How to be Pretty - 1940's Guide for High School Girls [Color] 

lmao

I low key appreciate to see a commenter from the Hetalia fandom

Girl: Mom I have cancer and will die within the next 3 days. Woman: *L E T T E R S*

I bet you tell off Finland all the time for writing letters and jamming out to some sick Ella Fitzgerald jams whilst you're trying to sleep.

I CANT ESCAPE HETALIA CAN I?! also sweden=best boy

meh

@@bonsoirnon7966 mEh

@@tuffy7528 me eh eh uh uh uh i'm the only one of me!

@@Victor-bu4tr huh

except writing a letter is the fucking most boring thing you can do as a kid

​@@CAndela24ifyif you have no phone and it's the only communication for some people it's great! I did it with a friend of mine, because we couldn't talk long on telephone. This was only 20 years ago, i was like 8. It's pretty cool if you just want to tell someone about your day or your favourite movie you just watched. It's the same as now basicly, but slower.

@@CAndela24ify Not true, depends on the kid! I love writing letters or just writing in general stories before bed :)

@@CAndela24ify not true. Im a 2000 kid but i wrote a lot of letter when i was around 6 for my brother who lives overseas. Had a blast writing letters especially decorating it with cute stickers.

​@@Vyansya sounds more like a scrapbook than a letter at this point

Sure, but then she immediately changes the girls appearance to be “prettier” instead of asserting it’s more worthwhile to happy and healthy. It does an awful job of hiding how much everything in this time WAS about making women pretty and ready for marriage. It’s ghastly just how much people are watching this and not picking up on that.

​@@e.tominsteadand how she literally explained at the beginning how it is the most important thing. very contradictory. but i do understand the premise

Agree❤

Who is she that’s talking

@@e.tominstead I wouldn't necessarily agree. It was to show what happens when you do all the things mentioned. Being active and eating healthy makes you slimmer and looking more radiant, wearing the right clothes for your body type and shape can elevate your style and sometimes visually even posture. Often self care and beauty get too mixed up. Someone taking care of themselves and looking well doesn't always mean that they're vain and beauty focused. Simple self care naturally makes you look better.

Yea

God bless

Lmfao!! That is sooooo the truth

You and me both man ♥️

I’m the 999 like I’m triggered 😭😔

Gabby daughter : mom I broke my leg Moms in the 40s: it’s because you be writin them letters

*SNOOOOORRRT*

Lol

Kids and their damn swing music!

@@corinneolivier1871 😂

Depressed people are not pretty 😎

Kids nowadays are far too gone for this.

i thought curing depression is more complicated than that

Okay but the idea they’re providing is that you should do these things to improve your looks. Everything, especially then, for a young lady is centered around her looks so she’ll someday be marriable. These things should be promoted because they can make you happier and stronger. The food portion is also incredibly outdated.

​@@e.tominsteadvery good observation.

Writing letters is nothing like texting. 🙄 The time gap between replies means people didn't spend all their time doing it. And listening to swing music is the same as listening to any music, nothing like watching brainwashed nutters on tik tok all day. And you might be surprised to learn people still listen to music in 2023, including swing music. So what was their equivalent of Facebook, twitter, Instagram and video gaming or online porn? See, everything IS DIFFERENT.

@@obscurum6well its been almost a century at this point so no shit we live in a different world. the characteristics of humanity though whether good or bad still exist even through the changed technologies and that is what the point of their comment was trying to relay. women still beat themselves up trying to fit into the beauty standard.

RU-vid throwin’ that good ol’ shade

I got one called "How to fix nerd neck" I mean, thanks youtube.

Ouch

Is your profile picture chuu I-

Chuu💜🧡💛

The truth is, health is beauty. "Starving" yourself has never been a good thing. Quick fixes rarely hold anyway. It is simply a balance of just the right sustainable amount but not too much :)

This Lady is telling me to eat more then any beauty tip video, and by how healthy she herself looks I don't doubt it!

And how it's actually based in nutrition and not just fat shaming and diet culture.

@@awesomegirls10 This was in a time without 60 percent overweight. Adipositas is not healthy. Diet culture wasn't needed in a time when people walk a lot more and eat less calories

Plus guys, you have to remember, a lot of these foods WERE really healthier anyway because they didn't have as many preservatives or GMOs in them, while now, pretty much everything does. Our food markets are a bit more commercialized, so even chicken isn't as healthy because they sometimes inject it with saline. Depends where you get it from I guess if we're talking about freshness and quality, but what I'm trying to say is, if you went to the store and got these same meals, it won't be *as* healthy. Ik that's not what y'all are discussing, but it seems worth mentioning that it still may not be "healthy" in today's world.

Now you see the daily brain washing that goes through the heads of people.

that is fatphobic! You should strive to be unhealthy and overweight today

@@TibiaOTarena lol

Why would you expect it to be rude or "outdated" IT is old, so how is it somehow not outdated? This advice is for White women only, not everyone, fuck off.

Most feminists would find it offensive because (1) it assumes that women have to be pretty, (2) it assumes that women should know how to prepare food, (3) it only shows white people.

I can imagine a modern audience saying "...and what do you think about sideshave haircut with tatoos"? In Japan you cannot go to thermal waters if you have tattoos.

​@@josepablolunasanchez1283 I've donated blood at centers that bar their doors to anyone with fresh tats or piercings to prevent infection, but there's no danger I know of regarding body mods older than a year.

Fandom tumblr: " allow me to introduce myself"

Ramieverse ! “I need my 4 hours Sammy”

Only in University.

I'm in university at day then work at night after my classes :D WTF is this "sleep" you're all talking about?

Who’s this “sleep” girl your talking about? Who’s she?

@@xdarkeagle17x " we have the entire knowledge of the world in our pocket, and what do we do with it? Face swap."

@@terrorist1989 That's what you do with it. Not all of us.

@@apples6244 if you look a little closer you might find I used quotation marks.... take my advice and maybe pass 3rd grade english before you try to start fights online.

Lmao true

😂

No, this beauty standard applies to White women only, not everything is universal like you desperately wish.

Being good instead of evil helps a ton also. Gets rid of stress.

How do you take care of yourself when school is emotionally killing you?

@@lailafallon573 Are you in public school?

Why?

​@@lailafallon573 You'll probably want to look into school brainwashing if you feel like school is hurting you

No it wasn't. I'll just eat the icing.

​@@TawnyC_ that's the thing. You will not eat the cake, and it will go to waste. Icing is nice but it will not make you full.

@@thwb4661 Who needs to get full? I just like icing.

@@TawnyC_ Ah yes but this is metaphorical icing! It's the same as a man (or woman!) thinking you are pretty because you've trowelled on the make-up, squeezed into your control knickers and got tanked up to be the life and soul of the party. He will be thinking 'yummy'! Unfortunately the first time he sees you bleary eyed and spotty, with bed hair and your stomach hanging over your pjs he will decide a dry old fruitcake is not for him and go find a nice fresh Victoria sponge 😉.

@@cyflym11 These couple of comments here between you three are pretty darn funny😊👏💕

Tea.

The Mother F*cking Tea

Haylee Flores well I’d prefer this than all those ugly “women” who are proud of the fact that they don’t even think of self care and feminist mass media who promotes trash telling us it’s a normal society.

Evdokia Sovietova exactly! Oh, but it’s the patriarchy that’s forcing us to look after ourselves to look our best according to them.

Damn girls cant vent about anything without some guy chiming in about how BUT GUYS HAVE IT HARD TOO

Skylark lol they had their version of a smart phone

But without swing records at bedtime, how else are you going to get loads of pep?

Asha Swing music is a jam tbh

I listen to swing music when I work really late...I am lucky if I get 5 hrs of sleep a night haha

If you play those records backward, you'll may be able to hear some hip swinging, rock-and-roll devil's music.

spychecker this is such an underrated comment

That record was swinging huh?

Lmao best comment on the internet

Im rolling XD

lmao

Not sure what that means in the US, but in Australia, it reads "if you smell nice, you'll end up on welfare".

@@philthy903 it means smell nice and people will want to be around you more

Welp can’t wear deodorant cause of hyperhydrosis and DRYSol so ya know... no social security 🤷🏼‍♀️

phylbert phylbertson I thought social security was a welfare check ? Lmao .... I’m in America ?

CrazyLegsMcGee I’m fifteen lmao I don’t smoke or vape or anything haha, I just have hyperhidrosis 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

Means the term has been there longer than we think

@ShaisPas Eh not really

ppl still don’t say that? in england we say that

@@os4kis.301 I’m in The United States, we say it here as well. It’s just a saying, no biggie about it being old. Lol.

I don't see the irony in it lol. It was an old expression then, so obviously it's an old expression now.

The grandma has a wonderful figure.

Same 😳

A Great-Grandma more like it.

I didn't know being pretty is something you can learn, what a wonderful idea.

a grandma? how old u is ?

Odd how modern feminism is more toxic than the "patriarchal" 1940's...

I’m watching at 3am💀

3:30 am here 😭

me too!! haha!

Omg its 1 am out here lolol

LOL! 2am here! :)

Eva Nap, I didn’t understand that part.

@@AntoinetteWolf They mean securing your social standings with people aka people won't run away if you smell badly, not actual social security 😂

Understood! Well said. 😊

Wish they’d tell that to the convention circuit. Them people sell like... bad

Wish they told that to my classmates.

Armyyyyy

I can't STOP LAUGHING

This made my day

I'm pretty

I love your profile picture. Who is that handsome guy?....😗

This comment deserves a thousand likes!! 👏

Chloe Smith More like 3.4K

Hihihi yisss

My first thought was this.

Ted talks are more educational. This is all about beauty and health

And excess makeup!

@@nicholasspeaks-zm4bw A little makeup is nice for your man but fake eyelashes, fake hair, excessive makeup, excess tanning is a no.

@@andrew2393fake hair is for protecting natural hair

I do self care almost every day. Oh wait... As for the other comment. In our school PE teachers did health class in 8th grade back when I was in (which admittedly was a while ago, but no, I'm no boomer). Funny thing about health class is it didn't teach us to be healthy. We mostly covered how bad drugs were and some really basic reproductive stuff.

Oh in my new school, we don’t have “PE”. We have ‘Physical Fitness’! 😁

@@_xomaddyox_ there's another kind of fitness??

@@spacebar9733 Yes. It’s supposed to be more fancier.

@@_xomaddyox_ lol nvm

Same XD

It’s actually 2:30 in the morning 😳

I Forgot lol its 2:40 for me rn

Ashley Johnson for me it’s 4am rip

It’s 12:06 am ;-;

Hahahahaha! Swing dancing was so popular at that time

naurr not the grave 😭

💀💀💀

WELL THEN-

I am so sorry ❤

girl u ain't hadda do her like that😭

Stupid hair tho

heaintloveu The hairstyles of the 40’s stand up to the test of time a whole lot better than today’s half-dyed pink and grey overprocessed scruffy fright wigs your kids will be laughing themselves sick over in 20 years.

Heck yeahhh

@@sleesullivan2796 You know where those hairstyles of the 40s are popular these days? NORTH KOREA.

we should all take her advice 😂

Fresh air filling your lungs, vitamin d absorption, a chance to smell a flower or smile at a neighbor...

Hello how are you

@@melissak8892 You stay out of that sun and go change your sex if you feel in the mood. This video is garbage!

@@pistachiosandpopcorn7146 What?

That and gym culture wouldn’t be a thing for another 30-35 years.

wig pretty much our today’s texting

Ikr 😂

Uh hi sis

Listening to those swing albums

Does that mean texting?

*SNOrK*

*_*SHAKE IT UP BABY NOW_** Twist and shout mein gott - threats of violence with beauty advice. Gotta be a movie in there. Quentin Tarantino's "Pretty, Violent" . .

She’d be in jail now if she shook any of them.

Normie

@@amiekko this isn't even cursed lmao

HAHAHAH 1940s VERSION

@@meenakshi_007 the real 1940s version would be Jazz music

@@mesmoe-rizing hehehe yeah

bro HAHHAHAHHASHAHASKAHKS

1940's version lmaooooo

Soap (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Emma chamberlain is quaking

Her: *Daily shampooing* Any dermatoligist: I'm going to end this woman's whole career

Africa: she ended our whole career

@@ryderthesinful What?

Well that depends, i think she more off said that to look pretty you need to take care of yourself.

@@stickystick1048 this is so sweet and wholesome what more lies could our history books have told us

@@XxPanda6 what?

@@XxPanda6 She literally said "good health and intelligent physical care are the foundations of all beauty"

@@XxPanda6 and at the end she said "you will be prettier you will be more popular" if you will take care of yourself.

I doubt that is worth a lot.

The whole video is her trying to get girls to conform to the beauty standards of the time in order for them to be “pretty” so i dont think that one statement is worth much

@@baddieMario77 maybe it's because we viewed it differently. For me, I think this statement meant that a girl has many more beautiful qualities than just being pretty and that it's ok even if she doesn't consider herself pretty because she still has other qualities that can be considered beautiful and attractive. Maybe I didn't analyze the whole video that well or maybe it's because I only scratched through the surface. But anyway, this was actually a positive view on my side. Maybe it's not for you but that's alright. Everyone can't always agree on everything.

@@angel31356 that sentence alone is good but the videos existence kinda contradicts it. If women are more than just their looks then why is this video and the videos attached to it all about trying to be what society said was “pretty”. If they really believed that women were more than their looks then why didnt they just let women look how they want to look instead of telling them?

@@baddieMario77 it's still pretty much the beauty standard now

2040s girl: mom I have a headache Her mom: It's because you're all the damn day on that hover bed creating holograms and listening to that 20 year old classic song, Old Town Road

@@TheDailyEgg Very funny!!!!

😂😂😂

Wait.. is that a Hamilton reference!

I'm such an 1940's girl. 😂

Elliott Yancey I don’t need sleep

I’LL SLLEP WHEN IM DEAD

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAKKKK

@@paris7904 A BIG YES

*30 mins*

Request for that one to be everyday's advice

We're running out of water now too :| next advice will be "yer fine, quit whining". As most of us in India do.

@@anamikamazumdar2723 Is it more about running out of water or bad distribution of sources? I feel like places like india or africa wouldn't had that problem if rich people wouldn't waste so much water and the people in charge gave it to others... One pool could secure water for a lot of people. I know it's not that easy but I'm sure things could be done differently is it wasn't for some people's greed. I'm sorry about what is happening to you and your people and I hooe to find a way to help soon

@@lilacKurage Preach

Anamika Mazumdar water cant run out its impossible google the water cycle. The indian government just sucks at taking care of things like water distribution.

Me in my bed at 8am, I didn't sleep yet, eating snacks and lamen, don't take a shower have 3 days and the only exercise is getting up to find more snacks 👁👄👁 Bruh I'm so ugly inside and outside Edit: at least I have bf

@Misty Pony you havent even seen her or talked to her, yet you make all these assumptions instead of telling her ass to get the fuck up and work

confident* there isn’t an “a”

Yup

And a lil makeup

@@user-bj2lu9qt3o There's nothing wrong with being healthy and taking care of your appearance. Her agreeing with that one line is not her agreeing with the whole video

@@user-bj2lu9qt3o Maybe you're the one who needs to start bathing

@@user-bj2lu9qt3o In my country if you don't take a bath everyday, you get dirty because the enviromment is hot and dusty. If you don't like being healthy, y are u here anyway at first place.

@@user-bj2lu9qt3o this is telling young women self care is important. I don't understand your bath comment, showers were not common. Sure there's a couple cringy lines but in context it's not terrible.

*thottery and tik tok entered the chat*

Heck yeah

Roasted all the drag queen trans out there

DiabolicalPaperClip someone is ugly

RU-vid Moderator seriously? Come on

@@memberofthelambily1340 There's more to being a woman then wearing make up and dressing up to appear pretty. If you agree with them then you're insulting actual women. Use your head😙

Yeah, now RU-vid passed the line

Elli Wyllie hahaha hahaha hahaha get it it’s the title of the video but no one asked for it hahahahhahaaa

I will reborn in 1940 then uwu

Still applies to now

Yes.

Standards now: It don’t matter what you eat. Just look skinny.

I think this video is so sad. We DO worry too much about how we look. We have all been told (like in this video, approximately 70 years ago) that being beautiful is something that we should strive for. We think that being pretty makes us confident and feel good, and especially that it will make people like us more. In reality we get anxious about our looks and our confidence is shattered to peaces. We start to think that we are not pretty enough, like she says in the video: you can always be prettier. That is so sad. If we just abandoned the idea that being beautiful is important in any way, we would be so much happier. We would see that there is so much more to us and our personalities than the way we look.

@@noone3188 tell me when was the last time you fell in love with someone's personality at first sight. Lol! Just sayin'

@@TheMocao well you tell me can you really love someone based on their looks? Is it really a healthy relationship if it is based on falling in love at first sight? Your personality is much more important.

@@noone3188 Personality is indeed important, but I've never met a person yet that didn't LOOK at the person first - unless they were physically blind. Usually it's our attraction to a person that allows us to get to know that person's personality. That's all I'm saying. If looks are not important to you then that's great - but if they are important to someone else then that's fine too. It's called individuality.

@@noone3188 Perfectionism is an issue all on its own, it applies to everything. Why try to be highly academically achieving? You can always do better. You'll never get 100% will you? So don't bother at all eh? Applying your logic sounds preposterous. Many people bother with looks because we're social animals. And it truly does give great confidence. To know that you aren't a stinky, rag wearing pathetic little thing, is good. Of course I'm not saying that the obsession with plastering on makeup, or fast fashion, or most things caused by social media are any good. But generally to be well kempt, proffessional when need be, beautiful or handsome when need be, and so on, is incredibly important to healthy self image and social standing, relationships with others be try romantic, work, friendly etc. As for physical appearance for intimate relationships. Without sexual attraction it doesn't quite work does it? Sexual attraction is really about the body and its presentation. The other side of intimate attraction, to a person, also requires physical appearance to be well kept not because society culture mumbo jumbo. But because we naturally seek out those that have it together. If one looks shabby, unkempt etc, they obviously don't have it together. Physical appearances aren't just some useless social construct, they can tell you about a person. What I'm saying is the physical is an extension of the psychological. You're evidently utterly in love with the idea of personality, well the way someone looks tells you a lot about them

@SAITAMA totally get that but the time period focused on beauty and they used that to promote self health in the time period

I'm sorry but why would they need to? People really thought girls were dumb little creatures who couldn't understand the benefits of being clean without having to tying it to their abilities to attract a boy?

@@bertinecharles6398 4:10

@@mckaylamontoya3498 I get what you are saying but I wish the words popularity and prettier weren't mentioned. And I don't care what period it is, girls were (are) smart enough to talk about hygiene and clean living without it being tied to their social status. I can't seem to find the charm in it even when I try to put myself in the context of the time period. But I appreciate your opinion.

@@bertinecharles6398 I totally get that and of course agree but idk still compared to other videos I saw on that this was kinda refreshing

Tami Elizabeth Allaway Look at your likes. And also same.

Tami Elizabeth Allaway except for the shit diet they recommend

I bet you were about to scream triggered and patriarchy huh?

@@Timmering wow! Wtf? Oh my god! I've never had so many likes! And if you meant me screaming triggered etc...nope, i was literally prepared to be amused! Thank you for all my likes people! I feel like doing a screenshot and printing it and framing it! 😂😂😂😂😂

I was gonna expect them to talk about how to treat the man but it's actually a helpful guide even to this day

Yeah, but I used to write letters in bed and I felt tired and over it way before 3am. I stayed up later than I should have but now my tween kids will stay up through the entire night with their phones and fall asleep on the floor with their day clothes still on! I definitely wasn't born anywhere near the 40's. Times have changed much more quickly than that!!!!

Plus ça change...

Basically the same. Writing letters or texting on your phone late at night, instead of sleeping.

@@Gaia_Seraphina the difference is that the letters doesn't have a bright screen ruining your vision.

@@worldinsights930 Somebody doesn't know about Dark Mode

【ɐpɐɹıP ɐuɐʇıdɐC】 lmaooo facts

Okay but have you had those? Way better than they sound ngl

We literally fried water... I don’t understand...

【ɐpɐɹıP ɐuɐʇıdɐC】 omg i love fried Oreos

Fried ice cream

Ava K Honestly, they practically fucked up everything and left us with the mess 😂

@Bob Smith This coming from the generation that's too scared to drive the speed limit or use turn signals 🙄😜

@Bob Smith yeah, there's so much air pollution that I am unable to go outside

Bob Smith oop, we found a rude ass boomer. (No surprise there, huh.) Hey, when is the early bird special? Don’t want you to miss it, bud.

Y'ain’t lmao😂 good one

@Hunter Fest takis

POV: You read this comment more than once and now you are looking through the replies

@Hunter Fest welp, busted lol. I was drinking a starbucks coffee and eating a bag of chips yesterday. This lady is going to beat me with a ruler 😂.

Full Circle

I remember when I was attending college, this girl would come into class all the time with an Orange Crush and strawberry pop tarts for breakfast. She was in decent shape then but omg, I hope she's not eating like that now.🤯

Yeah but better

@@Alena8181snookie oOoOh, I WaS BoRn In tHe wrOnG gEneRaTiOn, oOooOh

Welcome Welcome 🤣🤣🤣

@@rawrxd9966 😂

👀

Letter writing WAS social media 🤭

I read somewhere that a parent back in the early 1800s was complaining how their children always had a nose in a book!

So true! We used to have book-mobiles. They were Utility vans converted into a traveling library during summer break. Every Wed my neighborhood friends & I were so excited to run to the spot where they'd park & let hop inside to trade in last week's books for new ones. At night, I'd get my flashlight, hide under my blankets & read WAY past bedtime..up til 10pm if I could hold out that long. (Just like on the Disney movie "UP") I was obsessed with 'Pippi Longstocking', 'Nancy Drew' & 'Encyclopedia Brown' books! // Yeah....🤷 Rebellion looked alot different in those days.//

@@AnthonyWLeone lol... yep! I think that went on into the 1900's too, but not sure.

@@dollymadison2397 I miss the Encyclopedia Brown books! I haven't heard that name in years. And Tom Swift was another favorite of mine.

It’s lily Alright? 💔

I'm outdoors watching g this 😂

It’s lily Alright? sometimes you have to go to a strange room without a ceiling between the house and the store, sometimes you have to-

It’s lily Alright? For real

Same lol. I stay in my room 24/7

Yas!! So cool

And the importance of exercise. This at a time when girls were generally told to stay home and stay inside.

Yeah, I missed this kind of info in school by about 15 years. I needed it.

H Sunset Never too late my friend!

Turtle CommanderChief Thank you.

Its literally 2am rn :D

That's a sign to go to sleep 21:20

a shiteu JIMINSHIIII XD sorry

5:30am. ....I have serious problems. I'm not a beautiful girl.

Hannah Beeson Green JAJAJAJ

It’s the recording devices not the voices.