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Vintage sewing and fashion ephemera with a few other finds from my travels.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 Would You Like To Dress Stylishly?

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If you do want to dress stylishly you should get your wardrobe custom made from National Cloak Company and use some of these amazing trims ...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 "Ladies Four Gore Skirt" - An Inside View

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Here's a chance to see the inside of one of these amazing skirts and the description from the magazine. "No. 2375.-This skirt is po...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 "Health Braided Wire Dress Forms"

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Wow. Just wow.
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 Ladies Costume and Toilette

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Looking at these I was thinking about storage. These are dresses and hats are huge and must have had to hung in some sort of closet. And go...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 "Ladies Top Garments"

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This group is coats, cloaks, wraps. They must have been made of heavy fabrics and weighed a ton. Suggested fabrics are wools and velvets. An...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 Ladies Evening Costumes

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These are all from the same pattern and "for a lady of medium size, it will require seventeen yards and a-forth of material twenty-two...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 Ladies Costume, Basque, Walking Skirt

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I really encourage you to click on each picture twice, because I don't want you to miss any details. Then look for the differences in t...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Delineator Magazine - 1888 Fashion and Tombstone Cleaner!

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This is a wonderful issue of the Delineator from November 1888, published by Butterick Publishing Company. We're going to see some amazi...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tailoring Booklet - 1945 - Suits and Jackets!

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This J&P Coats Clark "Tailoring" Book No S -18 is dated 1945, but this is a second edition and some of these patterns dated fr...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Handicraft Projects for Children - 1962 Make a Valentines Apron!

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Here's a fun freebie...and you have time to get it made for Valentines!
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Handicraft Projects for Children - 1962 -Marshmallow Pixies and More!

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The Marshmallow Pixies are just odd...and I don't know where you buy the poison green colored marshmallows. But if those creep you out ...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Handicraft Projects for Children - 1962

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This is chock full of wonderful craft ideas...today it's Leather or Leatherette Gifts. Click twice and print these, then show the kids!...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Fall & Winter Fashions at SINGER - 1969 - Part 4

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Don't miss the names of these fabric lines, "Fancy Fling", "Thick and Thin Corduroy", or "East Hampton", M...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Fall & Winter Fashions at SINGER - 1969 - Part 3

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Here's some more inspiration...these make me want to go shopping...in 1969!
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Fall & Winter Fashions at SINGER - 1969 - Part 2

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More groovy fabrics and fashion choices for the hip gal and girls in 1969!
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