Knowing I’ll never be able to keep up with Kardashians

Country Living with Francis Farragher

Maybe it’s a generational thing but there are times now when I nearly have to gasp at my own innocence. A few weeks back, I happened to casually remark to a female colleague over a tearoom conversation about how a woman in a newspaper picture had seemed to have swollen lips before being told very courteously that this was now all the fashion trend.

“But”, I inquired furtively, “what if you happened to be born with thin lips, then what could you do about it?” The poor woman then sighed at my naivety and said: “Have you ever hear of lip fillers?” to which I replied that, “I hadn’t”, before she burst into convulsions of laughter.

Worse was to follow though. She, being of an age where her female offspring would be of teenage vintage, then told me that not only were big lips very much in fashion but the same trend also applied to bums, that latter piece of information really knocking me for six.

Back the years, maybe at a dancehall in places like Seapoint, the Ranch House or the Sound of Music, I remember instances of males being ‘told where to go’ in no uncertain terms if they made some remark about a female having a large posterior. Sometimes, they might even have received a clatter (a blow to the face from a palmed hand with an echo) for their rudeness, and maybe rightly so too.

At this stage of my conversation with my colleague, I had to pursue the matter further, purely on the basis of journalistic curiosity. “So, how did this happen,” I probed, given that in my time, big bums were certainly not the goal of any female I ever knew.

“Ah Frank,” she said, “Have you not heard of the Kardashians” to which I replied that “I had” but only very vaguely so. “They’ve set the trend across the world for big lips and big bums: it’s what every ‘young one’ wants now.”

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