Tailor Maid - 1945 Fashion Model's 5 Way Suit

In The American Magazine, March 1945, we have Wendy Russell New York "top-flight fashion model and styling adviser to half a dozen manufactures" wearing a suit that "does duty for five costumes". Her "hat happened to cost a dollar, and her jewelry came from a junk shop."
This gave her panche, which freely translated, means "Put your hat over your right eye."
It doesn't hurt she is "standing  before a Vertes screen"!

Be First With Fredricks!

This fabulous Fredrick's ad from 1966 came on the back of the TV Prevues insert in the Seattle PI Newspaper. This might have come to my house. And I clearly remember studying these ads closely. I KNEW they were for bad women, certainly nobody I knew wore these sorts of things.  I didn't really know (at age 10) what a 'bad woman' was. But I did feel like I was missing out on something important. Would I ever look like that? Could I ever wear that play suit? 
Turns out I still don't have the answer to that question. 

Probably.

Gray Squirrels on a Bright Background

I love this project from Ruth Weyth Spears Home Decoration with Fabric and Thread, published in 1940. Put squirrels on your drapes! 

A Rug Made From an Old Coat and Scraps of Felt!

This old idea could be pretty great today...and you might not have to cut up old hats and discarded school pennants. Found in Home Decoration with Fabric and Thread, 1940, Illustrations and Text by Ruth Wyeth Spears.