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Cringeworthy Dating Article From 1958 Gives Tips For Women “How To Get A Husband”

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Plaintree · 18/11/2018 19:49

www.fempositive.com/cringeworthy-dating-article-from-1958-gives-tips-for-women-how-to-get-a-husband/

Which ones are your favourites?

I love no. 30. Learn to paint. Set up easel outside engineering school. 😂

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formerbabe · 18/11/2018 19:57

I love it especially be nice to ugly men and be friends with attractive girls in case they have leftovers Grin

Hilarious! On a serious note, if women couldn't get a bank account or buy a house on their own then it was really bloody important to get married.

formerbabe · 18/11/2018 19:58

By the way I used to do number 38 in the noughties Blush

marvellousnightforamooncup · 18/11/2018 20:14

I'm a girl of the 90s. Get shitfaced worked for us.

Milliepede · 18/11/2018 20:24

" Double date with a gay, happily married couple.." Today that means something completely different!

Plaintree · 18/11/2018 23:03
Grin
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TomPinch · 19/11/2018 05:56

I think #38 is Bend and Snap, old style.

Flashingbeacon · 19/11/2018 06:04

What is a Phi Beta Kappa key?!

Don’t work for a company run by women, priorities eh?

I would would definitely have stayed on the vine.

BedHair · 19/11/2018 06:09

But that’s tongue in cheek! Surely no one is taking seriously the injunction to look up obituaries to find widowers, or to paint your name and phone number on a roof to get pilots to ask you out???

StealthPolarBear · 19/11/2018 06:10

Millipede I was thinking how modern they were with that one. I get it now.

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