Patterns from the April, 1921 issue of Needlecraft magazine. Compare these very simple-looking dresses with ones from 1914 to see the radical transformation of middle-class women's clothing in the Western world in the years spanning the First World War. But despite their apparent simplicity, these frocks would have been constructed around either a body lining or a buckram foundation belt, in order to give them some shape. For more information on early 20's dress foundations, please go here…
