Comments on: Spring Fashion

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:35:14 +0000

I’m only too happy to be led astray

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:33:50 +0000

Thanks Chris. Thank goodness for the washing machine! It was dangerous too. One of my cousins was burnt to death in the 1890s when her clothes caught fire boiling up bees wax and turpentine.

By: cassmob

cassmob — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:32:31 +0000

Sorry to lead you astray Merron. I figured that was why you cut off then but just think of all the fun in the AWW Look forward to summer fun & fashion.

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:28:19 +0000

Your tempting me Pauline. I should have also mentioned I stopped at the 50s because the newspapers finish during that decade, but there is still the Women’s Weekly. I’ll see what I can come up with. I will also be back in December with some summer fashion.

By: cassmob

cassmob — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:54:47 +0000

Styles!

By: cassmob

cassmob — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:53:53 +0000

lovely photos of Sykes and fashions…always useful to compare win photos. love looking at them but I’m missing the fashion gene. I’d love to see 1960s and 1970s follow up.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:02:14 +0000

Lovely journey through the ages, Merron. I too was thinking of my gggm’s battling along in the 1850s in those dresses with trains! How did they keep clean?
I can see why there was a whole service industry needed to keep households running before electric appliances were accessible to all.
Love how the hemline rose so dramatically in the 1920′s too!