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ashnistrike ([personal profile] ashnistrike) wrote2014-08-29 08:41 am
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Cultural shifts

Okay, it's time to do a pass for smoking, and for the minefield that is women's choices of hats (or no hats) in 1949.

Does anyone know:

...whether smoking would have been permitted in a library--in this case an ivy league academic library?

...in bookstores?

My instinct is what the hell are you thinking, but I can only just remember what it was like to have everyone smoking inside in the first place?  (It sucked, that's what I remember.  But people mostly got used to it.)
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[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2014-08-29 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Leaf through the Google Books archive of Life? Ads and fashion features for aspirational hats, news for the hats of the wealthy and powerful, alongside shots of more ordinary gatherings?

[identity profile] ashnistrike.livejournal.com 2014-08-29 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, that's a good thought.

Alas, good visual references don't entirely help me pick the exact hat for the exceedingly careful social dances some of these characters are stuck with. Oh well, that's what artistic choice is for. And socially sensitive beta readers.