what-i-found

  "Bon Ton Lingerie Plastique and your frock - that's all!"  "...does away with overlapping thickness of vest, girdle, b...

"With such practical and becoming dresses available the housewife need not feel extravagant if she adds another to her wardrobe."...

There are a few of the many fabulous catalogs you could choose from in 1929-1930. These advertised for urban shoppers, but also brought fash...

The every so stylish Dolly Gray catalog from a 1929 McCall's Magazine brings us a choice of smart dresses semi-made. All the "diff...

From McCall's Magazine in September 1929 these evening gowns are the latest thing from Paris, but of course you bought the pattern to ma...

More wonderful Parisian inspired frocks from McCall's Magazine, September 1929. You could choose wool but consider if it is appropriate ...

This edition called Sewing For Profit has lots of information on setting yourself up in business with many suggestions of things other than ...

"Then a happy thought came to me; if everybody is buying dancettes, wouldn't they make appreciated gifts?"

A well-known dress manufacturer parading his prettiest models in Porch Frocks for the J. C. Penny buyer.

Wonder why they quit making Semi-Mades? Seems like just the thing for todays busy sewist!

Well, this looks easy enough...just cut up a small dress, add these inserts and it will fit a larger child. Let me know how it turns out. ;-...