tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post8898344414415315622..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: POWDER - AND A PICTURESQUE PASSION by Penny DolanMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-17167453463681694842014-10-17T11:45:37.110+01:002014-10-17T11:45:37.110+01:00i loved this post! Like Ann, I'd always assume...i loved this post! Like Ann, I'd always assumed 'Powder Room' was a later coinage, and referred to the use of powder compacts (such elegant objects). In researching my novel Variable Stars, which is set in the 1780s, I did come across the fad for hair-powder, which could vary in colour, from white to pink and yellow (Fanny Burney's Cecelia mentions this craze for coloured powders)... Thanks for adding to my knowledge of this fascinating time - and of these two pioneering ladies. Christina Koninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10275312730534980490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-7541780323216324772014-10-17T11:21:19.599+01:002014-10-17T11:21:19.599+01:00What an amazing story! And I didn't know about...What an amazing story! And I didn't know about powder rooms either. Of course I knew the term was used as a euphemism for a toilet or lavatory (also both euphemisms - what should it really be?) but in my youth 'powder room' implied that ladies popped in there to powder their noses. For some reason, powdering your nose used to be a vital activity that you had to perform several times a day to avoid shine! Women always carried a powder compact. It seemed such a normal thing to do in the 1950s and 60s and now seems very strange indeed.Ann Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484265041343702129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-63073462193342271102014-10-17T09:10:50.255+01:002014-10-17T09:10:50.255+01:00This is new information for me. All courage to the...This is new information for me. All courage to the girls for running off and eloping. Lovely stuff, thank you, Penny. I didn't know about such powder rooms before either.<br />Carol Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05837854482139736944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-65809205475843713992014-10-17T08:55:14.717+01:002014-10-17T08:55:14.717+01:00Have never been to Plas Newydd - love the tale of ...Have never been to Plas Newydd - love the tale of the Ladies of Llangollen! And didn't know about powder rooms before, either; thanks, Penny!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.com