Handkerchiefs Are Like Reputations – Vogue 1922
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“Handkerchiefs and reputations are exceedingly easy to lose. Both are lost in about equal numbers daily. All the reputations lost are very good ones – and the more irretrievably lost they are, the better they were. The handkerchiefs lost should be better. Imagine a lady saying, ‘My reputation is gone, but I don’t care. It wasn’t any good’. Yet that is exactly the attitude she takes toward a lost handkerchief.’”
5 comments
Ha ha, I love that. Don’t you wish everybody still carried handkerchiefs?
This is the reason why I wish I lived in another time. Amazing!
that is so funny!
so what does this mean now? since we don’t bother to carry around hankies, do we not have to bother about our reputations anymore?
Market – No kidding. But it does seem to be that way doesn’t it? But I’m sure that women in the 20s were probably like us today – to hell with reputations!
Miss Karen – Me too. Little things had meaning. We are so far gone from these simple times.
Rhiannon – yes! I just saw Pride & Prejudice again a few days ago, and I love how all the sisters get giddy when Wickham picks up Lizzie’s handkerchief!
Excellent. This is inspriring my to carry a delicate embroidered thing, instead of the wadded up ball of kleenex in my pocket!
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