Wednesday, December 29, 2004
(7:19 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Closets
Yesterday while Anthony, Hayley, and I were apartment shopping, we noticed a disturbing trend in Ukrainian Village: no closets in any of the (microscopic) bedrooms. We found that unacceptable and are likely going to find a non-Ukrainian apartment. Today at work, I mentioned the lack of closets to one of my co-workers, saying that I didn't understand where I was expected to put my clothes. She said that it must be a European thing not to have closets and to use a wardrobe instead, because when she was in Russia to adopt her children, she noticed that no one had closets. Suddenly all these flashbacks struck me: in Oxford, there were no closets, only wardrobes; C. S. Lewis's first Narnia book features a wardrobe very prominently; etc., etc.My question is this: What's the deal with closets? Who first came up with them? Is it an American innovation? Might it actually be easier to be able to pick up your "closet" and take it with you, rather than having to pack up all the stuff separately? Maybe we should go with Ukrainian Village after all, being the America-hating pieces of shit we are.
