Peony Moss: July 2005 Archives

Arthur and Andrew are asking for prayers for the soul of their maternal grandfather, Paul Hui; for their grandmother; and for mercy on the Canadian doctors who pulled Mr Hui's feeding tube on July 5.

In other news, I found a lot to agree with in this Richard Cohen column:

Murderer at the Bedside (WaPo -- marketing questions)

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Jonathan Yardley has a reflection on Flannery O'Connor's letters: The Writer Who Was Full of Grace .

There's a little dust-up over at Hallowed Ground on jumpers-are-frumpy and modest-but-stylish and blah de blah blah. We all know the drill.

I'll let Pansy handle the topic of fashion if she likes, since it's a topic that utterly bores me. I just can't get excited about clothes.

I wonder, though, if part of the jumper thing is a generational thing. Women in their thirties and early forties spent at least part their adolescence in the 'eighties. And in the 'eighties, that "Little House on the Prairie" look was fashionable, especially in the South. Remember Gunne Sax? Drop-waist dresses? Prairie skirts with concho belts? When I was in high school in Texas, jumpers and floral dresses with big embroidered linen collars were the style. Maybe some of the jumper-wearing "frumps" are just turning to a style that's familiar to them from when their tastes were being formed.

Just a thought (though probably not one that will impress those who believe that it's part of a Christian woman's duty to stay modestly au courant.)