Hey all,

I was at an antique superstore the other day, you know the ones, with little booths for every female ( I say this because of the wonderfully nostalgic displays of old stuff in picturesque scenes that I could never envision a man arranging in town that fancies themselves an antique mogul, with individual little cubicle displays for all of their wares, when lo and behold I find a little ceramic scuttle mis-labeled "creamer" - it was clearly a shaving scuttle with the top curved bowl with holes in it and the lower chamber with a brush sized spout, etc. I really wanted to leave a note to the "expert" that it was not a "creamer" but I thought better.

What caught my attention though was it was all frilly, had roses painted all over it with little ceramic frills around the edges, and a fancy handle and was really very delicate. Problem was, I only saw two such shaving-bowl-things in the whole mega-complex, and each of them looked like they were form my mother's china pattern...what gives? Why would such an otherwise utilitarian item, and presumably one used more by or for males, need such a look? Or am I just being sexist here, and these were for seriously hairy women ?

Just curious.

K