tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post4561096965506889773..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: Womanly careUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-5650133293521194812013-06-13T19:21:41.908+01:002013-06-13T19:21:41.908+01:00That's interesting, about commercial domestic ...That's interesting, about commercial domestic style. It feels true - wallpaper, paint, furniture, electronic devices all from large manufacturers and retailers. Yet even a hundred years ago, people got their things from stores and catalogues - and we have, perhaps, far more now to choose from than then. <br /><br />Maybe what makes it feel true is that people are less handy than they used to be - who makes doilies or embroiders, now? Photographs are stored on cameras, phones and computers, not silver-framed. There's no colonial trophies to hang on walls, now the Empire's gone. Women go out to work, so there's less need/opportunity for the perfumed boudoir, the dilatory toilette. Letters have been replaced by emails, texts, Facebook posts and twitters, so no escritoires with hidden compartments full of secrets.<br /><br />So what's gone? Real privacy, slow time, personalisation of possessions?<br /><br />Not that the working class had that much of them in the old days.<br /><br />Hmmm.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.com