‘Get A Lovely Bust For Christmas’: 1930s Tips For How To Be A Festive Woman

Friday, December 19, 2014 - 21:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Good Needlwork magazine shows you how to get better bosoms. Image: Dave WhattBy Jo Brewis, University of LeicesterWhen my good friend and long-term collaborator Sam Warren was given a pile of women’s magazines from the 1930s by her grandmother Jane Frampton, we found among them 11 Christmas issues of Good Needlework, Model Housekeeping, The Needlewoman and Stitchcraft. read more

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