The Bizarre Sleep Rituals of Rich 1950s Housewives | History for Sleep

🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Y87hNY... Tonight, fall asleep to a calm history narration about one snowy January night in Greenwich, Connecticut, in nineteen fifty-seven, from the moment a black Cadillac turns into the driveway after a country club dance until the milkman's bottles clink on the back step at four in the morning. You will discover why so many well-to-do married couples slept in two matching twin beds, why a rolled-up note waited inside an empty milk bottle, and why a woman with a cook, a nursemaid and a laundress still spent an hour on strange little rituals before she could lie down. You'll unzip an emerald taffeta gown and step out of a crinoline petticoat that stands up by itself, unhook a merry widow, and rinse seamed nylons in a pink bathroom. Then the dressing table: cold cream and the tissues first sold to take it off, hand cream and white cotton gloves worn all night, pin curls set with bobby pins under a quilted satin cap, Thursday at the beauty parlor under the hood dryers, red nails touched up for a morning photograph, Vaseline on the lashes, little paper patches on the forehead and a chin strap. Memories of the dinner dance, with shrimp cocktail, baked Alaska and the last waltz, a dress from Fifth Avenue, the children asleep under their night-light, a husband's dressing room, an electric blanket with two dials, a bed jacket, a novel and a date book, the radio turned very low, and a quiet house settling into the snow. #historyforsleep #1950s #sleephistory #bedtimestories #vintage #1950samerica