A Quick Flip Through 1940's Vogue Pattern Books
Hello! I hope you have had a good weekend! Before I got started with my sewing for the day I filmed a little flip through some 1940's issues of Vogue Pattern Book magazines that I had promised to show you all a while back. I hope you enjoy seeing a peek at these early 1940's styles. I promise I will eventually scan and get these up to my Pinterest one day!
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II found Harriet Pepin's book on the internet. What a wonderful book.
I'm generally a fan of these flip-throughs. They provide really good historical context. And I would be very much in favour of seeing more from that Modern Pattern Design book, especially some 1930s style stuff.
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So fun to see those pattern books! Thank you for sharing with us!! I also have a pretty standard sized scanner that I like to use. However, I sometimes also have items too big for my scanner, like piano music/sheet music. Not sure if you've ever heard of/tried, but when I have things to scan that are too big for my scanner, I use a scanner app on my IPhone. I use one called "CamScanner." (there are others.) The basic version is free. You basically use your phone as a "scanner" (you're really taking a "photo" of your page). And then the app converts it into a PDF file. I usually Email the PDF file to myself so that I can save it on my PC. But, you might be able to post PDFs directly on Pinterest (not sure, never tried). You should be able to get full pages in one shot. Anyhow, just thought it might be a useful, faster tool as you embark on scanning in lots of those pages.
Those color combos...yesssss!! <3 <3 <3 I LOVE Modern Pattern Design; it's such a handy reference. The complete book is available on archive.org, which means you can download it directly to your e-reader (for those who have one). A digital copy can never truly replace a physical book, in my opinion, but it's a nice option for hard-to-come-by (and/or out-of-my-budget) books like this one.
These are so fun. Also I just searched for the Modern Pattern Design book, and it looks like it's been scanned/uploaded! Not sure if Patreon would let me post a link, but if you Google for it the link will come up.