1950s home sewing patterns and how fabric rationing shaped them
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I picked up a small collection of 1950s home sewing patterns recently and noticed several include notes about minimizing fabric usage, clearly a lingering habit from wartime rationing even though rationing itself had ended by then. It's fascinating how design choices like narrower skirts or pieced panels persisted as thrift became a virtue rather than a necessity. Anyone know more about how long this influence lasted before patterns went back to more generous, fabric-hungry silhouettes?
#fashion history#vintage patterns#rationing
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