Pattern Companies A-L

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's - printed a ladies' magazine that included a sewing pattern diagram or printed tissue supplemental pattern sheet.

Godey's

Good Housekeeping

Grit

Harper's Bazar

Haslam - a sewing pattern drafting system with a special chart for drafting children's size up to plus-size women's sewing patterns with foundation drafts and seasonal supplement booklets.

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

Imperial Pinned Paper Patterns - operated in the 1880s-1890s by the Imperial Fashion Company and sold patterns that came pinned together in the shape of the finished garment to show the user how they were to be stitched together. Advertised in their own publications The Imperial Mode and The New York Fashion Bazar.

J.C.Penney

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

Kwik Sew

L'art de la Mode

Le Roy

Lutterloh/ Golden Rule/ La Coupe d'Or

May Manton's Bazar Glove-Fitting Patterns - Produced tissue paper sewing patterns from circa 1895 to 1922. Advertised in several ladies' magazines including Ladies' World, Modes in Fabrics, Todays Magazine, and The Peoples Home Journal.

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 a 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 1950. 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 (see Imperial)

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.

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