After days of reading other people's thoughts on this programme I have finally managed to see it for myself.....
I have to say I fully admire the way these ladies have decided to live their lives. Before I watched the programme I read quite hostile comments from other ladies who claim to live their lives in a 'vintage' way so was very surprised that they felt the need to attack these ladies for doing exactly what these 'bloggers' would have us believe is how they live their lives..... as I expected they clearly do not live their lives this way..... a few squishy shabby chic cushions and a china teacup with roses on does not make a vintage housewife! Two of the ladies featured didn't seem too happy in their chosen way of life, particularly the lady living in the 1930's era and she did seem a little anti-social to the rest of the world, or is it people in her day to day life like the 'said' bloggers who make her feel she is not welcome to choose this way of life in the present day. To be fair the 1930's and 1940's ladies didnt feature too much to pass judgement (not that I or any of us have any right to anyway) but the lady living the 1950's lifestyle was a hoot. She seemed such a nice lady. A little ditsy but oh so feminine. How lovely to surround yourself completely in a style you love. The house looked fab and the girly dressing room...... sweet. The nasty comments I came across were aimed more at this lady (shown in the picture above and below) some of you a little jealous methinks because she doesn't have to work if she doesn't wish to (although towards the end an aspiring singing career was mentioned) looks ever so glamorous, can 'play house' all day everyday and has a husband who is quite happy for her do this. So what if she has chosen not to have children..... it's not compulsary you know!!! I think my main problem with some of the snide comments I've read is the fact these ladies are trying to live in another time but use modern day technology..... Of course they f****** will. (No doubt my 1930's housewife score has just plummeted for swearing) Do you think if our grandmothers had had access to a washing machine or a hoover they would have spent all day pushing clothes through a mangle or pushing a 'hodda dodda' (Bissell carpet sweeper) around?..... of course they wouldnt. And to sneer at them for going to Tesco's to shop. What do you expect them to do? Starve, waiting for the butcher, milkman or baker to arrive in his Morris Minor that is never going to show up!! I live in the country and we do have a man in a van who delivers fresh fish, a couple who drop off vegetable orders (and I email my order.... ooh technology, slap my wrists), the coal man comes looking like a black and white minstrel, the oil man turns up in a huge tanker and one afternoon a week a shop on wheels arrives at the bottom of the hill, but I still need to go to Tescos, because it's too far for Tescos to come to me. And as for the comment I read about the 1930's lady who hides her microwave in a cupboard, whats wrong with that? I can honestly say I dont own a microwave and I do all my cooking on an Aga, but if my kitchen was big enough TO HIDE ONE, I wouldn't rule out using one. Admit it we all 'stage' things. When visitors come I bet you all hang out your best Cath Kidston tea towel, and the rest of the time you use the stained four for a fiver tea towels from the supermarket. We all try to live our lives the best and most comfortable way we can. Don't we all want to close our front doors on the outside world and not hear about all the awful things going on? I bet the 1950's ladies husband loves coming home to a smiling, well groomed wife waiting with a home cooked meal and isnt he lucky to not come home to the obvious 'un-glamorous sour pusses' who find it necessary to put these ladies down. I follow alot of the same principles as these ladies, just not to the extent that they do and no I'm not a docile sap who doesnt have an opinion. Infact my husbands workmates can't believe he has a wife at home who is prepared to do what I do. Unlike the 1950 ladies husband whos workmates scoff at her homemade lemon curd, my husbands workmates often eat some of his lunch I make and ask when the next batch of muffins are going to arrive. I am self employed so I am able to get up early every morning and make Mr K his fresh coffee, prepare a packed lunch for work and I cook a meal and dessert everyday for when he comes in whether its 7pm or 11pm. In return I have a faithful husband who works hard, calls me everyday on his way home from work to see if I need anything brought in (as we dont have a shop close by), always asks me how my day has been, doesnt moan when I spend £300 on a food mixer or £200 on a coffee machine because it looks nice in the kitchen and spends the weekend doing any jobs I want or will take me out for the day wherever I want to go. I just don't do it as glamorous or in such a full on way as the time warp wives do..... A blogger I used to like was one of the people who was saying snidey things on her blog about this programme. The same blogger who is very good with words and giving the impression her life is very different to what it actually is. I've been reading long enough now to catch the lies out. Hers was one of the first blogs I read but as time has gone on I have caught her out many times with lies. To be a good liar you need a good memory. One main lie being she lives in a victorian cottage in a village. She has described the surroundings often and I have driven past her house before on the way to somewhere close by and she lives in a mid terrace house on a very busy main road in a town, so yes her house is victorian but it is not the cute higgeldy piggle tumbledown Enid Blyton style cottage her American readers think it is with a tree lined street surrounded by fields, (hence why she never shows photographs of the surroundings) Her partner cheated on her and then eventually left her for a different woman so maybe she is bitter about the ladies in this article? I don't know what her 'game' is but I was getting abit tired of the lies anyway and then her nastiness of these ladies got her an immediate unfollow from me.....
Whatever anyones thoughts, I am disabling comments for this post because I'm not having my blog turning into an open forum for spiteful 'wannabe vintage wives' comments, and this is the reason why I chose to post my thoughts on this programme on my own blog and not leave replies on the blogs in question as I wont be visiting them again anyway.....
Well, I have had my say and thats the end of it.....
I wish I looked like this when I was mixing my cocktails..... Dont you?.....
Who wouldn't want to drive around in a car like this or dress in this way, sure beats the a*** skimming skirts that look like belts, false boobs and nails, hair extensions and woman who look like they've been tangoed with their radio active false tans that we have to endure these days.....
Edit..... I now know from my Dad and his wife who frequently attend the 1940's events held around the country that 'Miss Lola Lamour' the lady in the first two pictures does indeed have a succesful singing career singing at these events.....
My dad said she is 'Fabulous!!!!' The TV show didnt show her singing which is a shame. There are lots of clips of Miss Lamour on the internet if you would like to see for yourself and there are details of her appearances on her myspace page.....
