Here is a bit of disappearing history. My Mother was married in 1925. Her Grandmother gave her a highly prized sewing cabinet like that for a wedding gift. I have it in my home now. All of their clothes were handmade at the turn of the century. My great-grandmother even rented a room in Chicago to a seamstress in exchange for left over materials. The seamstress would come to the house in Holland, MI and stay to make clothes for the whole family. Mother always remarked "we girls" in the 1950's had more clothes than they did! I used laces and satins and bindings stored in that cabinet to make doll clothes sewing by hand when I was about 9 yrs old. PS When Gone with the Wind was first published it was a very thick book my Mother hid it in one of the side compartments from us eager readers...not deemed proper reading for us!