1950s Fabrics

This is a photograph of my mother, Janice, taken on her school allotment in 1959.

Here she talks about this photograph and memories of her mother Edith's interest in dressmaking:

'My mum made this skirt I am wearing. She had a Singer sewing machine, it used to have a treadle but then it was made electric. The skirt had bows and ribbons and I used to wear a white blouse with it, it was my summer uniform. We could wear our own summer skirts, we didn't have many clothes, in those days they were more expensive.'

1950s aprons from my handmade clothes collection.