Ready for another installment of darling children's clothing sketches from the 1950s? In April I posted some scans of a pattern booklet for kids' fashions produced in Erfurt, Germany around 60 years ago. Here are three more pages, front and back, for you to enjoy.
The patterns are very similar to a book called "Das Weltmas, das Lehrwerk zur selbsausbildung im zuschneiden nach allen grössen" from modeverlag Lutterloh, in Denmark it was sold as "Det Gyldne Snit" and in England as "Silver Scissors" - I know this because I have a lot of them ;)
ReplyDeleteYou're making me jealous! I've always wanted to buy Lutterloh's "Der Goldene Schnitt", which I presume is the German version of "Det Gyldne Snit". My understanding is that Lutterloh's book was followed by a series of supplemental books ("Ergänzungshefte"), which is exactly the case with the series this booklet came from. The original introductory book was published in 1948 under the title "Der Thermo-Schnitt". This is pure speculation, but since this series originated in East Germany, the choice of a name so similar to Lutterloh's book may have been a conscious decision to create a DDR counterpart to Lutterloh's famous system.
DeleteConsidering how pricey copies of Lutterloh's book are, I have not bought one yet. Have you written about these books/patterns on your blog at any point? If so, please feel free to post a link here!
I'm positively sure that I've seen one of these pattern books dating all the way back to the 30's on ebay.de (but it became way to expensive very fast). The majority of mine are from the 50s/60s and I have one very 70s looking. I haven't written about them yet, I'll make sure to post a link here when I do.
ReplyDeleteThe really old books and booklets from the Lutterloh series must be extremely rare. I've been looking for a while and never seen one from the 30s! I'd be curious to see what the illustrations from the 70s look like.
DeleteSo I just found out that the "Lutterloh system" is still around today: here's the link for the English-language site. The German-language site has "seit 1935" in its banner...