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Clothing Triggers

Where I live the city just runs them out of one neighborhood only to have them go to another. I think most European cities have legal "Red Light" districts. If it were legal and regulated many of the problems with "pimps", drugs, etc. would disappear. I read once that most modern laws against prostitution were passed around 1940 when FDR was trying to bring back the draft. Many mothers were afraid their sons would be tempted while on military bases and voiced their concerns to their congressmen.
 
I think somehow I "hi-jacked" my own thread away from "clothing triggers" to "moral outrage triggers". Sorry folks. I tend to have unconventional opinions.:rolleyes:
 
Back on topic, if the question is if I have ever had a memory triggered by an item of clothing, as it was asked in the first post, the answer would be yes, but only once. I think I was trying off some high boots and they were hard to take off so somebody had to help me, so then I had the flash/feeling of "Didn't we have somebody for this back in the 40's?" : angel


As for what type of clothes I like and if it's related to past lives, since the thread kinda evolved that way, if it was for me I would dress formal all the time, like if I were going to a business meeting.
 
This thread is fascinating!


I was in the Coast Guard for a bit right out of high school and was OVER THE MOON when we were finally issued our black combat boots and ODUs (Operational Dress Uniform). :cool I just wished that the ODUs were plain army green and not navy blue, for some reason....


Even after I left the Coast Guard I continued to wear those boots. I lost them in a move a few years ago and I still pine for them.


I also love utilitarian clothing styles and feel at peace in the woods. I really believe that I was a soldier or guerrilla fighter in my previous life - I'm way too drawn to things like leather combat boots for a "girly girl".
 
Hi Owl, You must have had an "Ordonnanz". I think that was what the British "batman" was called by the German Army. Sorry if my spelling was "off". I have a very weak grasp of the German language, unfortunately. Welcome , Lilliputian. I'm glad you're enjoying the thread. So sorry you lost your boots. Some items of clothing are too beloved to ever give up. I once had a "Heidi" dress. It was blue wool with beautiful tyrolean-type embroidery on the yoke. It was in my closet for years, far after it was no longer in fashion, and long after I was too old for it! I think we love clothing for the way it makes us feel, and now I know that many times, those deep connections are because of the past life experiences clothing (and boots) can trigger.
 
Now since many are talking of Boots, then will mention this. As for myself it is the opposite on how I Never Wear Boots! I do have my hiking boots which I use in the summers. But even then, how many days in the summer do not even use them if I do not have to. How much do I Hate the cumbersome feel that many boots give it seems. I love very simple footwear. My favorite shoe is some very very simple tennis like shoes with being almost like a moccasin it seems. One of my favorites is some very simple, almost moccasin like, black simple tennis shoes that I purchase at the nearby Kmart. And I wear these even on many a summer day hiking! Guess this does not surprise me with many a life as a Native American living in the old ways.
 
Me, too. There is no flexibility, and I feel as if I am trying to walk wearing the box they came in.:laugh: I wear my high heels, am very partial to sandals (high-heeled), and my at-home shoes in the winter are fur-lined leather mocassins. Until I started this thread, I never realized how huge a PL trigger footware can be. Does anyone think it's because they were a luxury item in the past, and a big indicator of social rank, profession, or status?
 
I'm from Indonesia former of Dutch Indies. From my childhood I was interested in old stuffs. It's unusual for a kid like old stuff. I was familiar with steam train, vintage car, vintage bicycle, vintage motorcycles and like fashion in comics characters of The Adventure of Tintin. I'm realize now that's from 1930's era. I feel very familiar from this era and I wear the fashion from this era too. Does my story prove that I has past life from this era?
 
I have an impression that I was born in 25 APRIL 1910. This impression I got when I start to dig more deep my soul... step by step... and more amazing that I met a woman that I knew just 3 days, Her and I feel the same feeling that we are so close and feel that we had a kind of relationship before.... My Impression and this experience, it's hard to believe..... I must dig this case more deep again but how....?
 
Welcome, Vanderspoor. Some of the hints you mention in your posts are taken seriously by members here. As ShiftKitty said, a feeling for a past era can be significant, as can the feeling of instant comfort and familiarity you have with your friend. I'm just beginning to sort my own memories out, so others here can help you better. Do you ever have dreams where you are another person, in another era? Meditation can help, and there are books and tapes with suggestions on how to do this. Blessings on your "journey".
 
Thank you BriarRose. It is important for me to know my past life because I feel that there is something lost from my life... and I need an answer for this.MEDITATION is very good idea, I will do.
 
Possibility two past life


I have mentioned that I'm interested in 30's era, I like everything about this era... but I have interest too in early 1800 era.... especially QING DYNASTY. My hairstyle is manchu hairstyle shaved forehead and let the rest of my hair grow long... Everyone who sees my hairstyle think I may be crazy but I don't care. I'm feel comfortable with my hairstyle. So I combine two type of fashion now the european 30's and 1800's QING DYNASTY era.
 
I've been lurking on this site for a while, and this thread makes me smile:


My daughter is almost 3, and is in the 'princess' stage. And I understand that a lot of little girls go through this, but she takes it to extremes. Only the fanciest of dresses, the more lace the better, and if you don't refer to her as "Princess B", she certainly corrects you.
 
I don't think you are crazy, vanderspoor. We have a "tacit" agreement on this forum, that no one is, including me! Have you looked into a life in the U.S. in the 1930's? The hair-do with the suit would not be inconceivable. My son insisted on wearing a fez, and a pith helmet for awhile. (Not at the same time!)typingHe's grown up now, but thought he should wear a monacle for his wedding. We told him he would look like the cartoon, "Mr. Peanut".
 
Hi shamblecross. I'm glad you stopped "lurking", and joined us! When my daughter was starting kindergarden, she asked if she could wear a dress with "lots of cheap lace." Her words, not mine! Clothing is such a powerful symbol. It seems to be a mask we wear for the world, and when we wear what pleases us, the world is offended!
 
shamblescross said:
My daughter is almost 3, and is in the 'princess' stage. And I understand that a lot of little girls go through this, but she takes it to extremes. Only the fanciest of dresses, the more lace the better, and if you don't refer to her as "Princess B", she certainly corrects you.
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Does she ever say anything that could be a past life memory? Maybe you should start keeping a journal.
 
Cowgirl?


When I was around three years old, someone gave me some hand me down cowboy boots. As the story was told to me, I was in love and would hardly wear any other shoes for years. My mother complains that not just any kids cowgirl boots would do either, when i outgrew them, she had to go to a western store to buy real hand tooled leather boots (I was apparently spoiled)! The funny part is that I wore them all the time, even with the fancy dresses I also had a preference for. Does anyone remember the dresses Buffy wore on the TV show Family affair? They were form fitting on top with a short pouffy skirt, these were my favorite! I have to give my poor Mom credit for letting me express myself this way! I wonder why the fascination with the boots! Was I a cowhand in a PL?
 
Hi wonder, I do remember the "Buffy" dresses. We all wore them. In the 50's. we actually wore petticoats called "hundred yard sweeps". They were one hundred yards of stiff, scratchy nylon net. They were an invention of the devil, who, by the way, is a fashion designer. I even remember wearing hoop skirts. One was inflatable, like an inner tube. That is going to wreak havoc with future PL memories. Could your tooled cowgirl boots come from being in a wild west show? This sounds silly, but country western performers of the 40's and 50's were famous for their fancy, hand-tooled boots, even the women. There was a designer named "Nudie" (sp.?), who made fancy outfits for them. Of course my dad, who was just an ordinary West Texas boy, had a pair of those boots. At the very least, it might point to a region of the country where you lived in a Pl.
 
I had a big preference for suits when I was younger. I loved wearing them. Actually, I loved wearing the shirt, tie, and pants, but hated the jackets; they were always too heavy and bulky. I think it was the shoulder pads that bothered me so much.


I remember asking my mom once why my Dad didn't wear a suit to work. It confused me. But I don't know how much of that had to do with my love for old television instead past lives, but the two are probably related!
 
So far I haven't heard anything from my daughter that could be past life related.


But I agree with some of the above comments, with the joys of TV and all the different things that you can be introduced to, it's hard to differentiate between something you saw/heard while browsing the channels or something from a previous memory. Even for an almost 3 year old, she's picked up some random stuff. (Example, naming a toy owl Toot N Puddle, from a TV show she watches with her grandma.That one had me confused for a while, as I have never watched it...)
 
Me, too. There is no flexibility, and I feel as if I am trying to walk wearing the box they came in.:laugh: I wear my high heels, am very partial to sandals (high-heeled), and my at-home shoes in the winter are fur-lined leather mocassins. Until I started this thread, I never realized how huge a PL trigger footware can be. Does anyone think it's because they were a luxury item in the past, and a big indicator of social rank, profession, or status?
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Yes, in my case I think that is so. One past life memory I do have is slogging thru wet snow with nothing but wrapped up feet. I believe I was a mercenary in that lifetime, and we were marching to battle. I also remember feeling absolutely miserable.
 
This thread is ironic for me, and validates my reincarnation beliefs even more. Clothing was very important during my regression, and in my childhood, I was very adamant about clothing I liked, specifically for women. My mother doesn't remember much regarding my childhood, but she distinctly remembers that I very matter of factly insisted that girls wear dresses. I was not going to wear overalls as she insisted, and I asked her, "why don't you wear more dresses?" I've always wondered about this! Why was I so insistent as a toddler!? How would I KNOW what girls wear?


Throughout childhood I was obsessed with Little House on the Prairie. I loved bonnets. I always wanted one! One year, (the only year I wasn't Dorothy for Halloween), I insisted on being Laura Ingalls Wilder, and I finally got my bonnet! Regarding Dorothy, I had a slight obsession with Judy Garland, which would relate to my 1940's war life, where I was a man.


During my regression I focused on clothing obsessively. I saw my WWII uniform, I saw my wife's dress. My favorite one. Poofy 1940's style with pink polka dots. I saw my children's clothing (small children), I specifically remember my youngest son wearing what almost looked like lederhosen. I absolutely love vintage dresses today, and I buy a lot of vintage, or vintage inspired clothing.


I also focused on clothing in my late 1800's-early 1900's life. I saw myself in a cabin wearing a light pink worn dress with an apron, boots and a bonnet. Almost exactly like Caroline Ingalls. Later in that life, I knew I was no longer poor because I wore a burgundy dress, no apron, and no longer had a bonnet. I also obsessed over fireplaces in that life.


As a child, there were few outfits that caught my attention, but when my mom gave me her beautiful velvet bridesmaid dress that was very vintage, (maybe like the burgundy dress style), to wear for a play I was in (I was glenda the good witch, it killed me not to get the part of Dorothy), I obsessed over it. I also found a pair of lederhosen my grandfarther had in the basement, and wasn't so sure why they fascinated me.


This is an amazing thread for me. Thank you so much for sharing!!!
 
I agree with you hope4change that this forum is very helpful to me. Because the topics about reincarnation is taboo in my country (INDONESIA) except in BALI (Hindu and Budha majority). When I tell my story to the people they will think I am a crazy man and a herecy. When I wear my 1930's custom and take ride with my old bicycle from the same era, I feel it's really me.
 
Thank you Vanderspoor, we're glad you found us, and we welcome you with open arms. You'll find a community of very strong reincarnationists here, and we welcome your story.


Hopingforchange, I'm like you, during my regression clothing was very important... or perhaps just very obvious. And I have very special place in my heart for the long dresses of the 1890s... they evoke such beauty, warmth, femininity... nostalgia for a time when things were simpler and the elegance of style, even for pioneers here on the prairie, were important. There is a clothing exhibit at our local museum and it is one of my favorite places to see the detail and elegance again.


Tman
 
Hi Jody. Your memory of marching off to battle with your feet wrapped in rags sounds a lot like Washington's troops at Valley Forge. Do you have any feeling that you were a mercenary during the Revolution? One of the wisest things Washington did was offer citizenship to the Hessians, if they took an oath of loyalty. Many of them took his offer, and made exemplary citizens. In any event, that is a poignant PL memory.
 
@BriarRose: I'm pretty positive that I was a sea captain at the time of the American revolution, and my business was taking other ships, which provided more than enough capital to buy good boots! :laugh: I believe the feet in rags memory comes from the life before that, when I fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie. The Scots lost that particular skirmish and many of them had to flee, I believe I went to France to hire myself out as a mercenary.
 
Hi Jody, We may be fellow Scotsmen (or woman, in my case). I'm not sure yet of gender. All I have are hints. I always do a double take when I hear the name "Stuart", although I don't think I was anyone important. I am "mad for plaid", listen to bagpipe music, etc. The Bonnie Prince still rips my heart out. I had a brief regression experience, where I was hiding behind a rock from the Sassenach. My husband may have been an ensign during the American Revolution. Sorry I guessed your wars wrong. Have you read the "Outlander" books, by Diana Gabaldon? For a PL believer, they were fun.
 
It's strange you should mention clothing. I had a lot of lovely gifts this Christmas, but the one thing that stopped me in my tracks and almost made me cry was a shawl, inexplicably bought for me by my partner's aunt, someone I've only met four or five times.


I just felt so incredibly grateful for it. In my life before this one I believe I was a woman in a very poor and industrial area of northern England in the early 1900s. I just felt inexplicably moved by this pretty shawl. It felt like the most generous gift I could have ever received. I only wish I could tell her what it meant to me!
 
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