I thought undershirt sales plummeted when Clark Gable revealed he wasn't wearing one in some movie with Claudette Colbert.
Most of the men I know wear tshirts, so I'm not up on proper male fashion.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2008 2:27:39 pm PST #4370 of 10002
brillig
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2008 2:30:20 pm PST #4371 of 10002
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Considering how hard it was to get sufficient reliable hot water and the lack of central heating, regular head soaking would not have been recommended. Plus most modest hair styles were confined, so hair wouldn't have been visible. Plus hats.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2008 2:31:01 pm PST #4372 of 10002
brillig
Did anyone see 1900 House on PBS?
edited to correct year
Hil R. - Dec 04, 2008 2:34:52 pm PST #4373 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I watched it, connie. Pretty interesting.
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2008 2:39:50 pm PST #4374 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I watched it with great interest, as my house happens to have been built in 1900. However, it always had electricity, central heating AND indoor plumbing. (We even have the original basement sink still in place.)
Ginger - Dec 04, 2008 3:09:56 pm PST #4375 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Thank you, Barb!
When you wear a suit coat all the time, the only thing that shows is the collar and cuffs, so they could be removed and washed and starched, while the shirt was maybe washed once a week. The celluloid collar was kind of the social equivalent of the clip-on tie. It didn't have to be washed at all, being similar to thin plastic.
My grandmothers were both fairly obsessed with regularity, in the case of one to a degree that would probably be diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive. Laxatives were a general cure-all for centuries. I once did a paper on the herbs Chanticleer's wife prescribed for him in "The Nun's Priest's Tale," and if Chanticleer were a person, he would never have left the bathroom.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2008 3:11:04 pm PST #4376 of 10002
brillig
However, it always had electricity, central heating AND indoor plumbing.
Wow. That poor mom in 1900 House had indoor plumbing, but she had to go downstairs every morning to start the water heating.
I need to see if the library has those DVDs. I want to watch the last episode of Texas Ranch House and watch the "ranch owner" and his wife get their comeuppance again.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2008 3:18:48 pm PST #4377 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Not to change the subject, but, um.
Um.
Huh.
[Oh lordy, I hadn't even gotten to all the pearl-clutching in the comments before I posted that. Dudes, the blog is called Slashfood. You had to guess they would go there eventually.]
Ginger - Dec 04, 2008 3:22:42 pm PST #4378 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Um indeed.
I'm thinking about the logistics of supplying that ingredient.
sarameg - Dec 04, 2008 3:27:03 pm PST #4379 of 10002
I'm not going to even bother to um: Ack! Ack!
Some things are not ingredients.