The Midvale Cottage Post

Sewing with unprinted patterns sounds intimidating to many sewists, especially those new to vintage sewing. So to help de-mystify these vint...

Think "skirt to be worn with a tunic-length top" and you have the essence of the 1920s tunic-dress foundation slip. This type of f...

What makes a coat-dress foundation slip different from the other foundation slips (plain and tunic-dress) is the creation of sections of the...

The plain foundation slip is really an elongation of the built-up waist lining , with pleats added at the sides over the hips for ease. Whe...

It's time to return to my series on 1920s foundation garments, and examine the remaining type of foundation garment, the foundation slip...

Are you less than slender? Or you simply want to wear a close-fitting frock? In  the 1920s, the "stout" woman or those who wanted ...

In reading about the use of foundation linings in the 1920s, such as the camisole lining (also called a bodice lining), the built-up lining...

In 1920s fashion, a two-piece dress required a foundation for its skirt. Whether that foundation was a stay belt, a hip yoke, or a lining de...

In the 1920s, foundation garments were grouped into two main categories: waistline foundations and lining foundations. The topic of this po...

Waistline Foundations Are you ready for the next exciting installment in the story of 1920s foundation garments? (I'm sorry; "fou...

You know that the women of the 1920s obtained freedom from dreadful corsets with stays of whalebone and tight lacing. What you may not know ...

In this flyer from 1941, the McCall pattern company explains that they have started numbering the notches on their pattern pieces to simplif...

 At the end of the 1950s, seamstresses hopefully had adjusted to the "new sizing" changes that occurred in the mid-late 1950s. Bu...