Gypsy Creams

Housework? Fun?

Woman's Weekly / 20th March 1965

Good old Hoover: there for when the gloss of unending domestic drudgery finally wears off.

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Londis on 15 January 2011 @ 8pm

And women ‘joicing everywhere
For all the time it gives them spare!
A chore that’s shared is time that’s halved
And that’s good isn’t it women? Get a Hooverette plz, bye.


Kif on 27 February 2011 @ 1am

Eleven Guineas? Blimey, that was 2 weeks wages for a typist in 1965. About £400 in today’s prices. (conversion is secretary income wages based not price inflation based) – White goods were more expensive then than now, thus widening the class divide for a bit… I was shocked to (later) learn how many modest income families did not get many white goods items until the early 80s. We had most of this sort of stuff in the fifties and I was very niave as a kid, in assuming that everyone did…


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