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  • End of Summer Sale: Make Do and Mend Edition! Picking out a few things from my mending basket that I just don’t have time to get to. First up, this adorable white/red/dark grey brush stroke print late 40s day dress in a super soft cotton/linen blend. Side metal zip. Bias cut skirt has a lovely drape. Measures 39-29 with a bit of stretch, skirt length is 25” with no hem to let down. Please see all photos for flaws - this dress has been well worn and needs some seam reinforcement in the rear skirt seam and in a couple spots along the waist. Some marks along the waist from a belt. There’s a hole near one arm and a couple thin spots, near the top button and near the other arm. A couple other assorted spots that should lift. Still super wearable in a great style and print. Asking $68 plus ship, DM your paypal info to claim // #forsale #1940sfashion #1950sfashion
  • “The Question: Why do most men disapprove of women wearing slacks? Michael J. Rogers, bus driver: ‘It just doesn’t look right. Slacks are all right in a defense plant, but the women who board my bus wearing slacks certainly look like a peculiar lot! I haven’t seen one who looked attractive. There’s your answer! Men like to look at attractive women.’ George T. Mulcahy, fireman first class, U.S. Navy: ‘Men don’t like to be cheated and slacks are cheaters. They hide the girls’ legs… most men start looking at a girl from her ankles up!’” New York Daily News, June 28, 1944. Artist vest and Gentlewoman Lounge Trousers by @revellecollection // #womeninslacks #ootd
  • “His formula is so simple: shirts, skirts, sweaters, pants—all the good, classic things we’ve always loved. But then come the twists, the touches—a bow on a shirt; a heel on a ‘tennis’ shoe; a baby-fine white crochet cap; the putting together of brown with white, the freshness and variety of it—it’s a whole new turn on this kind of dressing, softer, more feminine.” Anjelica Huston wearing Valentino, photographed by Richard Avedon for Vogue, January 1, 1973 // #valentino #1970sfashion
  • I don’t know who needs to hear this but 1972 thinks you look fabulous today ✨
  • Casual outfit inspiration from 1947: “Outdoors / indoors—nothing so right as ‘Botany’ Brand flannel—the deep-glow, fine-textured fabric that belongs to all seasons, that is famous for long wear. The shirts, skirt and slacks meticulously tailored by Allen of Chicago, in heavenly colors, in flannel or gabardine… Blouse and shirt, in long or short sleeves, each under 13.00. Skirt and slacks, under 11.00.” Botany ad circa 1947, modern outfit by @revellecollection // #1940sfashion #ootd #vintagestyle #1940sstyle
  • “Sun Fun of California looks ahead with fashion confidence to a sunny future in a two-piece orlon and rayon combination of stand-up collar shirt and banded waist, turned-up cuff pedal pushers. In Hoffman’s ‘Oro,’ with Conmar zipper … Ektachrome by Frank Stiffler.” California Stylist, February 1953 // #1950sfashion #vintagecalifornia
  • The temperature came down three degrees today so I’m plotting my fall mood 🍁🍂🍁 “Two to live in from Jerry Silverman: honey velvet for the jacket, beige knit shirt and stock combined with Glen plaid pleats for the dress—a pair you could feel at ease in, any day, anywhere in the world. Shannon Rodgers for Jerry Silverman. Cotton velvet by J. L. de Ball; Woolmark plaid by Meyer Woolens. About $165.” Vogue, September 1, 1972 // #1970sfashion
  • FOR SALE A perfect example of 1940s California sportswear in a lovely rich chocolate brown color, with decorative buttons, pockets on the jacket, and labels in both the jacket and pleated slacks. Jacket has padded shoulders belt loops, but please note belt is not included, nor is the scarf. Side metal zip on slacks. Measures about 41-30-44 - see my for sale highlight for more details. Asking $230 plus ship, DM your PayPal info to claim. // #1940sfashion #1940spantsuit #1940sslacks
  • “California’s Frances Rich, now in training as an instructor for the WAVES. Daughter of actress Irene Rich, she is no novice at war work. Last spring she gave up sculpting in mid-career to become an engineer-illustrator doing technical drawings of airplane parts for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, their first woman to undertake such specialized work. She’s shown here, before enlisting, in working jumper-slacks of rayon suiting with a new wrap-over front, about $9.” Mademoiselle, October 1942 // #WWII #womeninslacks #1940sfashion

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