Word: housedress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Twinkie. No teen realism here, just a romp through the pastel homes and matching mother-daughter outfits of a more naive era. No anxious parental conflict, at least when Tracy's mom is played by Divine, the 300-lb. actor who always looks the height of fashion in a housedress. And no sweat, Baltimore: Waters has done you proud. Watch the moon shimmer in a puddle (as a rat crawls through it). See Tracy triumphant, in her pink roach-patterned evening gown. See Hairspray too. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie...
...sinkhole of poverty and despair. In fact, the neighborhood was a big step up from the Lower East Side. Pappa was a skilled shoemaker who made prototypes of new designs. Mamma was known as "the Princess" because she refused to appear on the street in a housedress. She also had a part-time job and unconventional advice for her daughter: "Don't get married, at least not until you can support yourself and make a careful choice. Or don't get married at all, better still...