Bedding
COMEDIAN DAVID SMIEDT TAKES AN IRREVERENT, BUT APPRECIATIVE, LOOK AT THE CLASSIC THINGS THAT DEFINE YOU-BEAUT AUSSIE LIFE
Which brings us to bedlinen. You know the saying, “Can’t see the forest for the trees”? Well, there were times when you couldn’t see the bed for the cushions. We took the scatter in scatter pillows not so much as a suggestion but an order. A bed wasn’t a fashionable sanctuary unless it had to be undressed before entry was possible. And if you think we’re going to make some smutty double entendre here, you’d be wrong. At times it was nothing but a big sham. Which is an excellent joke if you happen to know that a sham is, according to dictionary.com, a decorative pillowcase for covering a pillow when not in use. Shams were merely the top layer of a triple-decker pillow sandwich, with the bottom two actually used for sleeping.
The sham was there purely for decorative purposes, a textile show pony either matching the bedlinen or – to borrow a fashion phrase – “worked back” in a complementary hue.