Picky painter
01Simpson's 1949
The way we were ..... I unearthed this priceless 1949 Spring & Summer edition of Simpson's Department store catalogue. I'll post a few images from time to time. Comments and suggestions welcome please. Note to Cindy: Now you can see what your Mom was wearing.
Back story: It's important to remember that rural (and some city) people looked to Canada's two main department store catalogues (Simpson's and Eatons) for fashion guides and stuff for the home and farm. This was their form of on-line shopping, which meant rotary-dial telephones and snail-mail or railway freight delivery - how cool was that? And credit? A new post-war phenomenon.
01Simpson's 1949
The way we were ..... I unearthed this priceless 1949 Spring & Summer edition of Simpson's Department store catalogue. I'll post a few images from time to time. Comments and suggestions welcome please. Note to Cindy: Now you can see what your Mom was wearing.
Back story: It's important to remember that rural (and some city) people looked to Canada's two main department store catalogues (Simpson's and Eatons) for fashion guides and stuff for the home and farm. This was their form of on-line shopping, which meant rotary-dial telephones and snail-mail or railway freight delivery - how cool was that? And credit? A new post-war phenomenon.