Divided dress — or cropped jumpsuit? Whatever you call it, McCall’s illustrator Blanche Rothschild gave us two of them on this cover for Summer, 1936, in candy-coloured prints.
The pattern is McCall 8702, which the envelope calls a sports dress with divided skirt. But the catalogue uses a simpler name for the new style. Inside, a trend report flags “Divided Dresses. Lots of these are around now, and you wear them for golf, for tennis, for sports in general.”
For more vintage sports patterns, see my Pan Am series, written a decade ago for the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto.
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