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i've been told many times i was.
personally - besides lack of cell phones and facebook i think i would've been better suited in the 50's, because i am more traditional.
i don't want to work, i'm getting married young, and i would love to have kids right away. i don't mind cooking or cleaning, and i LOVE barbershop quartets.
although this morning the huge amount of waves i woke up with on my head did suggest i belong to like, the hippy sixties or something :P
based on your personality, what era would you put yourself in if you had to?
I'd never want to be alive in any era prior to the invention of tampons.
if i had to choose an era, outside of ours, i'm definitely a 50s girl. FI and i just talked about this after we watched the biography on Sam Walton (the founder of Wal-Mart)...
i am definitely more traditional, conservative, and i just love that 'suburban' happy-go-lucky lifestyle. LOL. i love to cook, i'm nuturing, and i def fit that "stay at home" mom profile... (although i am working fulltime adn going to law school and wont have kids for at least five years) :P
VirginiaMarie you crack me up!!
I would also be from the 50's I guess... I'm not marrying young, but that's for the lack of meeting my DH young. I definitely always dreamed of beint a stay at home mom who does all the cooking and leave the cleaning to a professional! ;)
In terms of women's rights, I probably wouldn't want to be living in any time other than now.
As a woman, any movement into the past would mean more restrictions. Eff that.
i spent much of my teen years lamenting that fact that i didn't live in the 60s or 70s. i just KNEW i was in the wrong generation! i love mod dresses and 60s british invasion music! at the same time i love disco floors and mellow 70s. either would have worked for me. :)
I have the hair and fashion sense to have lived in the 80's....
Excuse this God-Awful photo of mah face. I swear i look better IRL, lol
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I would say 1920's. I love the style of 1920's-1940's. I loved the excitement of the 20's everything was a party. The 20's were pretty much a non stop dance fest. Also I liked that Women's Rights were getting a really big push forward women were chopping off their hair and wearing more masculine lines and asking for fair wages, and to vote. It would have been very exciting back then. Fighting the good Fight.
ALL THE TIME.
I think I should have been born around 1935, I'd get married in the 50's and have lots of babies, but then I'd also be right in there with first wave feminism and burning my bras!
But, if I was born in 1935 chances are I'd be dead and/or have killed my mother when I was born, emergency caesarean baby here!
@Virginia - I can't believe you said that! Every time my friends say they would love to live in a different era I say, "PADS. ON. BELTS. That is enough to prevent me from ever going back in time." HA!
@ceamoste: I totally agree! I voted for the 50s because I too am more traditional. Sometimes it's a bit lonely to always be in the minority about certain things.
I would have loved to be a stay at home mom in the 50's. Wearing the beautiful dresses....having a martini made and ready for hubby at the end of the day. Things just seemed to be so much simpler then. Now, the expectation is for women to work full time, go to school, raise the kids, cook, clean.....it's exhausting at times.......
what about the 19th century when people went to balls and danced for fun?
(although you know, not with the whole lack of women's rights, etc.)
@gill84 - oh to live in the days of lizzie bennet. i've always been tempted to do research on my family to see where i would've been on the social ladder during that time :P
@gemstone - i know haha. i've never wanted to have a full time job, because i find it so depressing. i mean, i'll work, but i can't wait to start a family and have the husband be the sole provider.
I WANT POODLE SKIRTS.
Whenever I watch Almost Famous, I think I would have been awesome in the 1960s. The music, free love, etc...that's so me!
It would have been much harder for me as an Asian-American woman to live in any other era in the US. I hear stories of the Japanese internment camps during WWII and I can't even imagine having to go through that. I am thankful for all those who lived and fought before me so that I have such an easy life today. 
@ceamoste! I was definitely thinking of Jane Austen when I made that comment ;)
And yeah, I definitely would not have been able to live the lifestyle - but a girl can dream!
I don't think I would have survived in another era. I love our rights (and I hope we continue to get more) right now - between my vegetarianism, my atheism, and my desire for a PhD, it would have been hard to get by as comfortably in another era!
I totally should have been my current age during WW2. I love the 40s, the clothes, the style, the music, the movies. Totally the 40s.
Can I make mine late 50's early 60's? I daydream all the time of wearing the huge skirts daily, living in a time where Marilyn Monroe was the "it" girl, reading the beat poets when they were brand new and living during the Kennedy (Camelot) era.
I always thought I was more made for the 60s. I'd love to be a part of the revolution and marching for rights and all that jazz :) Plus in the 60s I would've still been able to go to college and get a job after I was done with my anti-establishment ways hehe
I'm big on women's rights so there's no way I would want to go backwards. I love watching Mad Men but the way the women are treated just infuriates me. and that wasn't so long ago.
However when I comes to fashion I loooove the styles of the 40s and the late 50s/early 60s. I try to incorporate little elements from those eras into my wardrobe now, (without over doing it).
Late 60s/Early 70s all the way. Should have been a Led Zeppelin groupie. The 2000s absolutely SUCK. The world is going to s**t. I'd rather live in a time when everyone was blissfully ignorant of all the crap we have to deal with now.
I was just commenting to my FI the other night that I am remarkably lucky to live now, not in a prior time. There is no way I could function in a world where I was any less equal to men than I am now. I'm just too opinionated and too strong willed to live any other way.
Though my hair has great volume, so stylisically, periods when big hair was in would be better for me.
I voted the 60's. My step-father was heavily involved in the hippie movement and has always had such a love for that time, it's hard not to want to be there when you hear him talk about it!
I would have loved to be my age in the 50's, but only for the clothes. But I wear all 50's clothes now, and I have my freedom, so that's great.
Really though, I would have loved to have been born in the late 50's so I would have been just the right age to enjoy the disco/Studio 54 era. I would LOVE to put on a sequined dress and disco dance in New York.
@hotchild: Almost Famous was set in the 70s. 
But I also adore that movie.
@VirginiaMarie - you make an excellent point! I agree wholeheartedly!
I think the 60s would have been a good time to be a young adult and to see the cultural revolutions taking place. However, I dream of being able to stay at home with our future children, as my FI's mom was able to do that until they are in school. Unfortunately, that won't happen for us - we've spent too much money on my education! LOL
I'm with Hotchild and Kittyachi, 60's and 70's would have been awesome. I think they fit me pretty well. Unless you go way back to horse and buggy days! :)
I totally wanted to be Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie growing up! I think I would still have liked to have been in one of those first waves that moved out to settle the West. Yeah, I could definitely go for that, tampons or no. ;-)
I've also thought I wouldn't have minded being this age in the 50's on occasion but I know that's not really true. I only want to be Suzy Homemaker now because I have the option. If I didn't have a choice I would have been doing my best to get the hell out of Dodge, go to college, burn bras, etc. I'm afraid I'm totally one of those "I'll do it because I want to, not because you tell me to" people.
Oh, and this is also the reason I love the Outlander books. WWII nurse transported a couple hundred years back in time and forced to get along without being burned as a witch because she knows too much?! Sign me up!
haha what a great thread.
I would have loooved the 50's, I love the fashion back then - it was so timeless and adorable. But anywhere from the 20's-50's I would have loved!
I love 90s fashion (lived through it and loved it) but I don't consider the 90s to be all that far back to qualify as being a different era, lol. I certainly would not trade living in the current era for anything. I like that upon marriage I didn't become my husband's property. I like having a career. I like wearing pants. I like that I have rights and options and I would hate living in an era where those things weren't available to me.
And also, I am a HUGE technophile, so I would absolutely hate to live in a world without computers, HDTV, internet, cell phones, microwaves, MRIs, the LHC, the HST, space travel (oh we'll get there!), and every other wonderful technological advancement that we've had. I love moving into the future and watching new technologies be developed.
I would love to experience the 1960s, but at the same time, I don't think my time has come yet. Like everyone has said about women's rights, diversity, acceptance of alternative lifestyles... I think we're at a point where I can be who am I in some places without too much resistance to it, but I want to live in a world where women are breadwinners as often as men, and "when did you find out you were straight" is a question people actually ask each other. Also, I want teleporters.
On a less serious note, I was the kid who read "Brave New World" and thought that a future in which babies were made in factories and raised efficienctly by society instead of couples sounded awesome. So, yeah, can I vote for semi-dystopian, overly efficient, childfree, ultra-egalitarian future? With teleporters.
My husband and family members always say I belong in the 50s because I often make fashion choices totally reminiscent of that era, and because in a lot of ways, I'm very traditional (if we had kids, I'll be a SAHM, a love creating things for the home, hosting traditional dinner parties with place cards, etc.). However, realistically speaking, I'm so happy living in this generation because of the rights I have as a woman. Sometimes I think of Mad Men, and how so many women's fates were secretaries, and that was it. No career options. I have no designer to be a high-powered VP of Sales or anything, but I like that I have that option.
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