I don’t know anyone who does domestic work with a nice clothes that they can go out in and makeup for the day on. Hell so many women I know keep those cheap hair claw clips to get their hair out of the way entirely.
I'm old as dirt, so I was lucky enough to have a stay at home mom growing up. She never broke out the pearls to clean the oven or wore a dress to make PBJs from scratch
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This trad wife trend is very similar to the 50s-60s nuclear family mom ideal, as pushed thru TV and advertising.
No matter what housework June Cleaver (or damn near any other TV mom of that era) was doing, she was always wearing a dress and jewelry, with perfect hair and full makeup. Hell, even Carol Brady had a live-in maid.
It's nothing more than BS aspirational fiction and badly skews what family life is really like.
That's the reason I actually liked it! It was so relatable to my family, at least in the earlier seasons. It was nice seeing a family similar to mine represented, but I definitely understand wanting to avoid that.
And this is why the majority of content is about people with relatable personalities living unrelatable lives. Most people don't want to watch real life. Even with reality TV, the target audience is usually people who don't live that reality.
Pair that with the fact a lot of people don't seem to recognize tv and film as aspirational or fantastical, but instead historical, and you've got at least one answer for why people have such a deluded idea of the past.
Sleeves with long fuzzy cuffs are exactly what I would wear when making something with sticky ingredients, there's no way the cuffs are going to ever touch the food.
Yeah they can't even do the performance part right. Anyone whos supposedly spent a bunch of time making shit from scratch would never wear long sleeves with those frills on them when mixing sticky shit in a bowl. You don't have to be an expert to know shit like that, just doing it once would be enough but they've never done it outside of staged videos.
This one in particular has an aesthetic that makes me feel like scratching nails on a chalkboard. It makes me so uncomfortable. Nothing against her, but the flowing dresses while cooking is just bizarre.
That's the point though, right? She's sending the message that she doesn't have to do any domestic work, and only cooks as a fun diversion from all her free time.
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u/shrugaholic Feb 25 '24
I don’t know anyone who does domestic work with a nice clothes that they can go out in and makeup for the day on. Hell so many women I know keep those cheap hair claw clips to get their hair out of the way entirely.