Home book of fashions
A 1917 fashion catalogue from the Home Pattern Company of New York, published to show American women the season's dress and coat patterns. Its pages are dense with fashion plates of ladies' dresses, blouses and coats, many drawn in the flat tonal style of mail-order sheets, with pattern numbers and small technical diagrams beside them. A designer might take from them the drop-waisted silhouettes, plaid and check fabric blocks, and the wrap-style collars and sashes of the period.
