such as the gimlet as well as music from the period.</p>
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<p>After mingling, the panel, which, besides Lesley included <a href="http://www.torontolife.com/features/shop-girl/" target="_blank">Bonnie Brooks</a> (President and CEO of the Bay), <a href="http://www.davidrocco.com" target="_blank">David Rocco</a> (best-selling author and TV producer of <em>La Dolce Vita</em>) and <a href="http://www.yabupushelberg.com/" target="_blank">Glenn Pushelberg </a>(co-founder of design firm Yabu Pushelberg &#8211; designer of The Bay Queen Street&#8217;s White Space) and was moderated by <em>Fashion Television</em>&#8216;s <a href="http://www.facebook.com/JeanneBeker" target="_blank">Jeanne Beker</a>.  People on the panel discussed what nostalgia was to them, including food, spaces (including department stores like The Bay), fashion, childhood memories and even things that are from a distant past that no longer existed by the time they were born.  After the panel spoke, the floor was able to ask questions.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually quite interesting that The Society chose The Bay Queen Street &#8211; a nostalgic event could have easily been held at, say, a historic home, the Carlu or in one of the older buildings at the University of Toronto.   While the White Space has a very modern feel, the store itself has such a history and heritage in Canada.  The Queen Street location, which was known as Simpson&#8217;s until the early 1990s, is actually re-exploring its history by renovating and restoring many of its spaces, bringing them back to their former glory.</p>
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		<title>Size is Just a Number: DelectablyChic! on Body Image, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Cheng Mintz We read about it constantly on websites, blogs and message boards such as the Huffington Post, Jezebel and For Those About to Shop  about the need to diversify fashion, both in size and in looks.  Every time there&#8217;s a post about a plus size model, it&#8217;s riddled with comments that are the same each and [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Cynthia Cheng Mintz</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We read about it constantly on websites, blogs and message boards such as the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>, <a href="http://www.jezebel.com" target="_blank">Jezebel</a> and <a href="http://forthoseabouttoshop.ca" target="_blank">For Those About to Shop</a>  about the need to diversify fashion, both in size and in looks.  Every time there&#8217;s a post about a plus size model, it&#8217;s riddled with comments that are the same each and every time.  For example, there are always those who say &#8220;well, size 14 isn&#8217;t big&#8221; or comments from people who&#8217;re on the small side (say, under size 8), yet say they&#8217;re &#8220;fat.&#8221;  Then there&#8217;s the infamous &#8220;Marilyn was a size 14&#8221; which is, once again, made each and every time something&#8217;s posted.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg"><img decoding="async" data-attachment-id="3141" data-permalink="https://www.delectablychic.com/plussizes/orangepin2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg?fit=600%2C785&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="600,785" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-H50&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1294850730&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="orangepin2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg?fit=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg?fit=600%2C785&amp;ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3141" title="orangepin2" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg?resize=229%2C300" alt="" width="229" height="300" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w, https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg?resize=114%2C150&amp;ssl=1 114w, https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/orangepin2.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w" sizes="(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a>     <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="3140" data-permalink="https://www.delectablychic.com/plussizes/crystlrenn2-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?fit=1036%2C1500&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1036,1500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="crystlrenn2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?fit=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?fit=640%2C927&amp;ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3140" title="crystlrenn2" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?resize=207%2C300" alt="" width="207" height="300" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?resize=103%2C150&amp;ssl=1 103w, https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?resize=707%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 707w, https://i0.wp.com/www.delectablychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/crystlrenn2.jpg?w=1036&amp;ssl=1 1036w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The author (left) feels that  people seem to be uneducated about body diversity and focus primarily on plus size issues and models like Crystal Renn (right)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Sizing is a number.  The same dress size may be &#8220;big&#8221; on one person and &#8220;small&#8221; on another.  They say that size 14 is the beginning of &#8220;plus sizes&#8221; yet readers are always mentioning that the models &#8220;don&#8217;t look fat&#8221; at size 14.  Well of course they don&#8217;t.  The models who wear size 14 are taller than the average woman (a good five or six inches!), so therefore, they&#8217;d naturally look thinner wearing a larger size.  I think people always miss that or even dismiss it.  In order for a 5&#8217;11&#8221; woman to actually &#8220;look&#8221; plus, she probably has to be at least size 20 (that&#8217;s why most actresses look &#8220;wider&#8221; than models &#8211; even though they&#8217;re wearing size 0 or 2, they&#8217;re usually in the 5&#8217;3&#8243;-5&#8217;5&#8243; range, and therefore shorter)  And even then, if she&#8217;s well proportioned &#8211; in other words her waist is a good 8-12 inches smaller than her hips, she&#8217;d look &#8220;thinner&#8221; than many women, even if she&#8217;s bigger than the typical model one sees on the runway. At the same time, it&#8217;s quite possible for someone who wears a smaller size to be &#8220;fat.&#8221;  If you&#8217;re very short (we&#8217;re talking about under five feet) and fine boned, size 10 may very well be &#8220;fat&#8221; &#8211; especially if you have a large percentage of body fat.  There IS such a thing as &#8220;skinny fat,&#8221; so I wouldn&#8217;t be so quick to judge someone as having an eating disorder.</p>
<p>What drives me crazy are the constant comments about Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s size.  It&#8217;s died down a bit over the past couple of years, but it&#8217;s still seen.  I recall taking a media class back in high school and having a teacher shoot me down because I mentioned that size 14 in the 1950s wasn&#8217;t the same as a size 14 in 1996 (the year I was taking the course) and again in at a university level introductory women&#8217;s studies class (circa 1998-1999) by the professor, teaching assistants AND peers.  One girl even yelled  (yes, YELLED) at me during a tutorial for saying that Marilyn Monroe had a 23&#8243; waist &#8211; she kept on saying that Marilyn was a &#8220;big girl.&#8221;  I guess she hadn&#8217;t seen any of Marilyn&#8217;s movies.  The only way we can say that Marilyn was &#8220;fat&#8221; is if you factor in her tummy flab.  People just didn&#8217;t tone themselves much back in the day, especially women &#8211; it just wasn&#8217;t &#8220;lady-like&#8221; to be muscular.  Watch a beach movie and none of the men or women in the 1950s were nearly as ripped as celebrities today.  Some even had a bit of flab &#8211; reserved only for guys like Jack Black in 2011.  </p>
<p>Yes, like most people, I&#8217;d definitely like to see more diversity when it comes to size (which should include height), but at the same time, people need to be more educated about size issues itself.  Most conversations seem to be so one-sided, with most  more &#8220;mainstream&#8221; blogs, message boards and the like saying the same thing over and over.  There&#8217;s very little room for a different opinion, and the few times these ideas are acknowledge (almost always by someone making a comment and not by the original poster), it is more of a lip service &#8211; acknowledgement just for the moment, but soon forgotten.  If we are to truly embrace different sizes, we need to be more open-minded and hear what others have to say.  We don&#8217;t need to tell people that they are or are not &#8220;fat&#8221; or &#8220;skinny&#8221; based on the size they wear. </p>
<p>This is Part I of a series on body image and body diversity.  We are currently looking for feedback on your thoughts about specialty sizes (all perspectives welcome).  Please let us know via <a title="Thoughts on Body Image and Size Diversity" href="mailto:bodyimage@delectablychic.com" target="_blank">e-mail</a>.</p>
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