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Next week is the Hamilton Gardens’ Mansfield Garden Party, and I’ll be speaking on garden party fashions in Mansfield’s life at the Glory Days Garden Party Salon. The Hamilton Gardens have chosen to set the Mansfield Garden party in 1922, the year Mansfield’s story was published (it came out in early Feb, 1922 – and Mansfield had been living with Northern Hemisphere winters for the last 12+ years), rather than ca. 1907, which is when Mansfield was in Wellington, attending garden parties, and…

Then- Get out the feather duster! The Sears Roebuck catalog c. 1920 provided women with some basic cotton dresses for working at home. Now- Check out these six versions of the comfortable house dre…

Another fashion page from the Delineator, this one is dated May 1918. Part of a gift package from Evening* :-))

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"The Lost Art of Dress" by Linda Przybyszedwski, PHD I will refer to the kind Dr. as Dr. Pski hence forward. Dr. Pski is a professor at Notre Dame, noted historian, and a woman who loves to sew. Don't you just love that combination? She believes she is the only woman to present before the Supreme Court in an outfit of her own making. Our kind of woman, right? In this book she introduces us to the "Dress Doctors", a group made up of retailers, extension agents, home economists, writers and…

Today I have a lovely image I cleaned up to share from a vintage 1916 Ladies Home Journal magazine. This is from the July issue, exactly 99 years ago. I hope you enjoy! I included close ups of all the images, since it’s often hard to read the big sheets on a screen. I’m especially loving […]Continue Reading...

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