In my prowls with the library I came across this title, as well as I have to state I discovered an huge number of things from it, including:
Vogue, Butterick, as well as McCalls created much more than 600 patterns a year each in the 1930s as well as early 1940s, dropping to an typical of 500 patterns a year thereafter. (And when you put it that way, I barely have any type of patterns at all! Let’s see, the 10 years of the 1950s times three pattern business times 500 … as well as that doesn’t even count advancement or the newspaper pattern business … or contemporary patterns … )
McCalls were the very first printed patterns, patenting them in 1919. When the patent expired in 1938, many of the other pattern business started utilizing them, except for Vogue, which continued to utilize hand-cut patterns up until 1956. McCalls was likewise the very first business to create patterns that were licensed copies of Paris designs.
The cost of a singer stitching device in the 1860s was $100 — $50 if you were the spouse of a priest (which ought to tickle the writer of this funny as well as helpful blog; thanks to Sendhil for the link!).
The culture of stitching likewise led me to this book (which I’ll have to try to get from interlibrary loan), as well as this one, which I can’t believe I didn’t have, as well as will now have to buy.
All in all a successful checked out … although a few of the essays (it’s a collection) were much as well theoretical for my enjoyment, many of them were extremely great reads. One even had a word I can’t discover anything else about: humby, in this context:
Household responsibilities — concerned over new poplin dress, purchased last winter season which is a ideal humby — looking as if it were rough dried. pressed it.
This is from the diary of a Susan McManus, in Philadelphia, in 1869. There was an actress named Humby about that time (it’s a commonish surname) however I can’t make any type of links or discover evidence of other utilizes like this. Yet.
Is there anything much more pleasant than reading a great book about a subject you’re fascinated by? (If there is, don’t tell me, I have sufficient difficulty keeping up with all I have to do already.)
[No cover image, as it’s NSFW. It’s an arresting as well as gorgeous image, however I have to state that one of the new legislations of the Web ought to be that if you want people to blog about your book, it assists to not put nekkid people on the cover.]
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