Magazine: Everywoman July 1942

Full 56-page "Everywoman" magazine from July 1942 - 80 years ago! This issue is packed with social history and women's interest features including:

- How to think with the head rather than the heart

- Beauty: keeping your cool in hot weather

- Draft-at-home pattern for mother-daughter summer outfits

- Feature on the Ministry of Food

- Exercises for slenderness (with a cross-stitch embroidery sampler version!)

- Knitting patterns for a children's sunsuit and cardigan; women's lightweight sweater blouse

- Ration-book cookery with recipes for every meal, and a guide to using the 'new' dried egg powder

- UK summer travel tips with advice on activities in each destination, along with suggested packing lists

- Saving fuel

- Discussion article on postwar housing

- Make do and mend tips for clothing and home

- Preserving fruit and vegetables

- Top tips: How to... pack clothes; keep flowers fresh; smoke a cigarette; woo sleep; wear trousers; cope with worry

- Readers' letters & problem page

- Illustrated fiction - authors in this issue are Frances Chappell, Felix Noland, Dilys Kirk, Eddy Orcutt

- and of course all those wonderful wartime adverts!