Here is a few pics I have collected from the internet of vintage housewives. I am simply amazed by the vintage housewife and I believe they deserve more respect because they work just as hard as any other woman or man working in the streets for a living. Here is my tribute to all the domestic goddesses :)
Gosh all these pics just great! So many fab pieces of furniture too and stylish kitchens you don't see enough of today!
ReplyDeleteThey definitely did/ do have the hardest jobs.
Thanks for posting!
I agree, we don't have such beauties today, I have been wanting a 50's kitchen for so long now. I hope some day I could have one just like those beauties :)
ReplyDeleteHi Miss Retro love your blog! Can I use some of these photos for an ad?
DeleteI love your pictures. I'm trying to develop a collection but it's taking a while. Happy to have found your cheery blog.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me who finds those pictures truly scary and humiliating for women? It's like posters of smiling Afro-Americans working at the cotton plantations. Not only stuck in a role nobody else wants, but also shown as if they are utterly happy with it.
ReplyDeleteI guess it is just you who sees it that way haha lol. The pictures depicted here are of a time when women enjoyed housework. They enjoyed making a home for their family!
ReplyDeleteMy mother was a "vintage housewife." She would find your comment, cveta, annoying, and possibly offensive. She enjoyed her life at least as much as her daughters enjoy ours (ups and downs for all of us). We had a wonderful childhood, my father loved her, and recently they celebrated 50 years. My sister is an opera principal; another does PR for an insurance agency. Me? Dang. I have the same humiliating life my mother had. A husband and companion who respects and loves me, six incredible, wonderful kids, and no commute.
ReplyDeleteIt may not be right for you, but it's a bit insulting to assume that women who live this lifestyle didn't choose it out of a range of options, just as you chose whatever you are doing. Self-actualization for women ought to have room for the choices of every woman. Anyone who considers herself a feminist while mocking other women for not making the same choices she did is just a new kind of chauvinist.
Thank you mejaka, I couldn't have put it better myself and I agree with you 100%
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. I chose to stay home with my now 20 month old daughter and choose to keep staying home with our future kids. I think anyone can succeed in the job world, no matter if it is at Mcdonalds or a doctor. I think don't think everyone can be a homemaker.
ReplyDeleteLove all these pictures! I am a SAHM to 3 boys and a baby girl..hubbies in the Navy, and I so relate to this way of life! I even put in a checkered floor in my kitchen that I LOVE! Great visiting your blog!
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