Past Patterns also has many copies of 1940s patterns: http://www.pastpatterns.com/1940.html
Katy On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Sharon Nevin <sharon.ne...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you can, get hold of Australian home Journals or even do an ebay search > for them to look at the covers. I believe they could help you. They were > issued monthly and came with 2 or 3 patterns and had various articles on > dress and home economic related things. The patterns were mostly dresses and > occasional childrens clothes. > > > I have seen the originals that some of the Simplicity retro reissues are > based on up for sale on ebay. I have not seen those two particular patterns. > Some of the Simplicity Retro are more inspired by the era, some are actually > based on a pattern for that period. Occasionally I search ebay to find the > original covers to compare the reissues to. I would like to buy the original > vintage pattern but it hasn't been happening. > > The main difference bet ween vintage and reissues is the different block or > sloper they are working from. From the comments I have read, simplicity's > fit of reissued vintage pattern is dicier then vogues. Simplicity tends to > bit a bit more intepretive. There are some difference between Vogue reissues > and originals too but they are not as major. There are som bloggers who have > compared the originals to reissues patterns but all the examples I have seen > are from the 50s. > > The skirt in 4044 is very similar to a skirt vogue reissued pattern. I > currently have a cat on my lap so can't check . If you are interested in the > number I can dig it up later. I would normally move the cat but he is > recovering from surgery and I haven't the heart to move him as he is being > that much of a sook. > > Sharon Nevin > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian katybisho...@gmail.com www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
