Full Sized Pattern of a Baby’s Shoe – Circa 1870

In one of my Peterson’s Ladies Magazines I found an adorable little baby shoe pattern from 1870. It can be made of many different materials. The article suggests cashmere or flannel, but I think felt would be cute as well.

The embroidery on it is a chain of silk thread. I believe any kind of floss could be used to follow the diagram of embroidery on the shoe.

The pattern is for one half of the shoe and sole. With A and B forming the sole. I think this would be easy to put together and if I have time I’m going to try one.

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You could do many wonderful embellishments to this little shoe to make it your own, for a gift or to sell, but I wouldn’t use any small items, such as buttons, that could easily fall off and be choked on. Babies are always trying to put their little feet in their mouths.

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This is the actual page from the volume. It is a full size pattern for the baby shoe, but I feel it could easily be adjusted for a bigger size by uniformly adding inches to the basic pattern.

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If you like Victorian things, you may like this blog, Festive Attyre Historical Costuming. On it you’ll find a ton of information about the Victorian Era and more. For example, she has categories laid out by date and by types of costumes. There are also categories on vintage patterns and pattern drafting.

Where to Find Scanned Magazine Images

On the site Wikipedia, there is just a paragraph describing the Peterson magazine. The describes it as an American magazine focused on women published between 1842-1898. However, there are some good links with the info.

There are two places online where you can see scanned images of Peterson’s Ladies Magazine volumes.

Firstly there is Google Books. They have a few copies you can Read for Free, Download the PDF or Search through.

In addition, another place to find Peterson’s Ladies Magazine scans is the HathiTrust Digital Library. The original sources of the scanned copies are universities in the US. They have quite a few volumes of the magazine.

Where Can I Find an Original Magazine?

Ebay has several original volumes available. Most of them are single monthly magazines versus the large bound volumes that include all 12 months of the year.

The difference in price is quite a bit. Where a single month volume may go for $12.99 the bound volumes can be in the hundreds of dollars. I started collecting mine many years ago and was able to acquire them for very reasonable prices. Some were missing the color fashion plates which brings the price down.

At this writing, I only found one on Amazon.

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