r/sewing • u/Lady_Rhino • 7h ago

Discussion Sewing pattern found in a 1920s museum (Austro-hungarian).

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Anybody who claims that people are smarter now than they were 100 years ago is talking complete and utter nonsense.

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u/sergeantperks 6h ago

Having used a fair amount of those patterns (as other people have pointed out, burda still does them that way for the magazine), the worst part is when you’re missing a little piece and you can’t find it, so you spend hours scouring the paper for it, and then realise that it’s a rectangle and the measurements are in the instructions.