Home Sewing Tips from the 1920s - Making a Smart and Becoming House Dress Without a Pattern - in an Hour!

Be amazed! In this tip from Ruth Wyeth Spears for her 1920s audience, she provides instructions for making the simplest dress ever, without a pattern! She describes not only how to fit the fabric to your shape, but also how to add godets to add flare. It need only take an hour, she says!

So, the previous year's house dresses looked like plain aprons, did they? I can only imagine. :)

1950s Tent Dress - It's a Sunny Trend!

Read the fine print: This dress cost less than $9.00 to make from Advance Pattern 5960. :) This wonderful sundress was featured in Woman's Home Companion in March 1952. And a popular style it was!

The following examples of the versatile flowing tent-style dress, cinched in with a belt, are from 1953:

 

McCall's 9385

 

Butterick 6747

Celebrate Summer Solstice Day with Dresses from June 1950!

Whether you have some real sun or not on this longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, you can imagine yourself wrapped up in these delightful dresses, straight from June 1950 and Women's Home Companion. Wrap and button, double-breasted button, or tie!