Blueprints of Fashion: Home Sewing Patterns of the 1950s storybook and comic strip characters

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Blueprints of Fashion: Home Sewing Patterns of the 1950s storybook and comic strip charactersTable of Contents During the 1950s, many women used their sewing skills to recreate the incredibly feminine styles that were adapted into commercial sewing patterns. The 1950s saw renowned designers such as Lanvin, Fath, Schiaparelli, and Givenchy licensing their names and designs to pattern companies in record numbers: designers from Paris to New York to Hollywood can be accounted for in the pattern catalogs of the 1950s. Any woman who could sew