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Should wearing red nail polish be worse for a girl than being able to play the French horn?
Since you're asking, allow me to show you this little vintage curiosity, a "Marital Rating Scale-- Wife's Chart" published in 1939 by a doctor at Northwestern (one George W. Crane, M.D., PhD).
For my part, I think that not only my husband but the entire apartment building would happily vote for Jungle Red fingernails on me over my waking everyone up as I bang around trying to "dress for breakfast." (Exactly what is required here, pearls, sweater set, heels over two inches?)
1939 produced a lot of quite interesting things, however, so we can forgive the year that produced this little rating scale for also giving us: Vivian Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara (a woman unlikely to let her husband sleep late), Claire Trevor in Stagecoach (her seams would be straight, but then again she's a prostitiute), Garbo laughing in Ninotchka (although it takes her a while in Paris for her jolly personality to appear), and The Wizard of Oz.
About the personality that created the little quiz (which incidentally, I found mentioned on Slate's XX Factor blog), I can only say perhaps he would have been better off with a cat (no cold feet under the covers, unlikely to go to bed with cold cream on the face, great at conversation) than a wife.
posted by Elise at 5:50 AM
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