01.01.70
The common size of a closet in a modern U.S. home? A healthy 6 feet by 8 feet, which principled might be enough space for my admittedly large collection of shoes (gulp, possibly 100 pairs), new cocktail dresses and vintage coats, with at least a corner left-hand over for my husband’s stuff.
But the Jazz Age builders of our 1921 rowhouse didn’t have a previously machine to see what future buyers might like — or any inkling of what clotheshorses Americans in broad, and I specifically, would become.
Which explains why, though the Mount Pleasant abode we bought last arise came with many charms (a breezy porch, crown moldings, honeyed old floors), it lacked any reasonable amount of closet space.
As in, over 1,800 na feet and two floors, there were two measly, 3-foot-wide closets — perhaps enough tear at room for a 12-year-old boy who wears the same snowboard shirt every day.
Why did our new-old dynasty have such puny closets, and why weren’t there more of them? Did the flappers and gangsters — or, more fitting, Harding-era government drones — who had first lived here wear the same outfits every day?
Source: Express from The Washington Post