Full-Blown Skirts, Impudent Bows, Neat Checks - Simplicity Patterns - 1952

Perfect day-in-the-city dress in a sophisticated soft sheer with full skirt and sleeves. Simplicity Printed Pattern 3848. Sizes 12 to 20. 35¢. Size 14 requires 5 3/8 yards of 35" fabric. Perfect day-in-the-country dress in neat checks. Simplicity Printed Pattern 3851. Sizes 12 to 20. 35¢. Size 14 requires 4 5/8 yards of 35" checked fabric, 3/8 yard of 35" fabric for trim.

Full-blown skirt and great big, impudent bow. made in the kind of checks you see coming. Simplicity Printed Pattern 3850. Sizes 12 to 20. 35¢. Size 14 requires 5 1/4 yards of 35" fabric. Cool and uncluttered little summer dress. Simplicity Printed Pattern 3857. Sizes 11 to 18. 35¢. Size 13 requires 4 1/4 yards of 35" lengthwise-striped fabric, 1/4 yard of 35" fabric for collar. Horizontal stripes above vertical stripes, Simplicity Printed Pattern 3844. Sizes 12 to 20. 35¢. Size 14 requires 3 3/4 yards of 35" lengthwise-striped fabric, 3/4 yard of 35" fabric for trim.
(This is a repost from Feb 2010)

How To Retain Youth by Lillian Russell (1905)

Not big worry but petty worry is the greatest harbinger of old age.
This is from the 100th issue of McCall's Magazine put out in 1976.
(and it's a repost from May 2009)
To many women in domestic life the cook's ill temper is a tragedy, the laundress's predilection for superfluous blue a bodily infliction, the excessive prices of the butcher a great sorrow of her existence. Ah! She will need more than massage and cold cream can accomplish to eradicate the woe-begone expression, the downward droop of the discontented lips. If you would remain young, discharge the ill-tempered cook! Find a new laundress! Deal at another market! Ten years from now the cook's ill temper will have subsided, but what of the telltale lines about your mouth? Ten years from now the over-blued lingerie will have been replaced by other garments, but how about the creases around your eyes? Ten years from now the Beef Trust may have frizzled into the millennium, but alas for the wrinkled forehead that you have cultivated! (1905)

The Twist - All About The Craze That Rocks The Nation - 1963

A whole magazine devoted to the Twist! It doesn't get more hip than this!
(A repost from March, 2010)

"They call it the Teenagers gift to the Top Hat and Tails Set! It's that swinging, swaying, wiggling, waggling wonder dance that has turned out to be the greatest movement to hit the hi-toned playboys and playgirls since the Social Register rang up its first 400 names. Every party in every penthouse from Park Avenue to Sutton Place is now a Twist Party! Every mink coat that meets a dress suit immediately asks Do You Twist?" It's become the thing to do, old man, don't cha'know?"

It's hard to know just what to show you from this fabulous magazine...it's all just so hip! So let's concentrate on the fashion...

Don't you feel like turning up the music? Let's Twist!

...adding to the happiness and efficiency of 1,100,000 women each month

Found on the back of a McCall Kaumagraph Transfer pattern #425 - Script Alphabet. Do you wish to save money, keep in style and be happy? Pretty good deal for 50¢ a year!
(this is another 'I'm still on vacation' repost from February, 2009)

Stout Women May Wear Draped Skirts

From McCall's Magazine, July 1913.
"The graceful model, illustrated on a woman of full figure, will convince the most skeptical that women of avoirdupois need not shun drapery."

Walk Tall

"To make you and each garment you wear look twice as attractive, learn to stand and walk correctly"
(a repost from September 2009)

How To Put On A Bra

Do you know how to put on a bra? "Figure authority Henry Plehn" gives advice here from Cover Girl Fashions Magazine from 1947. ( How does one become a "Figure Authority"?).
Remember..."Each breast should point outward to the right and left".
(A repost from June, 2010)

Let's go to a party! Lovely Frocks from 1939

From McCall's Magazine, April 1939.
These were pretty then and pretty now. Don't you wish you had one?
(A repost from May 2009)

Paris Fashion Leaders Wear Big Spectacles - that they don't need! 1925

"The correct thing is to have the frame made in colors to match the the dress"
(a repost from March, 2009)

Harper's Bazaar 1944 - "Says the girl in the swallow-tail gown."

So much extra pleasure, luxury, distinction..." I just know they are talking about her gown, not her Marlboro.
(a re-post from November, 2010)

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog from 1948 - Little Girls - Dresses, Coats and Jodpurs, Oh, My!!

These are sweet, but remember they all had to be ironed!
(A repost from July, 2010)

Young German Lady - Sixteenth Century

"Young German Lady - Sixteenth Century - From a Sketch by J. B. Wehle" - from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly from 1886
Isn't she lovely? And look at all the details of her outfit. Beautiful.
(A repost from July, 2011)

Barbie has a bad day.

Barbie had a late night...and when she showed up for her modeling assignment there was some short twirp wearing nearly the same dress!
(a repost from 7/22/2009)

Then she was suppose to stand next to last seasons ruffles!

Then Blondie took WAY to long in the bathroom...

But the last straw was that Muu Muu she was expected to wear. Really?

Bella Hess Ladies Shoes from 1940

I am surprised how cool these are. Not a lot of color choices, but some exotic shapes. Which ones do you want in your closet?
(This is a repeat post from February 2009)

Stitch Ripper - Not Scissors - Does Not Cut! 1902

Stitch Ripper - Saves your fingers. "Money back if you want it." Good to know.

Fay Stockings - No Supporters, No Garters - 1902

Fay Stockings - Something New, Something Good "for women, boys and girls." "Perfection for babies".
And of course the "best non-poisonous dyes"!

Hat Bleach - 1902

"Easily applied and costs a trifle"

To the Heroines of America - 1943 Avon Cosmetics

"One of the modern American woman's contribution is her calm outward beauty which so eloquently expresses the courage and faith in her heart"
"Be Hostess To Loveliness"

Harper's Bazaar 1944 - Not A Bra!

Improves your appearance 100%!
(Another 'I'm on vacation reprint' reprint from November 2010)

Kestos Brassiere Vest -"...supplies the discreet restraint that every dancer needs." - 1932

"...the result would be perfection."
(This a repeat post from December 2009)