If you could live in a different era

[Laurie]

What would you pick?? Past--future?

There's a blog I follow and the woman is an era dresser. She loves all things 40s. I enjoy seeing her in vintage clothing even though it's not my style.

This got me thinking about living in a different time--what would my favorite be? Would I pick the old west with cowboys galore--Victorian age with the glamorous gowns and the Lords & Ladies--a look at the future and what nail designs are going to be????

After long contemplation there is really only one answer---

Late 50's and 60's why?? ELVIS of course! To be able to actually see Elvis in concert would be a dream come true for me.

How about you?

 

[VolunteerChin22]

Um totally late 1700s - I want to wear the big dresses with the corsets and go to balls. I am obsessed with period romance novels. But I'd have to be nobility...I would not want to be a serf.

 

[Twilight Chinchillas]

I'm the practical one. I like the old days when there were more family values, times were slower, family held together, and instead of emails, there were phone calls, hand written letters. But if I was to pick a time, be it when we finally have a cure for cancer! Told ya I was the practical one! lol

 

[JodiO]

For me it would be the 50's...love the music, poodle skirts, hair up in a pony tail, men in white t's w/ slicked back hair, sock hops,...love it!!!

 

[Dusty Foot Prints]

I would pick the 50's also. It was such a simpler, less complicated time.

 

[GorillaJTA]

Y'all may think I am crazy... but for me, it would just be pre- 9/11. It seems like the world has just become a scarier and less trusting place since then. We would still have (most) modern technology, a good economy, but without the fear and distrust...

 

[Jenn]

I'm not sure if I can pick a time period...I guess it would be a combination. The 50's, being the age of innocense but in this time period, or a bit more in the future. Meaning I want today's technology, but the 50's innocent lifestyle.

 

[Ratchilla]

I like the now. There are reasons why sometimes different eras seem appealing, but there are so many reasons why I would stay here.

One of them being able to do what I do now. I'm totally self sufficient and back then, women being able to obtain certain positions were nearly impossible. Plus, I obviously wouldn't be where I am today.

I love my laptop and computers, my LCD and plasmas (one day LED, when I can justify it, lol), xbox, PS3, Wii or any other gaming system I want at the moment. My blackberry, my ipod, the interwebz... let's just say I definitely enjoy technology.

My bf cooks, cleans, does laundry, etc. Fat chance he'd do any of that in the 50s.

So maybe the future, if it still exists, and I don't have to utilize the three seashells.

 

[mishellyshel]

i would love to have grown up in the late 1800's early 1900's. Little House on the Priaire era. everyone seemed so much happier when times were simple. the little things that we take for granted seems so much more fun. inventing ways to make life easier would have been more of a challage.
today.......everything is right there. you dont have to even leave your house. you can order everything from a computer or even better a hand held device.
i honestly wuld like to make corn cakes in a cast iron pan over a fire outside while my kids played stick ball and catched fireflies or jump in a stream to cool off and play a simple game of cards.

i would love to "visit" the future. alhtough the way the world is going, it seems a little scary.

 

[Stackie]

I'm the same as Michelle. I always loved watching Little House on the Prairie- even though it would suck not having an electricity and having to take a bath in creek water...I would want to live in that era.

 

[Remyma0408]

60's-70's. I'm a hippie at heart.

 

[lauralynne]

Where's the blog link, Laurie? I want to see it!

 

[Ratchilla]

Like Volunteerchin, I very much enjoy historical romances, but I wouldn't want to live during those periods. Books and things like Little House on the Prairie are romanticized. Not being able to have a voice, nothing I said being taken as value, having setup marriages, potentially being beat for not doing something right, not allowed to own my own property, etc. the list goes on. Lol, I know I totally sound like a feminist and although I'm not, I recognize a lot of what feminism has done for us. I always felt like when I read those books or watch movies, that if I was who I was today (even just personality wise) in that time, I wouldn't have a very long life. I'd be tarred and feathered, flogged repeatedly or picked to win 'the lottery'.

 

[GorillaJTA]

I just kind of like not already being past middle-age at 25... that is why I don't want to live pre-1970's...

 

[lauralynne]

Like Volunteerchin, I very much enjoy historical romances, but I wouldn't want to live during those periods. Books and things like Little House on the Prairie are romanticized. Not being able to have a voice, nothing I said being taken as value, having setup marriages, potentially being beat for not doing something right, not allowed to own my own property, etc. the list goes on. Lol, I know I totally sound like a feminist and although I'm not, I recognize a lot of what feminism has done for us. I always felt like when I read those books or watch movies, that if I was who I was today (even just personality wise) in that time, I wouldn't have a very long life. I'd be tarred and feathered, flogged repeatedly or picked to win 'the lottery'.

Forget all that. Just the fact that there was no airconditioning is enough for me to say, FORGET IT!

 

[Spoof]

I'd give 50 years in the future a try, for curiosity's sake.

I want to wear the big dresses with the corsets and go to balls.

Move a little further south - there are no less than a dozen a month here, and they are very serious about it. Marti Gras is far more than a party, these guys live and die by it - and it's accepted as perfectly normal. Also still normal for people to not have electricity, wear shoes... etc.

Tis an odd place the south.

 

[Ratchilla]

Forget all that. Just the fact that there was no airconditioning is enough for me to say, FORGET IT!

OMG...:rofl:

 

[mishalaa]

I want to live in the era when pigs can fly.

I have a lot of promises to cash in.

 

[Brittany]

I just kind of like not already being past middle-age at 25... that is why I don't want to live pre-1970's...

You are SO old ;-)

Y'all may think I am crazy... but for me, it would just be pre- 9/11. It seems like the world has just become a scarier and less trusting place since then. We would still have (most) modern technology, a good economy, but without the fear and distrust...

Interesting point. I'd honestly have to choose the 1920's and on. For me it's not so much the era, but rather the people in the era. My Grandfather was the most important person in my life. He was disabled and sick the entire time I knew him, but we still had so much in common, and did many things together. I would give anything to have grown up with him, and known him when he was a younger/healthier man. I can only imagine the things we would have done if his health had permitted it.