1940 Fashion Design and Pattern Book

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Fan of 1940s fashion? This fashion design book from The Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences will show you … more Fan of 1940s fashion? This fashion design book from The Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences will show you how to design with foundation patterns and how to plan clothes designs - and costumes! The 103-page illustrated hardcover is chock-full of illustrations of pre-War women's fashions and Historic Costumes. The Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, a division of the International Correspondence School, was founded in 1914 by Mary Brooks Picken and located in Scranton, PA. By the 1920s it was "the world's largest women's long- distance educational institution. Although it closed in 1938, its correspondence-course books were still published into the 1940s. And this is one of them! It is in very good+ vintage condition - clean, bright and unmarked And its rare fold-out illustration is just as issued. It will be sent carefully packed with tracking. less