Part of my genealogy project is to sift through hundreds of photos and assign several to each person in my 600 plus person family tree. As I looked through each person I have noticed that as the years go by the lips get thinner and thinner. Then I looked in the mirror and lo and behold MY lips were thinner. What a sad state of affairs. Where did I go wrong that my lips have disappeared?
Certain of my anatomy has gone way south of my waistline and my muscles are slowly turning into butter, but thin lips? What is going on? I think they are slowing crawling up under my gums to rest in the eternity of lip slits of the elderly. Scientists would say the collagen has broken down, gone away, and your lips are no more. Want lips – get collagen injections that last for four months and make you look like Angelina Jolie. The good news is that thin lips don’t’ hamper how you eat or how you talk so no big deal! Save your money.
So what do thin lips have to do with polyester? Nothing. Except maybe that only people who have thin lips (read “elderly”) wear polyester. Younger folks ridicule, criticize, and turn their cute little noses up at polyester slacks, for example. But, I have come in my thin-lipped maturity to love polyester. Why? Because it doesn’t wrinkle, can be washed and dried easily in the washer/dryer, doesn’t require ironing, and always looks almost brand new. I’ve suffered through linen which always looks like you just crawled out of bed. I’ve ironed cotton slacks, blouses, and dresses for an equivalent of 317 years. I’ve itched and sweated years of my life away in woolen anything. I’ve spent a fortune on dry-cleaning silk. Nope, I am a polyester gal now and proud of it.
Sometimes I still wish that I had those collagen plumped lips of my youth, but if I had to choose to give up anything I would give up those lips for my polyester slacks and blouses any day. Polyester may not be fashionable to some and may only be worn by little old ladies and smelly old men, but just you wait – someday you’ll be there too!