I recently attented not one, but two, fun parties inhabited by rather intimidatingly intelligent and accomplished people. Apparently, the Ivy League set is fascinated by those cute European front-load washers. I think they're cute.
These washers have many advantages. For one thing, they are much more power- and water-saving than US models. However, the more darling EU washers take forever to get your clothes clean. It's also really difficult to fit large items, like towels and pillows, into the most efficient and cutest eurowashers, which perhaps explains why the towels are so small in those charming Parisian hotels with the wrought iron balcony railings.
The other drawback to the efficient and adorable washer, at least in the EU, is that clothes driers are not de rigeur. In fact, one should hang one's clothes out to dry on the line, which means that one's underpants are exposed to view.
As a person with a relatively rigorous screeening process for who sees my underpants, I find this prospect disturbing.
1 comment:
Perhaps just as hard to fit certain types of clothing, particularly, the American men's beach or swimming trunks. Dry-cleaning polyester is an alternative but is certainly a waste of a half-day trip to the cleaner. Or a Speedo may do! K :-)
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