The Sewing Manual For Home Decorators - 1943 -Is your home dreary and dull?

The Sewing Manual For Home Decorators, from The Spool Cotton Company, copyright 1943. This booklet has a TON of helpful advice on how to "make new 'dresses' for your windows...for your chairs and couches...for your tables and beds". There are detailed instructions given on how to get these fabulous forties looks, but maybe these cheery illustrations can get you started.

"Fortunately, you can be patriotic and pretty both" - Make and Mend - 1942

"It's up to you to keep the home fires burning, to see that you and your family stay easy-on-the-eyes. Fortunately, you can be patriotic and pretty both. It's easy to teach an old wardrobe new tricks, to resurrect the skeletons in your closet and bring them up to date. Come on, take those old knockabouts and turn them into knockouts, keep that glint in Uncle Sam's eye and still do your stint towards Victory!"
This is from a 1942 booklet called Make and Mend for Victory put out by The Spool Cotton Company...who was urging you to use J. & P. Coats-Clark's O.N.T. threads to re-do your wardrobe so you could help do your part for the war effort. The ideas are good ones that can work today...re-use clothes you have or find good thrift shop pieces and make use of some wonderful fabrics!