re: Do people in your family call it a "chester drawers"?

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ETA my grandma would call what is technically a chest of drawers a bureau

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Yep

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Chifforobe

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Those were rollaround closets (wardrobes) for old houses that had no (or tiny) closets. I grew up across the river where all houses had decent closets. After college I wanted to move to Mid City, the shotgun houses had tiny closets htat could not even hold a suit perpendicular to the door. I had to buy "chiffarobes" until I renovated that house to have real closets.
Chiffarobes are tall and hold hanging clothes. Dressers are long with a mirroe on top to hold usually female clothes.
Chester draws are for male non hanging clothes.

The best thing about dressers is if they have a big mirror and are in the bedroom at the right spot you can see yourself banging from a different angle. Ain't nothing quite like it.

My mother insisted that her children spoke correctly, so in our home it was a chest of drawers. As a small boy I thought it was called that because that was where I kept my drawers.

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Chifforobe

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Figures prominently in "To Kill a Mockingbird"

But that has no porn in it so I doubt you folks have read it.

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Chifforobe

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pretty sure this is what my parents and grand parents called a cedar robe.

Chifferobe.



Chest of Drawers

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it's sort of a nouveau riche thing to try and put a little snobby distance between themselves and those that they grew up around

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It's called progress, son.

But you keep on "keeping it real."

Yeah they do