Showing posts with label The Mary Brooks Picken Method of Modern Dressmaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Mary Brooks Picken Method of Modern Dressmaking. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Mary Brooks Picken Method of Modern Dressmaking -1925 Part 3

Mary Brooks Picken had lots of good advice about fitting.





Friday, June 4, 2010

Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Mary Brooks Picken Method of Modern Dressmaking -1925

This is the Mary Brooks Picken Method of Modern Dressmaking, published by The Pictorial Review Company in 1925. Mary Brooks Picken was the editor of this and many other books, a fascinating woman. And pretty too!
More of her helpful information tomorrow.