My brother introduced me to the blog todaysinspiration.blogspot.com, a hub for illustrations from the 40’s and 50’s. It houses all these cool, vintage comic strips and hand-drawn art that I can spend hours looking at. It’s another way to enjoy an interest in retro fashion and art, in the hopes that one day I may be able to sew a capelet in the style of that era, or maybe a swingy skirt or two.

I found this comic strip ad for Scotch Brand Tape that cracked me up. In it, a plaid-wearing Scotsman named Scotty McTape offers sewing tips to a distraught craftster.

I love the idea of using tape to “baste” a seam. Though I suspect this would make my grandmother turn over in her grave.

They even “talk” in rhyme! Eyelovit.