JC Penney sold fabric?
02-04-2011, 05:41 PM
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Oh yes. As a child I remember going to JCP with my mom and the fabric department was downstairs in the back corner of the basement (lousy light for color matching), then we went to
A&P to do the grocery shopping and stopped at the Standard Station to put gas in the car on the way home.
A&P to do the grocery shopping and stopped at the Standard Station to put gas in the car on the way home.
02-04-2011, 05:45 PM
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All the department stores sold fabric. Wards, jc pennys, Sears. One by one they all stopped when the big fabric stores came in. I even remember fred Meyer had fabric when we moved to Portland in the 80's. When i was in high school (in the late 60's and early 70's) I bought all my fabric from Sears. I just lived across the street. Things have changed Huh!!
02-04-2011, 05:46 PM
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Yes, JCP did sell fabrics - I think they continued through the 60's. I remember shopping there with my grandmother and also when I was out of high school. All the mid-range dept stores where I lived sold fabrics - Sears, JCP, Belks.
02-04-2011, 05:55 PM
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I can remember going with my mother to Penneys for material. From what I can remember, it was a fairly large dept. I know that it was in the very back of the store. (Whew...that's going back a ways for me to remember!!!) LOL
02-04-2011, 06:01 PM
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I am 63 and this all is so familar. I definitely can relate.
Sounds like my childhood..I too am 64 and Penney's was still selling fabric in 1978 here but quit soon after. KMart also sold pretty decent fabric.
Originally Posted by Tennessee Suzi
Originally Posted by montanajan
Yes, Penney's used to sell lots of nice fabric. When I was a child, my mother bought ALL the fabric she used from Penney's. My aunt worked in the fabric department at the Great Falls, Montana Penney's. It was on the mezzanine next to bedding, kitchen & bath towels. The only other place I remember seeing fabric for sale as a kid was at the local Ben Franklin, & the quality was not durable enough for the clothing Mom made us. I wore mostly home-made dresses, & didn't have a coat from a store until I was 10. Mom would even make prom dresses with Penney's fabric from home-made tissue paper patterns after I'd show her what I wanted in a store. She could sew anything, & no one could tell our clothes weren't "ready made". When she taught me to sew, the fabric always came from Penney's. I continued to buy Penney's fabric for clothing when I was in college in the late 60's. I was sorry to see Penney's stop their fabric lines, sometime in the late 70's, I believe. BTW, I'm 64, so that may give you younger readers/quilters an idea of how long ago I was buying sewing material at a Penney's fabric department. LOL
02-04-2011, 06:07 PM
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I live in Sioux Falls, SD and remember that the Penney's store carried fabric, fashion, decorator and flannel along with cottons. I believe they stopped stocking when the store moved from downtown to the new shopping mall (which is now like 37 years old). Lots of department stores carried fabrics - Sears, Montgomery Wards, KMarts, it wasn't unusual in the 60's & 70's.
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