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05/15/2009

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mickey

Tentatively titled "How to Win Friends and Re-invent Muu-Muus"?

Melissa

Aside from the dresses, those girls are surprisingly modern-looking.

wundermary

Werewolf movie! I had the 70's version of this pattern made up in several fabrics, it was nice.

Theresa

Those are very mannish lookinggirls.More progressive pattern illustrators, do you think Cookie?Or may be the artist was living a lie like Salvatore on Mad Men?

Joni

I wouldn't commit MURDER for a patent leather belt with a bunch of flowers on it, but maybe one of the lesser felonies...

Jen

These dresses are very Claire McCardell.....especiallly if made up in a plaid cut on the bias.

Anonymous

HAHAHA!

lsaspacey

Jen,You mean like this? I was just thinking, 'Hey I have a pattern just like this one,' when I read your comment. That's exactly why I wanted to make it so bad, because it reminded me of McCardell and her easy casual dresses.

Theresa

Isaspacey - taht is so cute and Modern! I love it!

Trudy Callan

Thanks for the headsup on the pattern sale.www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com

indigotangerine

i'm sure she'd love to have a boy in a dress kiss her...-indigo

*Sandra*

:) I can take a joke ;)

Sarah

I have this very pattern! from my mom's collection. Don't think I've ever made it myself...

Cookie

The genius of these fashion illustrations is they make every single think look cute! I was so jelous when I just read Sarah has this pattern....and had to remind myself the finished dress might be a completely different thing. (Go to http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Butterick_4702 if you wonder what I mean. It is a SHOCKING wakeup call.) I think we need a site that shows a pattern pic, followed by shots of the actual dress made by beginner, intermediate, and then advanced sewists. Would be fascinating!

Theresa

Good idea cookie!Ok...other ADAD readers... I am goign to Boston, well Woburn, Thursday. I am staying at a hotel on Unicorn Road...Can anyone point me to fabric and/or vintage stores that will be esy for me to find...and worth the trip?I would really appreciate it!

Cookie

Golly, Theresa...it's been so long since I was in Boston! But there were some good places when I lived there. 1 is in Cambridge. The Beacon Hill Thrift Shop (quite smallish) has odd hours, but is on practically the first block of Charles Street, off the Public Garden. Good for preppie knicknacks and the odd sweater. I got a good Brooks Brothers suit there, once. I'll try to find out the name of the Cambridge place.

Theresa

thanks cookie. This is the first Boston for me. I am going to be a bridesmaid in my friend's wedding.

sandritocat

I had several inquires about that pattern and I knew I had another somewhere and I found it. It is a size 12 and I just listed it.Sandra ~ Sandritocat

Anonymous

Cookie; "the finished dress might be a completely different thing(Go tohttp://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Butterick_4702 if you wonder what I mean. It is a SHOCKING wakeup call.) "Oh! Aaaargh!!! More horrible revelations, please, Cookie. It's So ghastly I've just gotta see more.

Latter-Day Flapper

Cookie--that's what the gallery section of the Vintage Patterns wiki is for. I always chop my head off [in the photo, that is] when I post finished-product pix, both for privacy reasons and in case the pattern looks awful/makes me look like a blimp/has other undesirable aesthetic effects.

Cookie

Oh! Aaaargh!!!...So ghastly... I know, you look at the illustration and thing, "Cool! Why, I might even elope in that and get married under a tree, somewhere!" Then you look at the actual DRESS, and it looks like a vintage hospital smock or something! Cookie--thats what the gallery section of the Vintage Patterns wiki is for. Yes, I will have to investigate that feature! Thanks. Also, the patternreview site has a lot of options for researching a pattern that's REALLY helpful!Theresa: You will like Boston, and this is a nice time of year to be there! Back Bay and Brookline are the neatest parts, I think. I will email my friend who still lives there and try to find some thrift shops for you.

Theresa

Awesome! Thanks Coookie. When my daughter moves to California, I'm going ot visit and take you to lunch...and then we will go shopping.

Cookie

Oh how fabulous!!!!!!! Can't wait!

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