Own Name 159: 1930s Uncut Little Girls Dress Size 12 Vintage Sewing Pattern

Original 1933 Own Name Pattern No. 159 - Girls' Dress Original 1933 Own Name Pattern No. 159 for a girls' dress, an Own Name pattern produced by the New York Pattern Company. The waist closes at center-front with an attached collar, long set-in sleeves finished with turned-back cuffs and perforated for a short-sleeve option, and a two-piece circular skirt pressed in an inverted plait at center-front, attached under a removable belt. Size 12 Years (30" Breast). Factory Folded and Unused. Quick Facts Pattern Number: Own Name No. 159 Year: 1933 Garment: Girls' Dress Size: 12 Years (30" Breast) Condition: Factory Folded Glassine Envelope: Included, stamped Barron Bros. of Texas - a little worn Design Own Name Pattern 159 closes at the center-front with an attached collar. Long set-in sleeves are perforated to shorten and finish with turned-back cuffs. Below the waist, a two-piece circular skirt is pressed in an inverted plait at center-front and attached under a removable belt, with a tie made from a straight strip of self-fabric or ribbon. The illustration shows the bodice in a small print with a plain skirt, one of several fabric combinations the pattern allows. This size takes 2¼ yards of 35 or 39-inch plain material for the long-sleeved dress, or as little as ¾ yard of 35-inch printed material for a contrast bodice, plus ½ yard of 39-inch contrasting material for the collar and cuffs. The pattern has 10 pieces, cut with one-half pattern provided and the collar and cuffs made single or double. A Moment in Fashion History Mixing a printed bodice with a plain skirt, as this envelope's own illustration shows, was an easy way to get more mileage out of a girl's dress pattern and a limited length of fabric at once — a bright collar-and-bodice print traded against a solid, harder-wearing skirt fabric. The turned-back cuffs and center-front collar gave the dress a neat, finished look scaled down from adult tailoring of the same year. 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. 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 This pattern is part of our ongoing exhibit, In Name Only - a growing collection of New York Patterns and Own Name Patterns from the 1930s. Come take a look.