Patterns for blouses and dresses
A 1917 dressmaking instruction book by Mary Brooks Picken, published in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences for home sewists learning to draft blouse and dress patterns. Its pictures are geometric pattern-drafting diagrams with lettered points, dashed construction lines, and shaded paper pattern pieces showing bodice shapes, collars and armholes, useful to a designer for garment-construction layouts and tailoring-era line work.
