The HEARTH Collection at Cornell University is a wonderful online resource for vintage sewing, cooking, crafting and all things Home Economics. If you haven't discovered it, I hope you will check it out.
Though I was researching as earlier era, I came across this bulletin from 1948, Hand Finishing Your Dress. I read through the article and loved how much basic information and instruction it imparted in only four pages. So, here it is.
