Elaine’s Reviews > Everyday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs > Status Update

Jeepers? *search*

"Jeepers were an affordable clone of the Converse sneaker, sold at Sears for kids whose parents wouldn’t buy them the much sought after label. " ha!

Interesting references to "Gibson girl" style blouses.

"Wired bras - now out of the luxury class - are not "just another fad."

"-takes weight off the shoulders...
-gives you youthful lines...
-gives smart separation demanded by today's fashion world."

"Its collar is taken from a gob's suit."

And now I have learned gob was slang for a sailor.

LOL those Dionne quintuplets really did get the hell marketed out of them in the 40s.