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  1. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    Direct quotes I want to address: "Why is there such a desire, even a hunger, to recreate images from such an unhappy past?" She doesn't say a fictionalized unhappy past- she presents it as fact. "We keep alive a secret dream of “a model of routine and order and organization and competence,” a...
  2. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    I really like the views that differ than mine- it's why I posted this on a forum and asked for people to chime in. I don't like the sanctimonious comments and could do without them. They do more to discredit your argument, at least in my eyes, Baron, than to promote your views to a higher plane.
  3. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    No, she did not say that. You read that into it. She said: "How we seem to love and hate those men and women we never knew. What we would give to know their secrets: how Dad managed to come home at 5 p.m. to read the paper or watch TV while Mom fixed dinner and bathed the kids. How Mom turned...
  4. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    Who is that?
  5. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    Indeed. She would have been less sad and presumptuous has she taken ownership of her opinions by using "I" instead of "we." Instead she uses "we" and assumes that she speaks of universal beliefs and agreements on what is or was real.
  7. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    I don't get when she refers to the people alive in the 50's as people we never knew. What? Everyone alive then is now dead? lol I'm always asking older people about the 50's- leads to geat conversations!
  8. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    I understand what you are saying and agree with your last point. I don't agree with the author's version of what was real then, though, both positive and negative.
  9. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    :eusa_clap
  10. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    What about all of the housewives of today? They MUST be miserable if they have nice eyebrows and keep an orderly house. I just get so agitated by these faux feministic rants that demean a valid and lovely lifestyle choice.
  11. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    (By the way, she wasn't born until the 60's, so she wasn't even there!)
  13. PrettySquareGal

    The Lure of Opulent Desolation

    I just read this Op-Ed in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30warner.html?_r=2 I am very irked by this commentary. The author uses the following to describe the fifties: "sad and sordid sexual repression, the infantilization of women, the cookie-cutter conformity"...
  14. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage CHEAP dime store perfumes

    Thank you! My little fellow is holding steady... Here is a pic of the bottles with the no name names! I estimate these to be from the mid 60's.
  15. PrettySquareGal

    Lipstick Tissue

    Thanks, but I have something similar to those and use them for my face-those are oil absorbing. The lipstick tissues these are pretty much just plain 'ol tissues but the right size for purses and lipstick blotting!
  16. PrettySquareGal

    Lipstick Tissue

    My little guy is stable atm. Here is a pic:
  17. PrettySquareGal

    Lipstick Tissue

    I will! I have a sick pet, will post when I can, thanks.
  19. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage CHEAP dime store perfumes

    There's an ongoing vintage perfume thread, and those are all name brand respectable perfumes that might be mentioned in it (and not so cheap). I got this box from a local antique shop. :) The perfumes have crazy names, I will write some later, need to run, long day ahead (sick pet.)...
  20. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage CHEAP dime store perfumes

    I just tried about five of them. One smells like freshly waxed kitchen floors with cookies baking. lol They must have been after the housewife demographic. Another smells like a husband home late with his secretary's perfume on his collar (I'm serious, how could I make something so crazy up)...
  21. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage CHEAP dime store perfumes

    Yes, I have noticed. I also love old packaging. :)
  22. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage CHEAP dime store perfumes

    Today I bought a box of mini no-name brand "Parfums De France" by Charles V. I think what you have is steps above...but I think like many things, low-budget vintage is often top shelf by today's standards...I want to start wearing cheap perfume! lol
  23. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage CHEAP dime store perfumes

    Has anyone ever worn cheap vintage perfume, meaning not inexpensive now to buy but at the time was meant for the lady on a budget?

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