A Christmas Letter to My Husband - 1934

A Singer For Christmas! "It would be better than a new dress..."

Home Arts 1932- New Cape Collar, Apron, Costume Slip, New French Blouse

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.

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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.