Saturday, June 14, 2014

Home Sewing Tips from the 1920s - A Tailored Jabot

In this tip for home sewers of the 1920s, Ruth Wyeth Spears describes how to start with a plain pattern for a blouse and change it with the smartest details of the day. Her thorough instructions describe how to add contrast fabric  cuffs, bias roll collar, and a pleated jabot that slips in and out of two bound openings. Very tailored and very chic!



I didn't know buns over the ears were popular in the 1920s - Princess Leia as a flapper? ;) Enjoy!

2 comments:

  1. Those bins were the style for girls not brave enough to bob their hair. They were known, slangily, as 'cootie garages.'

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  2. Thank you, Shay! I've never seen them in any advertising or literature from the 1920s before this. Cootie garages - how funny!

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