Ever since Lana could hold a pencil she drew fashions. This love of fashion graduated into a love of paper dolls and all their beautiful clothing. By Lana’s teenage years her collection of fashion magazines included every American Vogue magazine, as well as the big issues from Paris, Rome and London. Local auctions and rummage sales became a passion and where she would bid on vintage clothing, old lace and textiles, and sewing patterns! The collection grew and the story begins …
It was soon after finishing university and getting married that I seriously started to collect vintage patterns − my husband and I owned an
