Anne of Green Gables: Puffed Sleeves

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Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed. . . . [Marilla] had made them up herself, and they were all made alike--plain skirts fulled tightly to plain waists, with sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as sleeves could be.

"I'll imagine that I like them," said Anne soberly.

"I don't want you to imagine it," said Marilla, offended. 
"Oh, I can see you don't like the dresses! 

What is the matter with them? Aren't they neat and clean and new?"

"Yes."

"Then why don't you like them?"

"They're--they're not--pretty," said Anne reluctantly. . . . "Oh, I AM grateful," protested Anne. "But I'd be ever so much gratefuller if--if you'd made just one of them with puffed sleeves. Puffed sleeves are so fashionable now. 
It would give me such a thrill, Marilla, just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves."

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

I've never been much of a "fashionista," unless you consider my wearing yoga pants and crocs to Walmart today as a "high fashion" statement.  I come by it honestly, though.  My mother hoodwinked me into wearing all sorts of faux pas while growing up by saying that "all the models were wearing that look on the runways in Paris."  And she was right.  All the models were wearing my my "look" on the runways in Paris . . . just 20 years before I did.  As a result, I entered junior high in the 80s as the only 12 year-old who owned a pair of purple "clam diggers." I like to refer them more accurately as my "social suicide slacks".  Thank heaven for mothers like mine and Marilla Cuthbert who always try to do things in our best interests.  But with all due respect, dear mothers, sometimes we'd just like to leave the house in puffed sleeves or in pants that reach our ankles once in a while.

In honor of dear Anne and her love of puffed sleeves, 

I've gathered a few pictures with "poofs" that I think would make the darling girl swoon, 

or change her mind about puffed sleeves altogether.  You decide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 May all your fashion dreams come true, whatever they may be . . .  Happy Monday!