Ladies with pipes

[Marc Chevalier]

Vietnamese Hmong tribeswomen smoke pipes all the time.

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[Carlisle Blues]

As close as I want to get to lady and a pipe.

 

[LocktownDog]

The famous photo of Andie MacDowell smoking a pipe. A favorite on the pipe forums.

 

[Copper]

The sadly now-defunct pipe club I was a member of for a number of years had several women members.

Most smoked small Dutch made 'women's' pipes, though a couple smoked larger ones and one even had a bespoke freehand made by one of the other members who happened to be a talented pipemaker.

It didn't seem that unusual at all.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

I can't inhale without choking so I smoke a pipe.

I've mentioned several times I smoke a pipe but that was before someone revived this thread.
When I was a child I saw a lady's pipe in orange in a budget department store and it was so cool. I so wish I could find something like that now, the pipe and that kind of department store. Anyway, I smoke a succession of cheapy Dr. Grabows from the PX and a lowly corncob. My kinfolk are hillbillies and it's possible I'm a grandmother so perhaps I resemble Mammy Yokum, although my figure is more like Moonbeam McSwine's, but I don't care!; I smoke in public. My teeth are fine.

 

[Hela]

I've mentioned several times I smoke a pipe but that was before someone revived this thread.
When I was a child I saw a lady's pipe in orange in a budget department store and it was so cool. I so wish I could find something like that now, the pipe and that kind of department store. Anyway, I smoke a succession of cheapy Dr. Grabows from the PX and a lowly corncob. My kinfolk are hillbillies and it's possible I'm a grandmother so perhaps I resemble Mammy Yokum, although my figure is more like Moonbeam McSwine's, but I don't care!; I smoke in public. My teeth are fine.

There ya go! Have any pics of you smoking that pipe?

 

[BegintheBeguine]

I knew someone would ask me that! Happy to oblige; I don't have any now but I'll see what I can do.

 

[Hela]

Yup, you set yourself up on that. I can't wait to see your pic

 

[Tiller]

Times certainly have changed, yet things do kind of remain the same. Well reading this thread I quickly recalled Calvin Coolidge's Autobiography (which I've read as a good Republican should lol), which is wittily called "The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge". In it he talks about meeting his Grandfather's aunt who was smoking a clay pipe as a child and how the shock caused him to remember it well into his own golden years. I'll quote some of it below.

"My grandfather, Calvin Galusha Coolidge, died when I was six years old. He was a spar man over six feet tall, of a nature which caused people to find in him, and of a character which made him a constant choice for public office. His mother and her family showed a marked trace of Indian blood. I never saw her, but he took me one time to see her sister, his very aged aunt, whom we found sitting in the chimney corner smoking a clay pipe.

This was so uncommon that I always remembered it. I thought tobacco was only for men, though I had seen old ladies outside our neighborhood buy snuff at the store."

Seems the sight of his great-great-aunt smoking had a lasting image on our 30th President that lasted well into his adult life. lol I wonder how common it really was in that age, to see a woman smoking a pipe.

 

[Hela]

I love these stories!
It was probably the "Indian Blood", I seem to recall pictures of Native women with pipes. I'll have to rummage through some books.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Quaint Irene Hobbs"

I always think of "Quaint" Irene Coles from the Mapp & Lucia TV series of the EF Benson Novels., pottering about in her studio painting pictures of people with no clothes on, wearing an artists smock and chewing on a pipe

 

[John in Covina]

Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. Mammy Yokems in Lil Abner!

 

[Hela]

lol I can't believe I forgot about Granny!

 

[Tiller]

Did Granny smoke? I never saw those episodes! Although maybe they are edited now[huh]?

 

[John in Covina]

Heck there was a B&W Winstons (Not Marlboro) commercial where Granny sticks a cigarette in the corn cob pipe!

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIdqj7YaZOA&feature=related

 

[Tiller]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIdqj7YaZOA&feature=related

lol That is funny! Did she smoke one the show itself? If so it is all edited out. I've never seen an episode of the Hillbillies were any of them have smoked.

 

[Gaige]

The 2nd pipe pictured in the original post is really pretty cool.

I've yet to meet a woman who smokes a pipe, however.

 

[patrick1987]

Yup, you set yourself up on that. I can't wait to see your pic

Waal, I put fresh batteries in the Kodak but Ash hasn't lit a pipe in a while as she's had a nasty lingering cold. Stay tuned.

 

[Warbaby]

Y'gotta get them started young...