Tag: vintage
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What to Wear in an Emergency
From Weldons’ 1940s So-Easy line, this “Ten-Second” Siren Wrap features a cozy hood and chic contrast binding: Other So-Easy air raid patterns included a women’s two-way siren suit (no. 19), child’s hooded siren suit (no. 17), and girl’s hooded siren suit (no. 18). The pattern tissue is printed with an advertisement for Dewhurst’s Sylko machine…
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The Epitome of Fall Chic
To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a vintage Butterick cover from fall, 1935. The fur-collared cover look is Butterick 6399, “A brief and buttoned jacket, snugly fitted and collared with badger or wolf, plus a skirt worn shorter than the length you’re used to—these make the suit the epitome of fall chic.” For…
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