The article was on downstairs bathrooms being decorated.
An odd concept in its self.
I think we all played dress-up at some point when we were kids. However, there are a lot of fathers who wouldn’t want their sons to be encouraged to play dress-up out of a container that has girls clothes in it. Their boys might put on girls’ clothes and grow up to be gay.
And I’m only kidding a tiny bit.
So, in your world kids don’t play dress-up, and people don’t paint the downstairs bathroom? :dubious:
Maybe the costumes are vaguely sinister? As in: scary costumes? We had my granny’s old wedding dress, amongst other things, maybe that was thought “sinister”? We also had snipped up fur coats for cave man costumes, maybe that’s sinister?
Still doesn’t make sense to me though…
Perhaps it was simply a left-handed dressing-up box.
Found the article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/9211537/The-downstairs-loo-the-most-British-of-rooms.html
Oh, I see. The article author means that when a dressing-up box is kept in the downstairs bathroom (presumably so that random guests dropping in for tea can indulge in a little cosplay when they go to powder their nose), that seems a little sinister.
And I think Bosda means that in a downstairs bathroom, any kind of exotic or deliberately striking decor seems like an odd concept.
Your search may have had a typo or two. Dressing up box.
Life before Google.