The nudge from Lucy but show times specifically what you can do with the unpopular and unsustainable garments and so to escape the consumer spending, which strikes us primarily quantitative harassed waves. Less is more! As
Suschna here separated from the historic shell, reported it occurred to me that I inherited from my grandmother's some pretty old fashion magazines, which are naturally lifted. But when witnesses are quite significant. Some are from the last war years to 1945 and witness the same time by the imagination and the lack of material to be sewn. Since they fit perfectly on the subject of Lucy, I want to show them to you.
A recurring theme was "Use of wasting nothing, everything in the newspapers. Described that old, no longer suitable garment can unravel to sew it into a completely new. The pattern plans to show it pretty clearly.
has captivated me to the poor description of the finished garment. It is much more complex than the usual parts today, but the description for this relatively low.
This shows that in principle it was knowledge that no explanation more needed and, of course, that sewing and tailoring still accounted for the bulk of the clothing. Some of the rod was taboo, unthinkable or simply just to get in the big cities. (When you click to enlarge all images)
Something Difficult was laundering what so ever we can not imagine. There was little commodity jersey, elastic fibers, as we know it today, not to mention. So this issue was certainly very useful and important. About laundering in times of shortage I had until then, frankly, made little thought. be
as material damaged slips or skirts, old trousers, Prinzeßröcken (whatever that might be), taken the remains of linen fabrics, Men's pajamas and much more. Any type of underwear is represented finished you can: underwear, shirt, knickers (the word slip there was in the language yet) panties, slip, pantaloons, stockings suspender belt, bra, bed jackets, etc. For many wear points are tips given and described exactly how one can replace this, what parts of worn clothes are suitable for new parts. Reads really exciting! My mom told
times that as a very little girl underwear knitted got the scratched terribly. Can you imagine that? At that time there was no baby merino wool or alpaca for knitting. My daughters are pretty tough BW compared with the soft micro-fibers.
just one example from the booklet how to sew from old sweaters swimwear. How that felt in practical use, I would like to imagine that now. Since the paper quality of these old issues is of course appalling to fear that they will fall at some point entirely, which would be very sad. I'm just thinking whether we should copy it or laminate. Sounds
but somehow brutal.
