Be an Athletic Supporter...
As men took up team sports in the 19th century, they adopted knitted cotton and wool jersey garments to allow freer movement. However,...
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Jonathan Walford
- Aug 5, 2021
- 3 min
The Sweater from Paris
Pages from 1950s/60s catalogue showing Mary Maxim sweaters and a graph pattern for a child's sweater with the Three Little Pigs motif....
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Jonathan Walford
- Jul 19, 2021
- 1 min
Getting the Point: Hatpins as Weapons?
New York Times, March 22, 1910, long hat pins were being banned! “It is now a misdemeanor for any woman to wear a long hatpin in public...
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Jonathan Walford
- Jun 20, 2021
- 7 min
A Hundred Years Ago – The World and Fashion in 1921
A Scrapbook of 1921 fashions For Canada, 1921 was a better year than 1920: William Lyon McKenzie King, Canada’s longest serving Prime...
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Jonathan Walford
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Saints and Seamers
Even those of us who aren’t catholic are probably familiar with the names of a few saints. There are St. Christopher medals for nervous...
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Jonathan Walford
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
Sole Discretion
In ancient times, the shoe was often used as a symbol of authority. ‘Upon the land of Edom do I cast my shoe’ (Psalms 60:8) This biblical...
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Jonathan Walford
- Dec 12, 2020
- 2 min
Sewer or Sewist?
I recently created a bit of a brouhaha on the FHM facebook page. I posted about the word ‘sewist’ with a reference to a New York Times...
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Jonathan Walford
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
Have a Crepey Halloween
Crepe paper Halloween dress, hat and mask, late 1920s The origin of crepe paper is a bit murky. It appears to have been developed in...
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Jonathan Walford
- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
Would the Real Rosy the Riveter Please Stand Up...
In 1943 Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb wrote a song about a munitions worker who "keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage / sitting up there...
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Jonathan Walford
- Aug 22, 2020
- 2 min
That Time Chanel Went to Hollywood
On January 19, 1931, the New York Times reported film producer Samuel Goldwyn’s announcement: “After more than three years of constant...
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Jonathan Walford
- Aug 22, 2020
- 1 min
Poison Rubber
In 1887, three men who all worked at a New York rubber company were committed to a local Hospital for incoherent insanity. Dr. Frederick...
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Jonathan Walford
- Aug 22, 2020
- 2 min
Moths? Freeze Them
Moths are potentially the worst problem a textile collection might encounter. I have two methods I used to keep them under control. First...
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