Growing Up in Style is a series about the connection between fashion and local life in America, past and present. To listen to Susan Choi read this profile, click the play button below: HISTORIANS of ...

For many sewers, choosing paper patterns from one of Simplicity McCall’s ‘big four’ brands was an in-store ritual. But others say digital patterns are the way of the future Decades ago, in the ...

The most popular Vogue looks ordered over the years by Pattern Postie customers include an iconic 1970s Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress. Big brand sewing patterns will no longer be available to buy ...

The company that owns the biggest sewing pattern brands — Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue — has been sold to a liquidator, per the Craft Industry Alliance. That’s troubling news for those of ...

The company behind 99 per cent of Spotlight’s sewing patterns is closing its Australian warehouse as part of a global shutdown, with thousands of patterns likely to wind up in landfill. Simplicity and ...

Simplicity and McCall Pattern Service Australia called in liquidators yesterday and are in the process of closing down their warehouse in Revesby Heights, Sydney. Liquidator Kathy Sozou from McGrath ...