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Show Women Take to Sewing Before the war approximately 45 million patterns were sold as compared com-pared to 1C8 million in 1947. Home sewers bought 50 million dollars worth of patterns in 1947. One pattern pat-tern company reported net sales last year of $9,319,737, and said that its sewing book has been purchased by 250,000 home sewers and printed In three languages. Sale of yard goods in 1947 represented an increase in-crease of 300 per cent over 1940 and the sewing women and girls spent eight million dollars in sewing sew-ing classes and clinics. |