As I Said...

* This post has been in draft form for about six months now. Only after seeing Vintage Notions by Amy Barickman in the bookstore did I rea...

Available at Dressmaking Research I found this great poster of 100 dresses from the 1920s. Close-ups and back views of all the dresses (plu...

As I was researching Ms. Mary Brooks Picken, I found that the entire contents of four of her instructional books, including The Mary Brooks ...

The One-Hour Dress (in three books) Mary Brooks Pickens was founder of the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences (...