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es for 8 to 14 years i wonder if an adult pattern was available that would fit older boys in high school as well as men playing in their local leagues b c i assume very cleverly stands for ball club but wouldn t it have been fun if the illustrator had had the imagination to use m m 1 see the history of baseball uniform pants on the web site for the baseball hall of fame originally posted on may 5 2012 updated on march 16 2025 posted by andrea at the blue door at 3 16 2025 02 15 00 pm labels 1910s baseball children may manton uniform tuesday december 24 2024 4577 santa claus suit 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 this nice newspaper advertisement illustration is all about christmas and shows an elder sibling of our rabbit pattern here in his fetching new rompers omaha nebraska daily news saturday december 1 1923 page 5 the envelope and typeface lead me to believe that this pattern might have been manufactured by the beauty pattern company 1188 90 fulton street brooklyn new york the double breasted coat gives santa a rather official air imagine two rows of shiny brass buttons leggings rather than trousers would be quicker less expensive and probably fit a wider variety of santas this unprinted pattern does not appear to have been used merry christmas everybody updated on december 24 2024 with new information on the date of the pattern posted by andrea at the blue door at 12 24 2024 10 43 00 am labels 1920s costume men s clothing occupational garment santa claus work wear monday september 30 2024 universal fashion company 800 working blouse universal fashion company i ve found several different founding dates for universal fashion company with the earliest date being 1881 though i ve been unable to find newspaper advertisements for them before 1884 hartford usa courant p 1 monday january 7 1884 camden new jersey courier post friday march 7 1884 p 4 advertisements showing garments are very rare for universal the new york times monday may 4 1885 p 15 in their suplemento hispano americano in the early years of the paper pattern industry there were many companies that flourished for a few years before going out of business or being absorbed by another company but universal was still in business in 1894 this advertisement provides a nice list of selling points owensboro kentucky us messenger saturday january 6 1894 p 8 1894 would prove to be the last year that universal patterns were advertised in newspapers by 1895 universal was being sued by some of their agents who had been falsely promised exclusive territories and by 1896 universal was in turn suing to recover monies owed them by their agents universal s legal troubles persisted until about 1899 when they seem to disappear from the scene the working blouse the term blouse when applied to men s garments confuses people today when this pattern was made the term was used for a men s outer garment in english the term survives today just barely in the term middy blouse the working blouse is a practical garment it typically functioned as an over shirt protecting the shirt underneath the banded waist makes it safe to wear around machinery and keeps out dust or chaff 1 universal wasn t the only pattern company offering a working blouse pattern in 1894 butterick offered several working blouse patterns in its delineator magazine the delineator april 1894 p x note how butterick uses the term jumper interchangeably with working blouse clothing terminology is always fluid the merchant tailor museum has a very similar working blouse in their collection the extensive piecing probably indicates a home made garment utilitarian garments such as the working blouse were good candidates for the early mens ready to wear industry which was boosted by the development of the sewing machine 2 levi strauss offered a working blouse in its catalog as early as the 1870s and this garment is thought to be an ancestor of their iconic denim jacket several years ago joann peterson at laughing moon brought to my attention an ebay auction for a 19th century fireman s shirt that could have been made from this pattern the cut was so similar making the working blouse stay tuned trade card for universal fashion company 1 eventually the working blouse and waist overalls would be combined into a single garment called a working suit or union overalls 2 the men s ready to wear industry may have been given a boost by the american civil war 1861 1865 once the demand for soldiers clothes dried up there would have been both capacity and skills in sizing and construction prior to what we understand today as ready to wear garments like the working blouse were probably produced by the slops trade originally posted july 27 2008 updated september 30 2024 posted by andrea at the blue door at 9 30 2024 09 51 00 am 3 comments labels 1890s men s clothing nineteenth century occupational garment universal fashion work wear friday january 5 2024 home pattern company 157 ladies matinee or morning blouse authorized by the american red cross this pattern was produced during world war i 1914 1918 the pattern is referenced in junior red cross activities teachers manual american red cross publication 606 published on october 15 1918 the manual is a terrific resource for understanding how war work could be integrated into school work starting even in the primary grades before getting into the specifics of the articles to be produced the manual discusses how the schools war work can be used to teach social responsibility and contribute to community service see chapter v thus while sewing clothes for refugees was incorporated into home economics instruction it could also be used to teach geography about france and belgium and current events about the war in addition to sewing skills other aspects household economy to be taught included clothing care and repair and clothing the baby see chapter viii the manual states that the garments to be made may seem somewhat unattractive in color and design and materials used remember that we cannot expect the french and belgian people to change their habits and customs and if we wish to be truly helpful we must not try to force our opinions and practices upon them when they have definite ideas as to what they wish p 301 in particular the belgians were thought to have a preference for dark colors though part of this may have been due to limited resources for laundering at this time the term morning blouse appears to be used for a garment worn at home while attending to the morning s household chores in the february 15 issue of vogue magazine for 1917 patterns for morning clothes and sports clothes are shown on page 82 a little confusingly the model wearing vogue s stylish version of a morning blouse is shown holding a tennis racquet the construction and materials used would allow the morning blouse to be laundered at home by the third year of high school students could make the morning blouse in flannel outing flannel or very heavy galatea dark colors only p 362 at this time flannel would have been understood to be wool flannel while outing flannel was made of cotton galatea was a firmly woven cotton fabric typically twill or sateen weave usually used for nurses uniforms and children s clothes note that the instructions on the back of the envelope explain how to make a flat felled seam advising the maker to observe how the sleeves of a man s shirt are sewed into the armhole this tells us that such seams were common in men s shirts but probably not in ladies clothing the strengthening provided by a flat felled seam justifies the additional time it would have taken to make the seam here is a front view of the blouse made up in a dark cotton remnant both without and with the belt this is an unprinted pattern originally posted on 4 july 2008 substantially rewritten with new information on 5 january 2024 posted by andrea at the blue door at 1 05 2024 11 23 00 am labels 1910s home pattern company made garment matinee blouse red cross women s clothes wwi sunday october 8 2023 vogue 590 misses dress and top 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 born in england on october 8 1928 erica wilson graduated from the royal school of needlework in 1948 before moving to the united states in 1954 she became well known for her newspaper column books needlepoint kits some in association with the metropolitan museum of art and her television show on pbs at that time there were few other books available on traditional smocks and smocking particularly in the united states a similar smock was featured in wilson s 1981 book erica wilson s needlework to wea r on pages 50 and 78 this pattern would have appealed to wilson s fans during a period of nostalgia for traditional crafts folkwear published their english smock pattern at about the same time as the vogue pattern while the pattern is for a women s garment which vogue refers to a dress or top originally this garment was called a smock frock smock frocks some of them beautifully embroidered as well as smocked were worn by agricultural laborers in parts of england during the nineteenth century as farming became increasingly mechanized throughout the century smock frocks would have been unsafe to wear around agricultural equipment and eventually became obsolete 1 a surprising number of the nicest smock frocks eventually ended up in museums subsequently smocking itself has had periods of popularity over the years often for children s clothes i recall having a smocked dress when i was a small child the vogue pattern hews pretty closely to traditional smocks construction composed of rectangles of fabric the shaped yoke and sleeve are seen in some later traditional smocks and for a modern wearer provide a slightly better fit through the upper body in addition to the construction instructions extensive instructions are provided for the smocking and the embroidery this printed pattern is unused 1 the best recent work on the history of the smock is alison toplis s the hidden history of the smock frock posted by andrea at the blue door at 10 08 2023 12 00 00 am labels 1980s embroidery smock vogue saturday june 5 2021 patt o rama 8500 apron and bonnet 1961 based on this advertisement in the benton harbor michigan news palladium on may 11 1961 the original mailing envelope has a return address for grit a periodical for rural folks the recipient s address includes a zip code putting the mailing date some time after 1963 when zip codes were introduced patt o rama is another one of those syndicated house name patterns that are so hard to research despite the quaint old fashioned charm the writer still points out the functional reason for the bonnet it shades your face 1963 puts this bonnet pattern on the cusp of a transition from primarily functional to nostalgic or costume use this pattern could well have served both uses it s easy to imagine the bonnet and apron made up in red and white gingham and worn by all the ladies running booths at a church social or bazaar then again this may have simply been the preferred headgear for an older woman who was accustomed to the style the patt o rama brand is also at an interesting point in the history of unprinted patterns by 1961 all of the big pattern companies were offering printed patterns patt o rama gamely reminds the maker that with their pattern there are no margins to trim no tracing wheels and no fabric waste but again an older woman would have grown up with unprinted patterns the apron pattern is entirely unremarkable and about 10 years later i d make an almost identical apron in my first home ec class in avocado green cotton poly if memory serves but the bonnet was interesting did sunbonnet styles change over time how different was this bonnet from say butterick 5340 from the early part of the century superficially not very different as it turns out the overall dimensions of the crowns are almost identical the brim of the patt o rama bonnet is shallower by about 1 1 2 but still quite deep enough to completely shade the face the illustration doesn t do justice to the depths of the brim interestingly the butterick bonnet confines the curtain to the back of the bonnet while the patt o rama bonnet brings the curtain across the bottom of the brim to shade the sides of the neck the construction of the bonnets is a little different the butterick bonnet combines the crown and the curtain into a single piece using a simple fold at neck level to create a casing for the back drawstring the patt o rama bonnet has a separate piece for the curtain piece j which they call a ruffle as well as for the drawstring casing piece i butterick assumes you ll have some narrow tape on hand to use as drawstrings the patto o rama pattern instructs you to cut and sew drawstring ties from narrow rectangles patt o rama 8500 is a good quality pattern the pieces are accurately cut and the notches and circles matched well the written instructions contained a couple of slightly confusing typographical errors and were a bit jumbled probably from lack of space but the construction illustrations were clear i made the bonnet up from some pink calico i had on hand chambray would provide a slightly sturdier bonnet i followed the instructions almost exactly with only one exception i bound the seam that joins the brim to the crown both for tidiness and strength posted by andrea at the blue door at 6 05 2021 10 33 00 pm 0 comments labels 1960s bonnet made garment patt o rama sun bonnet syndicate unprinted older posts home subscribe to posts atom share pages home about unsung sewing patterns sources consulted well that s interesting woman s institute measure slip coverage 1800s 2 1830s 1 1890s 3 1900s 6 1910s 36 1920s 48 1930s 34 1940 1 1940s 30 1950 1 1950s 16 1960s 4 1970s 2 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