When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Ebenezer Butterick - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Butterick

   The Butterick family began selling their patterns from their Sterling, Massachusetts, home in 1863, and the business expanded so quickly that, in one year, they had a factory at 192 Broadway Street in New York City. At first producing only boy's and men's clothing patterns, the Buttericks expanded to dresses and women's clothes in 1866.

3. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930–1945_in_Western_fashion

   The straight leg wide-trousers (the standard size was 23 inches at the cuff) that men had worn in the 1920s also became tapered at the bottom for the first time around 1935. The new suit was adopted enthusiastically by Hollywood stars including Fred Astaire , Cary Grant , and Gary Cooper , who became the new fashion trendsetters after the ...

4. Plus-size clothing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus-size_clothing

   Mary Duffy's Big Beauties was the first model agency to work with hundreds of new plus-size clothing lines and advertisers. For two decades, this plus-size category produced the largest per annum percentage increases in ready-to-wear retailing. Max Mara started Marina Rinaldi, one of the first high-end clothing lines, for plus-size women in ...

5. History of sewing patterns - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sewing_patterns

   Journal des Demoiselles, launched in France in 1833, provided scale drafts as well as full-size patterns. Cut-out tissue paper patterns were included around 1881. [2] In the United States, Report of Fashion and Mirror of Fashions was founded in 1827, and by 1840 included patterns for men's clothing. [2]

6. 5 Items From the 1970s That Are Worth a Lot of Money - AOL

   www.aol.com/5-items-1970s-worth-lot-170007423.html

   Technically, anything over 20 years old can be coined "vintage." But when you truly think of items worth this title, your brain doesn't go to Beanie Babies. Instead, it conjures up images of vinyl...

7. Janet Arnold - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Arnold

   Janet Arnold (6 October 1932 – 2 November 1998) was a British clothing historian, costume designer, teacher, conservator, and author.She is best known for her series of works called Patterns of Fashion, which included accurate scale sewing patterns, used by museums and theatres alike.