Vintage photos of women smoking pipes in the past _

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Female pipe smokers are rare today, but female pipe smoking was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. Respectable women were often seen smoking pipes in public. There are many famous paintings depicting noble women of the time drinking smoke from a clay pipe. The middle classes were also eager to take advantage of this new pastime. In Elizabethan times, clays were quite delicate, with thin, graceful bowls and long stems. The Dutch redesigned these clays by enlarging the bowl and lengthening the stem. The Dutch, French and English all appreciated “Indian grass”. For centuries, the preferred way to enjoy tobacco was to smoke it in clay pipes. From around 1575, pipes were being made in England, but by the 17th century Holland had become the dominant center of clay pipe making. Clays were also made in many other European countries at this time. These pipes were usually white, with small bowls and long stems. They were extremely fragile and did not last long. However, in the 1850s, when smoking in general became associated with the working class, female smoking began to decline, at least in public. Acceptance of female smokers seemed to vary by region at that time. Many women are believed to have retained their old habits. It is more than likely that this was done in secret while outwardly they considered the act shameful. In rural areas such as the Highlands of Scotland and Ireland, women smoked without shame. Hebridean women smoked until the 1930s due to cultural isolation, as did Appalachian women in the United States. It was considered a very crude and backward habit by most members of polite society, but little changed in societies without contact with urban centers. Today, a woman who smokes a pipe immediately attracts attention and sometimes ridicule.