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Teenage magazines in the 1960s often included instructions of how to adapt and make fashionable clothes - my personal favourites were Honey and Petticoat, both of which I sent to for their popular and boutique-style patterns (see below).
The Petticoat pair of ‘basic’ patterns were printed on a non-woven fabric – similar to that of dressmaking interfacing. This enabled the pattern to be actually stitched together for sizing purposes, it could be used many times as well as being easily transferable to paper for adapting to those design/styles as shown within the magazine. A section of the magazine was entitled ' dbd ' (Dead Broke Department) and as specific fashion items became popular, they were detailed with instructions for how to make them or adapt the basic pattern into another garment. Full instructions were provided for the pattern alteration, fabric cutting layout and making up the garment as well as a 'fashion' photo showing the garment being worn.
At first tops and skirts ...
then dresses ...
Later trousers were included (hence 2 basic patterns):
