I can remember in the very distant past when I spent hours looking for a pattern and thinking most of them seemed old fashioned to me. At that time I used to finish up with Simplicity more often than not. Mind you the store, fabric at the top and had patterns in the basement, twice the size of the fabric bit. From memory 6 long rows, very similar to desks with the pattern books on. Doubt you would find that kind of set up now. Last time I bought a pattern from a shop was around 1993, one book of each of the big names balanced on the edge of the counter. Many a lunch hour I've wasted. So, on line pattern picking, that's my kind of progress.