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   Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 20:58:57 JST Sini Tuulia

   Thinking about this old book I read, "How to make over old dresses" by Augusta Prescott, 1892. In it she tells us how to take apart, wash, possibly re-dye and then make a new dress out of an old one... And past the whole of "a good housewife simply must properly clothe her legion of children" it's fascinating. How much effort went into it, because if you weren't rich, that was good fabric and you had to make do!

   https://archive.org/details/how-to-make-over-old-dresses/mode/2up

   #OldManuals #Victorian #Sustainability #Sewing

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Dec-2025 22:52:12 JST Sini Tuulia

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage Also after the Great Depression I think though can't say for sure, as anything past 1920 is no longer my area of expertise!

     The companies would put different prints, flowers or stripes etc. on the fabric, in pretty colours. I have the vaguest idea one company might have put multiple print designs on their sacks, so people would be encouraged to buy more than one if they could...