Are you vexed by the “colour question”? Interested in atomic power in the home? Want to know what garlic looks like? Have no fear. Newnes Home Management is two volumes with over 1400 pages of homemaking tips for the 1950s British family. Making a mock Christmas cake, furnishing on a shoestring, making your own eiderdown and raising gay potplants will never again be a chore, you can be guaranteed that Newnes Home Management has the answer.
The war was over and the look was Modern. The future beckoned – readers could barely imagine the home of tomorrow:
The future would be a time of pixies, magic wands, polyester curtains and nobbly knees, so the 1950s was a time to prepare for the coming of these aliens. And for that you need a background for adventurous living:
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Gay surprises in unexpected corners, eh?
By: Frogdancer on May 16, 2009
at 2:53 pm
You know I don’t remember those outfits in the 1980s….but then again he does look as though he is wearing the right sized shoulder pads.
By: Widget on May 16, 2009
at 7:12 pm