Now, I don't dress like that or wear my hair like that or act like that. I mean I'd put my hand in my pocket, but, given a small bouquet of flowers, I would not put it on my head with an ooh-it's-kind-of-like-a-hat gesture. But I'm afraid this company — Gudrun something or other — has been reading some
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Don’t feel bad, Professor. I got it a couple times myself and I don’t wear dresses at all!
Google thinks you would like the crazy progressive old cat lady look.
Send them a "Fuck You!" IM.
Perhaps some advertiser's bot-net found a past reference to the 'Crunchy Con Exterior -- Hippy-Dippy Love Chick Center" phrase.
It's sorta got that original Freaky Friday vibe.
I live in The SWF and we have crazy rich old ladies all over the place. Not many like that tho.
-XC
She has a good face.
If they're going by zip code, it becomes understandable. I imagine you can find quite a few retirees who dress like that in Madison.
Yesterday at the Metro Market, I saw a woman with white, purple, and pink hair. She appeared to be about 75. I guess you can look at it 2 different ways:
"Look at that old fool trying to look like she's a 21 year old SJW! Must be a Bernie voter! Doesn't she have any dignity?"
or
"She's at an age where she just doesn't give a damn anymore. Who's gonna fire her? Dignity? F you."
I'm getting the Haven Bachelor Party ad instead of this. I suppose I should be insulted that I'm above this crass appeal to my id, but I'm OK with it.
Musings from this little high school girl in the 60s studying hard to be valedictorian in suburban north Jersey while fantasizing about being a rebel.
For a while I was getting adds on your site for a doll of a much younger, more attractive woman. Life size. Anatomically correct. Don't have the slightest idea why they thought such a thing would appeal to me.
(If you see large chunk of change from your Amazon portal, that might explain it.)
It looks hippish, and as we now have been told; the Internet was created by a bunch of hippies that wanted to exploit ordinary human compulsion to make a buck. It is less a reflection of you as it is them thinking they know you.
Data analytics - it's a gold mine.
"Musings from this little high school girl in the 60s studying hard to be valedictorian in suburban north Jersey while fantasizing about being a rebel."
It was the first summer after college, and I had to go live with my parents in their new house in south Jersey... in the Pine Barrens. I wasn't studying, but working in a diner.
I had the idea that when you're old, you're completely liberated, that you could really be a hippie.
It's pippy goth hippy stocking
That was the summer I transferred from RC (at Michigan) to the art school, completely intending to forfeit all hope of becoming part of the productive economy.
At least you aren't getting ads for funeral homes.
Don't fight it. You can't outsmart an algorithm. Better buy something from them quick.
...completely intending to forfeit all hope of becoming part of the productive economy.
So what made you choose to re-enter the productive economy? ( Assuming that you believe you ever did )
In other words, why did you sell out?
So the algorithm determined that Althouse is some kind of crazy cat lady?
I call it the grace of being old- don't have to go to unproductive meetings, don't have to attend useless social events, don't have to wear a shirt and tie, don't have to meet deadlines and budgets, don't have to keep up with the latest in your field , etc.So in a sense you are a rebel even though it maybe short-lived.
A couple days ago someone posted a link to a rolling stand for potted plants. I've probably gotten 20 ads for that since.
As for the lady in the ad, I don't see you like that at all. I see that woman as living alone, in a small apartment where nobody knows her except her 15 cats. Kids never call.
It is a VERY depressing picture. Even if I wore dresses like that the ad would really turn me off.
Sad.
John Henry
"So what made you choose to re-enter the productive economy?"
I got obsessed with teaching myself to read Italian and it caused me to realize that the verbal part of me was starving.
I found myself saying (in a random conversation) "If I had it to do over again, I would go to law school," then later, discouraged about art, realized that life was going to go on for a *long* time even if I couldn't start over, so I could still try a new beginning.
I wanted to have a child, and I genuinely thought it was a sensible path in that direction (and did in fact have a baby in my 3d year of law school).
It's the aging hippie cousin of Theory and J. Jill.
It's how Blythe Danner dresses when not doing Prolia commercials.
Isn't that a character in Altman's Popeye movie?
Gotta admit she's cute. The silver fox look.
I recently saw a you tube of an old girlfriend with her hair silver turned from dark brunette. 50 years goes by quick. She was reading her poetry to a San Francisco gathering. Her personality , voice and mind were unchanged. Sweet to Burn is her latest collection.
Because of the type choices, I can't not read the company name as "Gundam [whatever]".
Which is frankly more interesting than whatever it actually is.
Giant armored suit fashion for old ladies!
Ugh. Douchey and patronizing. I loathe the self-conscious cutesiness of Tom Robbins and Monk and Red Hat Society ladies. If you want to let your freak flag fly, by all means, but recognize that it's more tiresome than freaky.
Hot. Very hot. I can see her doing GILF porn.
Aging Flower Child. The Age Of Aquarius dawns at last.
More proof going gray gracefully requires serious cheekbones.
Hot. Very hot. I can see her doing GILF porn.
She's grandmilfalicious.
Funny. I’m getting the same ad....i, too, take it as something of a memento mori, a shock. Like the time Mom gave me a Christmas sweater with Santa going down the chimney and told me she thought it was so “me.”
It's the aging hippie cousin of Theory and J. Jill.
Yes. I also blame LuLaRoe.
A large part of the Pine Barrens was turned into Retirement Communities. My parents lived in one of them.
I see the connection.
AA, these companies send out thousands if not 100s of thousands of these missives to potential clients. It's called advertisements! Why would a specific email promo concern you? I think if you see yourself like this, then there are bigger problems for you. My view of you is that you've have had a successful positive career. Plus, now you're onto a second act. Consequently, I view you as a very productive contributor to our society/country. Therefore, please don't be influenced by the "Madison Ave.," hucksters trying to define who you really are by needing to adopt this look? Have a wonderful day and keep up the excellent blogging.
I'm getting Chicuu. WTF?
Me too! Yikes.
There are shoes you once linked for us that are not dissimilar from that look, no? Maybe a kind of flowered maryjane a few years back?
What I hate are the ads for metamucil or whatever showing some old lady on a bicycle kicking both feet out like wheeee!
Nobody does that. Esp not us old ladies.
wild chicken said...
What I hate are the ads for metamucil or whatever showing some old lady on a bicycle kicking both feet out like wheeee!
Nobody does that. Esp not us old ladies.
Maybe if you were getting a little more fiber in your diet...
Resistance is futile. You will be simulated.
I know women who dress like that. And Gudrun's stuff is really expensive. She advertises in the New Yorker.
That's not completely un-Althouse like, particularly if there is some bot scanning past images. There was a fairly protracted long skirt/coloured tights/flat shoes period, in my memory at least.
"What I hate are the ads for metamucil or whatever showing some old lady on a bicycle kicking both feet out like wheeee!
"Nobody does that. Esp not us old ladies."
My GILFy significant-other does that, only a bicycle is not involved. Usually.
Althouse,
"...completely intending to forfeit all hope of becoming part of the productive economy."
Well, didn't you succeed?
No fashion expert am I, but to me that is not how a grown-up woman dresses herself.
-sw
Charlotte, her clothes are well made and not terribly expensive. Also, she has many styles available (ranging from hippy-dippy boho chick to tailored professional). I think Althouse would like some of them if she bothered to look at the website. I have several of the long, plain skirts and long sleeve tees as well as a few of the more brightly colored items for spring and summer. I always receive compliments whenever I wear one of my Gudrun outfits. Added bonus--the clothing looks great with clogs!
Ann, they still think you are on the east coast where women actually dress like that. Having installed ad blocker on your site I am saved from all these kinds of misdirected ads that you decided to burden us with.
The book Pippi Longstocking came out in 1945, featuring a nine-year-old protagonist who was the same age as the author's daughter. That would make Pippi about 82 years old today, and I'm guessing she would look an awful lot like that picture.
I sent Althouse an updated version of this post's pic, crossing the wires of Althouse's past and future hippie-osity.
It ended up looking like something from a NYC underground version of 'Laugh-In'.
I am Laslo.
Hey, there's Laslo out and about.
Work release or Presidential pardon?
The woman in the ad is a model. Gudrun herself is elderly looking, and rather chunky, with bright red glasses. She's Swedish and her business is based in Sweden. She steals ideas for her clothing line from several different cultures. She would be in big trouble with our culture warriors!
I see the ad regularly, but figured it was because I visit fashion blogs for the over 50 set. I reluctantly embraced the leggings with long skirt look this winter, but try to keep the layers under 4.
Here are some Gudrun links, where you'll get a good idea of what she, her clothes, and her philosophy are like:
https://www.thewomensroomblog.com/2013/12/05/gudrun-sjoden-a-style-icon-for-all-ages-and-sizes/
https://www.thesucculentwife.com/gudrun-sjoden-profile-of-a-spirited-designer/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/fashion/critical-shopper-gudrun-sjoden-in-soho.html
You either go for Gudrun--or you don't.
It just occurred to me that my six year old granddaughter, whose parents have always allowed to dress herself, will dress in a similar way (pants under a dress, mixing of plaids and stripes, colors that don't match, etc. It is endearing in a six year old.
-sw
That pic looks like Cloris Leachman doing Grandma in 'Bad Santa'.
Her hair is white. Your hair is blond. Clearly a case of mistaken diversity.
So I was reading this Althouse post with the ad of an old lady being groovy, and, like, this gave me an idea and shit, but my buddy Laslo beat me to it. So anyway, here's the pic Laslo did of young Althouse imagining herself as a groovy old lady...
"And I've got to admit that it's just about exactly how I pictured the myself as an old lady when I was 19 years old."
"I had the idea that when you're old, you're completely liberated, that you could really be a hippie."
Fortunately, when you're old and liberated your life experiences inform you hippies were/are really effed up people.
Blogger Yancey Ward said...At least you aren't getting ads for funeral homes.
When Ann starts dressing like that we'll know she is ready for memory care.
The model looks like Elon Musk’s mother. She is a model.
Does the outfit come with cats?
Stay far away from this crap. The other Gudrun is Heinrich Himmler's daughter.
Yeah, she's got flowers on her head now, but at any moment she'll put a steel pot on her noggin and start heiling.
It looks like a glue-sniffing K-Mart employee's version of a Klimt.
Women who dress like that are often named Heather or Susan. And yes, cats are compulsory.
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