Knit One Purl One

Today I thought I would blog about my other etsy shop, Vogue Vintage Knits,  which focuses on vintage 1930s-1950s knitting and crochet patterns.  I'm afraid I'm really a woeful knitter and crocheter, but that doesn't stop me from coveting some of the items in the shop!

 1930s Crochet & Knit Evening Dress

Etsy Listing # 31495987 

One of my customers purchased this pattern to make for an early autumn wedding dress for herself.  I think that it would absolutely gorgeous dress for the occasion.

Poodle Sweater

Vogue Knitting 1951

Etsy Listing # 53727557

Of all the patterns available in my shop, this one is my absolute favorite.  I think this woman looks spectacular with her poodle sweater and long black gloves.  The net tied on her head really adds some pizazz!

1940s Jack London Crochet Handbag

Etsy Listing # 60502938

I love this handbag by Jack London.  There is a very nice selection of these handbags in the shop, and each one of them is the epitome of 1940s chic! 

1953 Vogue Shrug

Etsy Listing # 13856367

Now, this is about the extent of what my knitting skills allow me to make.  I did make a couple of these last year and they are really so simple, even I can do it!

 1950s Little Girls Bolero Sweater

Etsy Listing # 56205828

And last, but not least, this is just the sweetest little pattern! 

There are lots more vintage patterns in the shop, so please stop by! 

Sunny Day

Tonight I was looking through my ads to get some inspiration for my nightly blog and here's what I came up with.  I just smiled when I looked through these sunshine yellow ads and I hope you will, too.

 Selincourt Yellow & Black Wool Coat

Harper's Bazaar

October 1947

Etsy Listing #72767741

Yellow Fleece Shirt

Vogue USA

January 1956

Etsy Listing #69440325

Yellow Linen Sheath Dresses

Vogue USA

January 1956

Etsy Listing #69440103

Love in Paris!
DC 7 Airplane Ad

Holiday Magazine

July 1955

Etsy Listing #66142367

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Since I've been reading about World War II fashions in the Forties Fashion book I mentioned in the previous post, I took another look at a couple of the patriotic fashion illustrations in my collection that I'd like to share with you.  Both of these were in a 1940s edition of Vogue USA.

Patriotic Fashion Illustration by Rene Bouet-Willaumez RBW
Vogue USA
February 1940
Etsy Listing #70376724

Holeproof Hosiery

Vogue USA

February 1940

Etsy Listing #70374079

 

 

Sunny Hartnett

My favorite model of the 1950s is Sunny Hartnett.   As a blonde in a sea of dark-haired models, she really stood out.  I think she was an absolutely gorgeous woman.  Her name is so fitting for the lightness she radiated in her photos.  Here are a few of my favorites from my etsy shop:

 Vogue USA 

January 1, 1956

Listing # 70392128 

 Vogue USA

January 1, 1956

Listing # 70388559

 

Vogue USA

March 1, 1956

Etsy Listing # 69439071

She was born in New York in 1924, and given the name of Annemarie Margot Harnett. She had a very successful modeling career throughout the 1950s and upon retiring, became an assistant to Eileen Ford of Ford Models.  This photograph of her wearing a Madame Gres gown was taken by Richard Avedon in 1954 and is an absolute icon:

Vogue 1939 Magazine Advertisement Fashion Illustration by RENE BOUET-WILLAUMEZ Crepe and Sheer Jersey Evening Dresses Bonwit Teller I Magnin

Crepe and Sheer Jersey Evening Dreses

Illustration by Rene Bouet-Willaumez (RBW)

Vogue

May 15, 1939

Etsy Listing #70379182

French fashion illustrator Rene Bouet-Willaumez was born in Brittany, France in 1900. In 1929 he started working for the French edition of Vogue. He worked with Vogue for three decades, until the end of his career. His work was soft and fluid, usually pen andink drawings of fashions, and fashionable women; aesthetically pleasing yet realistic and informative.

His name is associated with one of the most beautiful periods in fashion illustration.  Bouet-Willaumez's work was influenced by that of Eric's.  He refined his own style through a daring use of colors, brisk clear designs and masterful shading.  His illustrations had a dramatic sense of style and commanded space in the pages of Vogue for many years. He died in France in 1979, at the age of seventy-nine years old.