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    Pattern Companies

    This list focuses primarily on American sewing pattern companies that operated before 1980.

    For pattern companies outside of the U.S. scroll down to the bottom of this page.


    Advance

    Associated

    Authentic

    Blue and White


    Bon Ton, Le - printed by S.T. Taylor and advertised for mail order in Le Bon Ton et Le Moniteur de la Mode magazine. They also operated a dressmaking/ pattern drafting school and likely sold patterns from their storefront in New York.


    Burda


    Butterick: Catalogs were printed in French and Spanish (Modas Metropolitanas) and advertised in The Delineator Magazine (American) , and Le Miroir des Modes (French magazine). Butterick Quarterly Companion, Butterick Fashion Book, Butterick Fashion Magazine (1930s name for their Quarterly), leaflet Butterick Fashion news. You can read more about Butterick's advertising publication history here.


    Cosmopolitan

    Daisy Kindgom - established in the late 1960s.

    Green Pepper - established in 1973.

    Delores of St. Paul

    Demorest, Mme.  - The first sewing pattern manufacturer in the U.S., printed and advertised in Demorest's Monthly Magazine.


    Domestic Pattern Company - created by The Domestic Sewing Machine Company and advertised in Domestic Paper Fashions flyers.


    Duart

    Duchess of Windsor (See Spadea).

    DuPont

    DuBarry - Advertised in counter catalogs, and in the DuBarry Prevue store leaflet.


    Economy


    Elite - sold patterns for mail order via Elite Styles pattern magazine.


    Excella - sold via counter catalogs,  Excella Fashion Quarterly.


    Fashionable Dress - published Fashionable Dress Magazine and Style.

    Folkwear

    Food Administration

    Frank Leslie

    Godey's

    Good Housekeeping

    Grit

    Harper's Bazar

    Haslam (pattern booklet drafting system)

    Hollywood - advertised in counter catalogs, Hollywood Patterns of Youth store leaflet.


    Home Fashions


    Home Pattern Company/ Ladies' Home Journal Patterns/ Journal Patterns - founded by Condé Nast in 1905. The company advertised in the Ladies' Home Journal Magazine, The Style Book store leaflet, The Home Book of Fashions quarterly, and sold from counter catalogs and via Mail Order.


    Ideal

    J.C.Penney

    Kut-Eezi (printed briefly by Ladies Home journal) as the first pattern with multiple sizes in one package.

    Kwik Sew

    L'art de la Mode

    Le Roy

    Lincoln Star

    Lutterloh/ Golden Rule/ La Coupe d'Or

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    Mail Order Companies:

    American Weekly

    Anne Adams - advertised in newspapers and via mail order catalogs.

    Beauty

    Fashion Service

    Grit - Grit Book of Fashions

    Kate Marchbanks

    Laura Wheeler

    Marian Martin

    Martha Pullen

    Parade

    Prominent Designer

    Reader Pattern Service

    Workbasket

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    May Manton


    McCall - Advertised via McCall's Magazine, McCall Quarterly/ McCall Fashion Book, McCall Style News leaflet. Click here to learn more about McCall sewing pattern dating resources.


    Modes Royale: available only by mail order from catalog.

    Myra's Paris Patterns - published Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion 1870s-1890s.

    New Idea

    New Look


    New York - operated from the early 1930s until at least 1939. Advertised in counter catalogs and store leaflets titled New York Fashion News. Read more about their history here.


    Originator: (available only by mail order from a catalog.

    Pacifica


    Paris Fashion Company, The - advertised patterns for mail order in illustrated fashion journals including La Couturière which was later renamed The French Dressmaker, and La Mode de Paris. They seem to have operated primarily in the late 1800s. They were also affiliated with The McDowell Garment Drafting machine Company and shared an address with them in New York.


    Peerless (Newspaper Syndicate) - The company advertised primarily in newspapers and magazines. It appears to have begun in 1907 and was active through the 1930s.


    Peterson's

    Photoplay

    Pinned Paper Patterns


    Pictorial Review - counter catalogs, leaflets, Quarterly called The Pictorial Fashion Book (see 1912 edition).


    Polynesian

    Practical

    Priscilla


    Royal Pattern Company- Le Costume Royal sewing pattern magazine, began selling sewing patterns in 1895 and printed their magazine Le Costume Royal beginning in 1896 to advertise their patterns. They merged with Vogue Pattern Company in 1924.


    Royal Society

    Screen Star

    Sew Lovely

    Silver Needles


    Simplicity - Counter catalogs, Simplicity Prevue, Simplicity Home Catalog etc. Simplicity Fashion News in 1970s.


    Singer - Once printed new Fashions for You and Your home advertising other pattern companies.


    Smith's (published illustrated pattern bazaar circa 1873)

    Spadea


    Standard, Standard Designer - advertised in the Standard Designer Quarterly and The Designer Magazine, and the Standard Fashions store leaflet.


    Star

    Stretch and Sew

    Style

    Superior

    Vogue & Vogue Children's - Counter catalogs, leaflets, and Vogue Pattern Book (monthly).


    Vogart - primarily embroidery transfers

    Woman's Day

    Woman's Home Companion


    Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences - Fashion News and later Woman's Institute Fashions booklet catalog.


    Woman's Weekly


    Woman's World - in addition to advertising in their own magazine, they printed a mail order catalog Woman's World Book of Fashions.


    Young Ladies' Journal - operated as a magazine with patterns available for mail order.

      British and Australian Pattern Companies

      This list includes newspapers and publications that either advertised patterns for mail order or included pattern supplements:


      Australian Home Journal

      Australian Women's Weekly

      Bestway

      Blackmore

      Coming Fashion

      Damaret

      Dreadnaught

      English Pattern Company

      Fleetway

      Haslam

      IPC

      Leachway

      Mab's

      Madame Weigel's

      Maudella

      National Needlework pattern series

      Odhams

      Pauline

      Personality Pattern Service

      Silver Scissors (pattern drafting system)

      Sunday People

      The Daily Telegraph

      The Express

      The Times

      The People

      Weldon's

      Woman, Woman and Home, Woman's Own, Woman's Realm, Woman's Mirror


      Weldon's Ladies' Journal

      French Pattern Companies

      This list does not include all French fashion magazines that offered sewing pattern supplements.


      Bell, le patron

      Bru, les patrons

      Chiffons

      Coquette

      Favoris, Les Patrons

      Herbillon (Printed in French and Dutch)

      Jardin des Modes, les patrons de

      Journal des Demoiselles

      Jeunesse

      Luxe, Les Patrons de

      La Coupe d'Or

      La Mode Parisienne

      La Nouvelle Mode

      Marie Claire

      Marie France

      Mode Pratique

      Modes et Travaux, Les Patrons

      Nouveauté, les Patrons

      Parisienne (Les Patrons Sélectionnés de La Mode Parisienne)

      Paris- Luxe

      Patron-Modèle

      Primrose - mail order

      Regina, Les Patrons

      Universels, Les Patrons

      Vrai Mode, La

      German, Dutch, Swedish Pattern Companies:

      Allers Monster-Tidning, dated December 20, 1932

      Å Style

      Beyer's Modenblatt (publication with supplements)

      Der Bazar

      Die Modenwelt (publication with supplements)

      Favorit (mail order from a catalog called Favorit Moden Album.)

      Herbillon - Dutch and French

      Neue Modelle - mail order pattern publication

      Schnitt favorit

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