Hip-Movers to Knit & Crochet
Coats & Clark’s Studio Card No. 2
Coats & Clark’s Sales Corp
1970
Submitter: So groovy it’s amazing! I think [first image below] is my absolute fave!! Came in with large donation of women’s needlework, craft periodicals and books.
Holly: This might be useful at some sort of fashion-related archive, or it might sell at a book sale aimed at “nostalgia.” It is super groovy, as Submitter indicates, so someone will likely want it. That someone is just not a circulating collection. But gosh, thanks for the donation.
(This ended up in a rare book room at a university, which is a reasonable place for it.)
Mary: This looks like a casting call for a Jacqueline Susann movie adaptation.
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EEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!
So dated, so bizarre, that it seems almost destined to be become the Next Big Thing.
All together now: “Shorts with tights? Eeeuw!!!”
Not to mention the itch potential of knit woolen pants/shorts! And +1 for Louise’s comment.
They’re probably not wool. Coats & Clark is the parent company of Red Heart. They’re biggest product is acrylics.
Actually – they probably were mostly wool. My mother made some similar to this from wool yarn in the late 60’s. Orange knit skirt with owls in the border 🙂
Does anyone know what that one woman’s belt buckle is supposed to be??
Looks like two women in bikinis and their silhouettes.
Oh my I never noticed the belt buckle, so enthralled was I by the rest, lol…
C’mon, let’s be honest: we all know that if we wait long enough this stuff will come back….
My Lord! The fashion is amazing, but does not translate into crochet–ever!
Is it fair to say these folks have their knickers in a knot? Or at least a knit?
I don’t know, I kind of like some of the skirts… 🙂
I’m digging the shoes. I love the black and white pair.
So, um, which university library? I might need to make a trip there. I love that green skirt.
Well, if you’re sure your hips can carry that off….
Honestly, if you find this PLEASE I need these patterns haha. I would absolutely wear these shorts and skirts!
I suddenly wish I could draw because I’d totally design a superhero who knits outfits like this to fight crime in.
Oof, those black and white shoes though…
That green skirt might be adapted into a nice Christmas tree skirt. 🙂 I’ll freely admit I have accidentally started collecting these old craft booklets, just to marvel at the fashions and color combinations (also, home decorating books from the 60s have some amazing pictures). Since I started volunteering with the local Friends of the Library, I’ve scored quite a few from the donations – told the person who deals with crafty books that I would love anything too old, weird, or bizarre to sell, and there seems to be a LOT of those around.