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What does your southern china pattern say about you? In this video, a Southern Living specialist breaks down the exact personalities and backgrounds of the people who would own the fine china patterns of Blue Willow, Pink Transferware, and Purple Transferware. Estate sale hunters and church choir directors, you’ve been put on notice.
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00:00What your Southern China pattern says about you.
00:04You have to feel the spirits of the women who have handled and hand-washed these plates.
00:09Blue Willa, you were the choir director at your church.
00:13Your husband was a banker.
00:15Your daughter has never really stood out to you but your sons.
00:19You have three Bowies and none of them or their wives want this from you, which is a tragedy.
00:24You bring this out because every moment is special.
00:26A sip and see for a little Bowie or a little Bowie's baby shower.
00:30Or you could even do a Blue Willa Christmas.
00:33Now the pink transferware.
00:34This is for a girl's girl.
00:36This is for a lady who still uses talcum powder and doesn't want to see the sun.
00:41President of her garden club.
00:43This is for a woman who gets her nails done every two to three business days.
00:47This is for a woman who gets her hair done at the salon, set in place, sprayed down like a
00:53helmet once a week.
00:54She does not sweat.
00:56Except emotionally.
00:57She sweats all the small things.
00:59Everything needs to be perfect.
01:01This is a wild card.
01:02This is a woman who spends months at a time scouring estate sales, preying on the dead, trying to find
01:08pieces like this.
01:09She grew up in the South and then she went to Wesleyan.
01:12And then she came back home because her father runs a hardware store and he was getting sick.
01:16So all of a sudden she's ringing up feed at the hardware store, but she's at home writing poetry at
01:22night.
01:23And she has these competing senses of loyalty to family and then loyalty to the arts.
01:28It's a classic oldest daughter conundrum.
01:30And so she does the purple transfer where just as a sort of subtle rebellion against whatever is and a
01:37sort of homage to whatever can be.
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