Own Name 165: 1930s Gorgeous Uncut Misses Winter Coat Sz 34 B Vintage Sewing Pattern
Original 1933 Own Name Pattern No. 165 - Ladies' and Misses' Coat
Original 1933 Own Name Pattern No. 165 for a women's coat in ladies' and misses' sizing, an Own Name pattern produced by the New York Pattern Company. Fronts are underfaced and rolled with an attached collar forming revers, worn with a separate fur collar in the illustration; inset pockets with upstanding trimming, a removable belt, and lengthened set-in sleeves trimmed with pointed straps complete the coat. Size 16. Factory Folded and Unused.
Quick Facts
- Pattern Number: Own Name No. 165
- Year: 1933
- Garment: Ladies' and Misses' Coat
- Size: 16 Years (34" Bust, 37" Hip)
- Condition: Factory Folded
- Glassine Envelope: Included, stamped Barron Bros. of Texas - a little worn
Design
Own Name Pattern 165 is a fitted coat with underfaced fronts rolled back into revers with an attached collar. Inset pockets are trimmed with upstanding welts, a removable belt marks the waist, and the set-in sleeves are lengthened with straight bands and finished with pointed straps. Width at the lower edge runs about 1½ yards. Size 16 takes 3⅛ yards of 54-inch coating with a fur collar, plus 1¼ yards of 5¾-inch fur and 2⅝ yards of 39-inch lining, or 3⅜ yards of 54-inch coating if made of one material throughout. The pattern has 12 pieces, cut with one-half pattern provided and the collar, belt, and pocket trimming made double.
A Moment in Fashion History
A fitted coat with a deep fur collar and a cinched belt was one of the era's clearest signals of dressing up for town rather than just going out in the cold. The envelope's own illustration shows the style worn both ways, with and without the fur, giving a single coat two different levels of formality depending on the occasion. This is an Own Name pattern: the New York Pattern Company issued these envelopes without its usual branding, so that a department or dry-goods store could sell them as a house line. This copy comes from that world, and its own envelope carries the printed "Our Own Name Pattern" trademark along with the New York Pattern Company's manufacturer attribution. Its original glassine envelope survives, stamped Barron Bros. of Texas, the small dry-goods store where the pattern was originally sold. The glassine usually took the brunt of decades of handling damage before the envelope did, so a surviving glassine, even a worn one, is a genuine rarity.
Connections
One of the things you learn when you see an entire store's collection is how entire ensembles came together. Check out our coats collection from New York and Our Own Name Patterns from the 1930s.
