#modern tracing pages are at least colour coded
![a photo of the February 1967 issue of Marion, a dutch sewing pattern magazine. the cover is blue with a young woman in a black dress and white collar with overpronounced eyelashes in the end of 60s style](https://64.media.tumblr.com/5b2524335b3f28e4ec386e5babfaee83/900e8d8151cbbe76-75/s640x960/d0a2f710e18147c02b415f99f6005181534c5f17.jpg)
I bought a lovely look into the past today, a 1967 pattern magazine, including the pattern page. There’s some wonderful examples of the fashion of the time:
We have a nice blend of fashion illustrations and photographs:
![black and white photographs of fashionable young women wearing black sheath dresses and very roubd 60s hairstyles](https://64.media.tumblr.com/71647060b41d7d76ac489f16cd6ad19f/900e8d8151cbbe76-f8/s640x960/a03173be12024343d9d2d2aa11ec3f131af59064.jpg)
![a photo of a black and white drawn add for vitamins and a pattern page of girls wearing suits and dresses drawn with a blue accent colour](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e0973ea93bed6249c68740e9c5e6fccd/900e8d8151cbbe76-26/s640x960/1d815220faddc7c6ef4d6ca3d83e20afcd12ce9e.jpg)
The ads are fun (and terrible) too, of course. I also like the hairstyles:
![black white and blue pages showing an ad for vlieseline(iron on interfacing) and models in black dresses with interesting looped hairstyles](https://64.media.tumblr.com/b4f4aa33075fe44281f672c164210f96/900e8d8151cbbe76-c2/s640x960/07170e5e9dee1f76a91b541449916e641f94d657.jpg)
The children’s drawings are particularly charming:
![a page full of illustrations of children in cute clothes in black white and a bright blue](https://64.media.tumblr.com/aa8a531f9bfb45e734259ee1552eef73/900e8d8151cbbe76-fe/s640x960/fdb95f645e22cddbe5a6dd3752465184f0a2ab25.jpg)
And then of course there’s the pattern page…
![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/42c6a6cbaa6327a2bf79472e907ac57e/900e8d8151cbbe76-fb/s640x960/3e9f352e6a5512b4bb4b6cd850353ee8c26f17b8.jpg)
Oh boy am I glad we get things per pattern now.
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