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Message:: [QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 61322, member: 33"]For me, the critique / comments and the A- written at the bottom point to a student piece. It's good that Pat has some experience from that same era, and that this was the type of thing that might be submitted by students. I also wonder whether it might have been done a little later. Not sure, though. The style of the lapels on the jacket looks wrong to me for 1960. Every pattern or fashion illustration that I can find online from that era has jackets with no lapels or collar... or if there are lapels they are the notched, pointed type. I found nothing with lapels with rounded corners from that time... She is wearing those little white gloves, though - which is of the period. My mother was a seamstress (still is) and she always sewed a lot when we were young. I've seen tons of clothing patterns because of that. The pictures on Butterick's patterns always seemed a little more detailed and articulated than the pictures on patterns of the other companies. If I remember correctly, my mother told me that the patterns themselves were also more complicated than those of some of the other companies.[/QUOTE]