Aesthetic trends, such as all the clothes of Mrs. Mercer in the play emphasize exquisite figure, especially the queen's bee waist and wide buttocks. Even if you wear an A-shaped loose coat, it must be like this, no matter how the style changes. This was the aesthetic trend at that time, and it is still an important feature of women's wear. Because the male aesthetic preference behind this has not changed so far.
In The Great Lady Mercer, how extreme does the hostess care about her image in the hearts of men/husbands? It can be said that it is obsession.
Every night, my husband takes off his makeup after he falls asleep and puts on makeup before he gets up. In order to keep a perfect image in her husband's eyes forever. Year after year, she measured the size of every important part of her body to the minute. Her pajamas are exquisite princess style, but this beauty must be affirmed by pursuing the praise of her doctor Gao Fushuai: If you wake up like this every morning, I think I will be late for work every day.
Later, we found out that the mother of that woman was like this. I never let my husband, a professor at Columbia University, see himself without makeup. He keeps his figure accurate to centimeters, and spends a lot of thought and time on doing his hair and dressing up.
This sounds incomprehensible to housewives in the 2 1 century, but it was the daily life of American women in that era. Because it was a male-dominated society at that time, women's life and economic resources depended entirely on men, so housewives at that time usually focused on their husbands, including dressing up and slimming down to retain men.
But because of the war, men went to the battlefield, and the government strongly encouraged women to work to support the economy. At this time, women began to enter the workplace. "Going to the hall, going to the kitchen and being self-sufficient" should be the description of housewives in that era.