I think the eBay auction for this is over, but Rachel sent it to me as another fauxlero example. Isn't it magnificent? (The original seller was Cinderella's Ball.)
Can't you just hear the narrator's voiceover? "Last week, Victoria found out that Geoffrey wasn't just a striving young businessman ... he's the missing heir to the throne of Graustark! He's come to beg her forgiveness ... but will he love the spoiled society belle as much as he loved the glove-counter clerk she was pretending to be? Let's find out this week on Vogue Pattern Theatre!"
Frankly, clerk/belle or businessman/prince, I don't care, I just think I *need* that skirt treatment ... even if I will always be getting it caught in the car door. And I need it in that sensational teal color.
(But Victoria better take that hat off before he kisses her, or someone is gonna lose an eye!)
JINX! I blogged about this very pattern yesterday!http://patternjunkie.typepad.com/
Posted by: Gremly Girl | 09/05/2008 at 09:34 AM
Totally love, love, love that pattern.Alas, but a poor farmwife am I. The cows would never appreciate it.guess I'll stick to my 40's 'mop-dress' patterns.
Posted by: Sold A Moke | 09/05/2008 at 09:38 AM
I lust for that skirt.-Sandra
Posted by: Anonymous | 09/05/2008 at 09:57 AM
I notice a certian faux-leroness to the bodice as well
Posted by: Theresa | 09/05/2008 at 10:00 AM
Wow, is that a dress or is that a dress?!?Love it! Color. Style. Hat. The whole enchilada!
Posted by: Doris | 09/05/2008 at 10:06 AM
I love the Vogue Pattern theater analogy. The old radio shows are great, which reminds me to tune into a local one tomorrow...
Posted by: the_lazymilliner | 09/05/2008 at 10:19 AM
poshy mcposhness this dresslurve the skirt treatmentlurve the colorlurve the lol vintage pattern storyhappy friday!
Posted by: lorrwill | 09/05/2008 at 10:46 AM
VOGUE PATTERN THEATER! One of the brightest spots in the new fall lineup! This could also be the final scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, with dithering Stella trying to stall the psychiatrist at the door as fancy Blanche waits to be taken off to the carribean by her imaginary boyfriend. (The costume designer decided to put them in the same dress, but in different fabrics, to underscore the fact that they're sisters.)
Posted by: Cookie | 09/05/2008 at 11:39 AM
OK, now I'm going to have to go request _Graustark_ from my library. :)
Posted by: Julia | 09/05/2008 at 12:23 PM
Aww come on Erin .. the hats just floofy! It couldnt hurt a fly! I love the whole ensemble. Its a beautiful dress. Oh I so wish my sewing machine worked at the moment. I have a few patterns that are calling my name.
Posted by: Maranda | 09/05/2008 at 01:30 PM
Ah, the New Look! Kissing Rosie the Riveter good-by and saying hello again to Cinderella!
Posted by: Gidget Bananas | 09/05/2008 at 02:24 PM
This is what's missing from pattern illustrations nowadays. I love teal, I love that skirt, I want Victoria's gloves!
Posted by: Little Hunting Creek | 09/05/2008 at 03:13 PM
hehehe...i just love the stories, but I do really want that skirt...give some shape to the bootay
Posted by: Rachel | 09/05/2008 at 03:27 PM
holy moly....it went for $40
Posted by: Rachel | 09/05/2008 at 03:31 PM
I think he already lost not just an eye, but an entire face.
Posted by: Kathleen | 09/05/2008 at 03:51 PM
This dress defines the very word.
Posted by: Cel Petro | 09/05/2008 at 04:45 PM
"Seemply laaahvly, Daaahling!" OK, let's hear that Vogue Pattern Theater, complete with atmospheric crackles! It's time to disinter the heart of early soap opera! Gotta do it. Could this be some kind of wierd wiki project?
Posted by: Eirlys | 09/05/2008 at 05:01 PM
Aw, I thought the man at the door was John Berensford Tifton, the guy who, in my very early youth, used to show up with the big but anonymous check for deserving people.
Posted by: Toby Wollin | 09/05/2008 at 05:33 PM
Oh, the humor of this blog. I love coming back day after day.
Posted by: enc | 09/05/2008 at 05:50 PM
What is the proper terminology for that kind of draped overskirt? I'd like to know what to use as a search term.Love it!
Posted by: Beth | 09/06/2008 at 07:19 AM
My mother, who trained at Traphagen in the '50s, had a silk dress in a print very similar to the one in the background. But hers didn't have the fantastical back draping, more's the pity!
Posted by: andrea.at.the.blue.door | 09/06/2008 at 12:33 PM
Fabulous! Please, SOMEONE let us know how to draft that back skirt treatment! Just to see the pattern piece with the grain line would be great!Can you tell I'm too lazy/daunted to figure it out for myself???When can we expect another exciting episode of Vogue Pattern Theatre?
Posted by: saidee | 09/07/2008 at 02:25 AM
The real question is, can she love him even though he has no facial features? It's kind of hard to tell what he's thinking, so he'll need to express himself with hatch patterns and watercolor tints.
Posted by: Anonymous | 09/07/2008 at 08:36 AM
I love Vogue Pattern Theater! Please pen us some more episodes!
Posted by: Leigh | 09/08/2008 at 04:33 PM
To me, for some reason, it just looks like she caught her skirt up in the waistband when she was in the washroom and now her slip's showing.
Posted by: Allison | 09/08/2008 at 08:52 PM