This weekend I donned a pair of my DIY lace shorts and ultra-worn chambray shirt feeling quite summery and all-American. The light chambray blue worked nicely together with the denim, especially in conjunction with my fun beaded headband I had gotten ages ago. There's just something about mixing denim and chambray (as well as drinking from a vintage blue Ball mason jar) that screams "USA" to me and that fit right in with this Fourth of July holiday weekend!
Speaking of Americana, it was on this day in 1928 that sliced bread was sold for the first time. Otto Frederick Rohwedder from Davenport, Iowa, the inventor of the Rohwedder Bread Slicer, and Frank Bench from Chillicothe, Missouri, an adventurous baker, used the bulky machine on the baker's bread. Spreading the news about town in the local newspaper they wrote up an ad: "Announcing: The Greatest Forward Step in the Baking Industry Since Bread was Wrapped - Sliced Kleen Maid Bread." The innovation sent sales sky high and left us with not only perfect PB&Js, but also that great phrase, "the greatest thing since sliced bread." And now you know when that happened!
*info courtesy of NPR's Writer's Almanac
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