1970s-1990s

Historical Changesin Basic Pattern Making of Women's Upper Trunks

Abstract

In this study, the high school textbooks of 88 volumes of six companies, and ten kinds of magazines of eight companies were analyzed, in order to clarify the features of the changes from the 1970s to the 1990s in drawing methods of the upper trunk of women.
(1) At this time, ready-to-wears became popular among ordinary people, homemade clothes and order-made suits both decreased in number.
(2) In most high school textbooks, the short measurement methods disappeared in the 1980s and the proportional method of the Bunka style came to appear in the 1990s.
(3) The number of magazines which printed patterns began to decrease from the 1970s, and four magazines that carried many patterns were discontinued from the end of the 1980s to the beginning of the 1990s.
(4) Since the kind and number of basic patterns were selected, this time can be called the “Selection Time of Basic Pattern Making of Women's Upper Trunks.”