An exceptionally pretty gift is a bag (Fig. 1), which may be used to carry handkerchiefs, and the change purse, or may be used as an opera-bag, or as an embroidery-bag… An especially handsome bag can be made by combining two shades of the same color, as for instance, using old gold for the heavy [...]
One of Vintage123’s readers, Jan, posted a comment on this entry from the archives asking if there was any way I could post the patterns for these watch cases from 1915. I managed to retrieve the instructions for the watch fob with pin, and the wrist case for medium-faced watch. Unfortunately, I don’t see the [...]
Whenever I see a complete pattern for a vintage clothing item in my old magazines, I always wish I could crochet or knit. When I saw these gorgeous jackets in the August 1910 issue of McCall’s magazine, I especially longed to make them. I think they would add such a great vintage touch to so [...]
“The problem of how to wear a watch during the summer months, so that it will not soil a dainty white frock, has always been a difficult one to solve.”
So says the August 1915 issue of McCall’s magazine, in an article entitled Summer Watch-Cases. This article tells how to crochet a case that not only [...]
“The newest thing in Paris, this spring,” according to the May 1865 issue of Peterson’s magazine, “is the Patti jacket, so called after the famous opera singer, Adelina Patti.” The article goes on to say that “it is an exceedingly useful garment, very suitable for out-of-door wear in warm weather, and a capital in-door jacket [...]
This snippet on “How to Take Measures for Patterns” ties in with yesterday’s entry on the purple princess gown. Like the illustration for that gown (which you were invited to send in for a pattern to make), this illustration comes out of the October 1899 issue of McCall’s magazine. McCall’s was known for the many [...]
Peterson’s Magazine, October 1863, featured this lovely Spanish Opera Hood among the many illustrations of fashions and patterns. The magazine contains two pages of knitting instructions for this item, created by a Mrs. Jane Weaver, who writes that the pattern for this hood “is taken from one worn by the Empress of the French.” Since [...]
This page is from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1870. This magazine often featured patterns for bonnets or handkerchiefs or, in this case, the embroidery to adorn a woman’s slipper. It even suggests using a crimson color on white cloth or cashmere, a combination which must have been quite appealing. If I had any skill at all [...]
