Today’s patterns are from the mid-1950’s – when children’s wear for the over-tens looked a lot like small versions of adult clothing. There might be novelty buttons or a cute pocket applique, but generally speaking, once children were out of nursery school their clothes didn’t look especially childish.
The jumpers below are quite typical of 1950’s clothes for younger teens. This neat, and not overly sophisticated knitwear wouldn’t look out of place if sized up for their parents.
Twinprufe was a brand of patterns and yarns produced in Australia by the FW Hughes company, which also produced the Sun-Glo range of patterns and yarns. I quite like these patterns. I think they still look fresh and stylish and would look good for an 8 – 14 year old as the pattern suggests.
It’s nice to see patterns from a wholly Australian knitting company, and I was particularly pleased to see the add below for buttons.
General Plastics made Beauclaire Buttons in NSW and was taken over in 1957 by Beutron. You can still find Beauclaire buttons on Etsy and eBay from time to time.
Although it’s nice to be able to get yarn and patterns from anywhere in the world, I still prefer to support my knitting habit with locally produced goodies. It gets more difficult to do this with the bigger companies, but there are small producers who still make and sell their goods in Australia.
(Please note that I do not own the copyright to any patterns featured in Retro Monday. Unfortunately this means I can not make or send out copies).
