From the Woman's Home Companion, February, 1919. The war had been over for three months and presumably the pressure to self-ration was beginning to lift. A pdf with eight volumes' worth of this periodical can be found on Google Books.
Little Grey Bungalow
That apron is wonderful!
ReplyDeletePost WWI fashions were so lovely. When I was a newly-wed, my grandmother told me to always buy new housedresses in the spring, so they would look nice all summer. I don't think my daughters would know a housedress if it fell out of their closet!
ReplyDeleteMy Gramma Mabel had a closet full of house dresses, usually in pink or blue with white trim (as a stoutish Swedish white-haired lady with snapping blue eyes, she looked fantastic in either color!) There was always a "nice" hanky in her pocket and an "emergency" hanky tucked in her brassiere strap. I think we should institute a housedress day here on LGB!!
ReplyDeleteMiss Allen, that is a wonderful idea! Shay, may we post pictures?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! Something like ask people to send in photos of housedresses (them or their mammas/grammas) and post them?
ReplyDeleteGetting up in the morning, putting on a dress and apron makes it feel like homemaking is your occupation (in a good way.) The feel is so different from throwing on a pair of jeans and a tshirt.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see pics. Somewhere in a box (we moved) is a pic of my grandmother sitting in a canvas sling chair in the garden, lap full of gooseberries that she was topping and sorting for jam.