Oh to be a woman in the 1930’s - not! What an interesting article, but are we really any better off today with the pressure to not go grey or to go grey but look like a goddess? To have fake nails? Fake eyelashes? Fake tans? To be a free spirit, to be creative, to be toned, to have 2.5 children, a dog, a career, a mortgage, a designer home and garden. Men might have put expectations on us in the past, is it still them or do we do this to ourselves. There is way too much pressure these days. Ladies we need to just love ourselves and breathe❤️
Thanks Jane I love reading your emails always very insightful. I think there is still the pressure on women on so many fronts. Work, don't work, cook like a chef, exercise, eat well, dye your hair, don't dye your hair and the forever anti ageing creams. I find those ad's extremely amusing as ageing is inevitable for all of us.
Oh, splendid. I have to think that many of those ads were written by men working to come up with problems their products could solve for their prospects among women.
I always loved the life story of Shirley Polykoff (1908-1998), the pioneering woman to come up with the slogan "Does she or doesn't she?" for Clairol hair color. To think what these women put up with is staggering. https://www.oneclub.org/articles/all/-view/taboo-to-blonde-do/
Great article, Jane, echoing several of my own thoughts. Many of us look back on the Art Deco era as a period of glamour and, in some sense, liberation, where women threw off the Victorian values and headed for something wild and intoxicating. Think of the fashions, the music and dance steps of the time. They were new; like nothing preceding them. Women cut their hair into a 'bob'! However, these years were also dogged by very high levels of unemployment, particularly for men, prohibition and women had few employment opportunities outside the home, domestic service or factory work. Silent film offered openings for those photographic enough to be considered a 'siren'.
Yet, this being said, it is perhaps the sense of gaiety and vividness that are remembered fondly when we think of this era today. I love aspects of the art deco era and and grateful that, as a woman, I live now. I am free to adopt trends of the 1920s and 30s into the far richer and diverse life open to us now.
Oh to be a woman in the 1930’s - not! What an interesting article, but are we really any better off today with the pressure to not go grey or to go grey but look like a goddess? To have fake nails? Fake eyelashes? Fake tans? To be a free spirit, to be creative, to be toned, to have 2.5 children, a dog, a career, a mortgage, a designer home and garden. Men might have put expectations on us in the past, is it still them or do we do this to ourselves. There is way too much pressure these days. Ladies we need to just love ourselves and breathe❤️
Thanks Jane I love reading your emails always very insightful. I think there is still the pressure on women on so many fronts. Work, don't work, cook like a chef, exercise, eat well, dye your hair, don't dye your hair and the forever anti ageing creams. I find those ad's extremely amusing as ageing is inevitable for all of us.
Oh, splendid. I have to think that many of those ads were written by men working to come up with problems their products could solve for their prospects among women.
I always loved the life story of Shirley Polykoff (1908-1998), the pioneering woman to come up with the slogan "Does she or doesn't she?" for Clairol hair color. To think what these women put up with is staggering. https://www.oneclub.org/articles/all/-view/taboo-to-blonde-do/
Great article, Jane, echoing several of my own thoughts. Many of us look back on the Art Deco era as a period of glamour and, in some sense, liberation, where women threw off the Victorian values and headed for something wild and intoxicating. Think of the fashions, the music and dance steps of the time. They were new; like nothing preceding them. Women cut their hair into a 'bob'! However, these years were also dogged by very high levels of unemployment, particularly for men, prohibition and women had few employment opportunities outside the home, domestic service or factory work. Silent film offered openings for those photographic enough to be considered a 'siren'.
Yet, this being said, it is perhaps the sense of gaiety and vividness that are remembered fondly when we think of this era today. I love aspects of the art deco era and and grateful that, as a woman, I live now. I am free to adopt trends of the 1920s and 30s into the far richer and diverse life open to us now.
Hi Jane! I can’t help think it’s time you cash in by re-inventing the Lady Jayne Sleep Helmet thingy for today’s discerning but hair-aware napper!