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I have one, made of bamboo. Essential for a single girl...
posted by
Pat_B
on July 21, 2015 at 1:31 PM
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Well Naut formerly it was a toy which made a sound like tearing cloth when one scratched ones back. I suppose amusement was a bit low key in those days. I didn't know that either. Perhaps the ladies did not like the sound or it was just a toy for us uns
the lower class.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 21, 2015 at 10:55 AM
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My great grandmother had a back scratching device of some sort. I don't remember
it well.
posted by
Vermont01
on July 21, 2015 at 9:15 AM
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I did not know they existed.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 21, 2015 at 5:17 AM
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maybe she scratched for him!
posted by
Annicita
on July 20, 2015 at 10:40 PM
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Nautikos
I have a back scratcher (that's what they were always called in my experience) in my drawer right now - a co-worker bought all of us one to keep at our desks. There's something about sitting all day that must make for itchy backs! This one is a cheap little metal thing...actually looks like a long yard rake, and the handle telescopes out for reaching. Like Kabu, I liked the neat wooden ones with the deformed looking hand on the end!
posted by
Krisles
on July 20, 2015 at 4:42 PM
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I used to have on of those...lost somewhere in my life's travels. Made of wood it had a little clawed hand on the end of the long handle that could reach all those difficult places to scratch.
I caught fleas at a theater in London in 1985...so God only knows what those older times Women were scratching.
posted by
Kabu
on July 20, 2015 at 2:29 PM
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