Mid-Century Suggestions

Play for the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League

deride cologne as unmanly but wear tons of aftershave

get a perm

make salmon-flavored gelatin, but only as a status symbol at parties; eat boiled broccoli and beef hearts otherwise

hide your new bikini from your parents

Don’t be fooled by “look-alikes”; eat Hydrox cookies.

do a political 180 when the war starts, then another when it ends

get a perm

remarry your ex-husband

host a garden party to celebrate moving into your new bungalow

wear underwear so well-designed and presentable that people seventy years later could wear it as a day dress

give birth under general anesthesia

agree on most basic points of domestic policy

be young. be in love. eat lard.

throw the first brick at Stonewall