Dreams of the 40s

I've written about the Fisk shop, where I go to hang out with some great girls and sew and redesign second hand clothes. Well, some time ago the shop got a whole load of vintage stuff from an decreased, old woman - who in my imagination was the most excentric and vivacious upperclass lady, as her belongings tell a story of that sort.

We got a lot of beautiful undergarments (suspenders and negliges) and - the reason why I'm writing this post - some beautiful pattern magazines from the 30s and 40s. The illustrations are pieces of art in my opinion and I would love to hang them on my wall, but I could never bring my self to cut them out, so instead I took some pictures: