Underwear isn't often shown on the cover of fashion magazines, but that's what Home Fashions did in July 1914 when it offered this free pattern for a camisole to its readers.
A camisole was a sleeveless (though this version is shown with cap sleeves) bodice worn as a protective layer between the corset and the outer garments. Home Fashions advised its readers that this camisole was "suitable for wearing beneath a blouse or bodice of semi-transparent material" and recommended piece embroidery, spot net or sprig muslin for making it up.
Camisoles came briefly back into fashion as outerwear in the 1970s as part of that decade's fondness for nostalgia.
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