do americans not wear pashminas?

[DJCod]

cos on that scarf thread all teh weblinks mention " eiropean " scarves

alos why on american kids sitcoms do all the hosues haev glass panels at the side of fornt door then odd kind of elasticated nets over them

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no - you have a long rectangular window same length as door - would be beside door, just for decorative purpose, often covered with ugly net

like this

are all over canada, but nets have gone mostly i would say

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horrendous link sorry

Pashimas were big over here (Oregon) maybe 5, 6 years ago. Maybe longer than that. DH's aunt got one because she saw them on Oprah. It seemed to be a trend that only lasted a season. Now they are nowhere to be seen in stores, and Amazon is selling them for about 80% off.

And couldn't agree more with the post Expat wrote about the door thing. Ugly doors, but when you live somewhere hot, you open the house up every morning and evening to let the cool air in, and hopefully not the bugs. Opening the windows makes a good breeze, but you could always make a better one if you opened the doors, also.

My windows always had screens on them, too.

Which are BRILL in Denver where it tends to cool down in the evening except in the very hottest of months. You open the windows and enjoy the breeze without the bugs. Saves on bills, too, not having to use the A/C so much.

We had a nice ceiling fan in the living room, too.

A lot of places there do have mosquitos and biting flies which are no fun when they get in your house.

In the South, there are also big cockroaches, ants and other unpleasant beasties.

I have never, ever lived in a place that hasn't had screens on the windows. I think I once knew someone who didn't, but they lived in an apartment in a very old section of downtown. (For here that would be a building built in the early 1900's) that hadn't been very well updated. We don't have that many creepy crawly bugs here, but can't imagine not having something to protect you from the bugs, especially the mosquitoes.

My American friends are always staggered that we don't have them here. One of them is coming to stay next month and I HOPE she won't be appalled.

i don't understand why they don't have them here, tbh, with midges, mosquitos, flies and wasps.

especially because you've got the weather for it here - it's not TOO hot.

It never occurred to me that people didn't have them on their windows. I find the concept strange, tbh. Why would you want bugs flying all over your house?

Another big thing here is cottonwood trees. It is almost white as snow around here when they bloom and release their white puffy things into the air. I can only imagine what it would be like to have a house full of that.

I mean Pashminas in my first post. No idea where that other word came from, other than I was one handed typing while eating lunch.

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