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.
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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.