Vintage science & classic technology
That time NASA hired a hat maker to make headgear for astronauts (1965)
United States astronauts who go to the moon may wear headgear designed and produced by a ladies’ milliner.
United States astronauts who go to the moon may wear headgear designed and produced by a ladies’ milliner.
One little piece of felt, cut in a simple shape, a few quick stitches – and, presto! – a hat! Here are some simple vintage one-piece hats you can sew.
Back in the forties, men and women didn’t go out with a bare head – so what vintage hats were popular in the 1940s? Take a trip back in time and see the must-have headgear styles from yesteryear.
Here’s a look back to the most beautifully stylish vintage 1920s dresses and other clothing for women from the roaring twenties – and how to choose the finest fashions.
Before the Civil War, popular Elegant Victorian dresses were not just several feet wide and many layers think, but there were different dresses for dinner, evening, carriage rides and beyond.
Pretty hair should be fluffy, it should be glossy, and it should be even in color. Find out how to get these classic looks in this collection of old-fashioned haircare tips!
Tailor-made jackets in velvet are now quiet the thing, and made medium-length, double-breasted, turned-back collar and pockets on either side; very much, in fact, on the order of the English top coat.
You can create new fashions from old clothing! Here, see how a moth-eaten bathrobe and skirt, an outgrown blouse, knee-worn slacks were converted into sparkling new accessories.
It’s happened at last — fashion grows up this season. Gone is the little-girl look — the doll dress, cinched waist, and crinolines — it’s the woman who is now the darling of designers.
The small hat We lament its coming and we hope for its going, but still we cling tenaciously to it Why has the small hat
From 1950: A white hat, a flower hat, a wide feather-light straw so sheer that the sun shines through… This spring, hats have a lovely quality of becomingness.
When it comes to 1950s spring fashions for women, there are more straight shoulders than last year. Are skirts shorter? Yes, but not unbecomingly so. Fourteen or fifteen inches from the floor, according to your height. The newest hat is almost shoulder-wide.
Hats of the season Nothing strikingly new in the advance millinery models – The saucy tilt still apparent Feminine fashions are about as uncertain a proposition
Dye your clothes to refresh your wardrobe with new color: With dye pot and stencil brush The time of year is upon us when it
There is never a boy child who does not love to play soldier. The young soldier will be happier if he has a soldier cap. Either of the paper ones represented here in reduced size will answer the purpose.
Knitting an old-fashioned opera hood Make a chain of 90 stitches. Then knit one row across, then seam a row, knit a row, seam a row,
Window shopping in Washington DC (1926) By Mrs Harland H Allen – Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia) December 1, 1926 We have always thought
Sweeping popularity of ribbons The ribbon girl has arrived in all her glory. It is some years since the ribbon epidemic has been assigned a
The name brand in kitted headwear In knitted headwear, the popular vote goes to Eagleknit by a thumping majority. You can’t equal Eagleknit’s record for
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s 
Women: Do you have the ideal figure? Here’s what ‘they’ thought in 1950 
The famous Bacardi rum cake recipe 
The Beverly Hillbillies backstory, plus the theme song & lyrics (1962-1971) 
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