How one woman made a success at dress making and Summer Recipes
- Edwardian Cooking Advice and MATERNITY CORSET ADS
- Advertisements and back pages from Edwardian magazine The Modern Priscilla July 1913
- Ideas for a Church Sale, Crochet Accessories for the Summer Toilette, and Hostess Ideas
- Heavy Crochet Pattern & Mosaic Canvas pattern
- Converts: The Love Story of a Primitive Man and a Suffragette by Joan Paul
- Edwardian Raffia Hat Making Instructions & 3 Collar & Cuff Sets
- Embroidered Edwardian Shirtwaist, guest towels, and doily patterns
- Early 1900s HOUSEKEEPING ADVICE and advertisements
- How one woman made a success at dress making and Summer Recipes
- Punched work darning designs, and Eight different collar designs
- Venetian Design Crochet Patterns from the July 1913 Modern Priscilla
- Edwardian Fashion Photos from 1913 and an Ivory Soap Advertisement
- Cover and ads from The Modern Priscilla, July 1913
- Early 1900s Summer Fashion Illustrations
How One Woman Made a Success at Dressmaking by Zola Norris from The Modern Priscilla – July 1913 is a true turn of the century success story of how a woman, left widowed with two small children at the age of 30, became a seamstress and then started her own dress making shop. It details her entrepreneurial activities, including how she paid off her house by renting it, and then mortgaging it again to buy another rental. She lifted her and her two children out of poverty over the course of fifteen years through her smart business skills and intelligence!
The next page is summer recipes and hot weather cooking advice: “Recipes which may be prepared several hours before serving, and which help to solve the problem of what to have for supper when the thermometer hovers close to 90 in the shade”. Suggested meats included tongue. Yuck.
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