Patterns for the maternity dress (on the left) and the adjustable housedress (on the right) could be purchased from Needlecraft magazine for...

The average middle-class woman of the last century’s teens and twenties had a wardrobe that would seem pitifully small by today’s standards....

Lux soap ad from Bernat Handicrafter , 1943.

One of the pleasures of attending the IESA Class 7A basketball tournament was getting to watch a 4'6" point guard.

If you live in the eastern 2/3 of the US, Hobby Lobby has McCall's patterns on sale for .99 Monday-Saturday.

From Needlecraft , September 1914: “There is no part of a dinner that is more important than is the salad. It is a good appetizer, and, rig...

Man from the moving company : What is this? Oldest Sister : That's a buggy whip. (Long silence). Oldest Sister : My dad uses it to p...

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Grandchildren are God's gift for not killing your teenagers. Anonymous (image available as an ecard from Dover ).

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I can't believe I've never noticed it before, but there's a slide show of some of their 1956-57 patterns on the Burda WOF site.

These patterns for the embroidered strawberry motif and the bedspread were offered in McCall's Needlework and Crafts , Summer 1943.

The last of February's one-skein (4 oz) projects from the Columbia-Minerva booklet are these ladies' gauntlet-type gloves with a buc...

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Driving home from Cornfedton Friday afternoon my train of thought—which most days resembles the Toonerville Trolley—went something like this...

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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. G. Washington

"Children of the night...what beautiful music they make."

From Tipnut, a nifty little vintage booklet on making tea-aprons from hankies .

These patterns could be ordered for a dollar each from the pages of Modern Needlecraft in 1952. But just look at some of the designers; Cei...