BAT WINGS

Recently on Good Morning America, I was thrilled to see Robin Roberts wearing a batwinged sweater. Wow, did that take me back. The old saying that “everything old is new again” really hit home. A batwing style is one that is cut very large at the armhole and the sleeve extends almost to the waist. It does look for all the world like a bat's wing.





I think we all have a style that we thought flattered our figures or physiques the most and hated to see them go out of style. For me it was the bat wing sweater of the mid 50's. I was never a busty kid and this loose, lots of material style seemed to camouflage that fact the best. The tight sweater was not my friend.

When wearing the batwing over a pencil skirt with a slit in the back, I felt killer cool. Most likely wasn't but I felt I was and that is what counts. Attitude can sell most anything. Somehow I missed the batwing reemergence in the 70's and 80's.

Today, I would like to again wear the batwing style but for a more basic reason than "killer cool." Pretty sure it would do a grand job hiding my own batwing upper arms and pudding soft middle.

Yes, those “bye-bye” arms I swore I would never get but by golly, they are now a part of my body and nothing I do seems to shoo them. They would make any bat proud. I suspect their only positive function is that they might make good floation devices. Perhaps a BW sweater would nicely hide those arms. One can hope.

So for how ever long it is here, I say hooray for the batwing. Not yet having put one on over my aging body, I am a bit concerned that all the extra material might just add to the appearance of more weight around my middle. Lets see, do I want to hide my own bat wing arms or do I want to appear thin? Decisions, decisions.

Anyway is there any old style you once loved that has fallen by the wayside that you would like to see come back? Something that really made you feel stylish? Poodle skirt and wide belt? White bucks or penny loafers? Maybe that really tidy snap crotch,no ride blouse with some hip hugging bell bottoms ? I really liked that last look. A flat tummy was a must.

In school, I can remember being totally turned on by any guy who wore charcoal, tailor made, pegged pants topped by a pink long sleeve dress shirt with a turned up collar. How about tie-dyed tees? The preppy look? What did it for you to make you feel really cool?

ZZZZZ UPDATE

I want to thank you all big time for your help on my sleep problems--- you really came through. Thanks to all your helpful advice, I am now logging almost 7 uninterrupted hours per night and am quite content with that. I feel cells rejuvenating as we speak.

The mask did darkened my nighttime successfully though I really miss the satin pillow case. Then thanks to Judy and several others of you, I now read in a chair at least till 9, then finish my reading in bed. I do love reading in bed. That was too much of a pleasure to give up totally so I split the difference.

Betsy made me realize I was possibly presetting my mental alarm clock by dreading the meager 4 hours of sleep so I started visualizing I was sleeping straight through before drifting off. That also helped.

The first few nights that I did wake up, I tried the counting as several suggested and it worked. Sorry Wil, I don't know French but English did the job for me.

Then realizing I was probably just not tired enough when I went to bed (retirement is not very exhausting) I picked up my daily exercise routine just a bit as both Islandwonder and the link Patty supplied suggested.

Which one did the trick? I don't know, most likely it took all of them. Regardless I am enjoying the results. Thanks bunches for your remedies and commiserations.

Those of you still struggling, help your self to any or all of these methods. They actually worked for me.