>Vintage Fashion Images
>Yesterday I got a wild hair to do some searching for images. I saved a slew I got from online in various places, but here’s a few links I thought you might like to browse.Vintage Fashion Files...
View Article>Deanna Durbin
>A friend got me to thinking about Deanna Durbin with her post on Lady on a Train. So here, in something you probably won’t see now-a-days, is an article from Glamour in 1939 about teens dressing...
View ArticleVintage Sewing Survey Results
Well, I left up the survey for a while and had nearly 200 replies. Thank you to everyone who took the time to take the survey! I thought you might be interested in the results. Some were somewhat...
View ArticleAn Argument for Under Vests- or- Are We Over-Simplifying 1900s Underwear?
I have a hypothesis that’s been a long time coming. It started by observing advertisements in old magazines, then spotting articles in my old catalogs. Finally I gave up, did a search, and I am...
View ArticleDating Vintage Patterns- The Patent Misconception
“This pattern is from 1908.” “This pattern is from 1919.” “This pattern is from 1899.” We have all seen it. We may have even said it! But is that old pattern you’ve got *really* from when it says it...
View ArticleResearch: Edwardian Ribbon Corsets Part I
Ribbon Corsets are one of those things which I feel have a sort of mystery hanging over them. How can these beautiful and delicate things be real? Were they prevalently worn? A passing fancy? I went...
View ArticleResearch: Edwardian Ribbon Corsets Part II
Continuing the research of the ribbon corset and it’s variants, I have stumbled across the earliest mention I have yet found. All my research in this installment is taken from Google Books. The...
View ArticleResearch: Edwardian Ribbon Corsets Part III
Continuing the series of period mention of ribbon corsets. The first installment included all newspaper mentions I could find. The second included information found on Google Books from the 1890s to...
View Article1918 “Knitting Nerves”- Women Fight Back!
A few days ago I posted an article about “Knitting Nerves”, where a quack doctor claimed that excessive knitting led to a nervous complaint. You can read the article here. Total rot, and so very...
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