Black Laced Ruffles

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

Jackie Kennedy snapped by paparazzo Ron Gallela on a 1969 New York shopping trip 

Charles Addams An Addams Family Christmas, from the "New Yorker" 1947

Shalom Harlow by Patrick Demarchelier, 2004

Photo by André de Dienes.

The Delineator magazine, July 1934

Catwalk (1995) - dir. Robert Leacock

Alain Delon and Romy Schneider. March, 1961

Lester Ralph (1877-1927), ''Eve's Diary'' by Mark Twain, 1906