Sewing Vintage

In the mid-teens when women started wearing dresses that required simple slips under them because they were transparent or semi-transparent,...

From 1914-1916 it was fashionable to have collars that were high in the back which complemented upswept hair held up with combs.  This was ...

A brochure from Sears that is still good advice today, although I have no idea what aralac is.

Size 16 in 1935 was Bust 34, Hip 37.

Here is a neat package I found at an estate sale.  It's pretty self-explanatory and I wish we had the range of zippers shown today.  Fro...

The dress on the right is the one my mother chose in 1951 for her wedding in August of that year.  She made it herself and her two sisters ...