Thank you Linda for the Robert Doyle source. I don't think my mother had a
frig when she was growing up. Her mother was very old-fashioned, so I am
curious for her response.
My mother visits us for two months every year. Last year, she taught me how
to starch the 1950s petticoats and dollies. Oh, how I hated wearing those
scratchy petticoats when I was little. But the starching dollies stiff
really works! Mom said that the dollies with special designs like ripples
will stand up for six months. And the ones we starched did. She said
during the six months when they get dusty just pick them up and shake them.
I did this and they keep their form!
I also liked the frig history webpage you recommended. Thank goodness for
the frost-free frig! Boy, I hated to defrost the frig and freezer when I
was a kid! It was my chore.
This is way off topic but it deals with the ice...
I am hooked on the Modern Marvels show this summer. This week one episode
was about the history of tea. It was really interesting. They quoted that
the U.S. is the only country that drinks tea with ice. Why is the U.S. the
only one? Who came up with the idea of drinking tea with ice? Our family
has been discussing this all week. We are serious ice tea drinkers. My
last trip to England, I visited some of my costumer friends. I was dying
for ice tea. I asked them if I could make some. I wish I had a video
camera for their reaction while watching my son and me drink a half gallon
of ice in a few hours. They just thought that we were destroying the art of
drinking tea. My husband declares the Mason/Dixon line is in Fredericksburg,
VA. He is a real Southern Gent and needs to have his sweet ice tea with
lunch and dinner. When we travel to DC, the last place he can get sweet tea
is Fredericksburg. And we hear him gripe if we eat a meal in DC because of
the unsweet tea. I kept waiting in the Modern Marvel show for them to
discuss the ice tea history. But they never did.
Penny Ladnier,
Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
www.costumelibrary.com
www.costumeclassroom.com
www.costumeencyclopedia.com
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