How old is this.......
04-13-2010, 08:27 AM
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Hi, have been watching silently for quite a while, but couldn't resist a comment. I started sewing my own clothes in 1954 and can remember that I could not go over $1 per yard. I believe the fabric has to be at least that old
I worked at W.T. Grants and they sold fabric. My mother always ordered from Sears. My first sewing lessons came in 1949 when she ordered terry cloth yardage to make wash cloths and towels for my new baby brother arriving. I learned to sew and hem them on an old Singer treadle. Thanks much for the memories. I really enjoy spending time with you.
I worked at W.T. Grants and they sold fabric. My mother always ordered from Sears. My first sewing lessons came in 1949 when she ordered terry cloth yardage to make wash cloths and towels for my new baby brother arriving. I learned to sew and hem them on an old Singer treadle. Thanks much for the memories. I really enjoy spending time with you.
04-13-2010, 09:13 AM
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The flower one on the far right struck me as familiar and then it dawned on me. My sister just bought the same pattern (...I don't remember where). It's feedsack material! They used to have some really pretty feed sacks because women used the material to make their children (and themselves) clothing.
04-13-2010, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by nannya54
Here is a picture ( I hope ) of the fabric. The middle one, purple, is the one with the price tag of 28 cents but the three of them have all the same texture. No smell, even while ironing them but they feel kind of stiff and grainy - not like cotton's today. Perhaps they starched them prior to bolting and selling?
04-13-2010, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by illinois
--and do you remember there was a device mounted on the edge of the table that they simply pulled the fabric through it and it measured off the length? A dial would go around to indicate how much yardage had been pulled through. Then it would clip the appropriate spot for how much you requested and they tore the fabric instead of cutting it? Really quick way of measuring yardage!
04-13-2010, 09:17 AM
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I had to sew most of my clothes for school and in high school purchased most of my fabric from Penney's since their quality was good and reasonably priced. I grad. in 1965 so that tells you how many years ago that was!
One year I purchased this beautiful red Asian print and made a blouse to go with the red wool skirt I also made. Thought I looked pretty spiffy. Then when I went to school on one of the first days of the year there was a friend whose mother sewed for her in the exact same outfit! We had a good laugh over that as we never compared notes on what we were making/wearing to school. The only difference in the blouses was that one was made from a Simplicity pattern and the other McCalls but still the same style. Who said you could be original if you sewed your own clothes!!
One year I purchased this beautiful red Asian print and made a blouse to go with the red wool skirt I also made. Thought I looked pretty spiffy. Then when I went to school on one of the first days of the year there was a friend whose mother sewed for her in the exact same outfit! We had a good laugh over that as we never compared notes on what we were making/wearing to school. The only difference in the blouses was that one was made from a Simplicity pattern and the other McCalls but still the same style. Who said you could be original if you sewed your own clothes!!
04-13-2010, 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by illinois
--and do you remember there was a device mounted on the edge of the table that they simply pulled the fabric through it and it measured off the length? A dial would go around to indicate how much yardage had been pulled through. Then it would clip the appropriate spot for how much you requested and they tore the fabric instead of cutting it? Really quick way of measuring yardage!
04-13-2010, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by illinois
--and do you remember there was a device mounted on the edge of the table that they simply pulled the fabric through it and it measured off the length? A dial would go around to indicate how much yardage had been pulled through. Then it would clip the appropriate spot for how much you requested and they tore the fabric instead of cutting it? Really quick way of measuring yardage!
04-13-2010, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by illinois
--and do you remember there was a device mounted on the edge of the table that they simply pulled the fabric through it and it measured off the length? A dial would go around to indicate how much yardage had been pulled through. Then it would clip the appropriate spot for how much you requested and they tore the fabric instead of cutting it? Really quick way of measuring yardage!
04-13-2010, 10:42 AM
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OMG. I was given some fabric that was in my Grandmother's stash of fabric and I have those fabrics too. She passed in 1986 and hadn't bought fabric for years. Most of her stuff was given to her from her kids or recycled. I have used the one on the left for a quilt. It is truely a small world. I doublt that she ever went to a Penney's because she did not drive and I don't remember her town in VA having a Penney's within walking distance for her. But they had a Woolworth's that I remember as a child walking to, sitting at the soda fountain while my Grandma shopped. That was 40-45yrs. ago!
04-13-2010, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by illinois
--and do you remember there was a device mounted on the edge of the table that they simply pulled the fabric through it and it measured off the length? A dial would go around to indicate how much yardage had been pulled through. Then it would clip the appropriate spot for how much you requested and they tore the fabric instead of cutting it? Really quick way of measuring yardage!
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