(1) Aunt Kate's Day-By-Day Book (N.p.: John Leng & Co. Ltd, 1937) 296.
(2) Ellen Dean Wade, Twentieth Century Baby (N.p: n.p., n.d.) 4. (Publisher not stated, copy on fuel.
(3) Lydia Trattles Ceates, American Dressmaking Step by Step (New York: The Pictorial Review Ce., 1917) 194.
(4) Pye Henry Chavasse, M.D., Wife and Mother; Information for Every Woman (Philadelphia: H.J. Smith and Company, 1989) N.pag.
(5) The Sundayy Selltinel 29 Mar. 1914: N. page. (Publisher unknown, copy on file).
(6) Art of Dressmaking (N.p.: Butterick Publishing Co., 1927) 229.
(7) Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (Great Britain: International Educational Publishing Co., 1917) N. pag.
(8) Lillian Eichler, The New Book of Etiquette (Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1934) 250.
(9) Eichler 250.
Garment photographs courtesy of Murray Riss, as seen in Creative Needle Ma.qazine, Vol. 13, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1997.
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