Vogue Special Design S-4371; ca. 1941; One-Piece Dress. High necked dress with surplice blouse crossing at front. Buttoned closing at back neck. Soft dart pleats from shoulders. Draped fullness at front from left underarm. Draped front girdle tied at back. Slim four-piece skirt is slashed and gathered at front above lower edge of girdle, and joins blouse at normal waist-line. (Second photo - wartime patterns in Australia were always black and white.) Featured in Vogue Pattern Book, April-May 1942 Alternate Black and White envelope: