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Article: WINDOW DRESSING
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 19, 1992
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Few things have changed as much in the last quarter-century as
the window shade.
Those of us not still in school can remember a time when shade
meant a piece of fabric that wound up and down from a wooden, and
later cardboard, roller. Frequently they snapped up to the top of
the window all by themselves with a nasty whirring sound, or suddenly
unrolled completely, or even leaped out of their holders and crashed
to the floor.
Stores stocked them in white or off-white. If you went to a
custom shop your choices expanded to a scalloped and fringed rather
than flat bottom, and perhaps a few pastels.
People with sun porches sometimes had roll-up shades called
matchstick blinds, made of ...