Download: Make & Mend for Victory, pt. 1 of 2
March 14, 2010
Several of you mentioned an interest in seeing more of Make & Mend for Victory, the 1942 booklet published by the Coats Co. in the USA. My bargain-basement scanner is glacially slow, but I’ve managed to digitize the first 25 pages to present to the innernets in all their glory.
Part 1 covers a lot of ground — from equipping your sewing basket to repairing and restyling clothes to whipping up accessories grown women can no longer get away with (jabots? dickeys? vestees?). Multitalented types can even take advantage of its instructions on how to crochet their own hats and collars.
The PDF is only available for 7 days or 100 downloads, so get ‘em while they’re hot. And stay tuned for the second installment!
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I just found your blog, and am fascinated and can hardly wait to catch up with your regular readers. Sadly, the maximum limit of downloads for your scan have been reached.
Is there any way you can make the download available again?
Thank you!
Hi Tobey! I’ll be posting part 2 in the next couple of days, so I’ll repost part 1 along with it and you can download the whole booklet in one go.
Thanks for reading!
Thank you thank you thank you for taking the time to share this!!!!!!!!!
Have you seen the Jan-Feb issue of Selvedge magazine? Many of the articles focus on the WWII time period. I’m in the US, so I just got it, but it may still be available in the UK. It’s worth a read.
Thanks for the tip — I’ll track it down!
Thanks for sharing!
thank you so much! This will be a wonderful resource for my library!
You look great in this outfit, I love those red shoes, I would not have put that blue and red together but they look great. I like your hair better when you have done it, its a bit softer, I think the trick to making vintage look great is to change it slightly, just to make it your own, otherwise it can just become another type of fashion slavery!! You do it beautifully. I bet you are the most stylish person in your place of work!!
Oh, thanks! But I can only make the effort about one day out of four. I just don’t take photos on the other three days.
Oh wow–thank you ever so much for sharing this! I’ve been trying to get my hands on a copy for the past couple months (and seem to always be outbid on Ebay or forget to bid! :p), so this is fantastic. Off to pour over it a bit…
Thank you so much for sharing this. We’ve been talking more about how to live simply here and this is a wonderful reminder in how to do it.
Thank you so much for putting this online!
Fantastic! Thanks for downloading! I look forward to looking through this!
Sorry, I meant that I already have the British Make Do and Mend–I wanted to read this American one! Thanks again!
Thank you so much, I’m excited to read this! I already have the American ‘Make and Mend for Victory’ and I love reading literature from this time!
Thanks so much, I got it. Kitty
Wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing.
Lovely! Thanks so much! I’ve just found my 1945 “update” from C&C (I don’t know where I’ve stashed my copy of this one) — if there’s any new material in it I’ll scan it and post after you’re all done!
Sweet! I just got the Uk version, Make Do and Mend in the mail the other day and the prospect of learning to darn correctly (instead of just making it up) has me all giddy! Thanks for the free download!