Unsung Sewing Patterns

The earliest date I've found for this pattern is 1923 and 1925 seems to be the last year this pattern was advertised in the newspapers....

Universal Fashion Company I've found several different founding dates for Universal Fashion Company, with the earliest date being 1881, ...

Authorized by the American Red Cross, this pattern was produced during World War I (1914-1918.) The pattern is referenced in Junior Red C...

Early 1980s. This pattern was also issued by Vogue as number 8826 with the same cover artwork. Today it shows up frequently on eBay and Etsy...

  1961, based on this advertisement in the Benton Harbor Michigan News-Palladium on May 11, 1961.  The original mailing envelope has a retur...

Late 1930s or early 1940s. David Copperfield is the first of Dickens's books that I listened to rather than read, and I found that ...

1976 There is a little bit to unpack here, starting with how I did, then didn't, then finally did acquire my copy of this pattern. ...