Mid Week Rummage: The Sunshine Look

Summer fashions a la 1964.

Needle and Yarn Magazine, Volume 1, Number 3

Simple dresses were sleeveless or with raglan sleeves. Princess lines and back zippers. The full skirts of the 50's and early 60's are replaced with straight skirts for dress, a-line for a casual look.  Pants are still straight legged and shorts are starting to get shorter. Shoes had pointy toes....the chunky look had yet to make its debut.  Easy to Make/Easy to wear drawstring dresses are in order for a sweet mother-daughter look.
These patterns were available for 50 cents through mail order. 

Use the coupon code BLOGGIN to get a 15% discount at the GoofingOff Etsy shop. 

Post by Eileen Patterson......who is GoofingOff. 

Evening Dresses, Nina Ricci Paris Original, Surfer Wear, and Matryoshka Fat Quarters: New GoofingOff Listings

Sometimes I see a pattern and just say “Oh my!” Can’t help it. I don’t know if it is the color or the cut of the dress, or it’s the way I wish I would look if I was in it. Here’s a few dress patterns that meet my “Oh My” criteria.

1950’s Simplicity 3265 Flared Skirt, Top, Bolero, and Cummerbund. A hard-to-find, totally gorgeous pattern.

McCall’s 7003 in size 14, bust 34, from 1963. Uncut with factory folds!

Originally featured in Butterick Home Catalog Winter 1969, Butterick 5506 in size 16, bust 38 inches.

1970s Sewing Pattern Vogue Paris Original 1244 Nina Ricci Dress Gorgeous dress, this pattern is undated and complete.

Simplicity 8605 Surfer wear in size 10-12. Just right for hanging at the beach. Easy to sew, easy to pull on after a day in the water. Can’t dress up all the time.

 

Matryoshka Russian Dolls Fabric…in fat quarters. This is 100% cotton fabric. The color is vibrant.

Post by Miss Eileen aka GoofingOff

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Kitchen Ideas from A Cook's Delight Vintage Cook Book

A Cook's Delight
Future Homemakers of America
Newberry High School

While yard saling I found this awesome cookbook called "A Cook's Delight" from the Future Homemakers of America, Newberry High School, Newberry Florida from 1961. The book has some wonderful old recipes in there but I found these Kitchen Ideas I had to share.

"If a cracked dish is boiled for 45 minutes in sweet milk, the crack will be so welded together that it will hardly be visible, and will be so strong it will stand the same usage as before.

Put a layer of marshmallows in the bottom of a pumpkin pie, then add the filling. You will have a nice topping as the mashmallow will come to the top.

Dip your bananas in lemon juice right after they are peeled. They will not turn dark and the faint flavor of lemon really adds quite a bit. The same may be done with apples.

A leaf of lettuce dropped into the pot absorbs the grease from the top of the soup. Remove the lettuce and throw it away as soon as it has served its purpose.

To prevent splashing when frying meat, sprinkle a little salt into the pan before putting the fat in.

If the juice from your apple pie runs over in the oven, shake some salt on it, which causes the juice to burn to a crisp so it can be removed.

Add a little vinegar to the water when an egg cracks during boiling. It will help seal the egg.

Small amounts of leftover corn may be added to pancake batter for variety.

Use a strawberry huller to peel potatoes which have been boiled in their 'jackets.'

To make bread crumbs, use fine cutter of the food grinder and tie a large paper bag over the spout to prevent flying crumbs."

I can remember my grandmother adding salt to the pan before frying but didn't know what for.  I have to try the pumpkin pie and the lettuce ideas. As for a strawberry huller.....I don't even know what one looks like, much less use one!

“New” Vintage Listings in MissEileen’s Shop

 

           Vintage Nylon Stockings….Lorette Exclusive with Kline’s

These stockings were made from Cantrece by DuPont, 400 needle, 15 denier. Cantrece was a new type of Nylon that was developed by Dupont to give perfect fit. It has stretch  but is sheer as regular nylon stockings with no looseness and were made to fit every contour of the ankle, calf & knee, all important to the fashionable woman of the 60’s.

 

    Vintage Mid Century Black Rotary Dial Telephone 

A little scuffed from use but still in incredible vintage condition. From the days when you had to call the phone company (there was only one) to hook up (install) your phone because jacks weren’t invented yet. Don’t even think or wireless or hand held. Those were imaginary things only seen in the movies or cartoons. Still works. These phones were built solid and heavy, meant to last a long time.

     Vintage Chenille Bedspread Yellow with Blue Basket and Pink Roses

This bedspread is gorgeous and in very good vintage condition. Absolutely beautiful. Tufting is all intact. It has been stored away for a long time. Full size, from the days when people were a little smaller in stature and money was tight. But then smaller beds meant snuggling a little closer. Hmmm….

    Vintage Hand Held Mirror by Avon

This cutie was made in the Wedgewood Jasper style with 3 Grecian Ladies. I used to think hand mirrors were oh-so-feminine. Bring to mind pictures of Victorian ladies admiring their long tresses.

All of these wonderful finds are in my MissEileen’s Etsy shop.

Thanks for stopping by!

8.13.11 New GoofingOff Listings

Hi, everyone! I am back home from my journey to the Pacific Northwest. It is a beautiful part of the country, one of clear, cool skies, tall, rugged mountains, and wonderful people. I sought out local artisans and local food where ever I went and took close to a thousand pictures. Lots of fun and well worth the effort. Let's face it, it is too easy to go to a souvenir shop and buy mass produced items. Way too easy. It is also a bit ridiculous. What's the point of traveling some place only to buy something with "Made in China" on the bottom? It took a little more time and cost a couple of dollars more but it was so worth it.
I did go thrifting, even with my broken arm and sprained ankle. Yes, I fell while trying to catch up to the hubby, fell real hard. Did it the day before leaving Seattle for Alaska. I walked (OK, limped) all over Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. Had too. No way I was going that far to stay in my room with my foot up.
Oh yeah, back to thrifting. In Juneau we found the Salvation Army store. They had wonderful vintage sewing patterns waiting for me, like they knew I was coming. Some nice clothes, too, like sweatshirts for this Florida girl. Summer up there is almost lke our winter.
In Seattle, Value Village is the place to thrift. Huge 3 story building with lots to go through. They had a gorgeous cedar chest ready to be refinished. Just couldn't think of a way to carry it on the plane. Lots of clothes. Hubby got a leather jacket in fantastic condition for under $20. Lots of beautiful handbags and silk scarves (snagged a few of those).
Here's some of the patterns I had the good fortune to find.

McCall's 7677 from 1965. Enclosed was the picture of the dress in the magazine it was featured in.

Simplicity 7935 from 1968 is so Hugh Hefner. After finding this pattern I saw an ad for "The Playboy Club." Enough said.

Very Easy Vogue 8512. Gorgeous outfit. Simple chemise with jacket. What an elegant look!

McCall's 8305, 1966. Love the little bow at the waist!

McCall's 8265, men and women's costumes. Love the sari!

McCall's 3869. Is this not gorgeous?!!

I'll be listing more patterns in the GoofingOff shop and those gorgeous silk scarves in MissEileen's shop in the next few days. Take a peek when you can.
Thanks for stopping by!

Deadeye Dick: Vintage Children's Sewing Patterns

Vintage children's sewing patterns are about as hard to find as hen's teeth (for those who don't know, hen's don't have teeth making them very rare). The patterns that were popular were used a lot leaving them often incomplete, torn up, or MIA. Cowboys and westerns were very popular in the 50's and 60's. As children we played cowboys and Indians, carried toy pop guns on our hips, and wore cowboy hats. The truly lucky among us had mom's who could sew and make us cowboy and cowgirl outfits so we could be real cowboys and cowgirls.
Simplicity 6500 from 1965 is a western costume for a boy or girl. It includes pattern pieces and instructions for vests, boleros, pants, skirts, AND the embroidery tranfers. Very rare.
I've been holding on to this for a while. I just love to look at it and remember playing with friends and making believe I was riding a horse trying to get away from the Indians.
Time to let go.

Simplicity 6500 Deadeye Dick

Thanks for joining me on my trip down memory lane.
Eileen from GoofingOff.etsy, GoofingOff.artfire, and MissEileen.etsy.