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#tbt vintage sewing supplies and dead retail stickers

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#tbt The Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine

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Buffalo NY Courier Express 1968 Singer Featherweight Ad

The sticker price did not keep up with inflation- it was $145 in 1948 and remained $145 in 1950. I miss Hengerer’s. I’m too young to remember the Singer Sewing Center on the second floor. I do wonder which slant model they were selling for $237.50 especially since the 301 Floor Model was going for … Read more

A visual history of crinolines – fashion’s most magnificent disaster

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Queen guitarist, astrophysicist and wildlife campaigner Brian May is a man of diverse interests, but his latest project, a book on the history of the crinoline, is perhaps his most astonishing yet. Around 1840, skirts began to widen – slowly at first, but within a decade a hem could measure as much as 33ft round. … Read more

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