So these girls have been running around in pantsuits all this time and I had no idea?? Oh my god. The field days I could have had. The wild, helpless joy I failed to indulge in. Why, Frank Bolle? Why?? I could have been making unfavorable comparisons left and right! Bea Arthur here, Judith Light there... all circa late 80s, of course. I guess I think all pantsuits are from the late 80s, because come on, haven't we gotten past the term "pantsuit" by now? Can't we just call them suits? When you think pantsuits, don't you kind of think of The Golden Girls?
Sadly, I could not find a picture of anyone wearing a pantsuit while filming The Golden Girls, but I do have a vivid memory of a particularly heinous get-up Dorothy was forced to weird involving a baby blue pantsuit with some kind of pseudo-cumberbund and a sad limp sequins bow. Not one of Bea Arthur's finer moments. I'd kill to see that outfit again though...
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God, I'm not imagining a Golden Girls/Apartment 3G crossover and it's making me simultaneously so happy and so, so sad that all but Betty White aren't around anymore. I love my parent's mothers but sometimes thinking about these women make me feel like I've already lost a grandmother.
Anyway, if the Ladies of 3G think Dressed in the Dark is harsh, they'd never survive the combined snark of Dorothy and Sophia. I'm giggling just thinking about it.
(And I agree that a pantsuit from the episodes would have been more appropriate -- perhaps I'm biased but I think they look lovely and fantastic in that picture.)
Eww, Bea Arthur's giant man-hand looks like it's growing out of Rue McClanahan's itty-bitty arm and grabbing Bea's boob, weird!
At my fabulous mother's retirement community, the ratio of pantsuits per capita is pretty high. The "Golden Girls"-aged ladies still love their pantsuits, even in the 21st century. There's the point: the 3G ladies are Manhattan career women who have not yet reached the Age of Pantsuits. If they are already wearing them, they must be stopped!
Anyway, I'll have to ask Fabulous Mom if she calls them "pantsuits" or simply "suits." I do know she still uses the term "slacks."
The term "slacks" makes me cringe and giggle simultaneously.
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