The dressmaker and tailor shop
A 1917 trade manual on dressmaking and tailoring by Mary Brooks Picken, published in Scranton, Pennsylvania by the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences for home-study students and aspiring dressmakers. The only picture is the institute's cover image, a line drawing of a turreted Gothic-style brick building framed in an oval on a sage-green ground, with the institute name set in italic script beneath it, which suggests a restrained, institutional look a designer might borrow for vintage correspondence-course branding.
