These people are in the decade-specific equivalent of Regency-land
Okay, okay, any of you who already saw this, probably said, I bet
oursin is spitting tacks over this, right? These people are absolutely the equivalent of that couple who decided to live cosplay their notion of the nostalgic Victorian lifestyle: I was tempted to get up a GoFundMe to pay for specially manufacturing period-correct arsenic-green wallpaper for their lovely home...
Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past': What is it like to live in a time machine? Five people explain why they made their home into the perfect replica of an earlier era'.
That is, the perfect replica without all the troubles that actual people living through those actual eras actually had.
Mr 1930s has no idea about the foodways of his period: 'Even the food was great - everything was homegrown back then': masses of woezing about people living out of tins and the loss of good home cooking and the crap food in shops: no, seriously, it was not all homegrown then, it was the decade of ribbon development, urban sprawl and THE DOLE. (Now, here is someone who has def not read his Orwell, right?) If I live by any 30s values in my life, I suppose it’s trying to have good manners: be polite, and nice to folk, and help them as much as you can.
He closes the door and he's in 1936, he says. The Abdication crisis. Fascism. Spanish Civil War. Battle of Cable Street. Good grief.
And 1940s lady would probably not have been able to dress up as she would wish in those lovely feminine styles back in the day: The ladies always got dressed up to go out back then - especially when they were in the Land Army, working in a munitions factory, in the ATS/WRENS/WRAF, or just doing her bit fire-watching etc. Even when the war was over, clothes rationing continued until 1949, so unless she had spiv friends able to help her out with coupons...
Also we suspect that far from loving the simplicity she would have been moaning about rationing like everybody else.
I am sure I have already perorated quite enough about the 1950s-retro craze. It is never about ripping up cinema seats with flick knives while rocking around the clock to Bill Haley or Elvis.
And Ms I love 70s style but not 70s values doesn't seem to know much about the period if she thinks the 70s were the epoch of Thatcherism!
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