Seeing this latest trend in best/worst threads, I thought to start my own.

Who are some of your favourite daytime divas, those bigger-than-life, magnetic, super stylish femmes fatales of daytime? It can be anyone from a long-forgotten guest star in the '70s to the main female protagonist on the show. Villainess, fairy godmother, the characters ethics and morality are not the point.

And not to forget: is there a particularly soapy name of a female character you like? Like e.g. Dominique Deveraux (not daytime, but hey), Angelique DuVal, Helena Cassadine, those French/Italian/German/Greek sounding names, that sort of thing.

P. S. If a mod could change the b in the title to a capital, I'd be grateful.

Edited October 19, 200916 yr by Sylph

TV Tropes.Org has an article on Dynasty, and mentions all this: shoulders of doom, pretty in mink, screw the rules - I have money, smoking is cool, <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmokingIsGlamorous">smoking is glamorous</a>...

Edited February 28, 201015 yr by Sylph

I LOVE Joan in her furs. She's a woman who was made to wear them. Somehow Lucci doens't look as good in them, I don't know why. My grandmother had a coat with a mink collar (this was a big splurge for a farm wife)... but my brother, many years ago... hunted and sold furs. Coyotes could bring some decent money, and raccoons weren't bad either (and you ate the coons, so there wasn't any waste), before the bottom dropped out of the market. My biggest problem with so many anti-fur campaigns is that they use these cute little "fuzzy wuzzy" animals as their poster children. I see billboards that say "you should be ashamed to wear fur"... but I've yet to see one that says "you should be ashamed to buy a fishing pole", or "You should be ashamed to buy rat poison". But you know, i've felt SOME fox that seemed kind of coarse to me... but then some that felt much nicer, i'm assuming it's a quality thing. Although it's CHEAP... just for FEEL, my favorite is still RABBIT! LOL

Edited February 28, 201015 yr by alphanguy74

Rabbit *is* extremely soft. The problem is of course that it sheds and the leather is fragile, pieces fall off and stick to everything. Anyone who's had parent who kept their funky rabbit coat from the '70s in the hall closet knows what I'm talking about. Sheared rabbit feels very nice, like velvet and sheds less, but of course these days they use Rex rabbit/orylag to mimic the MUCH more expensive chinchilla:

Rex:

http://theodorafur.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/057.85173755_std.JPG

http://www.fur-china.net/rexchinchilla/rex-chinchilla-scarf.jpg

Chinchilla

http://peterpalms.com/couvre-lit/graphics/chinbedspread.jpg

http://www.poshandbeyond.com/images/chinchillascarf/chinchillascarf.jpg

Good thing I hate fur. Mink, chinchilla, rabbits, racoons, sable... All. And find it awful, a completely lacking in tastefulness. Just screams k!tsch, ostentatious and vulgar display of 'wealth' or whatever. Ew.

Even if Nan Kempner used to wear it:

Edited February 28, 201015 yr by Sylph

I'm a Bob Mackie Bitch all the way...Oh, I LOVE vulgar displays of EVERYTHING. fur, sequins, over the top hairstyles:

Call me strange, and it's fur... but "sheared" fur, i've always loved Angora (me and those rabbits!). I used to have this fluffy Angora pullover sweater in Light blue and lavender stripes, and I LOVED it. Fur CAN be tacky if overdone... then you get into "pimp" territory.

Edited March 1, 201015 yr by alphanguy74

Do you think that the anti-fur trend has died down? I had read a few years ago that furriers were able to stop the losses by marketing to clients they may have paid less attention to in the past.

I personally would never wear fur and I can understand why people don't like it but I'd probably never want to make an issue out of it with anyone, especially since a lot of people who do wear fur will beat you down if you get between them and their coat.

I just don't know why in 2010 people still wear it. I get it looks good, but nothing keeps me warm like my goretex. That is some crazy fabric! I walk out in 40 degrees with a summer shirt under the goretex and am perfectly fine.

Is that Dusty? That's actually restrained for Dusty

I just don't know why in 2010 people still wear it. I get it looks good, but nothing keeps me warm like my goretex. That is some crazy fabric! I walk out in 40 degrees with a summer shirt under the goretex and am perfectly fine.

I've never heard of that. I assume it's not related to Al Gore.

Is that Dusty? That's actually restrained for Dusty

I've never heard of that. I assume it's not related to Al Gore.

Goretex is just a synthetic material you see every day people wearing in the winter. You could climb a mountain in it and stay warm.

Its the softness that's the appeal of fur, at least for ME. Many men indulge in the fur:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8vD9C82go

Edited March 1, 201015 yr by alphanguy74

One day, I will have my floor-length silver fox, and if it makes me look like a pimp, then so be it!

One day, I will have my floor-length silver fox, and if it makes me look like a pimp, then so be it!

+1

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=liberace+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dliberace%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&imgurl=3fc5157e4511a42e

On second thought, maybe I'll just settle for a stole.

LOL, I tried to upload a pic of the much cooler and more pimpin' Duke from Rocky V in his full-length silver fox, but it wouldn't let me.

I know this is all old hat but here's a few more recent photos put up of Joan's VL appearance. This stuff airs in early or mid May.

Joan's face has always looked too rodent-like to me.