The major fashion sewing patterns offer pattern pieces with printing on them to help with the construction... but the question is when did each company make the jump to printed patterns. Here is a little chart showing the first years that each company offered printed patterns
McCall 1919
Pictorial Review 1924
Butterick 1950
Advance 1956
Vogue 1957
Simplicity 1939 on some patterns which cost 25 cents rather the the 15 cents
for the unprinted ones. It was not until the 50s that all were printed.
Du Barry all unprinted
Hollywood all unprinted
New York all unprinted
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