From a 1949 Singer Sewing machine manual

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Dejaboo
Dejaboo Member Posts: 2,916
edited June 2014 in Humor and Games
From a 1949 Singer Sewing machine manual
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  • Dejaboo
    Dejaboo Member Posts: 2,916
    edited April 2008

    Since I am a seamstress, A friend sent me this.  I thought it was funny:

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    From a 1949 Singer Sewing machine manual

    If you have ever had trouble focusing at the sewing
    machine or been a little stressed while quilting --this may be just
    the help you  need.Prepare yourself mentally for sewing. Think
    about what you are going to do. Never approach sewing with a sigh or
    lackadaisically.
    **
    Good results are difficult when indifference
    predominates. Never try to sew with a sink full of dirty dishes or beds
    unmade. When there are urgent housekeeping chores, do these first so your
    mind is free to enjoy your sewing.

    When you sew, make yourself as attractive as
    possible. Put on a clean dress. Keep a little bag full of French chalk near
    your sewing machine to dust your fingers at intervals. Have your hair in
    order, powder and lipstick put on. If, you are constantly fearful that
    a visitor will drop in or your husband will come home and you will
    not look neatly put together, you will not enjoy sewing as you
    should."

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  • Jaybird627
    Jaybird627 Member Posts: 2,144
    edited April 2008

    Wow. I am actually speechless.....

    (thank gawd times have changed!)

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  • takingcare
    takingcare Member Posts: 1,941
    edited April 2008

    Very reminiscent of when women actually wore dresses and high heels to cook and clean house!  Remember Ozzie & Harriet and Father Knows Best?   Beauty Pageant

    Oh my...too funny! 





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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2008

    That was my mom! She wore a dress and pearls while vacuuming!

    (I wear sweats)

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  • Dejaboo
    Dejaboo Member Posts: 2,916
    edited April 2008

    Well I am going to go sew for a short time right now.

    So I will have to change from my sweats to my Nice Dress & Pearls.

    Who Knows my dh could show up unexpectedly : )

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  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited April 2008

    OMG, unbelievable.

    Mrs 1949 would drop down dead if she could see my sewing

    room, some days you can't actually see the machine I am using, so big is the pile of projects I have lined up, and I never ever get to the bottom of them!

    Luckily, I can just shut the door on the mess and no-one else sees it ! I was having my central heating checked a while back, and warned DH to let me know in advance when plumber wanted to be in this room.

    Of course, he didn't, and plumber had to come and ask me 'where is the radiator' he couldn't see anything for my piles of material, boxes of bits and bobs, and my ironing pile.(which at times is as big as Everest!)

    Isabella.

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  • celia088
    celia088 Member Posts: 2,570
    edited April 2008

    That is just sickening!!! 

    It used to be a man's only world, but then along came the 3rd wave of feminism in the 60's and 70's .........

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2008

    Isabella, at least you have an ironing pile! My "iron" is the dryer. If I can't take it out of the dryer and wear it, I don't buy it!

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  • twink
    twink Member Posts: 1,574
    edited April 2008

    mmhmm... that's me... constantly fearful that a visitor will drop in or my husband will come home and I won't look neatly put together.  No wonder I can't sew worth a cr*p!

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  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited April 2008

    Laura, I have had an ironing pile for 44 years, I have NEVER got to the bottom of it!! (could this be a record?)

    Even when I moved house I just shoved it all in to plastic sacks, and emptied it out at the new house. Every now and then I will attack it, but it IS every now and then!!

    Isabella.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2008

    Too funny, I will have to copy that and send it to my mom!

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited April 2008

    oh -- my poor mother!

    No wonder she was clinically depressed throughout the 50s and 60s!

    Did that kind of crap come with every household appliance?

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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited April 2008

    LOL, i am copying too.  People I work with will love this.

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