Hunting for Vintage Halloween Costume Patterns

Where can you hunt for vintage costume sewing patterns? EBay, Etsy, and with me, of course!

 A couple of months ago, I was hunting for random 1920s sewing patterns (I have a problem, I accept that) and I was so excited to stumble across this original vintage 1920s Witch Costume pattern.

It includes the Hat, Cape, and the Dress underneath!

But just imagine my delight when only a month later I found the matching 1920s Halloween-themed embroidery transfer pattern on Etsy! The very same one mentioned on the envelope of the costume sewing pattern, and this one includes a witch, bat, scaredy-cat, and owl motifs!

Once I had the two together, I started hunting through my quarterlies and magazines and found them advertised in my bound 1924 Delineator Magazine volume.

In vintage sewing pattern collector world, we call this a major Nerd Moment.

I knew there would be even better illustrations out there so I reached out to my dear friend and fellow vintage sewing pattern nerd Judy Yates of Vintage4me2. She helped me find an even better color graphic for the illustration from her extraordinary collection of Butterick Quarterlies!

Naturally, this made playing with this pattern much more fun for me.

So if you fancy being a witch, a vintage witch, or just hella cute for this Halloween costume season, I now have you covered with the entire costume in multisize, and that includes the hat, cape, dress, and embroidery transfers!

I even have the hat all by itself if you just feel like adding a touch of vintage to a witch costume you'd like to recycle...

What do you plan on being this year for Halloween, if anything? Do you ever make your own costumes?

Happy costuming!