Take Out the Trash

I realize that past decades are a source of great mirth to anyone under 30, so I’d have to assume that the people who put together that David Lynch wanna-be fashion layout (“Sweet Tart,” Women’s Spring Fashion, Style, Feb. 26) are all pushing 23. Well, snap out of it, kids.

The twin models are beautiful women, and the boy at the table isn’t bad either, as pipsqueaks go. So why, on page after page, did you trash poor old Mom? You jammed a mature woman, who had lost her battle with gravity, into the foreground and denied her the benefits of airbrush. You snapped the shutter only when she looked snockered. The twins wore silk shorts suits at $3,560, but Mom was displayed in pink plastic curlers and a cheap pinafore. For shame!

I mean, I was there in those days, and nobody’s mother looked that bad. Nor did they do dishes with a cigarette in one hand. Boys and girls, we even had dishwashers back then.

So lay off, OK? Or I’ll hide your Candyland game, and I’ll burn your Chutes and Ladders. I can be mean, too.

Ann Rudy

Manhattan Beach