I was cleaning out my linen closet, and I found the light brown art nouveau patterned sheets that I used on my twin bed the one semester I spent away in college.
I have not used those sheets since 1981. The dorm bed was the last twin I was in until I got the guest room bed, and the old sheets do not match the guest room color scheme.
What they did match, perfectly, were the wood closet doors in my WPA-built dorm room. And then I bought this Mucha poster, which I still have, and the whole room came together, as they say.
It was a heartless move, but after almost forty years I pitched the dorm room sheets, sad for the loss of my first independent attempt at decorating, and my first attempt at independence. Really, though, who has a sentimental attachment to sheets?
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And here I’m trying to figure out what, exactly, art nouveau patterned sheets would look like…
(also: me. I could totally have a sentimental attachment to sheets. I haven’t yet, but I know I could…)
Um, not so much sentimental but I can’t throw away two duvet covers that I’ve had since about 1980 – was that a globally great era for bedding? One of them is a bit art nouveau-y too. It’s too small now but I have plans to extend it. One day.
KC – I would post a photo, but I have none. Not many cameras on hand in the eighties. I have six photos from that time and none are of the inside of the dorm.
Big Dot – but of course, that would be like cutting into your wedding gown. It might be better, or it might be destroyed.