Happy Friday! Let’s share another laugh and a look back at one of my favorite findings from my vast library of vintage resources. Each week, I’ll post amusing advertisements, articles or advice, spanning the topics of domestic arts, fashion, beauty and more. If it’s weird, witty or wacky, you’ll see it here.
This is another piece of advice from Dressmaking Made Easy by Mary Brooks Picken. Mary devoted an entire page in her book to backseat etiquette. She suggests practicing getting in and out of a car a half dozen times. Between work, travel, running errands, and getting the kids to school I think that I get in more than my fair share of daily practice!
Do you get out of your car backwards, or get in with a jack-knife bend at the waist that makes you stick straight out behind? For charm’s sake, let’s hope not. One can appear very old just in the way one gets into and out of a car.
Check back for more quirky quotes and images each week (and find more of these timeworn tips in my book Vintage Notions)!
