So I spent the day watching old movies on TCM, something I do sometimes.

[texanwitch]

I always wonder why women wore white gloves back then.

Smoking seems to be the what everyone did.

There were so many old movies made I don't think I will ever see all of them.

It is just a step back in time, to relax and see I a time before I was born.

A time before WW2 and all the changes the came.

Of course from watching old movies so many people never seem to have money problems.

Well back to my last old movie of the night with Joan Crawford call No More Ladies (1935).

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I like to observe the furniture in old movies.

Room design/decoration is fun to study.

Women wearing gloves and men wearing hats seem to be part of an long held clothing rule, one that did not disappear until either very late 50's or early 60's.
but "formal" gloves, the long ones, I think persisted even afer men stopped wearing hats.
I remember seeing Jackie Kennedy wearing long gloves at formal events.

[texanwitch]

2. I always wonder why white gloves.

Didn't white gloves get dirty

Of course people did dress up back then.

Men wearing hats, I think President Kennedy changed that.

[DebJ]

3. Maybe the point of the white gloves, on the surface, was

that 'ladies' didn't have to touch anything remotely dirty.

In reality, they were covering up their dishpan hands.

[edbermac]

4. Can't wait until tomorrow night - Mamie Van Doren film festival!

About time TCM stopped running those boring 'classics' like Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, 2001: A Space Odyssey etc.

Now this is what I call ART!