Galleries > Clothes & Accessories (8)
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Hands and Gloves - Howard & Caldwell
I have a special fondness for bookmarks in the shape of hands or gloves. This one advertises a men's clothing store in Brockton, MA and probably dates from the late 1800s. Oh, and just so there's no doubt, it says it can be used as a bookmark. Submitted by Laine Farley
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Hands and Gloves - Paul Foster & Co.
This bookmark / trade card has details on the outside that look like a glove and on the inside illustrating a hand, complete with palmistry lines. It probably dates from the turn of the century. Submitted by Laine Farley
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Hands and Gloves: La Porte
This bookmark is from the manufacturer of these kid gloves, most likely issued in the 1950s. After World War II, women, who had been working in industries formerly reserved for me, such as munitions factories, were encouraged by dress designers and society to go back to "being women." They were put into girdles, dresses with tightly belted waits and wide skirts, hose, and gloves. No proper woman went "downtown" to do her shopping without being properly dressed, and properly dressed always meant gloves. Submitted by Lauren Roberts.
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Hands and Gloves: Rees & Rees
Rees & Rees, located in Caledonia, manufactured, repaired and cleaned gloves of all kinds. Submitted by Lauren Roberts.
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Hands and Gloves: Carmichael Bros.
The Carmichael Bros. were "dealers in dry goods, boots, shoes, groceries, &c, &c." Gloves, of course, were one, and this bookmark geared to Iowa's upper middle-class women who shopped and had time for reading, is probably of late nineteenth or early twentieth-century making. Submitted by Lauren Roberts.
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Campbell Perth Dye Works
An Australian firm, obviously nineteenth century, is the subject of these two bookmarks. This was a time when clothes were made to be worn out. Dyeing them successively darker was a way to keep them working year after year. But I was unable to find anything out about this company general. It has disappeared into history. Submitted by Lauren Roberts.
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Hands and Gloves - Skinner & Drew
Another example, similar to the Carmichael design. The reverse presents their wares as "Gloves, Hosiery, Embroideries, Dress Goods and Yankee Notions". Dates to late 1890s or early 1900s. Submitted by Laine Farley
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Piehler Shoes
Submitted by Lois Densky-Wolff
