Today we have been digitalising items from the 1940s and came across these lovely flower corsages which were made in the wartime 1940s. They were made from old shoe laces as in those days, women had to be inventive about what they could use to embellish and decorate their clothing.
They decorated their clothing with pins and embellishment to really disguise the fact that they did not have a lot of items in their wardrobe!
Today you may be able to find a fair few spare laces as a lot of the youngsters take out the laces in their trainers and converses, either to add new coloured ones or just wear without them....(its not so many years ago that my daughter got told off for doing that by an older lady, who said she would get a 'claw toe' if she didn't tie her laces properly..... ....scary stuff but her feet seem normal today so it can't have been too bad!)
We have seen corsages made from lots of items, but this is the first time we have seen shoelaces used! I think we are all familiar now with flowers and corsages made from old zips, so maybe these will catch on as well....
here are the instructions
You could of course also add vintage buttons and beads into the centres....enjoy making these and have fun using up old laces....!
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