Happy New Year, everyone!

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Sunset magazine, May 1952, p 104.

Comments

[misstia]

oh i would LOVE to have one of those blankets!! why are blankets like that so hard to find nowadays????

Happy New Year!

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

http://www.sears.com:80/shc/s/p_10153_12605_09668543000P?prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1 ??

[misstia]

well it LOOKS like it, but it's polyester....i want the wool ones....the heavy ones....i know you can find them, but they are just incredibly expensive....like $150+ for a queen sized....

thanks for the link though! :)

it's just sort of sad that in the past 10+ years the quality of blankets has gone downhill....even electric blankets...you use to get good thick blankets when you got an electric blanket, now you basically get a sheet with electrical wires in it....i got a sunbeam electric blanket last year and that's what it basically was a sheet with wires...took it back the next day.....

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

ah well if I'd known ... mom has a couple of them when she moved and we goodwilled them :(

[misstia]

sometimes i've seen some at goodwill but they're usually twin size! it's just a shame they stopped making good quality blankets, ya know?

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Check with the Pendleton Mills outlet. They often have good deals on clearance, and you can't beat their quality.

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

Technological advance: Electric heated mattress pad. That's what I have (I have a medical condition which makes me feel really cold all the time) and it's far better than an electric blanket - pile as many good blankets, duvets, etc. as you like over yourself, the heat comes from underneath you and is conserved under your covers. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

The Hudson Bay Company still sells its classic blankies - these things are HOT - in the sense that they make you really hot at night. Very spendy, though.
http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/history/blanket/

If you ever see a good deal on ebay, you should nab it.

[misstia]

estate sales too....or thrift stores....it just sucks that basically as a whole manufacturers stopped making good quality blankets....

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I think the HBC company has kept up the standard, but prices for these blankets are something along the lines of 250-300 bucks.

[tsuki-no-hana.livejournal.com]

Get your mules off the bed, woman!

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

they really should have little puffy pompoms on them.

[misstia]

i think they HAVE pompoms on them....look closely....doesn't it look like they have pom poms on 'em??

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

hmm can't tell. can you?

[misstia]

looks like it to me....i mean, what's that ball on the top of her foot there? the foot hanging over the bed....and then on the foot on the bed...it looks like a pom pom there too....doesn't look like a natural part of the slipper at all, ya know?

[misstia]

i've circled, badly, in photoshop what i think are pom poms....

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

yay for pompomology!

[tsuki-no-hana.livejournal.com]

Can I just say you two are awesome for this in-depth analysis of shoe-floof?

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

awesome and/or insane.

[misstia]

awesomely insane? i do think it's an important point to suss out in the ad though....do the mules have pom poms?....i say yes......

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

can we have some bipartisan leadership on this issue please?

[tsuki-no-hana.livejournal.com]

Potato, po-tah-to.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year, Bitterlawngnome!

This ad is sooooo retro in its depiction of women as having so real life outside of getting married - it takes TIME to plan a trousseau - and if you don't need a job after marriage, you can just quit right now, lie on the bed and make shopping lists.

"Weddings and rice and everything nice" - oh, and apparently most women have the I.Q. of a five year old. Ahhh, the past...

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go to her wedding and throw Halcion instead of rice.

[charlotterhys.livejournal.com]

Well, they're not necessarily connected to getting married, but I know I love daydreaming about buying stuff for my very own house (one day). ._. I think it's just a fun thing to do to plan for that kind of thing.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

I just want the mules. men's 14, EEE, please.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I remember buying a multi-coloured set of pyrex bowls when I still lived at home for my future apartment - it was fun!

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

She'll be spending most of her time in that bed anyway.

Booooo-yah! :-D

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Bwah-ha! Ain't it the truth!

[misstia]

the pix is reminisce of doris day....

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

totally :)

[whoseline_wlsc]

oooh those are nice. I want them all! hehe

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

then you can build a fort under the dining room table.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Ha - my sister and I used to build a teepee by putting a blanket over the kitchen table and sitting inside.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

ours usually lasted until the cats climbed up it. on a good day, 10 minutes max.

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

That's why you put phone books on top of the blankets, silly!

Boys don't know how to build proper forts.

[whoseline_wlsc]

That actually sounds fun. hehe

Miss them

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

My Mother is searching for some. We had two, Yellow and Tan for decades at our home. They came from my grandparents. We had a green one we used at the Beach. Go figure?

[bradygirl_12]

I have a blue one and a green one, inherited from my parents. :)