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In Marvelous Mrs Maisel, they show the wives making sure their husband never sees them without makeup - taking it off after the husbands sleep at night and putting it on again early in the morning. Was this really something housewives in the 1950s/60s did?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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