Spring Wardrobe For A Smart Woman - 1936

For a spring wardrobe The Delineator magazine offers these 1936 guidelines. 

"We suggest the following color scheme for the wardrobe shown here: For your coat - a navy basketweave woolen; for your jacket dress - navy heavy sheer with white pique; for your suit - a natural or gray menswear suiting of the soft cashmere type; for the print - silk crepe with an apricot-rust ground and a pale blue figure; for the evening an ice white satin dress with ruby accessories and ruby-colored bengaline wrap."

Earn A Shirley Temple Doll!

Every Good Little Girl Wants A Shirley Temple Doll. "Shirley's image," says her mother. And Shirley herself says "I love my doll and I play with it all the time. It is just like me."
You just need to sell six subscriptions!

Make this Charming Hat - 1936

This Winged Hat is from Home Arts Needlecraft Magazine in 1936. These instructions sound a little complex to me, but maybe you can try. The hat is worth it!

The Dorchester Hotel Presents The Hollywood Starlets - 1936

This is a program from the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London. In 1936 they were presenting "The New Midnight Follies", produced by Clifford Whitley. The cast included Florine McKinney, Acrobatic Control Dancer - Dolly Arden, Walter Dare Wahl and Emmett Oldfield with the Le Roy Prinz Hollywood Starlets. They performed numbers such as "You Took My Breath Away", "It's Fun To Be Fooled" and "Truckin' With The Teeth In".

Tomorrow we'll meet the Starlets and learn about some scandal!

Your Grandmas Apron

She would have bought this made up and then embroidered the stamped design. Remember this was before television...so she'd sit a few evenings...sewing on this just so she could feel pretty working around the house. Of course it was an apron, which meant it got dirty and stained, so she needed several...because you wouldn't want to be seen in a worn out old thing. But when her apron was fresh and new she's have pride of having made it herself. Must have brightened her day.

Can You Find The Twins? Answer Quick!

You might win a Buick Sedan!

Jenny Wren - Dickens Dolls' Dressmaker

Jenny Wren was a character in Charles Dickens last novel Our Mutual Friend. She is a "dolls' dressmaker, with whom Lizzie lives after her father dies; crippled with a bad back, though not ugly in her deformities; acts very motherly toward her drunken father whom she calls her “bad child”... Her role is a creator and a caretaker, and her “pleasant fancies” of “flowers, bird song, numbers of blessed, white-clad children”" via

This delightful illustration was done by Mary Sherwood Wright Jones (1892-1985). She lived in Licking County, Ohio and "was a noted muralist and illustrator for children's books, including the renowned national publication of Weekly Reader". via
Her distinctive deco style can be seen on other Home Arts covers.