Keep To The Pattern

Before the industrial revolution, when women were responsible
for clothing themselves as well as the rest of their families,
patterns weren't so easy to come by. Many women would
take apart old dresses and use the pieces as the pattern for
a new dress.

The fit of a dress must have evolved as it got further and
further away from the pattern. One piece might have
become slightly bigger; the other may have gotten smaller
with each snip of the scissors. In the end, if you'd held the
pieces up to the original pattern, human error would have
led to a noticeable difference.

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