Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet View Post
I remember reading a story called "The Baroque Pearl" when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, and thinking "whoa, that's me!" Baroque it is!
Ooh, ooh, I remember that story! I remember imagining the pearl, too, and what it must look like. Though I wouldn't say I have a baroque soul, I remember thinking that a baroque pearl must be so much more interesting than the plain, uniformly round pearls my mother wore.

Yes, it seems that virtually everything used to be more decorative than it is now. I, too, remember my grandmother's treadle-operated Singer (on which I learned to sew) with it's gold curlicues and pin stripes. Mmmmm. I read somewhere not too long ago that the trend now is toward toylikeness in many products, and I think that may be true--cute phones, colorful computers, even some appliances, like vacuum cleaners, have a toylike appearance. That bugs me to no end. In that sense, I guess I do have a baroque soul in that I long for the more mature decorativeness of the past. *sigh*