NOW COME IN EVE INN: More 1933 McCall Patterns

Monday, December 21, 2009

More 1933 McCall Patterns

Recent flea market jaunts yielded, among other goodies, a treasure: a McCall Complete Printed Pattern Catalogue for August 1933! Only problem – some misguided fiend had PASTED newspaper articles OVER the fashion plates, turning the book into, essentially, a scrapbook of the most boring newspaper articles ever. This heinous act of vandalism seems to have occurred from 1937-1941. We normally LOVE reading old newspapers, and can’t resist old scrapbooks either. But this was awful. Not only covering up those beautiful fashion images, but… for articles about the Siamese twin chickens, the big barn fire at the Brown’s farm, a kid named Herbert Hoover Depression and his baby brother Franklin Delano Roosevelt Recession (we don’t even understand that

last one)??

Well, for $5, it seemed worth trying to see whether it was possible to peel away most of the newsprint and reveal the drawings once again. The results were pretty fair. It became a mission… to free these poor women from their newsprint prisons and let them look haughtily out at the world once more. There was so much to catch up on: FDR won the election and went on to serve 4 terms – really…the Depression was ended… little Herbert Hoover Depression went on to need a lot of therapy and changed his name to “Bob.”

It was very exciting to see the girls' bright colors emerge, good as new, from behind the faded newspaper. We also “appreciate” that the articles were so WELL adhered to the page – some scrapbookers would have been content to merely glue the corners – but not our boy (or girl). We vowed to hunt down the responsible party and give him or her (no clew by the nature of the articles) a well-deserved whipping. We don’t care if he or she is now 85.