Category: 1930s
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Singer “Make-It-Yourself” Wardrobe Plan, 1936
To mark the beginning of fall, here’s a Singer “Make-It-Yourself” Wardrobe Plan cover from Fall-Winter 1936. According to the leaflet, rust, green, black, and other autumnal colours like red, copper, wine, brown, and grey were on-trend that season. (The dog shown here is also fashion-forward, appearing some two years before Lassie made collies famous.) The…
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Advance Paris Styles for Summer, 1936
Divided dress — or cropped jumpsuit? Whatever you call it, McCall’s illustrator Blanche Rothschild gave us two of them on this cover for Summer, 1936, in candy-coloured prints. The pattern is McCall 8702, which the envelope calls a sports dress with divided skirt. But the catalogue uses a simpler name for the new style. Inside,…
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