[Dr. Sivana]

From making flour sacks in pretty prints because they knew the poor used them to make clothing to colorful designs on linoleum and full color illustrations suitable for putting up in your house in magazines there were bits of beauty widely available to people who did not have much money.

My wife really enjoyed a book called "The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish". One of the themes of the book was that unlike peasant European women, lower-financial echelon American women had access to patterns and manual sewing machines that enabled them to dress in the current fashions with clothes the make themselves. It is on her bedside right now, and I strongly recommend it based on my wife's raves to the ladies on this forum for its information on what makes clothing attractive, and the history of ladies' fashion in America, as well as the theme mentioned.

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sounds like a book I would enjoy. I am very interesting in what is sometimes known as "distaff history". How ordinary people actually lived.

You could even rent time on a sewing machine in many fabric stores to make things if you could not afford one at home.

There were also civic women's clubs where you could find other women to sew with and teach you how to do things.

Mostly gone now. Can't get people out of their houses with a crowbar.

[thesearethetimes...]

Mark and Thank you and the missus!

Tatt