Those skinny women models may have been setting fashion trends for women in large cities and on both coasts but that look was never a trend with real women in rural America. Rural women never went through a period when they became more independent and free. They never needed to. They were never under men’s thumbs. The women of the South and West have been independent since they walked beside their husbands alongside the family wagons as they came to settle America. Countless women lost their men to Indians, floods, disease and accidents. They had no one to turn to. They carried on and did the work themselves. Growing up during the 1960s and 70s in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and other states in the South, I never met one girl or women who dressed the way those models dressed. I think the trend was not so much for women as it was for liberals on both coasts who had allowed themselves to become subservient to men because that was fashionable in the early twentieth century. Real women never gave that trend a thought either. Good blog for coastal subservient women but sure doesn’t cover the strong, independent women in our part of the nation.