Collier sha...@collierfam.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT regional english for mangle
To: 'Historical Costume' h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Saturday, 23 January, 2010, 2:25
Yes, I knew the water wringer type of mangle is period, as it is hand
powered. I was not aware there was an electric-ironing type. My
...@collierfam.com wrote:
From: Sharon Collier sha...@collierfam.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT regional english for mangle
To: 'Historical Costume' h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Monday, 18 January, 2010, 23:25
I just realized-the book I'm reading was for the mid 1800's, so an
electric ironer would
Does anyone have a copy of the Dictionary of American Regional English to check?
Patty (from NE Ohio who grew up with an ironing mangle (and a wringer washer))
I have to put in my 2 cents - I never heard of an ironing kind of mangle
until recently- my first association is that a mangle is the
Ok, Guys and Gals,
there is obviously a terminology divide between the UK and the USA, as well as
a Time divide here.
May I put in a comments from an ageing Britisher?
Most of you who remember an ironing mangle being used by your female
relatives seem to have grown-up in the USA, post WW2 -
Subject: [h-cost] OT regional english for mangle
Ok, Guys and Gals,
?there is obviously a terminology divide between the UK and the USA, as well
as a Time divide here.
May I put in a comments from an ageing Britisher?
?Most of you who remember an ironing mangle? being used by your female
Julian,
That's a really interesting description, and it does make sense why the
ironing mangle is less familiar on this side of the pond. It reminds
me of my mother telling me why their house (built 1930s) had a
stone-floored pantry, and they saved up to get a fridge a year or two
after
Subject: [h-cost] OT regional english for mangle
Ok, Guys and Gals,
there is obviously a terminology divide between the UK and the USA, as well
as a Time divide here.
May I put in a comments from an ageing Britisher?
Most of you who remember an ironing mangle being used by your female
relatives seem
...@collierfam.com wrote:
From: Sharon Collier sha...@collierfam.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT regional english for mangle
To: 'Historical Costume' h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Monday, 18 January, 2010, 23:25
I just realized-the book I'm reading was for the mid 1800's, so an
electric ironer would have been
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT regional english for mangle
Well, Sharon, the cast-iron-framed mangle one saw in so many households
when I was a small boy, used for squeezing excess water from clothes - was a
design that went back to the Victorian Era - and it wouldn't surprise me at
all
ended.
Wanda
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com]on
Behalf Of julian wilson
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:40 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: [h-cost] OT regional english for mangle
Ok, Guys and Gals,
there is obviously
At 06:02 PM 1/18/2010, you wrote:
[snip]
I do remember hating having to put up the wash on the clothes line and then
get it in. At least we had drying wires in the basement for when it got
cold or rainy! My mother even had special racks to insert into pants so
they would dry with a crease in
...
they would dry with a crease in them! Ironing meant sprinkling each piece
with a little water and rolling it up then putting it in a plastic bag so
that everything got evenly damp so you could iron it. This was before steam
irons but after the old sad-irons that heated on the top of the
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