People seemed to sleep almost sitting up then. Also, I think most of them were little short*** es. Personally, I hate 4 posters. I think they always look so claustrophobic and dark and sinister and the occupant was just waiting to be murdered !!
You're funny Jan ;0) I would fit snug in that. I feel the opposite, I think they look so cosy. I'd love to try a four poster. How indulgent to buy it for young girl. This bed needs love, care & respect.
I've slept in 4 posters, they always freak me out. My niece has one, bought at auction at a stately home in Yorkshire. It's a gazillion years old. Oh.. if it could talk, the stories and creaks it could tell.
I can appreciate it as a work of art but as others have said, I'd no more lie down in it than sprout wings and fly. Plus, who'd want to buy and sleep in a bed some geezer had died in?