Mid 1930s fashion Padded shoulders, bolero jackets, and puff sleeve blouses were worn with flared mid-calf skirts. Furs, hats, gloves, and matching purses were still popular accessories paired with pumps, peep-toes, and slingback shoes.

In the Depression era, women and girls often wore dresses or skirt sets, while men and young boys wore pants with button-up shirts. Many families made their own clothing. During the Depression, clothing was often handmade from repurposed materials.

Flour Sacks were Material for Clothing in the Depression. “Repair, reuse, make do, and don’t throw anything away” was a motto during the Great Depression. Very few farm families had enough money to buy new clothes at a store. Mothers mended socks and sewed patches over holes in clothes.

The new homes of 1930s suburbia featured a bathroom, inside toilet and a third bedroom. They also tended to be dry, better insulated, light and airy. The homes of this era featured a new style kitchen in which the cooking and washing were both done.

In the main, a 1930s home is an excellent property type to live in. They are spacious compared to most other homes built in the Victorian era and post Second World War. Not only are they internally large, but many have much better sized gardens than you would see in pre and post-1930s properties.

If there’s a lot of accessories that need moving, and you also need extra ones added, it would make perfect sense to do a complete rewire. Often when doing all kinds of improvements to an old system it’s nearly as easy to replace the lot – though not always essential.

The 1930s: A new era of owner-occupied homes There were approximately 4 million homes built between 1919 and 1930. Nearly 3 million of these were owner by the occupiers, an unprecedented change from the 750,000 of the early 1920s.

Most homes listed as 1900, are in fact, much older. Really, it comes down to overall quality of the home and the neighborhood. Older homes that are well-maintained but have poor flow, floor settling, or don’t meet today’s families expectations (small closets, narrow halls, low ceilings) should be appropriately comped.

So the difference between the Victorian Era and the Edwardian Era in its strictest meaning, is that the Victorian Era was the time in which Victoria was on the throne (1837-1901) and the Edwardian Era was the time in which her son, Edward VII was on the throne (1901-1910).