Bed sheets, dish towels, and curtains were made from flour sacks.
Most clothes were made at home.
Girls and women didn’t wear jeans or dress pants like they do now.
Nobody went to Taos or other cities to buy clothes. They would order from the Montgomery Ward or Chicago catalog.
Catalogs had a lot of uses. After the catalog was old it was used for toilet paper in the outhouse.
In 1965 we had a big department store owned by Weems.
We are grateful to following people and organizations, who were extremely helpful in producing this work:
Nita Murphy, The Southwest Research Center of Northern New Mexico, Taos
Sandra Jaramillo and staff, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
Esteban Rael-Galvez, New Mexico State Historian
Museums of New Mexico Library
Taos Public Library
Moby Dickens Bookstore, Taos
Carol Rael for translations
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