Post #286340 by stuff-o-rama on Sat, Feb 17, 2007 11:35 PM

My Mom's best friend's husband died a few years ago, he was an artist, a cobbler, shoemaker and leather craftsman. (He made John Wayne's boots up until he died). My Mom's friend asked me to come over and help her go through some of his belongings as her kids didn't want them and she was just starting to warm up to the idea of letting go of some of his stuff. There were stacks and stacks of leather craft pattern books, templates, tools and leather scraps. One book particularly caught my eye, it was a Tandy catalog from the 1950's

It reads:
TRADE WINDS, the answer to your demands for high fashion smartness with saddlebag utility. Acclaimed by leading fashion magazines. Beautiful, compact and wonderfully functional TRADE WINDS holds almost as much as a small over night bag...

Only $9.95! I checked the Tandy web site to see if this style of purse kit was still available, they're not. It would've been cool to try to replicate the design... maybe on a different style. My leather work is really rusty to pull that off!