I discovered a Vintage Patterns catalog on wikia. It has images of hundreds of commercial patterns from the 1920s to the 1970s. It's interesting to see how women's styles from the later decades make reference to earlier decades. I particularly enjoy the Guy Laroche patterns for Vogue. Think early 1960s when women still wore skirts and dresses to attend church or throw dinner parties.
On the topic of vintage patterns, a woman stopped by my sewing class a few months ago to drop off boxes of old commercial patterns from the 1960s to the 1980s that had belonged to her mother. Sadly, her mother could no longer maintain a large house and was moving to a smaller place. But we were grateful to receive the donation of out-of-print patterns that her mother had used to create beautiful dresses, skirts, and blouses for her daughters over two decades. Here are the few I chose.
I love the 1960s wedding gown with the empire waist and cap sleeves. They remind me of old photos of my Mom in 1969. She was 25 and had just met my Dad when they were interns in Chicago.
