There are so many great things about this picture: The wife's "well now..." one-finger-on-the- cheek expression is one-upped by the husband smoking a pipe while washing dishes. One nice thing is that this gives pictorial evidence that, contrary to not-very-credible memes, the role of a housewife in the 50's was not necessarily expected to be one of a lobotomized worker-droid.
My hubby looked at that and said "he's just showing her how to do it properly, otherwise it's 5 across the eyes!"
nice.
Posted by: Instant Vintage Anna | January 11, 2007 at 06:51 PM
Most husbands help, but not all. Those husbands are called "ex."
Posted by: Celia Pleete | June 19, 2008 at 01:29 PM