Tag: sewing
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Tranquilizer
From the back of my 1966 McCall’s Home Catalog: Where to begin with this ad… I’ll be back next week with photos from my 1920s Halloween sewing blitz!
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Sally Makes a Conquest
My J.C. Penney’s copy of the January 1939 McCall Style News has this fantastic comic strip advertising J.C. Penney’s fabric department (click to magnify): Four lessons I learned from this comic strip-advertisement: Hapless blondes need the help of sensible brunettes; Romantic/sexual/social conquests can be made through the power of sewing; Home sewing leads to female…
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