This final (?) set of eight patterns, identifiable as “Forecast” patterns only because of their peculiar numbering, were illustrated by L. Frerrier, like previous Forecast patterns. Crowded on to one page this time, each pattern was shown in equal-sized front and back views. Nothing in the text explains why they cost a dollar each — twice as much as any other Butterick patterns.
Forecast Wardrobe patterns 12 A through 12 H from Butterick, June 1928. Delineator, p. 42. L. Frerrier, illustrator.
The bathing suit, 12 A, is shown with a variation of caped coat 12 E.
Forecast wardrobe patterns 12 A bathing suit and 12 E coat. Butterick, Delineator, June 1928.
Frerrier has cleverly illustrated the back/alternate views made up in different fabrics from the front views, turning eight patterns into sixteen illustrations
Butterick Forecast Wardrobe pattern 12 B, Delineator, June 1928.
Butterick Forecast Wardrobe pattern 12 C, Delineator, June 1928.
Butterick Forecast Wardrobe pattern 12 D, Delineator, June 1928.
Butterick Forecast Wardrobe pattern 12 F, Delineator, June 1928.
Butterick Forecast Wardrobe pattern 12 G, Delineator, June, 1928.
The “new cord-narrow straps” on the slip (called spaghetti straps in the 1960s) — not to mention the depth of the V in back — would make it impossible to wear a 1920’s brassiere under this dress.
Butterick Forecast Wardrobe pattern 12 H, Delineator, June 1928.
The coat’s front cape, which wraps around over the shoulder, must have been a nightmare for the coat-check girl who had to put it on a hanger. It was customary for dresses with side panels or irregular hems to hang out under the evening wrap, as they do here — a look which in other eras would have been dismissed as “draggle tailed.”
None of these patterns was available in sizes bigger than a 40 inch bust measurement.
