{"id":28796,"date":"2010-11-16T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=28796"},"modified":"2013-12-02T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T04:23:26","slug":"vintage-advice-for-handy-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/16\/vintage-advice-for-handy-moms\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Advice for Handy Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren McGuire sent along a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/11\/02\/weird-1940s-advice-f.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a> link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitsch-slapped.com\/2010\/10\/because-theres-nothing-more-shameful-for-a-boy-than-looking-like-a-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> from a booklet called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitschy-kitschy-coo.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/just-ethels-luck\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hint Hunt<\/em><\/a> (1940s).\u00a0 It advises mothers to &#8220;inspire&#8221; their sons to tuck in their shirts by sewing (hideously embarrassing) lace along the bottom:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/tumblr_lasmmuwaiq1qbl0k8o1_400.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28797\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/tumblr_lasmmuwaiq1qbl0k8o1_400.jpg\" width=\"393\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/tumblr_lasmmuwaiq1qbl0k8o1_400.jpg 393w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/tumblr_lasmmuwaiq1qbl0k8o1_400-329x500.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren McGuire sent along a BoingBoing link to this page from a booklet called Hint Hunt (1940s).\u00a0 It advises mothers to &#8220;inspire&#8221; their sons to tuck in their shirts by sewing (hideously embarrassing) lace along the bottom: Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,55,2096,2087,23705],"class_list":["post-28796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28796"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59561,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28796\/revisions\/59561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}