![]() ![]() Nicholson stitches together some telling interviews to support this perception: the wife whose husband confiscated her pearl necklace until she ‘learned not to swear’, the mother who wept when her daughter called off her engagement since she had already purchased a set of wall-lights in anticipation. Imagining wives to be fulfilled by having an easy-to-clean Formica worktop and a twin-tub washing machine, husbands could be harsh taskmasters, most regarding running the home and parenting solely as a woman’s responsibility, expecting meals ready when they returned from work, making all the household decisions of consequence and largely continuing to inhabit a separate sphere of pubs and football. In many cases, a woman’s lot seems to have hardly improved by marriage. Just 1.2 per cent of women went to university in the 1950s. Many teachers and parents had narrow expectations for girls whose destiny was to be marriage, a home and a family, with work just an interim measure between leaving school and walking down the aisle, rather than a career. The 1944 Education Act was supposed to give everyone ‘parity of esteem’, but that is not how it worked out. Women might have had the vote on the same terms as men since 1929, but for most that was pretty well the limit of their equality: working women were paid much less than men and despite the responsibilities and sheer hard graft many had endured in wartime, were still regarded as submissive and inferior beings. But for both the future was to prove circumscribed. ![]() For many women they were years of frustration at wartime gains lost, whereas others nursed a profound desire to return to the certainties of their pre-war lives. Sandwiched between the privations and sacrifices of the 1940s and the affluent excesses of the ‘swinging sixties’, the fifties have long been regarded as a dull decade, when Britain was struggling to rebuild a devastated and shabby country and ‘face the future’, in the words of the Labour Party’s 1945 election slogan. Wiki Commons.įollowing her probes into the lives of women after the First World War and their roles in the Second, Virginia Nicholson moves forward into a decade that has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves. New Santa-themed clothes were added for the 2012/2013 Holidays.Image from The Ladies’ Home Journal, 1948.When VIP was introduced, VIP members could use HC colors along with new VIP colors. Some colors were available for HC members, when it was available in Habbo, identified by an "HC" icon over a special color.This is why for the shirt changer for women, there is no X button shown. In the Clothing changer, it shows that men can have their shirts off but women can't.Similar to this, changing clothes would be accessed in the 'Me' section of the Taskbar. In the past, clothes could be changed on the Habbo website, without having to enter the hotel.The "Suit" used to be considered a "Shirt" until the "Jackets" section was created in an update.Head Accessories Unisex Head Accessories įace Accessories Unisex Face Accessories Please refer to the Table Of Contents for quick access to a specific section of Clothing you want to see. Any Clothing under the Unisex category is for both genders to wear. Any Clothing under the Boy category is just for Boys. Any Clothing under the Girl category is just for girls. Under each clothing category is one of the following gender related categories: Girl, Boy, Unisex. Clicking "Change Looks" brings up a window in which they could customise their Habbo.īelow is a full list of Clothing options and looks. Players either click the "Me" icon (the very last one) on the Taskbar or click on their own Habbo to bring up an array of options. ![]() To change their Habbo's looks, players log into the client and enter a room, since changing clothes cannot be done on hotel view (although past versions allowed players to both change clothes on hotel view and on the website). Purchasing HC allows players to choose additional styles and colours. Throughout its history, there were very limited clothing styles and colours to choose from, but many updates saw the addition of more items. One of the notable features in Habbo is the ability to choose from many options of clothing, hairstyles, accessories, and colours to create a unique avatar. ![]()
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