Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3 Volume 6 Number 4 July-August, 1957 Article 8 7-1957 Farm and home - Fashionable dressing is easy for home dressmaker Margaret Spencer Follow this and additional works at: https://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture3 Recommended Citation Spencer, Margaret (1957) "Farm and home - Fashionable dressing is easy for home dressmaker," Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3: Vol. 6 : No. 4 , Article 8. Available at: https://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture3/vol6/iss4/8 This article is brought to you for free and open access by Research Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3 by an authorized administrator of Research Library. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Fashionable Dressing is Easy for the Home Dressmaker By MARGARET SPENCER T was a long step from the first primitive "dressmaker's guide" to today's scientifi I cally designed and cut paper dress-pattern. In the 13th century when a French tailor made patterns from thin wood his invention was successfully resisted by the Tailors Guild for more than one hundred years. It was the Germans who gave us the about the occasion for which the garment first paper patterns, but with ten patterns will be required—it is so important to your on one sheet, all cut to size 36in., the enjoyment of it to be suitabley dressed. dressmaker had to be good! Then in A wise maxim to remember is "It is better America in the 1860's a new development to be under-dressed than overdressed," so was made when Ebenezer Butterick cut avoid exaggeration of style and detail graded sizes in one pattern which were when choosing garments.