Then and Now When the man in your life is off at work, you are left at home, slaving over a hot stove all day and cleaning.

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Tabatha A Tromblay

Instructor Wagoner

English 10001, Section31, 115

26 October 2004

Then and Now

When the man in your life is off at work, you are left at home, slaving over a hot stove all day and cleaning. You are obviously not in the best shape and your clothes are dirty and smell like dishwater. What man would want to come home to that when what he really wants is that sweet smelling, pure girl he married? What kind of woman wants to smell like she has been working all day?  So what she needs to do is take a shower and when she gets out put on the best smelling products she can find. These products include lotions, oils and the most important of all, deodorant. They should all smell fresh, clean, and maybe even like flowers.  No one wants to go out, or even stay in, and have another person notice that her scent is not very pleasant.  So, what she needs to do is make sure that she is fully stocked with all the most recent fragrances, products that have a scent that will lure any individual to you.

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We are taught by advertising, especially ones for feminine hygiene products, that women should not smell as they naturally do, but “fresh.” Today, everything is scented to cover up any “natural” scent. Why would anyone want to smell us “naturally”, when we could smell like a flowering garden? The media tells us we are to smell more like a florist’s shop or a calming spa than like the women we are.

 Starting in the 1950’s the idea of not smelling good was a moniker no woman wanted to be branded with, as featured the article, the unmarked woman.  After ...

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