ca. 1900 Sack Apron?

Laura

Laura

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I'm getting ready to list this early apron pattern in my Ruby Lane store, and I'm having trouble pinning down a date for it.

<img src="http://vintagefashionlibrary.com/images/ebay/mccall-8198.jpg">

Some of the pattern envelope details make me think it is early, perhaps around 1900. But then I'm thinking that there isn't enough back fullness in the apron for the pattern to be that early...Maybe it's later, more like 1908 or 1910? But then I think the collar and sleeve look 1900-1905...

None of my magazines or pattern catalogues show a ladies' sack apron...I found a very similar child's sack apron in a 1904 magazine.

Any opinions? I'd appreciate them, because I'm just talking myself in circles!

Thanks. :)
Laura
 
The bishop sleeve is typical of 1901-1903. I have a Mother Hubbard apron like this in my collection but the sleeve is a fuller balloon sleeve, c. 1906-08. Mine has pleats in the back but by 1906 the back of bodices is becoming a little less fitted. The tight back on yours fits in with 1901-02.
 
Anne, take a look at <a href="http://www.rubylane.com/shops/vintagefashionlibrary/item/domestic-1033" target=blank>this one.</a> :) It's from 1878-1879, and it's the oldest packaged pattern I've ever seen, on my site or any other.

Laura
 
Omigosh! Cool! That price of 25 cents seems pricey for back then--I guess the demand for patterns was probably very high. I love the garment, too--but must've been a devil to make (at least for me it would have been!!). Thanks for sharing!
 
WOW - that is early. I have an overlay pattern that came in a German fashion periodical from the 1850s but I have never seen a packaged paper pattern that early. I have found catalogues for patterns but never an actual pattern predating around the turn of the 20th century.
 
A few years ago I bought a CD repro of a Domestic Paper Fashions catalogue, and it was even earlier. 1871!! The pattern numbers in the catalogue began with #1, so I'm guessing that Domestic started the pattern line in that year. The logo was the same style, but they were called "Domestic Peerless Paper Patterns" in 1871.

I would love to find more of these patterns because they are so rare. I bought that one off of ebay a few years ago, and the seller had quite a few from the same period. I wish I had bought more of them, but I don't think I realized at the time quite how rare they are.

I've been watching ever since, and I've never come across another of that age.

Laura
 
That is early.

I had 4 patterns almost that early - certainly 1870s. Madame Demorest they were, I think?

I also got them off the internet some years ago. Still in envelopes and never used. I kept them a long time, then sold them all to Indiana University.

They were so neat, but I was terrified to take the tissues out of the ennvelopes. I was sure I would rip them , and I KNEW I would never get them back in!

Hollis
 
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