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Posted by Samantha Hill - take out TRASH on March 24, 2008, 4:34 pm
Joan wrote:
> This site - VintageSewing.info - contains sewing instructions from the
> early 1900s to the 1950s. You can click on the links and read detailed
> instructions for various sewing projects. I found it interesting that
> the older books relied mainly on verbal instructions with a dearth of
> diagrams or pictures. Sewing was a good deal more difficult then and
> seemed to require a lot of skill, without doubt. I'm not sure I would
> have wanted to attempt a six gored tailored skirt based on those
> instructions alone.
But back then most people learned to sew from their moms and grandmoms.
I don't know about you, but my one gramma made basically everything
she ever wore until she started having strokes, and her daughter my aunt
did as well (and I was born in the 50s).
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