#mccalls

[forever70s]

from the Spring / Summer 1970 McCall's Needlework and Crafts magazine

[thegikitiki]

Women's Fashions, 1961

[scrambler]

"Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party" by Norman Rockwell. McCall's magazine, 1964

[tomoleary]

Bernie Fuchs (1932-2009) McCalls magazine illustration (c.1960) Source

[xanaxfarts]

Unknown models photographed by Otto Storch for McCall’s, December (1967)

[theamandacollection67]

McCalls magazine September 1946 advertisement w Marilyn Maxwell for Max Factor makeup.

[cosplaytipsandtricks]

To those that missed the $3 Simplicity sale last night, it looks like there is a sale continuing until 7/7.

McCall's and Butterick patterns are $4.99; Vogue Patterns are $6.99.

It is for paper and pdf patterns.

[hearthfire-heartfire]

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidato

butterick has been making sewing patterns since 1863, so they basically rose in popularity along with the sewing machine. mccall's was founded in 1870. vogue was established in 1899, and simplicity in 1927. they weren't all under the same company until 2017. they avoided getting broken up by the FTC because the deal brokered was under the trade commission's monetary threshold to qualify as a monopoly. now the parent company has been sold to the same liquidator that has been slashing and burning joanne's to the ground, specifically citing tariffs for their OTHER products even though the patterns themselves are made in the US. this company also owns the last tissue pattern paper production factory in the US which smaller pattern companies contract with in order to produce THEIR patterns, not to mention any archival materials for the 100+ years most of these companies have been operating.

jfc

if you're a sewist in the US, whether you make clothing or costume/cosplay, what kinds of patterns do you typically use?

i buy exclusively from the big 4 pattern companies

mostly big 4, with some indie or self-drafted patterns

prefer indie or self-drafted but i'll buy some big 4 patterns

i inherited or was given big 4 patterns but prefer to buy indie or self-draft

exclusively buy indie or draft patterns myself

buy secondhand or vintage big 4 patterns but not modern ones

i don't use patterns/nuance/non-american sewist who feels left out

Voting ended onJun 13, 2025

if you would like to share something special or important you made with one of these patterns in the tags, that would be really cool, too. even if they are big companies in their home nations, please count non-american produced patterns as "indie" for the purposes of this poll, mainly because of issues of access. if you couldn't get it in a big box craft store like joanne's (rip), that's indie for a lot of people.