Originally Posted by SueSew

I had never spent time with one or paid much attention to the old machines, and I am stunned by how thoroughly feminine and lovely it is for a piece of black-painted steel! all the decorative gold stencils, and there is an aluminum (?) or stainless shiny plate at the side of the needle arm and it isall filigree sort of designs, ever so pretty. Even the shape of the machine itself has graceful curves, not utilitarian looking.