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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So for people like the Crowleys, most of their days are filled with getting ready for and attending social engagements?[/quote]

1)   You mean the Granthams?  They entertain and they deal with the tenants who farm their land.  And they historically took care of their tenants say, if someone got sick or whatever.  And the women were involved in charity work.

The Crowleys (the late Matthew and his mom) were--not sure if to call it working class, but they were not leisure class, much to the horror of the Granthams.  Matthew was a practicing lawyer and his mom was and still is involved in hospital work.

2)   Ok now something else…I read an interview with the guy who plays the band singer.  He said that his real singing voice is nothing like the voice he sings with on DA.  He had to get voice coach lessons to sing like that.  DA is going for a particular kind of sound, based on recordings of the time.  Apparently that kind of nasally quality was the favored style of the period.

3)  I've read a little history of hair dye and women (in Malcolm Gladwell's book "What the Dog Saw.").  Also I'm thinking about my own grandma and that generation.  There is no way they'd be into hair dye; it was not done until at least mid-century.  Edith would probably be light brown, and Cora would be gray, or salt and pepper for sure, and I bet even Mary would have a few grays by now.  [/quote]

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