ALT for Damerne, Number 1, 1955

Happy New Year, to all of you. :)

Yes, I have already scanned from Everything for the Ladies again. This year I will scan in the uneven months, so we'll see some other magazines. I start with number 1 from 1955, which has a lovely wintery cover. You get the knitting pattern (in Danish) later in this post:

And remember that all scans can be enlarged by clicking at them.

You could find Entrust Yourself to Mrs. Nini every week. Here the readers wrote letters, asked questions and also got answers:

Here a reader asks when she should give her daughters "dressing money" (I gave son money for clothes when he was about 14, and it worked great), and there is a letter from the mother who thinks she is unsuccessful in making her home as cosy for her children as her own childhood home was. Well, time changes - and they still do.

You could also find In the binoculars every week where the readers gave good advice and shared their good ideas about this and that:

A great tip is to sort your embroidery yarn in envelopes, and there is also a tip for cutting onions fast (cut up into the onion and then cut slices), and there is also a guide on how to make a long skirt out of a short one, and then change it back to a short one again, if you only need the long one for a night.

Here are great tips for decorating your living room if it needs to be refurnished:

Fur, is what all women dream of!:

I want leopard cape, but I would prefer it to be fake-fur, although I love fur, but not from threathened animals.

And when we have finished drooling over the Balmain suit below, we'll find ideas for dresses with an open top (at the right):

Keep the good New Year resolutions by sewing your own wardrobe and save a lot of money:

The belt is an important detail:

And here is a guide for making some of them yourself.

Here is another little cosy project for January - a dinner mat with a pocket for the napkin. I think it is a nice detail:

And here is the pattern (in Danish) for the nice sweater from the cover, so you can knit it yourself:

And there are patterns for all the family:

On to the ads, because there is an important problem all women have to consider:

And when we have done so, we can smile and be happy:

Here are three small ads in a row:

Vaseline, which is very useful during winter. Sans Égal lipstic, which I remember from my childhood. And a yarnshop that were so nice that they sent out yarn. And that was before the internet.

And a good warming soup is always lovely when King Winter is in his frosty mood: