Pamela, I don't know if anyone found this link yet... I try to take the weekends off from the hive and the thread REALLY blew up, so I'm behind. I found this, though:
You can see her picture at the link, she's at the end of the article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1042702/Time-Warp-Wives-Meet-women-really-live-past.html
Diane Rowlands, 38, works parttime in a customer service centre. She lives with Martin, who is 40 and works in a warehouse. Diane says:
My love for the Thirties started with the music. As a teenager, I loved to listen to the big band sound and I would sit entranced for hours watching films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They were so glamorous.
Back then, the world just seemed a sunnier place, even though it was an austere time between the wars.
Diane Rowlands: 'Ideally, I’d spend all day in my pinny'
Women were these amazingly glamorous creatures, with their perfect hair and immaculate makeup, and they were treated with such respect by men.
Men and women knew their roles in society and there wasn't all this pressure on women to have to go out to work and try to be equal to men.
I do work part-time, but only because we need the money. However, we still have clearly defined roles in the home and I am the one who does most of the cooking and cleaning.
I adore baking cakes and if I had my way I would spend all of my days in my pinny, making my house look immaculate.
Martin and I spend hours sourcing clothes from the 1930s and I am always dressed in period costume.
I usually spend around £50 to £150 per item. I buy them from the internet and vintage clothing specialists, and I have wardrobes full of wonderful old clothes and items such as cloche hats and Mary-Jane shoes with T-bar straps.
At first I was a bit dubious about going out dressed in Thirties clothing, but I am totally used to it now.
Anyone for tea? Diane spends hours on the internet sourcing items for her 1930s lifestyle
Comments from strangers can be pretty *****y, though, because people just don't like anything that's out of the ordinary.
The Thirties was a much more moral time and there was a real camaraderie between people.
I try to escape from where we are now and rarely read newspapers because I find today's world so depressing.
The pace of life today is so hectic and I think there is so much pressure on women to be like men. It is all wrong.
I love to wear dresses and skirts, look immaculate and be treated like a lady. My home is entirely decorated with 1930s furniture, wallpaper, carpets and ornaments.
Retreating to this world is our sanctuary.
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Oh, and dh doubled my score... of course, I let him streeeeeetch the truth on some things (does he pick up his socks? sure, once in a blue moon, go ahead and check it honey)...