Lady's Coat, Lady's Frock... (Everylady's Journal, September 1926)

 ... Child's Frock (4 years)

These patterns demonstrate how women's clothes had been simplified by the middle of the 1920s.  The "lady's frock" (illustrated under the coat at left, and on its own at right) was made up of only three pattern pieces; the front and the back of the bodice and the skirt.

I don't know if the dress materials depicted on the cover ever existed, or whether they were simply the product of the illustrator's imagination, but printed fabrics were all the rage in 1926, as show by this selection from the Montgomery Ward catalog:

Satinette, a silklike cottton.

Quality printed voile.

Printed silk mix crepe de chine.