patterns one will never wear

but one wants to sew up anyway? 1. one of the current flippy knee-length skirts in a loud, or at least *big* print. Have never worn anything like it at any age. Simplicity 4019, for those interested.

  1. From someone's else's stash, or the remains thereof, a 1940s jumper (sleeveless dress worn over some other garment, for ye .ukians), "pieced" look (skirt on bias, angled plaid.

Don't know anyone I could give these to either.

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cycjec
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Oh, that's rather nice, but I see what you mean... I'd have to have a bit of 'don't care' fabric to experiment with! If I then never wore it, someone at the charity store would win! :)

Nah, I don't think I'd even make that! This, however, has tempted me on several occasions:

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Kate Dicey

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-- According to Sunday's New York Times "Style" section, jumpers are this season's hot fashion. Everything from simple knee length worn with a crisp cotton blouse, to fashions a la St. Trinions (sixth form, if you please, suspenders and nylons optional).

Candide

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Kate Dicey skrev:

Dang it, Kate! Now I've gotta clean all that DROOL outa ma keyboard!!! :-)

Now that the *horror* that was the Mekelsm=E4ss fall festival is over, I can finally make some clothing for myself. I've even planned a Yule surprise for Mr. Harri.=20

Erin

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Not the style at the charity stores that are my target. I am almost looking for something for this. Even an African print (no one I know wears these) but the cheaper ones usually have gilt.

I don't know why this is sticking in my mind. The same bunch of patterns has some big skirted 1950s items. I can *understand* why someone might want to try those.

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I'll try and look but at home I am on a lynx-only regimen.

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cycjec

apparently those two items are very stylish right now. I would wear them!

What I would like to sew, but maybe never wear, is a bubble skirt!

Michelle

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Doug&Michelle

Having had to wear those ghastly pleated efforts at one school, I wil NEVER wear them again!

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Kate Dicey

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Kate Dicey

I bought a Vintage Vogue pattern over the summer, with their BOGOF offer. 3/4 sleeves, big skirt, skinny waist, V neck... To die for! I've always loved that style. This one:

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black version...

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Kate Dicey

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> The black version...>

That would really flatter your new, "wisp of a girl" figure. Also, buy the long one you referenced and make it with some flannel lining in the big body pieces and call it a bathrobe!! Who says they can't be taffeta?? You would look smashing at breakfast!!!

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Pat in Arkansas

Thank you. And I may well got the coat dress on BOGOF this month... I have some taffeta in the stash, but it's earmarked for an 18th C sack dress... However... No! That one needs to be black for sure - or maybe bronze! NOT purple, anyway. It doesn't say purple to me.

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Kate Dicey

I was luckier than you. My school uniform was a pinafore dress or tunic with single layer top and slightly a-line skirt, having three pleats back and front. I remember to this day, "Economy Design Number 161 Style A" The headmistress had changed from the classic three-pleat tunic the year before I got there, after complaints from Mums that their "gels" were wearing three layers of wool worsted across the chest all day, then changing into thin blouses after school, and thus catching too many colds.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Kate Dicey wrote in news:45226463$0$8741$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net:

you know, my mom made that dress when it was first out. she looked absolutely *smashing* in it. i wouldn't. OTOH, i think i need to get that coat dress... lee

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enigma

I also have to make wings from my wing rtecipe for myself!

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Kate Dicey

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Hey! For no clear reason, I've got at least one *original* pattern for a dress just like that! I don't think it would fit me without a lot of alteration - I've not got the time :-( Sarah

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Sarah Dale

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Made that for "semi-formals" when I was in university. Wore it with two crinolines, and thought I was hot stuff! Wonderful memories, thanks.

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Well, it took ME three years to do the alterations I needed to look good in it... ;)

I remember my mum wearing stuff like this, and I always thought them the epitome of elegance until I met the thirties styles... Gotta love those too! Bias cut slink... Mmmm... But I think I may always be a tad too curvy to look good in stuff designed for beanpoles with no hips or boobs!

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Kate Dicey
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> The black version...>

Kate, I made this for myself in my late teens. I was on a huge retro thing at the time - stuck out like a sore thumb every time I went out but hey! I looked fabulous. :-) My next door neighbour had a stack of her mothers old patterns that I worked my way through and this was the first vogue pattern I ever made. It was a floral polished cotton that I found in the home dec section. Twenty years later, my mother bought a sofa covered in almost identical fabric LOL!!

Wow, a little trip down memory lane....

chris :-)

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chris

Kate Dicey wrote in news:4522b5af$0$16554$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net:

to go with the coatdress? i need to find a Ren faire where fairies wouldn't look out of place...

lee

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enigma

I'm so glad others have made it and loved it. It looks like fun, and I can easily make a big pouffy dress net petticoat to stick it out if it doesn't do it enough on its own.

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Kate Dicey

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