Originally Posted by TanyaL

For those of you who are too young to remember older rules of ettiquete, here are some memories of the hankerchief "rules".I remember that when a lady bought hankies she bought either ones for every day or ones for dressy occasions. Usually this meant that the everyday ones were made from printed fabric and the better ones were made from solid colored fabric and hand embroidered. Some of these were also edged with lace. There were black ones for funerals, and sometimes you could color-coordinate the hankie with your dress, but you seldom had one color of fabric and another color of lace. That was usually considered to be gaudy and not lady like. Frequently the hankies had your initial embroidered on one corner.
You did not use an everyday hankerchief in a dressy situation such as going to church on Sunday morning, and you did not put a white, lace edged hankerchief in your purse when you went to the grocery store. The rules of dress were as strict about the use of hankies as they were about your girdle and getting the seams of your hose straight in the back of your legs. Some things ladies did not do if they were proper ladies. These things were taught by mothers to their daughters and they were very important at the time. Not knowing these type of things could mark a young girl as cheap, and "from the wrong side of the tracks." Not someone a fellow took home to meet the family. It was a different time.

Originally Posted by Barb44

I have some hankies that I have saved over the years that I would trade. I was going to make a butterfly quilt years ago when I saw it in a magazine (I think I still have the magazine.) But my priorities have changed. Hankies are hard to find nowadays. The ones I have came from a thrift store. You almost have to hunt antique shops and flea markets to find them and then they are expensive.

TanyaL, thanks for that info. My mom used hankies but they were only the bright prints. Guess she didn't know the rules, LOL. My grandma had fancier ones, but used old cut up shirts for every day. She was very frugal.

Originally Posted by LINANN

I love the first one. (the 2nd one did not show up). I like this one better than the butterfly hankie quilt. Is there a pattern for this somewhere? I would love to have it.
Linda