Archive for February 2011

Singer Sewing Machine 1920's Advertising Cards - American Song Birds - Part 3

This group includes the Birdbird, Wood Thrush, Orchard Oriole and the Baltimore Oriole, all beautiful. The ads include the Singer Portable Electrics, the various Cabinet Tables and things you could make with your wonderful new sewing machine including clothes for your children and your windows. Remember, there were "Shops in every city in the world"!

Singer Sewing Machine 1920's Advertising Cards - American Song Birds - Part 2

This group includes the Meadowlark, Brown Thrasher, Scarlet Tanager and the Mocking Bird. With ads talking about how with New Singer Portable Electric lets you sew "by your favorite window or in the living room at night with the family" or the Singer Sewing Motor, "The cost of operation is trifling, averaging about three hours of sewing for one cent". Then we have the "famous Singer No. 66, round bobbin machine, equipped with Singer Motor and Singerlight and enclosed in De Luxe Library Table No. 40" in "walnut, mahogany or brown mission". But "for those who prefer a special table for Singer portable electrics...Tables No. 301 and 304". There isn't much that you couldn't buy with the Singer name on it!

Singer Sewing Machine 1920's Advertising Cards - American Song Birds

This is a set of advertising cards put out by The Singer Sewing Machine Company, dated 1926, '27, '28, '29. They are each 4 1/2" x 6" and printed on fairly thin stock. Each one has a lovely bird illustration by J. L. Ridgway, a well known science and ornithological artist. The back of the card has information about the particular bird and an ad for some aspect of the Singer Sewing Machine empire.
I have more of these to show you and remember to click twice to see all the details.

And Now For Something Completely Different...Groovy Things to Make with Bandanas!

Make skirts, halter tops, sleeveless shell, bedspreads, pillows, aprons, appliance covers, tablecloths, napkins and even curtains...all to show off your seventies chic!

ORANGE (A)PEEL & STRIPES

Olympia Le-Tan's Lovable Book Clutches

I make it a point to carry a book around with me anywhere I go, as any self-respecting bibliophile would, which of course makes Olympia Le-Tan my new fave designer. Now I can carry a book in a book, seriously.
The bag line, aptly named "You Can't Judge a Book by its' Cover", is book/bag upon book/bag of well-loved and famous classics, many my personal favorites.
So far (in my knowledge anyway) only Clemence Posey and Natalie Portman have been photographed with these clutches.

Delineator Magazine - 1888 Hall's Bazar Portable and Adjustable Dress and Skirt Forms

"Endorsed and recommended by all Fashion Publishers as being a long-felt want admirably supplied."
And this must be true because:
"We consider these the most perfect Forms ever introduced, and cheerfully recommend them to our customers everywhere. THE BUTTERICK PUBLISHING COMPANY [LIMITED]"

MISS MEDDLESOME (to her mamma).--Ah! We have now discovered the secret or her gracefully draped dresses, which have been the envy or our lives. Look! She has HALL'S BAZAR FORM. We shall send for one at once! It can be adjusted to fit either of us.

MISS FASHION PLATE (soliloquising).-The effect Is simply charming. It would have been Impossible to produce this result without HALL'S BAZAR PORTABLE FORM. I can now make over and drape my own dresses and not become worn out standing for the dressmaker. This Form was a happy thought, and is worth more than Its weight In gold to ladies easily fatigued by standing.