Wife of the 60's (50's?)

[Fantasies_only]

That's what is so difficult about historical settings - there is a lot of research involved. This is even more so when the period is recent enough to be within the living memory of a goodly portion of your readers, but not of yourself.

Remember "The past is a foreign land; they do things differently there".

Sometimes the future can also be hard if you want it more realistic than fictional.
What I mean is the kind of progression technology will evolve into, including things you wouldn't normally think of, which non erotic movie writers often succede at.

"I'm afraid I can't allow that Dave."
Where would robot sex be without that line?

 

[4F_Woman]

I'm thinking of my mother in the early sixties - they had coffee clutches where the neightborhood women gathered at one another's homes to just sit and chat.

My mother could drive so she did the grocery shopping in the evenings when my father was home. Of coarse the children went with her. Wouldn't want to leave them home to bother Dad.

Also no dryers. Not sure when dryers came in. During rainy weather clothes were dried on a clothes horse by the heater or the oven. Diapers were of coarse cloth.

During the winter my mother talked about hanging the laundry outside to freeze dry. She said you had to be very careful with things like sheets as they tore easily when frozen.

 

[Fantasies_only]

I'm thinking of my mother in the early sixties - they had coffee clutches where the neightborhood women gathered at one another's homes to just sit and chat.

My mother could drive so she did the grocery shopping in the evenings when my father was home. Of coarse the children went with her. Wouldn't want to leave them home to bother Dad.

Also no dryers. Not sure when dryers came in. During rainy weather clothes were dried on a clothes horse by the heater or the oven. Diapers were of coarse cloth.

During the winter my mother talked about hanging the laundry outside to freeze dry. She said you had to be very careful with things like sheets as they tore easily when frozen.

Modern technology started around the 30s.
Sears was still with Roebuck, and the Sharper Image-like catalog was more like a phone book.

"Sear and Roebuck" was the Hammacher Schlemmer of its time (public use in the 30s, private use dates back to the Pony Express in the 1800s).
The hair dryer (bulky industrial size) was just one of the inventions that came out of it.

The most popular was the breast growth pump and the breast suction in the 1950s.

By the way, AT&T was still Ma-Bell (company invented by Ben Fanklen, first on the scene in the Great Chicago Fire).