"...Atomic Sewing Machines Will Probably Dispense with the Housewife Altogether..."

This is a wonderful video from 1960 that discusses the history of the sewing machine. Note the "free-motion" work and the announcer's enthusiasm for the future of the housewife.

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#6 EditorAnne 2019-08-27 03:32

I love seeing all those beautiful old machines, but I could sure do without that guy's condescending attitude.

#5 melegchristine 2019-08-26 16:57

Boy Oh Boy am I glad I never married a house! Sewing for some of us was a necessity not a "past time" and did take considerable time to accomplish. Return back to "simpler times?" NO THANKS! I worked forty to forty five hours a week to support us, completed all the housework, gardening and commuted a minimum of three hours a day, five days a week. What was so simple about that? Besides that I completed a college education and maintained a professional license. So where is this imaginary "simple"? The modern sewing machines have brought a level of enjoyment and creativity not previously thought of.

#4 Helen Kay Grant 2016-06-13 12:25

I have gone from learning to sew on a treadle machine to an electric machine that did forward and backward. Then there was the machine could do a zigzag stitch then another that could do several fancy stitches using cams. The next was one that did a lot of stitches including stretch and overcast stitches automatic button holes. And of course computerized sewing machines. I now have two of those and also a long arm quilting machine. I do not have the computerized quilter. I'd like to do it all myself. Sewing has always been something I loved and I have made many, many things in my lifetime.

#3 DebbieW 2016-06-10 10:47

I do appreciate my sewing machine that doesn't need to have oil added due to a self-encased design.

Anybody, and everyone, is encouraged to sew nowadays.

I, however, do miss when people dressed more refined.

Simpler times, were better in many ways.

#2 Love it 2016-06-10 10:34

The voice of the guy on the Atomic Sewing Machine really took me back to my school days. :lol:

#1 Lynn Mullen 2016-06-10 07:43

I loved the historical video about the sewing machine but "doing away with the housewife" due to future advances in the sewing machine is just "wishful thinking." We possibly do have more time to sew now, but sewing even on the machine is becoming a lost art to generations of 21st century youth.

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