Ep. 19: Rationing and Refashioning in WWII

We've been looking forward to this episode for a long time, folks: we're rationing and refashioning all over the place. Steph's taking the fashion reins and doing a marvelous job of it, ending up with a work dress fit for a 20th-century woman. Torey's deep into ration history and evangelizing about her family's wartime cake.

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Fashion

Make and mend for victory

T he National Film Board: Stitch and Save. (Cartoon with a pair of scissors fighting some clothes and cutting them down to different clothing. All set to music, and line animations. It’s weird,but shows what they could do.)

Wartime Prices and Trade Board from the Canadian Encyclopedia.

Caton, S.G. Turnbull. “Government Control and Canadian Civilian clothing during World War II” Ars Textrina 22 (1994): 175-192.

Vintage Patterns wikia:
1940s
Simplicity 4364 (This is the one Steph tried to make)
Simplicity 4363
Simplicity 4356

Fashion on the ration: How clothing fell victim to World War II austerity

Report of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Sept. 3 1939 to March 31 1943

Food

Wartime Canada, especially Food on the Home Front. Steph used the BC Electric Home Service Bulletin. We also talked about Making the most of your meat ration and ration books. Torey's ill-fated oat cookie recipe came from Robin Hood Flour Mills Ltd.'s Ration Recipes book.

How Internment Camps Changed Japanese Cuisine in Canada

Weenie Royale: Food and the Japanese Internment

Wartime Home Front

Meat Rationing in WWII

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