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Lingerie Touches for Frocks, 1932

I’m got a bunch of blog posts half written at the moment, but they are all long and elaborate, and I just don’t have the time to finish them today. So instead, a quick, sweet and simple blog post, featuring a page from the March 1932 Fashion Services Magazine, with frocks that show ‘Lingerie Touches for Chic’ In addition to the lingerie touches (by which they mean handiwork and lace edging), there is lots of exoticism – Persian prints, and ‘scarab’ crepes (which sound like the pure silk variation of roshanara). Plus, Irish crochet is a la mode and skirt lengths are shorter – a whole 11 to 13 inches off the floor (and that’s in shoes!) .

A textile tour of New Zealand: five fabulous places to visit

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Jules asked about things that the textile and fashion enthusiast should see in NZ. Sadly, there aren’t actually many exclusively textile and fashion focused places to visit in New Zealand – there is the NZ Fashion Museum, but it doesn’t have a building, so just does travelling exhibitions (and so far they have been more eye-candy than sink-your-teeth-into-them-and-learn exhibitions), and there are small scattered fashion and textile history displays at other museums. Many of these are fabulous – just not all in one place. With that said, here are my five top picks of textile-y things to see and do in New Zealand. I’ve picked things that are open all year round, rather than special one-off events like Art Deco Weekend, World of Wearable Arts, or Victorian Days, so that a visitor to NZ could feasibly see all of them in one trip. I’ve put them in North to South order. 1) Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland Much as I love Wellington, I have to admit that the best spread of historic dress on display …

Bestways Initial Transfers: Early 1920s children’s clothes

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For the final installment of my Bestways Initial Transfer Book (except for the ads, which are pretty fabulous!), here is the cutest section: the children’s clothes. They may be children’s garments, but I would happily wear most of this stuff! Like both those jackets. (aren’t the pocket button details divine?) Oooh…the short coat is grass green! Yum! Note the mentions of the very fashionable cut-on ‘Magyar’ sleeves, and the contrasting sleeves set into ‘ordinary armholes’. The next page features a few more teens in covetable clothes, and some proper children in sports bloomers and an extremely scant gymnastics pinafore frock. This is ‘an exceedingly smart walking dress in wool marocain’. Cunning belt detail, and great hat and parasol!: And here are the funny sports clothes. Looking at these, I can’t help thinking how modern society would consider initials and names for children ill-advised for safety reasons. Last of all, a little girl with a teddy (with its own monogram) and a lovely blouse. Oh, I do like 1920s blouses! If you enjoyed …