http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/2012/09/stockings-series-part-3-ads-from-the-archives-1890-1939/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com site Thu, 23 May 2013 04:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/2012/09/stockings-series-part-3-ads-from-the-archives-1890-1939/#comment-365 =Tamar Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:23:53 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/?p=604#comment-365 "Jane" and "Bridget" are servants. “Jane” and “Bridget” are servants.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/2012/09/stockings-series-part-3-ads-from-the-archives-1890-1939/#comment-128 Cactus Wren Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:53:20 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/?p=604#comment-128 I think it's interesting to note that in both the first and last ads reproduced here, "laundry" is presented not as something for *servants* to do: Father and Mother have "Jane", the Ivory Twins have "Bridget". And in the other ads there's an implication that the very delicacy of silk stockings requires that the lady of the house wash them herself, merely "dipping them into Ivory Soap suds", rather than entrust them to the clumsy paws of a mere servant. I think it’s interesting to note that in both the first and last ads reproduced here, “laundry” is presented not as something for *servants* to do: Father and Mother have “Jane”, the Ivory Twins have “Bridget”. And in the other ads there’s an implication that the very delicacy of silk stockings requires that the lady of the house wash them herself, merely “dipping them into Ivory Soap suds”, rather than entrust them to the clumsy paws of a mere servant.

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