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What is Real Glamour about?

01:52 AM Jul 08 2008 | 回答

Gostiya

Gostiya

Russian Federation

There are some words that become widely used and popular among certain people of certain interests.. But actually what or who do u think about, what picture does your imagination depict when you here the word ‘glamour’ and ‘glamorous’?There is an international meaning of the word.. I’m not gonna speak about what everybody knows..

First, let me explain my understanding of the word.. I don’t consider fashionable, costly, designer’s outfit. It’s not about trendsetters, followers of the latest fashion, style icons and whatever..And actually I don’t consider what u wear, but what u make of it.. For me Glamour means that sth rare that is inside of you, it’s linked to personality of yours.. Being ruled and directed by your personal style means being sophisticated and being glamorous..

BTW Queen Elizabeth made a list of the most glamorous women of the world.. She doesn’t clamour for the latest stylish stuff, she’s not a fashionista, on the contrary she’s a bit anti-fashion and conservative. But actually she’s the queen and that already makes her so special and as it’s considered she‘s too important to care about fashion.. But still her personal style that suits her so much and that nobody would copy and wear it with the same confidence makes her the one.. 

05:00 AM Jul 08 2008 | 回答

dignified

dignified

Turkey

Real Glamour means to me that it is about people's spiritual features.Actually,having good soul and being well tempered reflect the glory of your personality.I do not think physical appearence is as important as having glamour inside us.

09:48 PM Jul 08 2008 | 回答

Nu Pogodi

Nu Pogodi

United States

Dictionary: glamour
also glam·or n.

1. An air of compelling charm, romance, and excitement, especially when delusively alluring.
2. Archaic. A magic spell; enchantment.

This word originated in Scotland

Where else would you find glamour but on a windswept Scottish heath? Though you might look elsewhere for glamour today, the Scottish dialect of English is where all other English speakers got the word. Of course the Scots had a more serious meaning for it.

Originally it meant nothing more or less than grammar, the study of the proper form of words and sentences. This was back in the Middle Ages, when only a few clerics and clerks (both words have the same origin) knew how to write. To others, grammar meant something mysterious and magical, as it still does to many who wrestle with the language today. Eventually grammar came to have a secondary meaning of "magic."

In Scots, the word had an l instead of the first r. We find writers from Scotland using this magical glamour in English as early as 1720. Later in the eighteenth century, the poet Robert Burns writes of this.

And the novelist Sir Walter Scott discussed the magical glamour in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830).

In the twentieth century, it was apparently American usage that transferred the glamour of magic to the glamour of fashion, personality, and life style. To make the word even more glamorous, Americans retained the British our ending instead of changing it to or as we usually do (in words like color and flavor).

Scots is the distinctive Scottish version of the English language. It has been spoken in the lowlands of Scotland for over a thousand years, almost as long as English English has been spoken in the south. Scots English is now spoken by almost all of Scotland's population of five million. The rest of the English-speaking world has learned from Scots words like feckless (1585), jockey (1670), flunky (1782), rampage (1808), and wow! (1513).

Until recently, the principal language in the highlands of Scotland was Scots Gaelic, a Celtic language and close relative of Irish and Welsh. About 90,000 people still speak Scots Gaelic. The several dozen imports into English from that language include such well-known words as loch (1375), clan (1425), glen (1489), plaid (1512), slogan (1513), spunk (1582), and trousers (1613).

"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion." – John Berger

 

10:24 PM Jul 08 2008 | 回答

Nu Pogodi

Nu Pogodi

United States

First, let me explain my understanding of the word.. I don’t consider fashionable, costly, designer’s outfit. It’s not about trendsetters, followers of the latest fashion, style icons and whatever..And actually I don’t consider what u wear, but what u make of it..
It's not what you wear but how you wear it? That could be considered "personal style".
"Wear your glasses, just don't let them wear you".

For me Glamour means that sth rare that is inside of you, it’s linked to personality of yours.. Being ruled and directed by your personal style means being sophisticated and being glamorous..
And confidence? Confidence, without arrogance, is considered sexy.
I think sophisticated is an assumed part of glamorous.

BTW Queen Elizabeth made a list of the most glamorous women of the world..
The way you wrote this implies she wrote the list; change to "made the list", sort of like "made the grade", and if possible state who's list she made.

She doesn’t clamour for the latest stylish stuff, she’s not a fashionista, on the contrary she’s a bit anti-fashion and conservative.
But actually she’s the queen and that already makes her so special and as it’s considered she‘s too important to care about fashion.. But still her personal style that suits her so much and that nobody would copy and wear it with the same confidence makes her the one..
Most likely, she has her choice of designers. Conservative is a form of fashion. Both Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani are considered conservative.

 

06:23 AM Jul 09 2008 | 回答

Gostiya

Gostiya

Russian Federation

Well, I feel like being broken into parts)

Dear, Nu Pogodi! First, thanks for your having read it so carefully)                                            

   It's not what you wear but how you wear it? That could be considered "personal style". Actually, I meant that it’s not considered what u wear, but what it means for u, if it means anything.. derived from the meaning ‘to understand sth in a particular way’. But if you’re a native speaker and you do tell me that this phrase (make of it) doesn’t sound and actually it’s a flat nonsense, I’ll consider it).

About confidence.. If you’re really glamorous it’s hard to avoid being confident)).. While glamorous people attract attention and diffident not..

And let it be so..  conservative is a form of fashion.. But in my context the two words fashionista and conservative were opposed to each other. It’s a sort of an implicit meaning..

Originally it meant nothing more or less than grammar,…

Well, I’ve never heard  about it..Actually just never interested in the origin of the word. That was really informative)..

     

01:32 AM Jul 13 2008 | 回答

Nu Pogodi

Nu Pogodi

United States

Well, I feel like being broken into parts)
Dear, Nu Pogodi! First, thanks for your having read it so carefully)  
I hope it was pleasant being broken into parts. It's a habit of mine.
Reading carefully helps me understand someone; it was my pleasure.                                       

   It's not what you wear but how you wear it? That could be considered "personal style". Actually, I meant that it’s not considered what u wear, but what it means for u, if it means anything.. derived from the meaning ‘to understand sth in a particular way’. But if you’re a native speaker and you do tell me that this phrase (make of it) doesn’t sound and actually it’s a flat nonsense, I’ll consider it).
They basically mean the same thing. A woman can look just as glamourous in jeans and a t-shirt as she would in a evening gown.

Originally it meant nothing more or less than grammar,…
Well, I’ve never heard  about it..
I didn't know either, I had to look it up.

But actually what or who do u think about, what picture does your imagination depict when you here the word ‘glamour’ and ‘glamorous’?

From Hollywood's "Glamour" period:
Rita Hayworth
Ava Gardner
Dorothy Dandrige
Lauren Bacall
Marilyn Monroe

Others:
Catherine Deneuve
Monica Bellucci

Natalie Wood
Crystal Gayle
Vivian Wu (Wu Jun Mei)
Shania Twain
Lena Olin
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
It's a partial list but they seem to have that "classy", "glamorous", "sophisticated" appeal regardless of how they dress.

 

04:32 AM Jul 13 2008 | 回答

dignified

dignified

Turkey

BRIGITTE
BARDOT

MARLON BRANDO

 

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

ALAIN
DELON

CHARLIE CHAPLINE

KATHARINE HAPBURN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real glamour means physical one or spiritual one?

09:38 AM Aug 06 2008 | 回答

minora_2006

minora_2006

United Arab Emirates

Glamour is all about attractiveness whether in a person or a place. I think the meaning of glamour related to a physical state but it doesn’t mean that our inside or way of treating others are not involved in this word. Maybe the person is not that much caring about how he/she looks like in contract to his/her attractiveness in other areas. In my point of view, to have a glamorous inside that covers our outside behavior is perfect.

02:43 AM Aug 10 2008 | 回答

Gostiya

Gostiya

Russian Federation

In my point of view, to have a glamorous inside that covers our outside behavior is perfect.

Well, I can absolutely agreeCool It sounds like an aphorism))

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