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Digging around the vast Trove archives, I came across these charming icons:
They were part of a full-page horoscope spread in the ‘Women’s Section’ of the newspaper, because who cares about war and stuff when there’s RECIPES to be had, RIGHT LADIES?
Enjoy!
Due to the reprehensible and ongoing theft of The Hare Moon (detailed further here; if you’re annoyed by it feel free to let her know), I’m no longer posting free patterns from my personal stash. HOWEVER, as I’ve pointed out this resource before and extracted patterns from it for those who might not want to slog through an enormous PDF of free patterns (knitting and sewing), I feel it’s safe to do so again. Particularly as I knitted up a sample of the ‘new fancy stitch’ to see just how new and fancy it really was (answer: quite).
The pattern features ‘fancy stitch’ stripes along the body and a larger chunk at the shoulder shaping. The top is worked in two pieces, though this wouldn’t be hard to work in the round up to the arms for minimal seaming.
This lacy pattern would look nice repeated, creating a diamonds-within-a-diamond motif. Enjoy!
Everything about this video screams ‘Lynchian’ – the song’s dreamy 50s rhythm,
the strange man outside the events,
the overly wholesome couple,
a slight sense of menace,
the random matador…
It’s all too easy picturing Julee Cruise singing this at the Bang Bang Bar.
Tags: 50s, david lynch, music videos, talking guitars
These gifs are the result of another dip in the Prelinger Archives.Remember folks, your tax dollars paid for these films, and they belong to the American public. Take advantage of them, edit them, or at least enjoy their campy goodness!
Here’s one from the classic ‘Are You Popular?’, featuring The Bad Girl. She is not popular because of/despite ‘parking’ with the boys. THE BOYS! PLURAL!
No wonder everyone at this table shuns her and talks about her behind her back! Unlike The Good Girl, who’s not wearing jewelry or makeup and instantly gets asked out by every guy.
Compared to today’s message of…actually I don’t even know what they’re foisting upon the youths of today- superabstinence? Fear and mystery of the Other? In any case, it’s refreshing to see dating a wide variety of people was considered not only normal but necessary to develop good social skills and learn what sort of person you liked to be with. It did NOT make you a tramp, though apparently it did if you ‘parked’.
The following are from what I consider the gem of the Prelinger collection, ‘Live And Learn’, aka ‘You’ll Poke Your Eye Out: The Movie’. Every scenario shows the horrifying results of…well, pretty much doing anything at all.
The staginess of him ‘pausing’ and checking the canister KILLS me. Also it eventually kills him.
ACTING!
Not a gif but it nicely captures the tone of the film.
This is what I imagine when someone suggests I watch their kids:
I could watch this for years:
His ‘fall’! The dummy! I cut it out, but the part where he gets up just fine and THEN remembers he ‘broke’ his wrist! GENIUS!
Tags: 40s, 50s, animated gifs, dating, mental hygeine, safety
Remember several months ago, when I posted about this sniveling thief bythelightofthemoon (toknittowoo on Etsy), who stole patterns from me, Bex and a number of other free pattern sites to sell on Ebay? Remember how I put up the stupid watermark so this wouldn’t happen again? Well, it turns out just because you have no morality doesn’t mean you can’t figure out Photoshop. Behold, a pattern put up AFTER the watermarking:
CLICK FOR BLATANT, ‘COPYRIGHT INFRINGING’ THIEVERY!
Here’s the link to the original FREE pattern, which I will again clarify is for personal use only, NOT FOR RIPPING OFF AND BADLY PHOTOSHOPPING INTO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BACKGROUND. Also, for the briefest lesson in pattern copyright – the pattern is not just for the image, IT IS FOR THE PATTERN INSTRUCTION, so guess what sister, you’re still stealing even if you did make some collages. And you also just blatantly stole a bunch of my patterns and stuck your stupid name over the top.
What’s even worse, this louse has set up her own website full of stolen patterns, presumably as a hedge against the inevitable shutdown of her completely stolen Ebay store. If you’d like to contact her through her new shop, as the email she lists for the ebay store, mariella@coolers.fsbusiness.co.uk, doesn’t seem to work (or perhaps she’s just blocked my email, possibly the only intelligent thing she’s done), please feel free to click here and write away.
I am absolutely crushed by this. This is the second time, after personally contacting them to stop no less, patterns have been stolen from my site. Until I can figure out a better way to share these images with good honest folk without getting burned again, I won’t be posting any more free patterns. Sorry guys. If anyone out there slightly better at watermarking or protecting images has any suggestions, please do let me know.
Also, be sure to tell as many people as you can, internet or in person, that thanks to the generosity of a large group of vintage pattern lovers, so many wonderful patterns are available absolutely free on a variety of sites. In fact, there are several sites out there that exist just to aggregate free patterns. Some have ads and probably derive revenue from clicks, but they at least link people back to the original and don’t try and sell them hogwash. It just boils my potatoes to think not only is someone making a profit off of stolen goods, but someone on the other end of the transaction is getting bilked out of their hard-earned money. Or if they’re a kept man or woman, someone else’s hard-earned money. And this person has already had over 14,000 sales. Times the ridiculous $5.00 for a PDF, that’s quite the stolen income, and until I can figure out a better way, I’m not helping them make another dime.
Again, that thief’s name is:
Mariella Shearer
24A Silver Street
Dursley
Gloucestershire
GL11 4ND
sims@coolers.fsbusiness.co.uk
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 20s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70's, 80's, blouse, dress, patterns, stolen, sweater, theft, vintage
