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Clothing was also a communal activity for the working class. Major events - baptisms, weddings, funerals - any sort of shared celebration almost required people use their skills for one another. Here in San Francisco, workers often bartered for goods. At least that was the story for my grandparents. 
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You can also see where people weren’t that good at making clothes. I have a dress which I think is from the 50s that I got from a vintage shop. There was a whole bunch of them which must have come from one person, and all but the one I bought fit horribly. And even the one I got has a weird pleat at the front which… Read more

My pre-ordered copy just came and I can’t wait to read it. Read more

Pfft. I bought a horde house a few years ago and have been finding shit ever since. So far an antler, several crystal, a bundle of dried sage, a large portrait of Hitler, several spent handgun shells, a BB gun, some Israeli coins buried in the back yard, and a silver mezuzah. Also most recently a GED and trashy… Read more

I found a wedding invitation from the 20's in a book I bought from a thrift store once, I was so fucking excited. I can’t imagine the surprise and excitement of finding such amazing correspondence! Read more

Screw finding something historically important. Somewhere in storage is a picture of my Great Aunt Mabel on an elephant from when she ran away to the circus. She was the kind of woman who opposed jazz music and used this awful newsprint toilet paper well into the ‘90s, so I need proof that at one point she was wild… Read more

...Is no one going to talk about the gal ditching housework for a boozy trip to North Dakota? Read more

Everything I know about housework—which is virtually nothing at all— I learned from my mother, who had grown up with servants, but who then married my father, a poor academic, and had to do her own cooking, cleaning, ironing, laundering, and child-rearing from then on. Read more

And then there were the Peg Bracken books The I Hate to Cook Book and The I Hate to Housekeep Book. My mom had the former, and there was a lasagna recipe in there that was a family favorite. I think she had a few more I Hate to... books, and I have at least three of them that I’ve collected between my mom’s cookbooks… Read more

My great-great-grandmother cross-stitched a “Dull women have tidy homes” framed picture for my great-grandmother (her daughter-in-law) as a wedding gift around 1920. Read more

I wish I didn’t find half aprons so useless, because I really want that “I love housework” one. What to do, what to do ...? Read more

As a child of the 50s, I remember these in our neighbors’ houses (I grew up in South FLA). I associate them with a cookbook that someone gave my mother called the “I Hate to Cook” cookbook and Phyllis Diller, whose routine included frequent references to how bad her housekeeping was. Read more

The “let’s go to Florida” one where she’s just minding her business and large birds are in her space... As a Floridian, I can vouch this is 100% accurate.
Except in real life it would be geese, and those geese would be aggressively hissing/trying to peck her.
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My best friend’s parents have this retro poster in their kitchen.

Ugh, I have such a hard time seeing these photos and the footage in this doc. I feel horrible for those who have been in war & combat situations, I don’t think people ever recover from the changes those experiences. put them through. Read more

What a badass, I never knew about her until now. I have a question, are there international laws that recognize war photographers as journalists during battle and are they given a certain kind of protection from other soldiers or combat units? And do they have to ask for permission from the U.S military to go and… Read more

It never ceases to amaze me how women are constantly erased from history until we get a story about one decades later. The Times piece mentions she was one of the few women who shot Vietnam. That means there were other women there. Will we ever hear about any of them? Read more

I always thought her story would make a kickass biopic movie. And, because of her age, it’d actually be appropriate for someone like J-Law to star as her! Read more

Never Forget: Hildi’s upside down room...