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Fashion Highlights of an Eatons Catalogue-Fall & Winter 1934-1935

1930s Fashion: 1934 -1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Dresses colour illustration

I love a good vintage catalogue as they are excellent examples of what the average person was purchasing for their homes and closets. 

Now if you are not lucky enough to own one of these pieces of history, the Library and Archives of Canada has a large collection of online catalogues for lovers of all things vintage (like all of us) to browse and share. And for today’s Eatons Catalogue I would like to do just that.

So without further adieu….

Discover the glamorous world of the 1930s with our exclusive look at the Eatons Fall and Winter 1934-1935 catalogue! From elegant dresses to timeless accessories, get ready to dive into the style secrets of yesteryear.

Fashions of an Eatons Catalogue-Fall & Winter 1934-1935

Let’s see what fashions were inside the Fall & Winter 1934-1935 book:

1930s Vintage Catalog: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue

1930s Dresses & Coats for Young Girls and Women

1930s Fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Dress and Coats

What a fashionable little girl you could have. 

1930s fashions for Girls as seen in a Fall Winter Fashion Eatons Catalogue

The mini versions of adult women’s outfits for young girls is pretty fun to look at.

1930s fashins: 1934 1935 Young Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Dress and Coats

You can’t go wrong with any of these beautiful blouses and pullovers. 

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Sweaters and Blouses

1930s skirts, breeches and skiing outfits for women.

1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Skirts and Skiing outfits

Smart Sports outfits are a MUST when stepping outside to do sports things. 

1930s Fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Skirts and Skiing outfits

1930s formal fashions. The Bottom right dress in the black and gold is my dream dress. Stunning!

1930s fashions: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue 1930s formal wear dresses.

Keep in mind the time…1930s dresses that help a woman appear slimmer.

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Dresses for plus size ladies

1930s dresses for average and larger women (they all look slim to me).

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue Dresses for plus size women

1930s Accessories-Purses, Hats, Gloves and Shoes

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue handbags and purses

What I LOVE about 1930s hats is the “tilt” that was so fashionable. Everyone looks likes a movie star in them. 

1930s Fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue featuring hats for women

Berets are so very “IN” right now and these “In Star & Maple Leaf” designs are sure to turn heads.

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue featuring Berets, women's hats and trimmings

Women’s elegant gloves, and children’s gloves and mittens.

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue 1930s womens and kids gloves

Stunning women’s 1930s shoes and one set of boots. Gosh these are beauties!

1930s Fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue 1930s womens shoes and boots

I adore a “Rainette” Boot and I wish that they were available today to make my ugly rain boots fashionable again. Don’t you agree?

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue 1930s womens slippers, rain boots and shoes

Cosy Undies for Comfort and Dainty Lingerie for Charm

Further Reading: Vintage Pajamas & Loungewear of the 1920s-1950s

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue 1930s Underware, Lingerie and Pajamas

Real silk hose, seamless, full fashioned and more!

1930s fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue 1930s silk hosiery

Corsetry that controls and supports.

1930s Fashion: 1934 1935 Womens Fashion for Fall and Winter Eatons Catalogue  for women's Corsets

That is it for this week, but I hope you enjoyed a look into Womens Fashion of 1934 & 1935 (I know I sure did and I’m sending off my order right now. ha!).

Did not see something you were hoping to see? Don’t worry! I will be posting more items from the Catalogue on another future post because there just was so much content (over 300 pages of items). So stayed tuned.

If you would like some further peaks into a vintage Eatons Catalogue, check out my past blog post ‘Highlights of an Eatons Catalogue, Fall/Winter 1940-1941‘. It’s filled with loads of goodies as well. 

Question Time: What was your favourite item for sale? Share in the comments below!

Liz

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1930s Womens Fall and Winter Fashion Collection of Fashions from Eatons Catalog by www.vintageinn.ca

My Vintage Weekend Finds and Fun

This past weekend I had a fun vintage weekend so thought I would share it with you. First up on Saturday I was part of an event in Toronto called “Rosie O-Rama in conjunction with 2 events. V-J day (Japanese surrender that marked the end of World War II) and the Guinness Book of World Records “Most Rosie the Riveters in one spot” that was happening in California that day.

Rosie the Riveter Guinness World Record
Some of the original “Rosie the Riveter” women sitting in the first row, who worked in the Richmond shipyards during WWII (Anda Chu/The Contra Costa Times via AP)

Since I don’t live in California a few of us got together (including fellow blogger Irene from Petite Plus Meow) and dressed up as Rosie (or for us Canadians ‘Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl‘) and met at City Hall in Toronto by the fancy new 3D sign for photos.

Rosie the Riveter
Vintage Inn-Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter Toronto
Toronto’s ‘Rosies”

We then got out of the hot hot sun and zipped over via public transit to our fav “Rosie the Rebel” reproduction clothing store for some shopping and then ended our adventures at the super cool vintage Malt Shop- Bean and Baker‘ for yummy goodies.

TTC Subway Rosie the Riveter 1940s
Riding the subway to work 🙂

Rosie the Rebel Toronto

Rosie the Riveter Toronto
Inside Rosie the Rebel

Ice cream time at Bean and Baker!

Bean and Baker Malt Shop Toronto
At Bean and Baker Malt Shop

mmmm handcrafted cherry coke and an Astro Pop!

Bean and Baker Malt Shop Toronto

It was a great day with these 4 ladies of the Toronto Vintage Society.

Bean and Baker Malt Shop Toronto

 

SUNDAY

On Sunday my hubby was working so I decided that I was going to jump on the streetcar and head to one of my fav vintage stores in Toronto-Gadabout on Queen St. East.

gadabout toronto vintage store

Gadabout is one of these stores where you need to clear your calendar and even go alone so that you can spend hours filtering thru all the wonderful goodies they have. The owner Victoria is so nice and so is all her hardworking staff. I feel so welcomed every time I go.

For today’s trip I was on the hunt for vintage photos (I love my vintage photos) AND possibly a new Tiki dress for the TVS Tiki Party August 29th. I spent a couple of hours and brought home the following:

Find #1: This great souvenir photo taken at the Historic King Edward Hotel in Toronto in the 1940s.

Vintage photo King Edward Hotel Toronto

It looks like these lovely young people are on a double date at one of the fanciest hotels in town. I wonder if they went dancing after in one of the gorgeous ballrooms at the hotel? Don’t they look like they are having so much fun? The gentlemen on the left is in mid laugh 🙂

Vintage photo King Edward Hotel Toronto

Find # 2: Beautiful photo from the 1930s of a very well dressed mother and her adorable son.

Style alert! The mothers dress is simply beautiful and her shoes…wow!!! I love the hat as well. Very very nice.

1930s vintage photo of boy and mother

Find # 3: This image instantly caught my eye when I saw the wonderful head scarfs and the cool Hawaiian shirt the man on the right is wearing. Then I started to look at it more and realized that I believe these lovely people are at a seaside resort somewhere. Wonderful!

1940s photo of people at a sea side resort

Find # 4: I love her dress, that is why I took this image home with me.And I giggle when I see that someone’s finger got in the photo 🙂

1940s woman in a pretty dress

Find # 5: I believe this picture is of a mother with her very handsome son and gorgeous well dressed daughter (isn’t her dress just divine and her hair is perfect). I’m enjoying that the mother does not seem happy to be taking the photo but the kids have nice smiles on their faces and don’t seem to mind at all.

1940s vintage image of a family

Find # 6: I remember when I went to summer camp and at the end of the week we would get a photo of the whole camp and then we would spend the day running around getting everyone to sign the back of it. When I found this image of a group of young ladies in the 1940s, possibly at summer camp and the back was signed I just knew this was a keeper.

1940s girls at summer camp

The back has cute “nicknames” that the girls had given each other. Like “Tiny” Jones and “Cookie”.

1940s girls at summer camp

Find # 7: Here comes the bride all dressed in..not white but who cares! She looks wonderful (want her dress!) and her husband..so handsome. He reminds me a bit of Don Draper of Mad Men fame.

1950s vintage wedding picture

Image # 8: Here is another happy couple from the 1930s. Her husband/boyfriend/”friend” looks so in love with her, I just adore how he is looking at her in this picture. And once again, the lovely lady wins in the style department. Look how dainty her gloves are? Swoon…

1930s vintage couple

Find # 9: FLAMINGOS!! I love flamingos and when I saw this wonderful menu from a still in business restaurant in Toronto, I just had to have it. I belive it’s from around the 1950s from the prices you see in the next image.

Flamingo restaurant menu Toronto

Inside of the menu. I love the section on “Milk drinks”. Milk Shakes, Malted Milk, Egg Nogg, Egg Malted. That’s a lot of Milk 🙂 And don’t forget the “Hot Ovaltine”.

Flamingo restaurant menu Toronto

Last but not least I also bought myself a vintage dress for the Tiki party I mentioned above. Here is the fabric but you won’t see the dress until Tiki party time (it’s a surprise).

vintage tiki dress 1950s

Did you have a good weekend? Find any vintage goodies yourself?

Liz 🙂