Tuppence Ha'penny

Wedding season continues with this issue of Woman magazine from June 1949, which includes features for the bride and newlywed including bridal beauty, wedding planning, bargains for your first home, and recipes for "Fancy dishes for a bride's first party".

There's a vacation theme in this issue of Everywoman magazine from June 1949, featuring summer cotton fashions, a fun account of a four-week road trip through France and Switzerland, and sightseeing advice for London (much of which still holds up 75 years later. I was particularly pleased to see my

Our first magazine this month is this issue of Home Chat from June 1946. Published in the immediate aftermath of World War II, features in this volume include an interesting article on "rediscovering London", along with summer fashions, ration-book cookery for one, fiction, and readers' letters!

I really enjoy summer clothing from the late 40s / early 50s period - it's breezy and carefree, but with lots of interesting details like the neckline bow on the dress on the cover of this Home Fashions pattern catalogue from June 1950.

And we're back! Our first magazine this month is a bridal issue of "Woman" magazine from June 1948. 24 pages of women's interest and bridal features including: - Bridal trousseau on a budget and during the era of clothes rationing - Man's Eye View of Weddings - Recipes for the wedding Buffet - Brida

42 pages of WWI era social history and women's interest features including WWI-era hair styling step-by-step; fashion and dressmaking; tips for de-stressing (it doesn't call it that of course - the article is entitled The "Jumps"), plus all the usual illustrated fiction, recipes, and period adverts.

Some fun features in this issue - from holidaymaking destinations and packing lists, to an article on so-called "marriage bureaux" (i.e. the Tinder of its day), to advice on how to properly wear Dior's New Look (which was, by the summer of 1948, filtering through to mainstream fashion). Plus swimwea

We're kicking off the month with the Vogue Pattern Book (a catalogue of current Vogue sewing patterns) from June/July 1951 - a fabulous peek into what the discerning home sewist was making for her summer wardrobe that year. The introduction also notes that: "Summer is the time when you can really le

This issue includes instructions to make three DIY hats, as well as knitting patterns, a simple summer frock to make (instructions and scale pattern diagram to self-draft), plus all the usual illustrated fiction, readers' letters, beauty, and vintage adverts!

86-page "Home Notes" magazine dating from June 1938, packed with women's interest features including: - Learn to Flirt - Gardening - Beauty: Tanning - Summer Fashion Supplement - "Happily Unmarried" - Live alone and like it - Illustrated fiction - Readers' letters & problem pages

Our first magazine this month is a copy of "Everywoman" dating from June 1942: 56 pages of social history and women's interest features including: - Patriotic themed advertising and government PSAs - Women's War Work: Profiles of 6 women undertaking war careers from dental orderly to electrical engi

Second World War-era magazine from June 1943, including illustrated fiction, and recipes for a ration-book friendly wedding breakfast!