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The storytelling on the ABC series Pan Am isn’t the most inspired but there is usually at least one dress per episode that I want to replicate. Last Sunday’s Romance Languages was no exception. Kate, the stewardess turned spy, always seems to be wearing dresses/costumes that I would want in my own collection: Image . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: I Spy a Dress In a podcast last summer about planning your wardrobe like a fashion designer, I mentioned that this Simplicity pattern would be used to create core pieces of my capsule. Simplicity 3129; Personal collection I’ve worn basic sheaths for what seems like eons, so I wasn’t concerned about whether that look would look good on . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: Adapting a Basic Sheath I’ve been on a massive organization kick for the past week. While digging around in our basement (burying the skeletons I found in the closet), I discovered that I have a lot more patterns than I thought I owned. I won’t need to be buying any for a long, long, long time. Lo and behold! . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: Early 1950s Simplicity Stoles  3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Vintage Inspiration of the Day, Vintage Patterns  Stoles, vintage patterns, wardrobe needs
When I came across this vintage skirt pattern years ago, I was drawn by the promise of making a skirt out of one pattern piece. They even show two women holding up yardage with the pattern pieces on it as if they were using a flannel-graph to tell a story in Sunday School. I’m not . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: McCall’s One Yard “Instant” Skirt (1957) 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Vintage Inspiration of the Day, Vintage Patterns Instant Skirt Pattern
I did a little “snoop shopping” while I was at the mall last Saturday taking advantage of a couple of gift cards and sales. I noticed a couple of the better department stores had tuxedo blouses for sale. This Vogue pattern from 1948 is for a blouse with tucked extensions in two styles. The view . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: 1948 Vogue Tuxedo Blouse Raise your hand if you’ve been known to start a party dress the day before (or the same day) as the party. Yeah, I knew I wasn’t the only one! We’re in luck, though, because we still have five and half sewing days until New Year’s Eve. My Vintage Vogue put this photo of Rita . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: Rita Hayworth Inspired Party Dress 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Vintage Inspiration of the Day, Vintage Patterns fashion, vintage sewing
My youngest sister asked me to make a new sock monkey for my niece, Alice, who lost her beloved original one. She will be receiving it for her birthday this Saturday. Little did I know that there is a huge sock monkey following! Anyway, I’ve been flying blind with this whole process because I’ve never . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: Sock Monkey Today is the second day of our playful exploration of this question: What would a nice, middle-class, homemaking, professor-type of a certain age woman wear if she were channeling a little bit of Marilyn? Most people think of the iconic white dress from the scene in Some Like It Hot, where Marilyn Monroe stands over . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: Becoming Marilyn Day 2 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Vintage Inspiration of the Day, Vintage Patterns, Vintage sewing stuff
The much anticipated movie My Week With Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams, opens this week. The studio is offering a Becoming Marilyn Sweepstakes at their Facebook page, through November 27th, I believe. It includes a trip to New York, a makeover, and a $1,000 shopping spree at Bergdorf Goodman (in other words, you’ll be able to . . . → Read More: Vintage Inspiration of the Day: Becoming Marilyn Day 1 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Design School, Vintage Inspiration of the Day, Vintage Patterns choosing patterns, fashion, vintage patterns, vintage sewing
The days of Kodachrome Christmases are gone. But the photographs of eager children still in their pajamas on Christmas morning are burned into the collective memory of what a typical mid-century American Christmas was like. Here are some vintage children’s sewing patterns so that you can recreate your own Kodachrome-inspired Christmas!
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