Help with finding any garment from WW2 with this label

Midge said:
I wasn't familiar with ADEFA before reading Jonathan's excellent book "Fourties Fashion" but when you mentioned it, I remembered where I'd seen that before. I do know what they meant by it and it's well enough explained how this worked. I don't know the book "Fashion under Fascism" - I might check it out. I have a stash of 30s and 40s German fashion and/or sewing magazines in my collection that I have purely for the reason that they show fashions of the time and several actually still have the pattern sheets included. Can't remember seeing anything about ADEFA in it ever, but maybe I should have another look through them.
This website shows two different labels and has some information in German as well - but since you obviously know a lot about the subject, you may have come across it before:
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http://www.giselamueller.info/threadlagged/threadlagged/adefa.htm
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Midge
I would love to hear about what magazines you have. I have about 50 or so German women's and fashion magazines. I had no idea people in the US would be interested in that. I could never figure out the monthly pattern they put in them. it is a million times worse than the CW Peterson's and Godey's. I have only started sewing CW dresses and making bonnets. I don't think I could ever do a real 30/40s style clothing. Is the 1940s Fashion book this Jonathan on here? I have a few 40s books or war time but they are either British and their fashion was so different or US. The German/Italian has been hard to find for me.
 
Jonathan said:
I remember now reading about the logo being introduced quite late - there was a label before that actually spelled out 'made by Aryan hands', but sans logo. That really narrows the date on clothes with logos. The label I pictured in the book has the logo and the style of the coat (knee length clutch coat with padded shoulders is typically 1939 - 1940, but of course it could have been worn right through the war.
http://kickshawproductions.com/blog/?p=7999
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me again what made the whole made by Aryan hands was that the cotton, sheep etc was grown or breed by Germans, harvested and even spun and weaved the fabric all by Aryan hands..,... How impossible could that be done now to any group?
 
I would love to hear about what magazines you have. I have about 50 or so German women's and fashion magazines. I had no idea people in the US would be interested in that.
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I'm actually in Switzerland :) - and got most of these mags through my friend in Austria. I have not yet attempted to make something from these patterns (I've got a few of Beyers Modeblatt für Handarbeit and several of Praktische Mode, one Record and a few issues of Elegante Welt - just a fashion magazine, no patterns). My mom has attemped a 30s pattern from Record, and she says it was pretty tricky - and she's an experienced sewer. The sheets already look very confusing, there's so much on it, and of course the instructions are kept super short - after all, at the time everybody knew how these things worked anyway.

I had a look through my issues of Elegante Welt, but there's nothing about ADEFA in them. I had just been thinking that maybe they would advertise in fashion magazines too...
 
Hiya,
I found a black velvet dress with some fabric flowers and leaves, with a label "ADEFA Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsch e.V. , Deustcher Fabrikant," so on.

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