Mary Maxim Sweater Designs - Original Knitting Designs for all the family!

These are wonderful sweaters from a Mary Maxim Catalog. You could order these and many more patterns and then you knit them for your loved ones.
This company is still in business and you can read more here.

This is undated, but maybe somebody can recognize that sports car they are leaning on for the back cover.

These sweaters are "Perfect for casual wear the year 'round" and "Soft and fleecy as a cloud", "Gay Designs for Little People", "Smartly Styled", A "Head Start" on Fall Season Fashions, and it's the "Newest Knitting Sensation".

Barbie goes to Career Day!

So Barbie was considering her next career move. She considered Business,

Folk Music,

Ballet Dancer,

Medicine,

Ski Patrol,

Vegas Singer,

But all those decision gave her a headache, so she decided to sleep on it.

More Anny Blatt de Paris - Haute Couture Knit Wear 1952

Here's the back cover and a few more saucy french girls showing off the latest knitwear.





And I don't know just how French this gal is, but I couldn't resist including her!

Anny Blatt de Paris - Haute Couture Knit Wear 1952

This Anny Blatt "knitting album" from 1952. "This is the first time that an album entirely composed of Paris models created by a leading Paris designer has been published in the United States. For the first fine American women can make their own garments with a Paris label."
You don't have to look twice to see the French influence here.