This quesstion is actullay about 1937. The childrens theate I work at is doing a play "A Thousand Dresses". It's about a polish girl during I believe 1937. Does anyone know what would be worn during that time such as style fabric ex, cotton? thank you for your help. Lynn
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Sharon Nevin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sharon Nevin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] 1940s patterns To: "Historical Costume" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 10:31 PM 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 [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
