Tag: sports
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Advance Paris Styles for Summer, 1936
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,…
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McCall Fashions for January 1918
Now that the temperature has dropped, I wanted to share a near-antique McCall News from winter 1917-18. The cover illustration shows two women skating on a frozen lake. The fur-trimmed dress on the left is McCall 8125, with ‘aviation cap’ McCall 8130; the dress on the right is McCall 8121. Inside the leaflet are some…
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