Where else can you find the best tips about caring for your vintage fashions and foundation garments then from vintage women’s publications? Then, as now, magazines shared tips for female readers interested in stretching their fashion dollars by not stretching their garments out of shape.
Inside a 1941 issue of Modern Woman Magazine, tips on how to launder your girdles:
And in another issue of that magazine, circa 19445, tips on caring for foundation garments for New Look fashions to preserve the their fit:
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