The humidity right now is 95%. Really and Truly. The forecasted high today is 92, but of course it will be more than that. It's so hot that I won't let my kids play outside between 11AM and 4PM, unless they promise to liberally douse one another with the water hose. Of course, this is Alabama in July. You know what? It's only going to get hotter.
Don't you imagine that Scarlett O'Hara was all kinds of stanky? No air conditioning, then throw in petticoats, hoopskirts, chemise and brocade, silks and ruffles.
And she couldn't show her bosom before 3 o'clock!
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Oh yea! Im sure she, and everyone around her, regularly stank to high heaven.
Its funny you bring up Scarlet because I just found my mom's copy of Gone with the Wind, as well as a "sequel" written by somebody else in my attic purging this weekend.
Im looking forward to a cool Autumn weekend where I can curl up in front of the fireplace with them both.
And she ain't never gonna be no eighteen and a half inches again! ;)
Upon the discovery that the active ingredient in anti-perspirants has been linked to breast cancer (no shit), I have been using only deodorants for the past year. While I do find myself a tad "ripe" on the hot and humid days, I figger I am increasing my chances of being around for the Autumnal Equinox which is way more important to me than smelling pretty all the time.
In the infamous words of Sully to his friend Mike Wasowski...
"Stink it up."
I assume that talcum kept things relatively okay. Plus they stayed inside a lot, kept the curtains drawn, etc.
That's why Vic & I moved to Michigan from Florida ~ the Summer heat was unbearable and we like to show our bossoms before 3:00!
I wonder if those hoop skirts kept them cooler. I'm not saying they were cool, just cool-er.
Need I correct you?
Befo'.
Befo' three o'clock.
Don't forget the corset with whalebone stays! I'm sure they used all the frills & frippery as a great excuse for sitting out on the veranda with a pitcher of mint juleps fanning themselves and just let the men folk do anything truly physical.
I would die in 95% humidity. Seriously. And if I didn't die from it, someone would kill me because of my constant whining about the heat and humidity.
Leave it to the Hobbit to be grammatically correct.
Always.
hahahaaaaa
Yeah, stanky! Love that word. And just think about Marie Antoinette. Even though she didn't live in the deep South. Those Frenchies didn't wash their hair for months. They had long "backscratcher" type sticks to scratch their heads for cooties!!!
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