Figure 7From: Nelly Don’s 1916 pink gingham apron frock: an illustration of the middle-class American housewife’s shifting role from producer to consumerDressmaking patterns with an asymmetrical front closure. Left: Models for street, house or afternoon dress. From “The Home Pattern Company 1914 fashions catalog” by Home Pattern Company, 1995, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., p.50. Right: Models for business-girl’s dresses, Ladies’ Home Journal, September 1911, p. 47.Back to article page