Vanities create the context, the frame for the woman, or girl, reflected in its mirror. Vanities go in and out of favor as pieces of fashionable bedroom furniture.

Or the innocence of childhood than a dainty white Queen Hermina vanity and mirror. However, for many women, a sit down vanity is a must have item for the bedroom, or at the very least, a fond item on their furniture wish list. With the interest in cocooning that begun with 9/11, Americans. Or the romantic and ladylike elegance of the Victorian Era than a curvy, engraved mahogany vanity. Nothing evokes the aura of 1930s Hollywood feminine glamour than a sleek Art Deco vanity and mirror.

Many a little girl or young woman has spent long hours sitting in front of a vanity mirror, putting on makeup or brushing her hair while daydreaming about the woman she will become and what that woman will look like.

As men have begun to assert themselves in the furniture and decor of the home, vanities have been replaced by a TV armoire in many American bedrooms.