tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post1205146248698778212..comments2023-10-20T08:27:40.314-04:00Comments on male pattern boldness: Last Sunday before Sew-Along stream of consciousnessPeter Lappinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109154527996679077noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-53558414773416545372011-02-06T15:10:59.523-05:002011-02-06T15:10:59.523-05:00Yes, Suzanne, the one in Chelsea. It's great ...Yes, Suzanne, the one in Chelsea. It's great fun!Peter Lappinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109154527996679077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-38073706101773380472011-02-06T14:36:41.702-05:002011-02-06T14:36:41.702-05:00oh, and those are some of the longest inseams I...oh, and those are some of the longest inseams I've seen in a while!Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942455468832787000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-44913981973944652912011-02-06T14:35:52.752-05:002011-02-06T14:35:52.752-05:00What flea market do you go to? The one in Chelsea?...What flea market do you go to? The one in Chelsea? I love the fabric. You should definitely make it into something you can wear...or at least save some for a groovy pocket square.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942455468832787000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-43359625290210272582011-01-31T23:30:49.855-05:002011-01-31T23:30:49.855-05:00The night before last, my husband and I watched &q...The night before last, my husband and I watched "The Blob" starring a young Steven McQueen. You could tell from the first scene that he would be a great actor. I remember seeing that movie in the theater.patsijeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362426384481772370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-61250971939031512302011-01-31T11:34:17.476-05:002011-01-31T11:34:17.476-05:00Don't use the vintage fabric for a muslin! It&...Don't use the vintage fabric for a muslin! It's too good! (Send it to me instead...)carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10565283055532855827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-56423513111096101902011-01-31T10:49:14.436-05:002011-01-31T10:49:14.436-05:00Peter, I guess I just ride along on visual style, ...Peter, I guess I just ride along on visual style, cool tone and double entendres.Dan Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732200663031410999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-62176660871943177972011-01-31T09:40:21.825-05:002011-01-31T09:40:21.825-05:00I love mid to late seventies' patterns. You go...I love mid to late seventies' patterns. You got all sorts of styles, as if the designers were in a wildly experimental mood. The pattern drawings are so distinctive, with unnaturally long legs and trim upper torsos. The dresses tended toward width at the bottom, a triangular shape with the apex at the top. This was just opposite of styles in the mid and late eighties of course. The fashion drawings emphasized the lines in a way that photos do not. I hope to "listen in " on the shirtmaking process. Good luck to all.sulymohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07887228971839188556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-19854121517782375552011-01-31T08:39:17.806-05:002011-01-31T08:39:17.806-05:00I recall making and wearing a smock top just like ...I recall making and wearing a smock top just like that pattern. Mine was yellow and had smiley faces - no lie. And I had white shoes just like those shown. I loved those shoes.Little Hunting Creekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581836733935812927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-58175509312564862352011-01-31T05:05:11.075-05:002011-01-31T05:05:11.075-05:00OMG I think I made that Simplicity smock in 1973. ...OMG I think I made that Simplicity smock in 1973. Out of a scrap of checked seersucker and some plain calico left over from making tie-dyed curtains. It would be the summer before I made the tabard tunic out of purple crushed velvet, but after the winter of the hooded kaftan made from burgundy upholstery weight jumbo cord. Thank heaven my friends did not own cameras and were still living in the sixties. It means they don't remember any of these clothes now they are hitting their own sixties!Cleverclogsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-8052214782714391702011-01-31T02:17:46.596-05:002011-01-31T02:17:46.596-05:00I remember a pair of hot pants that my mother made...I remember a pair of hot pants that my mother made me. Believe me, they didn't look hot on me. My friend's mother made her a pair and it was obvious who the better sewer was.JosetteKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14914250955369503213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-82365068476434676382011-01-30T23:04:52.199-05:002011-01-30T23:04:52.199-05:00I used that smock pattern for my eighth grade sewi...I used that smock pattern for my eighth grade sewing class. It's the funniest feeling to see it again. I loved it. Yes it was high fashion in the mid 70's.Nancy Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-54962550250503091792011-01-30T23:03:35.760-05:002011-01-30T23:03:35.760-05:00I made myself that very Simplicity smock top and p...I made myself that very Simplicity smock top and pants outfit back in the day, and it was stylin'. I did it in navy gingham check and navy solid (the pants were solid), and I wore it with navy and white platform shoes. I remember hemming that big circular hem took for freakin' ever! I had both those 45s you mentioned too, LOL.Paulettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181665241824945247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-85575648843205774562011-01-30T22:38:46.567-05:002011-01-30T22:38:46.567-05:00Anyone who read Tigerbeat in the 70's knew tha...Anyone who read Tigerbeat in the 70's knew that Marie sewed.... She made a lot of her own clothes with her mother's help according to the interviews. <br /><br />All my friends and I wore those smock tops and none of us were pregnant. It was high fashion at that time!Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18038410399748516498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-46690528055385174152011-01-30T20:27:38.160-05:002011-01-30T20:27:38.160-05:00Dan, I hate to nitpick, but what exactly do you lo...Dan, I hate to nitpick, but what exactly do you love about it? I'm serious. I mean, it had its moments...Peter Lappinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109154527996679077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-72804808522768379292011-01-30T19:46:38.682-05:002011-01-30T19:46:38.682-05:00I love, love, love that movie! I recently watched ...I love, love, love that movie! I recently watched it again with the bf and it was an effort to make him sit through the whole thing. Oh well, guess I'll be watching it by myself from now on.Dan Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732200663031410999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-29416485307642062232011-01-30T17:42:30.883-05:002011-01-30T17:42:30.883-05:00Faye is so fly, even back then. Check out Bonnie a...Faye is so fly, even back then. Check out Bonnie and Clyde or Chinatown. She has a way of working an outfit and she can style a hat like nobody's business. <br /><br />Yep, I have always been a Marie Osmond fan. The Osmond's show came out right after the Jackson Five's. Kind of a second cousin version, but I just dug her hair and humor.Deihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03562697818407106209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-48381540940361289362011-01-30T17:02:48.035-05:002011-01-30T17:02:48.035-05:00Love the flares. My husband wore a really cool pa...Love the flares. My husband wore a really cool pair like those in the 70's with a big cuff.<br /><br />Love Marie. My husband's family are LDS, and they said that she loves to sew, and has made some pretty impressive stuff. You could at one time buy her fabric collection for quilting on one of the home shopping channels. <br /><br />I mainly buy vintage childrens' patterns. I love to watch old movies, not necessarily for the story, but the decor, fashion and furniture.JosetteKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14914250955369503213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-71983479478636963352011-01-30T16:15:35.198-05:002011-01-30T16:15:35.198-05:00Wendy, this is the first time I have ever found $1...Wendy, this is the first time I have ever found $1 patterns, which is why I snatched some up, even if I just use them for giveaways. For some reason patterns just don't show up much.Peter Lappinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109154527996679077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-71949249425995758192011-01-30T16:10:44.641-05:002011-01-30T16:10:44.641-05:00Oooh, I like Ms Faye's ivory jacket with the b...Oooh, I like Ms Faye's ivory jacket with the brown edging. Very nice! ;)<br /><br />How do you always have the luck with finding the wonderful $1 patterns? Almost any time I find patterns at a flea market or whatever they're not worth purchasing. Sigh.wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325131782150858859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-78313680269472459492011-01-30T15:21:42.589-05:002011-01-30T15:21:42.589-05:00That junior pattern is horrifying. I didn't wa...That junior pattern is horrifying. I didn't want to look like that even when I was pregnant (and married...and a respectable 27-34 year old). Maybe that one was squirreled away at one of those special homes for unwed mothers.Sandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04890008405738438915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-91802447318252448982011-01-30T13:39:17.588-05:002011-01-30T13:39:17.588-05:00I love the first Thomas Crown Affair and the main ...I love the first Thomas Crown Affair and the main reason is the costumes designs by Theodora Van Runkle who also designed Bonnie and Clyde.<br />Yes I wore smock dresses when a teenager in the early 70s even, in France we named them Baby Doll.Marie-Noëllehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11572431039329904583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-41847307054619534192011-01-30T13:37:06.693-05:002011-01-30T13:37:06.693-05:00Well, my camera is broken, but I still plan to sew...Well, my camera is broken, but I still plan to sew along. Pictures will have to come later. Hopefully I will be able to convince my husband to let me post one of him in the muslin made from the purple flowered bedsheet I bought at goodwill this week! EEK! those seventies patterns. Reminders of my sewing beginnings....and a pair of hot pants my mother brought me back from England. Fashion disasters for me.....Vintagegalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00490212245619897831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-72618893519698269892011-01-30T13:24:21.286-05:002011-01-30T13:24:21.286-05:00I like the later Thomas Crown too, I'm afraid ...I like the later Thomas Crown too, I'm afraid simply because I think Rene Russo is so much sexier than Faye Dunaway..<br />But I like the muslin fabric. Can't you make a real shirt out of it?? Surely you've made enough shirts by now that you wouldn't need more than minor adjustments?Marie-Christinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-65827824951262355732011-01-30T13:10:25.805-05:002011-01-30T13:10:25.805-05:00Yes, yes, yes...plaid muslin!! I need help! Althou...Yes, yes, yes...plaid muslin!! I need help! Although I do like the Dixie Cup fabric.<br /><br />Can I tell you I love you one more time. You make me laugh every day.Sassy Lassies Vintage Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537761367611783397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991166428290808171.post-7797203944625048352011-01-30T13:03:21.431-05:002011-01-30T13:03:21.431-05:00The 'Mannerist' guys seem to be posing for...The 'Mannerist' guys seem to be posing for a '70s version of Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'! <br />Even though I'm not 'sewing along', I will be following your blog with the fervor of the animals in 'The Incredible journey'!!Annenoreply@blogger.com