What’s in your bottom drawer?
No doubt the lovely ladies of Portland that overran Father Donoghue’s’ alter in last week’s Trove Tuesday post, Whispering Wedding Bells, would each have had a range of items in their bottom drawers ready to take them through to life as a married woman.
Vesta of the “Women to Women” column from the The Argus, explained on September 10, 1913 the essential items for a girl’s “bottom drawer” or “glory box”. As you will see they must have been big drawers!
WOMEN TO WOMEN. (1913, September 10). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1956), p. 5. Retrieved March 19, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7243175
I couldn’t resist sharing these fashions from the same page:
March 21st, 2013 at 11:33 pm
Great post!!! … In my day (the mid 1960′s) it was called a “Glory Box” or a “Hope Chest” and I remember being given a few items to “tuck away” way before then… at the age of 13!!!
April 12th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Thanks Catherine. My Nana and Great Aunt would always say to me to put things in my Hope Chest and then have a good old laugh. Maybe they knew then that I would never get married.