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Tag: 1940s vintage advertising


Oct
2015

Vintage Tips for a “Perfect” Thanksgiving Dinner

categories: Thanksgiving, vintage holidays

This weekend (well Monday if you want to be exact) is Canadian Thanksgiving and I love this holiday. I’m going home to see the family and going to stuff my face with tons of yummy goodies. I can’t wait.

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For today’s post I have gathered up vintage ads with helpful tips and ideas on how to have the “perfect” Thanksgiving dinner. I have used the word “Perfect” in quotes because I’m not sure if that is actually possible for any sort of dinner BUT lets give it a try anyways.

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Vintage Thanksgiving Recipes & Dinner Ideas

Lets start off with a 1956 Thanksgiving Dinner Menu idea

1950s Vintage Recipe: Traditional Thanksgiving Meal from a vintage 1956 Recipe.
Source: Modern Retro Woman

The Thanksgiving Turkey

Foil Roasted Turkey will ensure you have the perfect turkey every time.

Note: I can’t be positive on this as I don’t cook but the ad sure makes it look like it does.

1940s Vintage Ad for reynolds wrap featuring a recipe for a Foil-Roasted Turkey.

I think that a “Guaranteed” Turkey means that your dinner will be…”Perfect”.

1940s Vintage Ad for Birds Eye Frosted Food featuring an article on how to have the perfect Turkey.

Instructions from Butterball on how to cook a Turkey-1956.

The Thanskgiving Sides

Stuffing…Mandatory, and this ad gives you many different kinds to try (not sure how I feel about “Oyster Stuffing” though).

vintage 1940s stuffing recipe ad from A&P featuring various stuffing recipes you can make for Thanksgiving.
Source: Found on vintage-ads.livejournal

Did you purchase too many Cranberries? Well don’t fret Ocean Spray has you covered.

Ocean Spray Vintage Cranberry ad for Thanksgiving featuring recipes for desserts you can make with Cranberries.

Kids can help as well with the trimmings for Thanksgiving.

A vintage children's book featuring vintage thanksgiving recipes for trimmings for the turkey and a pumpkin pie recipe.
Source: Ismoyo vintage playground

The Drinks

Of course Coca Cola must be served at dinner. No recipe needed for this task.

1940s vintage coca cola ad featuring an illustration of poeple enjoying a thanksgiving party while drink coke.
Source: Flickr-Christian Montone

Maybe your more in the mood for a beer because “Beer Belongs”.

1940s vitnage ad for beer to be served with your Thanksgiving Turkey. Vintage illustration of a family sitting around the thanksgiving dinner table.
Source: Auto Straddle

Whisky also has a place at the Thanksgiving table.

Vintage Seagrams Whiskey Ad-Enjoy Seagram's with your Thanksgiving dinner.
Source: Observ

Thanksgiving Dinner Dessert

Traditional Pumpkin Pie recipe using Carnation milk.

FURTHER READING: Vintage Cake Ideas As Seen Thru 1920s-1950s Ads

vintage 1950s pumpkin pie ad for Carnation milk featuring a recipe for 'Carnation Famous pumpkin pie".
Source: Flickr-vieilles_annonces

1952 Carnation Evaporated Milk Ad – Pumpkin Pie

Further Reading: Vintage Recipes from 1940s & 1950s Carnation Milk Advertisements

1952 Carnation Evaporated Milk Ad - Pumpkin Pie recipe.

Source: Etsy

Non-Traditional Pumpkin Pie -Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie! My stomach just growled while looking at this.

Vintage Ad for Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie perfect for Thanksgiving dessert. Features a vintage recipe on how to make it.

Not a pumpkin pie fan? Don’t fret here are a other dessert ideas for the table…..

1950s (1952) Vintage Ad for Spry Shortening featuring “Aunt Jenny’s Crumbly Top Apple Pie”.

1950s Vintage Ad for Spry Shortening, Thanksgiving Ad with Apple Pie Recipe, Original Magazine Advertisement, 1952
1950s Vintage Ad for Spry Shortening, Thanksgiving Ad with Apple Pie Recipe, Original Magazine Advertisement, 1952

Source: Etsy

Make Thanksgiving desserts with Baker’s Chocolate featuring a recipe for Individual chocolate souffles and college fudge bars.

Vintage Bakers Chocolate ad-Make Thanksgiving desserts with Baker's Chocolate featuring a recipe for Individual chocolate souffles and college fudge bars.

Did you say marshmallows? I’m in! “Campfire marshmallows give added flavor to Thanksgiving dishes”.

vintage ad for marshmallow dessert-Campfire Apple Mallows, Campfire Fudge Cake, Sweet Potatoes Southern.
Source: Observ

Really really can’t cook? Well Swifts Premium will save the dinner!

Vintage Turkey Ad from 1960s for a turkey loaf.
Source: Flickr-PROFile Photo Digital Archive

Or you can enjoy a good old TV Dinner that involves even less work.

vintage TV dinner ad for Turkey dinner on a tray.
Source: Creative Pro

And of course we have to have ideas on what to do with the leftovers. You can make a Holiday Turkey salad or a turkey layer loaf. 1948 vintage ad.

1940s vintage ad featuring recipes on what to do with leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner. Ad is from 1948.
Source: Click America

“How to liven up the day after the holiday, too!”. Turkey sandwich leftover.

Vintage-Thanksgiving-Coke-Ad
Source: Pdxretro

Lastly here is a Thanksgiving Open House menu if your choosing to host people all day. Great food ideas from the 1950s!

1950s Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a Thanksgiving dinner menu for an open house from a vintage magazine

Source: Etsy-PlentifulPages

Happy Thanksgiving Friends! And if you are using a vintage recipe for your festivities I would love to hear what it is.

Further Reading:

Liz 🙂


Jul
2014

1940s Floral Dresses-Understated Elegance

categories: 1940s, Vintage Fashion

I’m currently in the middle of the amazing and well written book “1940s-Fashion-The-Definitive-Sourcebook” by Emmanuelle Dirix & Charlotte Fiell and I just read a wonderful section on “why floral (and figurative) patterns in the 1940s were favored“.

1940s fashion the definitive sourcebook

The simple reason stated in the book was that designs with floral or figurative patterns were easy to match up and hence generated less wastage in garment production. In a time when “Make do and Mend” was becoming the norm, this makes a lot of sense.

After the war was over floral could still be found on many of the women of the 1940s because 1. There was still a shortage of fabric for a while after and 2. Floral dresses were an “Understated Elegance”. Not flamboyant, just wonderful as is.

On a personal level I LOVE a beautiful 1940s floral dress and I own a couple personally and I’m always hoping to add more. So lets take a peak at what beautiful floral dresses were available to the ladies of the 40s, shall we?

Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. 

1940’s Floral Dresses

The 1940’s Images

Let’s start with the stunning woman from the 1940s that I found on Flickr. Her off the shoulder floral gown is simple but just pure perfection on her. I love the black ribbon belt and the ballet slippers with the ties to bring it all together.

1940s vintage photo of a young woman posing for a photo in a an off the shoulder floral dress with a ribbon belt. She is wearing a choker as well.
Source: Flickr-Hans

1940s photo. How stylish is this beautiful woman? Look at that jacket…wow! And her accessories are amazing (I want that purse!). I love the floral pattern in this dress and I’m sure once the jacket came off the dress was just breathtaking on her.

1940s vintage photo of a young woman in a floral dress and stunning 1940s jacket and hat and purse. Fantastic 1940s fashion inspiration!
Source: Flickr-Jasperdo

Beautiful 1940s Floral dresses times 2! Love these two stylish Black ladies posing together on a chair.

1940s vintage photo of 2 Black Women in 1940s Floral Dresses. Super 1940s fashions

Source: Pinterest

1940s photo. From the same Flickr account, the below image is the wonderful woman above’s, neighbours. Well well what stylish neighbours she had! I cannot tell if her dress is really a floral pattern ( I initially thought it was tropical) but does not really matter the pattern is still fantastic.

1940s vintage photo of a man and woman posing together in 1940s fashions. The woman is wearing a pretty 1940s dress and cute peep toe shoes. Our man is in a stylish suit.
Source: Flickr-Jasperdo

1940s photo. One more photo from the same account shows the friend of our floral dress jacket wearing fashionista, two photos above. What a collection of fantastically dressed ladies she hung out with! The floral dress in this photo is beautiful and I love her pose too. I wonder what she is thinking?

1940s vintage photo of a young woman sporting a pretty 1940s hairstyle and 1940s dress in a floral pattern and cute 1940s peep toe shoes.
Source: Flickr-Jasperdo

1940s vintage photo of 4 women in 1940s fashions posing together at a Garden party.

Pick your favourite dress or fashion accessory out of this photo (I can’t, they are all too amazing).

1940s vintage photo of 4 women in 1940s fashions posing together at a Garden party - 1940s patterned & floral summer dresses with hats and handbags

Source: Etsy – LightSilverAndPaper

1940s Photo. First up…COLOUR! And now..what a dress! That green floral pattern is just wonderful on this mother with her son at the beach. I would totally wear that to work or even a night of dancing.

1940s vintage photo of a woman in a green floral dress posing at the ocean with a child. Lovely 1940s fashion inspiration.

Source: Flickr-Ross B. CARE

I have shared this image in a past post (link below) but it’s worth sharing again because her floral dress AND matching headscarf during what I imagine to be a USO dance is a favorite of mine. Another great example of how a simple floral style like this can look just pure perfection.

FURTHER READING: What to wear Lindy Hopping -1930s/1940s Real-Life Vintage Images

1940s vintage photo of people swing dancing in the 1940s. The woman is wearing a floral 1940s dress and matching hair turban / hair scarf.

Examples of 1940s Dresses in Real Life

Now for a small sampling of 1940s Floral Dresses you can buy off Etsy (Updated March 2024)

Vintage Shopping: If the outfit is gone, don’t fret! Etsy is updated daily with 1000s of vintage clothes. Just do a simple search and see what pops up. You can also visit my 1940s Fashion Collection that I update monthly of outfits I like that are for sale on the site. You can find that HERE.

1940’s slinky plum bias cut satin floral asymmetrical dress with all the BEST colors and details of the era.

1940s Fashion: 1940's slinky plum bias cut satin floral asymmetrical dress with all the BEST colors and details of the era

Source: Etsy – traven7

1940s Dress – Homemade Cotton Floral Day Dress.

1940s Dress - Homemade Cotton Floral Day Dress

Source: Etsy-FabGabs

1940s Dress – Gorgeous 1940s Rayon Crepe Dress in Banded Floral with Heavy, Pleated Skirt.

1940s Dress - The Midsommer Dress - Gorgeous 40s Rayon Crepe Dress in Banded Floral with Heavy, Pleated Skirt

Source: Etsy-FabGabs

Vintage 1940s Floral Print Dress.

1940s Fashion: Vintage 1940s Floral Print Dress

Source: Etsy

Gorgeous 1940’s printed rayon dress. This dress features a unique all over print that has a floral motif and trees in a muted soft blue, green and brown.

1940s Fashion: Gorgeous 1940’s printed rayon dress. This dress features a unique all over print that has a floral motif and trees in a muted soft blue, green and brown.

Source: Etsy

Vintage 1940’s Gray Floral Novelty Print Cold Rayon Day Dress. This is my kind of silhouette.

1940s Fashion: Vintage 1940's Gray Floral Novelty Print Cold Rayon Day Dress WW2 Era

Source: Etsy

Absolutly devine original 1940s swing dress with a floral pattern.

1940s Fashion: original 1940s swing dress with a floral pattern

Source: Etsy

What a wonderful 1940s sun dress. This dress would be perfect for the summer time picnic or to wear dancing on a beautiful night under the stars.

1940s Fashion: 1940s womans floral summer dress
Source: Etsy-Ella and Frank Vintage

The fabric on this dress is actually flowers AND umbrellas. Fantastic! The label states that it is a “Brucewood Custom” dress.

1940s Fashion: 1940s floral dress
Source: Etsy-Planet Claire Vintage

The floral detail is again beautiful but the ruffle detailing really takes this dress to the next level. Don’t you agree?

1940s fashion: 1940s Ethel Lou Jrs cotton dress features a colorful floral print. Ruffle detailing with eyelet trim at neckline and front skirt. Metal zipper up side of dress
Source: Etsy-Tuesday Rose Vintage

Lastly here are a couple of vintage advertisements for 1940s dresses (and one that is not a dress):

1940s Playsuit with matching over skirt. WANT! Love! So cute! Can I also have the adorable hat with the palm tree and fish on it??

1940s womens fashion: 1940s Playsuit with matching over skirt in a floral pattern.
Wakes of Melbourne catalogue, Summer 1946-47

Pretty frocks for all your pinching pennies needs.

BTW if this is a bargain look then sign me up!

1940s cotton house dresses as seen in a vintage catalog page from the 1940s.

And with that ad, that concludes are journey into 1940s florals.

So lovely readers are you a fan of the florals in 1940s dresses? Or do you tend to sway more towards the sequins and simple elegant styles? Or maybe you love them all! Share in the comments section below!

And with that ad, that concludes are journey into 1940s florals.

FURTHER READING:

Liz 🙂