Advance Pattern Fashion News - December 1945

This 8-page December 1945 Advance Pattern Fashion News arrived with the first peacetime Christmas in four years. The cover shows a striped two-piece dress with a yoked, tie-belted jacket-blouse (4073). "For Afternoon - and After Five" pairs a keyhole-neck junior dress and a teen blouse and skirt with a sweetheart-neckline evening gown, and "For Today - and Tomorrow," as featured in Mademoiselle, offers a button-front housecoat and a hooded peignoir. "They're Smart!" and "They're Young!" fill a two-page spread with tailored dresses, peplums, a matron's dress, and a jerkin with blouse and skirt. The holiday spread "Make It, Give It" suggests gifts to sew: a collar set, a dickey set, a skirt with cummerbund, a tunic-length shortie coat, and a sleeve set that makes "last season's dress" new again. The back cover, "Gift Ideas," adds a vestee set and a notched or cardigan jacket, with the store imprint of Schuster's in Milwaukee. Patterns sold for 25 and 35 cents. Own all 8 pages: download the full scan for dating patterns, costume research, or simply enjoying 1945 fashion art, and see the list below for patterns from this issue in our shop.

Patterns Featured

• 4059 Vestee Set (page 8)
• 4060 Afternoon Dress (page 5)
• 4061 Collar Set (page 6)
• 4062 Teen-Age Blouse and Skirt (page 2) - see our listing
• 4063 Jerkin, Blouse and Skirt (page 5)
• 4064 Dress Sleeve Set (page 6)
• 4065 Peignoir (page 3)
• 4066 Housecoat or Negligee (page 3)
• 4067 Notched or Cardigan Jacket (page 8)
• 4068 Skirt and Cummerbund (page 6)
• 4069 Afternoon Dress (page 2) - see our listing
• 4070 Dickey Set (page 7)
• 4071 Peplum Dress (page 5)
• 4072 Tailored Dress (page 4)
• 4073 Two-Piece Dress (cover and page 5)
• 4074 Afternoon Dress (page 4)
• 4075 Afternoon Dress (page 4)
• 4076 Matron Dress (page 4)
• 4077 Tailored Dress (page 4)
• 4078 Tunic Shortie (page 7)
• 4079 Evening Dress (page 2)