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Must admit we didn't have one but she featured in quite a few of my mates homes usually the oriental one, seemed very exotic at the time and I was a little bit fascinated by them.
The house set for that couldn't be more 1970s if it tried.
Correct and one of my favourite plays.....I remember watching it when it was first transmitted.....long before everyone suddenly remembered it as a classic.
Anybody remember those thick brown tablecloths that looked like a blanket you could put on the bed,doilies lacey things on the arms and back of chairs
I'm not sure of the table cloths, the only memory of tablecloths I have is getting excited at christmas when we could put our plastic tablecloth with an imprinted picture of Santa on the table......I remember the doilies on the arms and back of chairs....looking back you have to wonder what it was all about.....they were forever slipping off anyway......and god help you if you got beetroot juice anywhere near them or Vimto for that matter.
The painting and decorating shops before we had diy stores,when looking for wallpaper you had to look through books of samples of wallpaper to choose from,or the stands where you flicked over for samples,decisions decisions suprising how long we would spend in them days in these shops!
Anybody remember those thick brown tablecloths that looked like a blanket you could put on the bed,doilies lacey things on the arms and back of chairs
Ah yes, the good old antimacassar. I always remember those in the homes of elderly great-aunts and grandparents. They were originally made to protect furniture fabric from hair oil that was popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Now they are mainly decorative when you see them used (albeit rarely) in homes.
The thick brown tablecloth is also something that my grandmother and great-aunts always had. The idea was that you put it under the white linen tablecloth and it protected the surface of polished or varnished real wood tables from the effects of hot dishes. A sadly forgotten invention and one I wish I could find as my dining table has a couple of marks on it where guests have not placed hot dishes on the table mats provided.
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