tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post4591291254874162747..comments2024-03-27T08:38:55.922+00:00Comments on Knitting Now and Then: 1920s KnitwearBarbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-18896563726480891222015-07-03T19:32:12.335+01:002015-07-03T19:32:12.335+01:00Fascinating and beautiful images! Fascinating and beautiful images! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579152846339520128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-67410436758761142522015-07-01T08:43:34.060+01:002015-07-01T08:43:34.060+01:00I'm sure you're right - by 'averagely ...I'm sure you're right - by 'averagely well-dressed', I didn't mean average income. In the days before cheap clothing imports, you had to be relatively wealthy to be well-dressed, I'm sure. And in the 1920s and 1930s, as you point out, a lot of working class people were not well off at all, even if they had jobs. Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-75723757789439793812015-06-30T09:05:36.541+01:002015-06-30T09:05:36.541+01:00It's a lovely look - elegant yet comfortable, ...It's a lovely look - elegant yet comfortable, but I honestly don't think many women could have afforded these, especially if the prices quoted were wholesale. My granddad was a bricklayer in the Midlands, not many miles from Redditch, when my mum was born in 1924. He earned £2 (40 shillings) a week or up to £3 in a week with plenty of overtime. He was relatively well paid for a manual worker. A couple of years later when these cards were published, work was starting to get scarcer and by 1930, my grandparents were worse off than when they first married. marijo1951https://www.blogger.com/profile/15012001927662731727noreply@blogger.com