Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

A bit long, but fun.

WHERE TO FIND HIM

Get a dog and walk it.
Have your car break down at strategic places.
Attend night school – take courses men like.
Join a hiking club.
Look in the census reports for places with the most single men. Nevada has 125 males for every 100 females.
Read the obituaries to find eligible widowers
Take up golf and go to different golf courses.
Take several short vacations at different places rather than one long one at one place.
Sit on a park bench and feed the pigeons.
Take a bicycle trip through Europe.
Get a job in a medical, dental or law school.
Become a nurse or airline stewardess – they have very high marriage rates.
Ask your friends’ husbands who the eligible men are in their offices.
Be nice to everybody – they may have an eligible brother or son.
Get a government job overseas.
Volunteer for jury duty.
Be friendly to ugly men – handsome is as handsome does.
Tell your friends that you are interested in getting married. Don’t keep it a secret.
Get lost at football games.
Don’t take a job in a company run largely by women.
Get a job demonstrating fishing tackle in a sporting goods store.
On a plane, train or bus don’t sit next to a woman – sit next to a man.
Go to all reunions of your high school or college class. There may be widowers there.
Don’t be afraid to associate with more attractive girls; they may have some leftovers.
Go back to your hometown for a visit – the wild kid next door may have become a very eligible bachelor while you were away.
Don’t room with a girl who is a sad sack and let her pull you down to her level.
Get a part-time job in a convention bureau.
Change apartments from time to time.
When traveling, stay at small hotels where it is easier to meet strangers.
Learn to paint. Set up your easel outside an engineering school.

HOW TO LET HIM KNOW YOU’RE THERE

Stumble when you walk into a room that he’s in.
Forget discretion every once in a while, and call him up.
Carry a hatbox.
Wear a Band-Aid. People always ask what happened.
Make a lot of money.
Learn several funny stories and learn to tell them well – but make sure you don’t tell them to him more than once.
Walk up to him and tell him you need some advice.
Dropping the handkerchief still works.
Have your father buy some theater tickets that have to be got rid of.
Stand in a corner and cry softly. Chances are good that he’ll come over to find out what’s wrong.
Don’t let him fish for your name the next time you meet. None of this “guess who” stuff.
If you’re at a resort, have the bell-boy page you.
Buy a convertible. Men like to ride in them.
Learn how to bake tasty apple pies. Bring one in to the office and let the eligible bachelors taste it.
Laugh at his jokes.
If there’s a wallflower among the men you know, why not cultivate him? For all you know, he may be a diamond in the rough.
“Accidentally” have your purse fly open, scattering its contents all over the street.

HOW TO LOOK GOOD TO HIM

Men like to think they’re the authorities on perfume. Ask his advice on what kind you should wear.
Get better-looking glasses – men still make passes at girls who wear glasses – or try contact lenses.
Practice your drinking with your women friends first.
If you dye your hair, pick a shade and stick to it.
Wear high heels most of the time – they’re sexier!
Unless he happens to be shorter than you are!
Tell him he’s handsome.
Take good care of your health. Men don’t like girls who are ill.
If you look good in sweaters, wear one on every third date.
Dress differently from the other girls in the office.
Get a sunburn.
Watch your vocabulary.
Go on a diet if you need to.
When you are with him, order your steak rare.
Don’t tell him about your allergies.
European women use their eyes to good advantage. Practice in front of a mirror.
Buy a full-length mirror and take a good look before you go to greet him.
Change the shade of your stockings and be sure to keep the seams straight!
Get that fresh-scrubbed look by scrubbing!
If he has bought you any trinket or accessory, wear it.
Use the ashtray; don’t crush out cigarettes in coffee cups!
Polish up on making introductions; learn to do them gracefully.
Don’t be too fussy.
Stick to your moral standards.
Don’t whine – girls who whine stay on the vine!

HOW TO LAND HIM

Show him you can have fun on a cheap date – but don’t overdo it!
Don’t let your parents treat him like a potential husband.
Ask your parents to disappear when you’re entertaining!
Double-date with a gay, happily married couple – let him see what it’s like!
Tell his friends nice things about him.
Send his mother a birthday card.
Ask his mother for her recipes.
Talk to his father about business and agree that taxes are too high!
Buy his sister’s children an occasional present.
On the first date tell him you aren’t thinking of getting married!
Don’t talk about how many children you want.
If he’s a fisherman, learn to scale and clean fish.
Don’t tell him everything about yourself at the start. Hold something in reserve.
When you’re out strolling with him, don’t insist on stopping at every shop window.
Don’t tell him how much your clothes cost.
Learn to sew and wear something you have made yourself.
Don’t gossip about him.
Never let him know he’s the only one, even if you have to stay home one or two nights a week!
Don’t be a pushover when he’s trying to make a date.
Very early in your dating, why not get a favorite song that you both regard as your own?
Find out about the girls he hasn’t married. Don’t repeat the mistakes they made.
Don’t discuss your former boyfriends.
If you are widowed or divorced, don’t constantly discuss your former husband.
Be flexible. If he decides to skip the dance and go rowing on the lake, go – even if you are wearing your best evening gown.
Hide your Phi Beta Kappa key if you own one – later on junior can play with it.
Turn wolves into husband material by assuming they have honor.
Resist the urge to make him over – before marriage, that is!
Learn where to draw the line – but do it gracefully.
Remain innocent but not ignorant.
Make your home comfortable when he calls – large ashtrays, comfortable chairs.
Learn to play poker.
If he’s rich, tell him you like his money – the honesty will intrigue him!
Never let him believe your career is more important to him than marriage.
Buy him an amusing or particularly appropriate present everyone once in a while. But don’t make it too expensive.
Clip and mail him a funny cartoon that means something to both of you.
Don’t tell dirty stories.
Stop being a mama’s girl – don’t let him think he’ll have in-law trouble, even if you know he will!
Point out to him that the death rate of single men is twice that of married men.

WILD IDEAS – ANYTHING GOES

Go to Yale.
Get a hunting license.
If your mother is fat, tell him you take after your father. If he’s fat too, tell him you’re adopted!
Stow away on a battleship.
Rent a billboard and post your picture and telephone number on it.
Paint your name and number on your roof and say, “Give me a buzz, pilots.”
Start a whispering campaign on how sought-after you are.
Sink at a fashionable beach at high noon!
Ride the airport bus back and forth from the airport.
Bribe Ferris-wheel operator to get you stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel.
Stand on a busy street corner with a lasso.
Carry a camera and ask strange, handsome men if they would mind snapping your picture.
Ask your mother to take in male borders.
Make and sell toupees – bald men are easy catches!
Advertise for male co-owner of a boat.
If you see a man with a flat, offer to fix it.
Carry a tow chain in the trunk of your automobile.
Let it be known in your office that you have a button box and will sew on bachelors’ loose buttons.
Don’t marry him if he has too many loose buttons! [3]

gamer3877

Wow. I think most of these would still work today. Some of them for men too.

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SeamusMac Loc: Walla Walla, WA

Those are great, thanks.

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SteveR Loc: Michigan

The thing that worked on me is not even listed...."look at him with those big beautiful eyes and give him a big smile." It did it to me every time!!!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

I think that seams in stockings mostly disappeared by the '50's. I remember my mother telling me that during the war there was no more nylon available for stockings - it all being made for parachutes - so the young women would draw a line up the back of their legs with a mascara to make it look like they had stockings on.... All very interesting, and a lot of truth in the list.

For men, I would have to put at the top of the list: go grocery shopping on Friday evening. I always see lots of women at the store if I happen to shop then, and they always seem more likely to look me over...

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Speaking of which....whatever became of the original nylon stockings?

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

I believe the seamed stockings were silk. That was used for parachutes at first and powder bags for naval guns at the beginning of the war but as it was sourced from Asia nylon quickly became the material used. Worn stockings of nylon were turned and recycled into war materials.
This is the gist of what happened.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

I think pantyhose took over for the original stockings. They looked the same and were more convenient for the ladies.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Yes in the 50's.
I remember my mother and sisters though still using stockings at least until the late 50's or early 60's.
Was not that important to me to remember.

olsonsview

Many women in the know still wear either seamed, or the seamless reinforced heel and toe gartered stockings. They are still made today on some of the original looms from the old days. I only know because I am lucky enough to be married to a lady that looks great in them, and wears them!

Nancysc

I had heard almost everything on these lists when i was a teen and young adult. Some of the ideas are very out of date (work at a medical school? now more than 50 percent of doctors are women). Some of the ideas are just normal nice behavior, like knowing how to make an introduction. And I never assume someone remembers my name; I say it right away to spare any embarrassment. If he remembers me, so much the better.

jhkfly

I am very thankful the seams went away!