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AliceCEB
Registered User
(9/5/04 2:47 pm)
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Our princess culture
Here's an article that came to my attention when it was reprinted in our local paper today:
Los
Angeles
Times Princess story
Bruno Bettelheim and Maria Tatar used to sell more tulle (shudder)
Alice
Edited by: AliceCEB at: 9/5/04 3:01 pm
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(9/5/04 6:03 pm)
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Re: Our princess culture
I can't decide whether this article is scary or hilarious. This bit certainly made me laugh:
"According to Foster, a colleague took [Disney exec] Mooney to Disney on Ice, which featured several of the princesses. The audience was full of little girls in full princess get-up; Mooney saw the future, and it involved a lot of tulle."
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AlisonPegg
Registered User
(9/6/04 4:29 am)
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Re: Our princess culture
I have to say I'm laughing anyway! At least the desire to be a princess seems a fairly innocent ambition for little girls, in spite of the fact that it's being exploited big style. Life too soon rudely knocks the princess out of most of us. Nice to live it for a little while, including the tulle!!!
Alison
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GailS
Unregistered User
(9/9/04 12:43 pm)
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Married to a Princess
I’m a freelance writer and write a monthly bridal column. One of my sources told me that over 90% of her brides are now wearing tiaras as bridal headpieces. This does not include tiara combs, or other similar hair jewelry.
I have wondered about the rising popularity of tiaras as the headpiece of choice and the princess/diva phenomenon. The average wedding now costs over $25,000. Yet there is an obvious disconnect as brides spend money to achieve some perceived perfection during their “once in a lifetime” event and the fact that over half of first marriages end in divorce.
The same source that told me she sold so many bridal tiaras also told me she tells her brides to keep their tiaras on their bedside table to remind their husbands they married a princess. Curious advice.
GailS
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Colleen
Unregistered User
(9/10/04 9:56 am)
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Princesses
Does the same person advise husbands-to-be to keep a crown on their nightstand to remind the wife that she married her prince?
Colleen
(who loves being married but doesn't play princess)
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Nalo
Registered User
(9/10/04 5:52 pm)
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Re: Married to a Princess
"there is an obvious disconnect as brides spend money to achieve some perceived perfection during their “once in a lifetime” event and the fact that over half of first marriages end in divorce."
NH: I sometimes wonder if that is in fact the reason that some women who get married go all out on their "once in a lifetime" event; because they fear it's likely to end in divorce, so they'd better get as much out of the wedding as they can?
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GailS
Unregistered User
(9/11/04 12:16 am)
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Princes
As far as I know, she doesn't sell crowns for princes. That may influence her advice. Be interesting to try to get the grooms to wear them. The way trends in weddings are going, nothing would surprise me.
GailS
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McDonaldBailey
Registered User
(9/16/04 6:33 am)
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Re: Princes
I think that all little girls want to be special. This just uses that ingrained sentiment in children to market toys. But it makes one stop to ponder, is it really the children that want to be a princess or is it the parent that is trying to recapture their youth? For most of us, growing up means we must set aside dreams and fantasy for the adult world. No more Tinker sprinkling pixie dust over our beds so that we can fly. This makes me sad, because I think creativity comes from the ability to dream.
Michelle Bailey
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