How to Make a Skirt the Modern Way (1956)

This promotional film for Simplicity sewing patterns offers a revealing, if unintentional glimpse of what was supposed to be a woman’s place in 1950s American suburbia. Watch out for Janice, her killer pin-cushion and her ’primmer’ ! Now wasn’t that easy? And it was such fun to do! Transferred from a 16mm Kodachrome dupe print I rescued from a skip. If that left you gagging for more, the sequel, ’How to Make a Jumper the Modern Way’, can be found at .