From True Story magazine - the only place where under educated girls could get a (mostly) True Story, we have this shock two page spread by "Esther Foley", True Stories Home Editor.From the looks of the pictures, Esther is visiting a back alley Dinette Shop, filled with dismal additions to your mother's kitchen, all photographed in that bad lighting.
As you can tell, Esther, here at right is not amused. She prefers the large old clunky formica and wide banded chrome sets. She doesn't care for these modern sets.
And by the text, she thinks that they are flimsy.
Here are the full pages:
The Mistress shares Esther's disdain for these "modern" dinette sets and prefers the large old clunky formica and wide banded chrome sets.
ReplyDeleteI have a lovely red formica table. Esther would approve. And at one time I had a yellow formica table.
We had a read set in our old kitchen in Columbus. Got it for free from a woman who was throwing it out. came with leaves and could seat eight.
DeleteGrandmother Muscato firmly believed (and the great majority of her beliefs were very firm indeed) that anything that ended in "ette" was vulgar, from cigarettes to majorettes. Dinettes were as beyond the pale as kitchenettes - and I can't imagine how she would have responded had she ever been queried about Ronettes or, God help us, Ikettes. Some things were just better not mentioned in her company.
ReplyDeleteMy mother felt the same about Ronco and K-Tel products by saying "If they were any good they would sell them in stores." Then in her dotage, she found in an Odd Lots (What Big Lots was called in Central Ohio) something called the Ronco "Rotato", which was a rotary peeler. She loved it and never cursed its crappy construction. Go figure.
DeleteMs. Foley is not pleased. True story.
ReplyDeleteShe is beyond not pleased, she is "dismayed, to the very marrow of her being."
Deletebut if esther got plowed atop one of those, clean-up would be a breeze.
ReplyDeleteEsther is a career gal. Marital relations is not in her past, and not in her future.
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