Tag: vintage
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Game, Set, Match!
To mark the last day of Wimbledon… Interwar pattern catalogues often feature tennis outfits on the cover. The American artist Rico Lebrun went one further with his McCall Quarterly cover for Summer, 1930 by including a men’s tennis match in the background, as well as one player ready with her racket and tennis whites. (For…
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Sewing with Hudson’s Bay
With its Hudson’s Bay Company branding, this 1920s Vogue Patterns leaflet recalls a time when Canadians could find high-end sewing supplies at their local seventeenth-century-trading-company-turned-department-store. The leaflet from March, 1929 is part of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives at the Archives of Manitoba. (Click image below to enlarge.) Under the old gothic-lettering wordmark, it shows…
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