This woman lives every day like it’s 1958

When Blacks knew their place.

I meant Coloreds.

Those rockabilly people have been doing that for years.

Dumb bitch. Guess she knows her place is in the kitchen

I knew some SJW would have to chime in about race. How tiresome.

If you look like this, then yes!

They're living the good life. Her husband needs to shave that beard, though.

I'm not a fan of the decor but I love her wardrobe, hair and make-up.

I feel bad for the black people in her life.

R5 are we supposed to ignore what life was like then for your white fragility and comfort?

R6 he died in 1955. This is 3 years later.

She looks great in that style, and the house does look like a real middle class home from the era, not something styled to be an overly "tasteful" recreation of the era. My only question - do they have air conditioning? While window units were first available in 1945 they were obviously expensive new technology; I don't think the kind of person who owned that house in the era could afford AC until the mid to late 60's.

She looks great and the decor is spot-on. She just needs to be careful that her son doesn't end up becoming Norman Bates.

What’s wrong with SJWs? Do we hate Martin Luther King now?

R10 - A) this is just some fun woman and her personal style, the reality of race relations in this country at that time really has noting to do with how she decorates her living room ; B) if you watch the video it seems her grandparents may have been in a mixed race marriage back then; her grandmother could be black or latino; grandfather looks like a white guy.

Can we put this in the things that are acceptable that are really mental illnesses thread?

It must be wonderful to pass through life without having to grapple with nuance, r1

Oh my god! She likes the aesthetic because of nostalgia created by her grandparents whom she loved, not because she’s burning crosses and committing lynchings on the weekends. Fuck, some of you are exhausting. Maybe try to spend two minutes without looking at everything through a Twitter cancellation lens, you fucking losers.

This woman in the UK does the same thing, and I like her house better. Great kitchen.

She seems harmless, if not a bit ditzy. Does the husband work in aerospace?

it takes money to live a vintage lifestyle.

not ungodly, fuck-you money but you can't be poor and try to live that way.

other than that, whatever makes ya happy, toots!

R14 because he was so free and lived an amazing life? Please.

Why I dress as a Regency gentleman... everyday of my life - BBC News

R23, he's a dandy bottom.

Is this the kind of food she's serving?

Their son is gaaaaay.

I want to know where that soda fountain was they were at. That sundae looked really good.

Cedar City Utah!

Too bad her husband doesn't play his part. He's the one who seems more "off" to me.

R19: That's Lucy Worsley, TV presenter and historian. She doesn't mimic the past as part of her life like the other woman. She re-creates it for her TV documentaries.

50s guys would make great lovers.

R31, greasers for a raw fuck, yes.

Suit-and-tie tract home worker bees -- probably quite a bit of repressed sexual frustration there, especially if gay.

ATTENTION SEEKERS!!!!!!!!!! IGNORE THEM!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if she and her husband sleep in twin beds in the same room, or whether they have their own Fred and Ethel living next door.

I don’t support racism.

Here goes the real catch, these white gays are speaking against “SJWs” failing to realize they wouldn’t have Full rights and would be treated like shit if not for those SJWs

In 1958 you were put in a mental institution or worse.

[quote]Can we put this in the things that are acceptable that are really mental illnesses thread?

So it’s mental illness because she likes to dress and decorate her home in a certain way, even though she’s not harming anyone?🙄

Considering the real world that we live in is fucked beyond belief and depressing as hell, I’m all for people living in their own little world to make themselves a bit happier.

R37, it's attention seeking when she goes out in public but you knew that.

r37, it has nothing to do with your "harming" excuse. These are exactly the people who do stunts or lame attention seeking IG or TT.

R38 So what? There’s attention whores everywhere. At least hers is interesting.

[Quote] There’s attention whores everywhere. At least hers is interesting.

Yes and we don't need more. It's not that interesting but again you knew that.

I love men’s suits of that era. Perfection.

That video just made me smile and melted my heart a bit. She seems great. Like someone said, it takes money to live that lifestyle. That beautiful vintage car, nice home, loving family. She's doing something right. It's not like she's just some kooky lady. I like the message to be your authentic self.

R39/R41 You seem triggered...yet you keep giving her attention by discussing her.🤨

She’s enjoying it and I enjoyed looking at her house and clothes. Thanks, OP.

[quote]This woman lives every day like it’s 1958

Is this anything like partying like it's 1999?

Well, Utah is the perfect place to do this. I'm sure most of the Mormon families would prefer that it was 1958 again.

I kind of wouldn’t mind seeing her gang raped by a group of East Indians.

"Why can't people just be like everyone else?" --R38.

R48, you're sick. F&F.

I'm sorry, in what 1958 would someone have a plastic storage unit on wheels like the one visible in the video preview at top?

[quote] Too bad her husband doesn't play his part.

R29, agreed. That scraggly, unkempt beard absolutely must go if he's really trying to play the Ward Cleaver role for authenticity's sake.

I also saw a hint of a ponytail on him in the bit of the video I watched, R51.

Nothing wrong with living like it's 1998!

Gotta JUMP, JIVE 'N WAIL!

Didn’t watch. Is her heaven the husband’s hell?

OP, every vintage store in NY has women like that. Imagine your life revolving around wearing a costume everyday. I don’t admire that.

I’ve noticed that it’s mostly white suburbanite hipsters who participate in these 50s revival subcultures.

R30, the show is hosted by Lucy Worsley, but the clip goes to 47 minutes into the show, where she visits a British woman named Joann Massey, who lives like a 1950s woman.

R56, depends. Guys and gals into the greaser scene tend to be more working-class -- there were some at my high school 20 years ago! There are some motorcycle gangs who emulate that style still around.

Does she let her husband close her big yap for her when he's heard enough?

That was pretty big in 1958!

1958 bush.

What’s funny is that she is 100% committed but her husband is barely trying. His grooming would be considered atrocious in the 50s and she would have been ostracized by her peers for being married to such a filthy vagrant.

Ah, I see. Thanks R57. I'm feeling too lazy to watch a 58 minute video.

People who are into these reenactments have A LOT of free time.

R7 Indeed. The beard is absolutely theantithesis of 1950s suburban male style. It was not a decade for excessive facial hair. If he's going to go all in, he needs to do it properly.

1958: The worst post-WWII recession up to that point; the first full year of the Edsel (introduced as a '58 late fall of '57). Some of the ugliest cars imaginable from other makers---the last packard (really a Studebaker with ugly add-ons), the chrome riddled Olds and Buicks.

[quote] I also saw a hint of a ponytail on him in the bit of the video I watched, [R51].

A ponytail on a suburban man in the '50s? Inexcusable.

No grindr then 😭

There’s a woman at work who does her hair and makeup in 50s styles almost every day. Never a hair out of place and it looks like it must take hours, but she says she has been doing it for so long now that it is almost second nature. She looks simply fabulous.

Love this. Thanks, OP.

She is SO 1958.

Kevin Spacey's is vaseline-y and distressed.

Wrong thread!

I live every day like it's 1958. I wear a girdle a crinoline. And I hate myself for being gay.

Is she a true homemaker, or does she also have a career? That would clash.

[quote] I’ve noticed that it’s mostly white suburbanite hipsters who participate in these 50s revival subcultures.

Straight ones.

Fake news! Her kitchen mixer is NOT vintage.

The husband and wife don't seem to match. It looks like she went to the local homeless shelter and picked out the first guy who could string a sentence together.

"Hey bub, I'll take ya home with me if you put up with my 1958 fetish."

She is morbidly obese by 1950s standards and in 1958 her scraggly bearded husband would have been considered eccentric at best or (more likely) a hobo.

I subscribe to her YouTube channel. Laci Fay is a sweet gal. Here’s a full house tour.

She had a black grandmother which she is trying to erase by living as "white" as possible. Gurl's got issues.

Hate her hair, love their car. Things weren't all bad in 1958 -- Buddy Holly was still alive.

Her grandma looks white to me

Laci is a supporter of BLM

Why 1958? and not 55?

I love this woman - she needs a tv show

I'm her biggest fan!!!

It's sort of cute but sort of stupid too. I wonder if she uses belted sanitary napkins.

I have no issues with people and their cosplay. Do whatever makes you feel good. However, it seems to me that she's doing the TV/Movie version of the 50s and not at all what the 50s was really like.

I wonder if she killed any blacks or gays

R88, read R82.

Most people were living like the Kramdens not the Cleavers.

What tv does she have? No blurays, streaming, internet? I'd like to go to the Y.

She lives every day like it’s an entire year?

I know someone obsessed with the 1950s. He wishes he were born and grew up in the 50s. Says he was born in the wrong era.

In 1958 that hair color and makeup was PROSTITUTE.

Fraus striving towards the wholesome usually go the Disney route, so in many ways, I actually consider this multiple steps up.

[quote]She lives every day like it’s an entire year?

And do you know how hard that is? Cramming 365 days into 24 hours? It's exhausting!

How did this get turned into a race thing? And how did the Trump troll miss this thread?

Buggery.

I'd like to fuck the husband with Crisco.

R85 MAD TV was the best, lol.

R97 = Laci Fay

Of course people stare when shes out and about. How many bitches these days even bother to do their hair or put on makeup ? Much less wear a dress . I think shes delightful . Ive always said if a young lady dressed and comported herself like this theyd have more men chasing them than the biggest slut going. men fuck sluts,but they marry nice girls. That being said,it astonishes me how so many of you can take a perfectly lovely and innocuous story like this and just drip venom all over it . I know DL is sorta known for that but damn,give it a fucking break sometimes!

[quote] She is morbidly obese by 1950s standards

I don't believe this is true. Women were a bit more, ahem, shapely in the '50s, with curves and boobs, etc. Look at Marilyn. This was pre-Twiggy, who I think changed beauty and sex appeal standards in the sixties.

[quote]That being said,it astonishes me how so many of you can take a perfectly lovely and innocuous story like this and just drip venom all over it

This is not a lovely and innocuous story. The woman has mental issues. It's not like this is her hobby that she does on weekends. She lives this way 24/7. Social Services should kick her door down and take her poor son away. She should be in a mental hospital, not inflicting her delusions of grandeur on society.

Marilyn Monroe wore size 14 dresses, so people are shocked to learn she averaged 120 pounds with a 25 - 27 inch waist. Modern day vanity sizing would put her at a size 6 - 8.

Also, sewing pattern companies who cater to the cosplayer market have had to alter their retro design reproductions to fit the “modern American woman.” Anyone who has worked at a vintage clothing store in the past few decades probably knows the terror of the tattooed female customer with a side-cut shopping for a “rockabilly“ dress.

They could do a gay version with a guy who lives every day like it's 1979.

I actually dressed like this in 11th grade. Well, the male version. I wore vintage cardigan sweaters, and rolled up jeans with penny loafers

R105, don't lie -- you wore bobby socks and poodle skirts.

You would never have been allowed to wear jeans to school in the 1950s, R105. My father, who was in high school during that time, told me stories. It was a nice buttoned-down shirt with trousers for the boys, and a blouse and skirt or dress for girls.

The word trousers is dreadful

I love decor from the 50s 60s and 70s but vintage is way too expensive for my budget.

Nevertheless, it was what they called them, R108. My dad sometimes refers to jeans as dungarees.

R105 was it in the early 80s? I remember a few boys dressing like Danny Zuko after Grease came out, but most gaylings were preppies (also a 50s-inspired look, come to think of it, albeit suburban dad instead of juvenile delinquent.)

[quote]They could do a gay version with a guy who lives every day like it's 1979.

And the guy would pretend to be the AGE he was in 1979. They could call it "Datalounge".

[quote]Marilyn Monroe wore size 14 dresses, so people are shocked to learn she averaged 120 pounds with a 25 - 27 inch waist. Modern day vanity sizing would put her at a size 6 - 8.

Yes, women's dress sizes were reconfigured When people hear Marilyn was a 14, they think she was a fatty, but it was just a different sizing.

Does she vacuum in her dress and high heels?

R114 Legend goes that the fresh asphalt at Disneyland on opening day was a glue-trap for 50s housewives.

Until the gal who lives each day for 1957 runs out of calendar time, and then murders and assumes the identity of Miss 1958.

She reminds me of Flo, the Progressive Insurance girl.

[quote]Marilyn Monroe wore size 14 dresses, so people are shocked to learn she averaged 120 pounds with a 25 - 27 inch waist. Modern day vanity sizing would put her at a size 6 - 8.

Have you ever seen her costumes or clothing up close? Her waist was a 22-24.

I wonder if the husband is well acquainted with back alley bars...

[quote]Those rockabilly people have been doing that for years.

True, and I find the whole vintage lifestyle rockabilly thing to be creepy. I was briefly friends with a woman who I gave my grandmother's 1930s art nouveau necklace to, because she dressed in 1930s and 1940s vintage wear, then about a year later discovered she and her husband had gotten banned from a bunch of vintage forums because they were literal Nazis. They collected bootleg Nazi paraphernalia and had tried to recruit people into an anti-Jewish group they'd become part of.

While reading the threads about what they had done, I ran across a dozen men who said they refused to let their wives use modern appliances because "there were no washing machines in the 1940s," they had to use those old style ringers and a tub. They'd say that about all sorts of appliances. Meanwhile, they were typin' on the ol' Internet.

No sign of anyone on those boards who wasn't white and straight and rightwing. So, so creepy.

[quote]I like the message to be your authentic self.

How is emulating the very basics of a 1958 aesthetic being your authentic self?

R121 As far as I know, being your authentic self means living your life in a way that makes you happy; it has nothing to do with being original.

Why don’t you share with us what you do that is so original?

She seems harmless. The husband is too scraggly.

UT does make sense for this. It's also southern Utah and I notice Las Vegas is 2.5 hours down the road.

At least the beard hides part of his face.

You considered too soon, R94.

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I like him better without the beard.

Hes way better looking without that scraggly beard !

She made him grow that awful beard so he would be less appealing to the "boys" that hang around their yard. With such an interest in 1950s, I'm sure she saw "Far From Heaven" and knows what fantasies lurk in the minds of married men.

She's got the hair down really well. It's a lot harder than it looks to style it correctly but she does, and I loved the cheerful vintage kitchen - though I noticed that was a very modern Kitchen-Aid mixer she was using with appliances - that is easily a $600 expenditure right there, so she's making some modern concessions to her aesthetic.

There's nothing wrong with what they're doing and she has a good eye for midcentury stuff, but it's in no way "unconventional." Tons of people on Instagram do the exact same thing.

Her makeup is too heavy.

Why a 50’s fetish? Why not another decade? I like the ‘30s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and early ‘90s.

[quote]Why a 50’s fetish?

I think in the video, she says it's a time that reminds her of her grandparents. Simple case of transference: she's transferred the love of her grandparents onto the era in which they lived.

Rolls eyes at R9. I mean really rolls eyes. So edgy.

[quote] This woman lives every day like it’s 1958

Shouldn't she be in her bomb shelter? The Russians are coming!!!

Oh fuck off, R38, you boring twat.

How does she dress in winter?

Did I see my mother's multicolor pyrex bowls in her breakfront? That's for good china and silver, not kitchen utility stuff. And the grandfather's clock against an atomic curtain? She may be a charming person but she's basically warehousing a bunch of vintage shit and is not recreating period rooms authentically. Also, women wore dungarees at home and their hair was in pincurls under a scarf during the day. Women did not dress like June Cleaver until their husbands came home. But if this amuses her, fine.

50s Europe was not so bad:

Here’s another one for your perusal- a British man who lives in the 1940s. He’s got a partner....who is a woman! (to my great surprise).

Buggered up the link, here it is

So does the GOP.

To take you’re own nit-picking to the nth degree would an decent woman ever DREAM of appearing on “film” in pin curls and dungarees?!?

My heavens!! That’s just not done!

Thanks, R139. He was interesting.

What kind of movies and shows does she watch? Does she only watch 50’s stuff and listen to 50’s music? Does she have a flat screen television that pops up behind the old fashioned one she has?

let's see her phone...

Here you go.