Moderiktiga tankar

 

Fashion window 

August Macke

THOUGHTS THOUGHT ON AN AVENUE

There would be far less masculine gaming and boozing.

But for the feminine approach to feminine fashions, which is distinctly confusing.

Please correct me if, although I don’t think I do, I err;

But it is a fact that a lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty upset if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

Nothing so infuriates her as a similar hat or dress.

Especially if bought for less.

Which brings up another point which I will attempt to discuss in my guttural masculine jargon;

Her ideal raiment is costlier than her or her dearest friend’s purse can buy, and at the same time her own exclusive and amazing bargain.

Psychologists claim that men are the dreamers and women are the realists,

But to my mind women are the starriest-eyed of idealists,

Though I am willing to withdraw this charge and gladlynt eat it uncomplaineously

If anyone can explain to me how a person can wear a costume that is different from other people’s and the same as other people’s, and more expensive than other people’s and cheaper than other people’s, simultaneously.

             Ogden Nash

Det är svårt att inte gilla Ogden  Nashs poesi — just den här dikten framkallar alltid ett minne från min barndom.

Det var sommar och vår familj promenerade mot Slussen på Katarinavägen när vi möter ett par.

Mor bar en färgglad sommarklänning, och damen vi möter bar en exakt likadan klänning, under en lätt kappa — mor som var en utåtriktad person, tyckte uppenbarligen att det var ett lusigt sammanträffande och log stort mot kvinnan. Men den damen var av en annan uppfattning och svepte sin kappa om sig, så att klänningen inte syntes, och snörpte på munnen.