AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: Two for Thursday, Plus Send Me Book Links Please
DATE: 6:00 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="https://www.thebluegardenia.com/50s/images/p50lg3350.jpg" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="McCalls 5177" src="http://www.dressaday.com/McCalls_5177.jpg" width="400" title="Simple AND elegant!" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Denise at <a href="https://www.thebluegardenia.com/">The Blue Gardenia</a> is having a sale (33% off on three patterns) and this is one she's listing now ... it's such a good pattern, especially for people looking for a fancy dress that is also *simple*. This one would be a snap, I think!<br /><br />Carmen sent <a href="http://ilovemashanda.com/sculpture.html">this link</a> to the art of Mashanda Scott -- it's all made of FABRIC! Astounding.<br /><br />Also, I'm hoping to do more book reviews in 2010 -- if you have likely candidates, feel free to email me links (or leave comments here)! I don't care if they're newly published or not, as long as they're still relatively easy to obtain (new or used). Sewing how-to, fashion and textile reference, and fiction about clothing all welcome!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/McCalls_5177.html">McCalls_5177</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/sales.html">sales</a></p>
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/11673861158295570803" rel="nofollow">Knitika</a>
DATE:Jan 7, 2010 1:57:00 PM
Maybe this isn&#39;t your cup of tea, but I was enchanted by the magic of Sophie in Howl&#39;s Moving Castle. She creates hats and outfits that she imbues with magic as she stitches.  This children&#39;s fantasy book is not a book about sewing, but the lead&#39;s talent with a needle is lovely.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14798206057429007331" rel="nofollow">flipsockgrrl</a>
DATE:Jan 7, 2010 4:48:00 PM
Madeleine St John&#39;s novel <a href="http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/the-women-in-black/" rel="nofollow">&quot;The Women in Black&quot; was republished last year by Text Publishing</a> and I&#39;m delighted to have discovered this charming work. It quickly joined &quot;Pride and Prejudice&quot;, &quot;Jane Eyre&quot; and a select few others on my shelf of annual re-reads. <br /><br />Dresses play an important part in the lives of all the characters. In a couple of places the choice of frock becomes a turning-point in the narrative, directly affecting a character&#39;s present circumstances and future prospects.<br /><br />The novel&#39;s Australian setting is very specific in both time and culture, but I&#39;m sure readers in the US and UK will recognise some familiar character types and themes.<br /><br />Favorite blurb on the back cover: Kaz Cooke&#39;s comment that &quot;It made me happy.&quot; It worked for me, too!
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<span class="anon-comment-author">tampopo</span>
DATE:Jan 7, 2010 11:12:00 PM
Two recent favourites...<br /><br />Awesome history- well illustrated with photos and film stills:<br />The House Dress: a story of eroticism and fashion (Marsilio, 2008,isbn 9788831795258, 19.95)<br /><br />Gorgeous coffe table yumminess:<br />Fashion at the time of fascism: Italian modernist lifestyle (Damiani 2009, isbn 9788862080514, 60$)
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<span class="anon-comment-author">tampopo</span>
DATE:Jan 7, 2010 11:18:00 PM
and links to said books:<br />House Dress<br />http://www.rizzoliusa.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9788831795258<br /><br />Fashion at the time of fascism<br />http://www.artbook.com/9788862080514.html
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<span class="anon-comment-author">Anonymous</span>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 4:55:00 AM
I recommend The Seamstress by Frances DePontes Peebles. <br /> Historical fiction, set in Brazil, 1920&#39;s thru 1930&#39;s.  The two main characters, sisters, country girls taught to be seamstresses, end up with very different lives.  Their seamstress skills are put to interesting use.  You also see how their knowledge of sewing, piecing, the creative process of sewing is a essential part of who they become. <br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Seamstress-Novel-Frances-Pontes-Peebles/dp/0060738871
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/00916595282859161595" rel="nofollow">Joni</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 6:34:00 AM
I just got done reading Heather Ross&#39; &quot;Weekend Sewing.&quot; Lots of gorgeous eye candy, but nothing I really wanted to make.<br /><br />My all time favorite sewing reference book is &quot;Sewing Made Easy&quot; by Mary Lynch - it was published sometime in the 1950s, but the book that&#39;s available under the same title today is like a great-great-granddaughter of the original!
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon openid-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/openid16-rounded.gif" alt="OpenID" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://brocadegoddess.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">brocadegoddess</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 8:10:00 AM
For Christmas I bought my friend (a fellow sewer and Jane Austen fan) &quot;Jane Austen&#39;s sewing box&quot;.<br /><br />Although I myself might only make a few of the projects given, the book is just lovely to look through.  I read the introduction too, and just loved the historical context provided for sewing references in Austen&#39;s books.  There is a lot more text (I think of this nature) throughout the book.  I thought it was really just lovey, but then I&#39;m a material culture/history of dress grad student so I might be biased, lol.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Austens-Sewing-Box-Projects/dp/1741963745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1262959712&amp;sr=1-1<br /><br />Although it seems rather pricey on Amazon, I found it at my local bookstore for $16 Canadian.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14204598010453409678" rel="nofollow">Alyssa</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 9:15:00 AM
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - Not about clothes, but many of the two sister&#39;s adventures are spurred on by garments. One is mistaken for a bear on a train when wearing a fur coat, and a dyed tea gown is both attracts a man and then later he finds it tacky.<br />Style by Kate Spade (beautiful illustrations!)<br />A Stitch in Time by Taylor.<br />Things a Woman SHould Know About Style by Homer.<br />Make Your Own Dress Patterns by Margolis.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<span class="anon-comment-author">evalyn</span>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 12:29:00 PM
From the look in Miss Green Dress&#39;s eyes, I think that gown may be made of green tarlatan.  Cute pattern, I love the simple elegance of the design.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/14975410520482946315" rel="nofollow">fabricgirl</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 12:41:00 PM
I&#39;m nearly finished with &quot;Mommy Dressing - A Love Story After a Fashion&quot; by Lois Gould c. 1998. <br />It is an interesting memoir by the daughter of Jo Copeland, an American dress designer from the 40s - 60s. It&#39;s sort of an outside looking in view - detached, but not by her choice.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02451616688383109680" rel="nofollow">Mary</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 12:43:00 PM
I recommend &quot;Patterns From Finished Clothes: Re-Creating the Clothes You Love: by Tracy Doyle.  I have used these techniques many times - to me it is easier than trying to adjust ill-fitting commercial patterns.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07270657379178402124" rel="nofollow">mjb</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 2:24:00 PM
I love that the detail on that dress is from the double breast dart.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/00916595282859161595" rel="nofollow">Joni</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 3:34:00 PM
Oh, I *loved* I Capture The Castle... thanks for the remind... will have to find that at the library and re-read!<br /><br />I love this dress, although I have a feeling the pleats would cause its wearer to appear hippy. But I have much love for the neck line and double bust darts. (Which is to say, two darts for the bust, not darts for a double bust.)
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08688984604526237162" rel="nofollow">Bec</a>
DATE:Jan 8, 2010 11:37:00 PM
Since you&#39;ve been to the V&amp;A&#39;s Golden Age of Couture exhibit, you probably know there&#39;s a Golden Age of Couture book. I think it&#39;s worth a mention anyway. It&#39;s the exhibit in book form!<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-Couture-London-1947-1957/dp/1851775218/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1263014667&amp;sr=1-1<br /><br />Along the same line, there&#39;s Avedon Fashion, a new book with a collection of Richard Avedon&#39;s fashion photos, starting from 1944. I mostly got it for the vintage photos. The print quality is excellent.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Avedon-Fashion-1944-2000-Carol-Squiers/dp/0810983893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1263014637&amp;sr=8-1
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://fillechaude.net" rel="nofollow">Em</a>
DATE:Jan 9, 2010 7:00:00 AM
I don&#39;t know if you&#39;re only interested in clothing related books or not, but I very much enjoyed reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. It was unlike any fiction I&#39;ve read so far. And it&#39;s a whole series! I haven&#39;t read any of the follow-up books yet but I have some waiting on my shelf!
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<span class="anon-comment-author">Anonymous</span>
DATE:Jan 10, 2010 5:14:00 AM
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01951321462450109434" rel="nofollow">Farah Mendlesohn</a>
DATE:Jan 10, 2010 3:57:00 PM
Knitika is correct about Howl&#39;s Moving Castle, but the more stitchery book by the same author (Diana Wynne Jones) is _Spellcoats_ in which a young woman embroiders wedding coats with the history of her family, and stitches magic into the coats.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593" rel="nofollow">Nancy Bea Miller</a>
DATE:Jan 11, 2010 8:43:00 AM
<i>In Praise of the Needlewoman</i><br />by Gail Carolyn Sirna<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Praise-Needlewoman-Embroiderers-Knitters-Lacemakers/dp/1858943418
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593" rel="nofollow">Nancy Bea Miller</a>
DATE:Jan 11, 2010 9:02:00 AM
Also : <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thing-about-Jane-Spring/dp/B000IOF4OU" rel="nofollow">The Thing About Jane Spring</a>  by Sharon Krum.  Breezy, light, amusing novel about a woman who sets out to &quot;feminize&quot; her somewhat butch self using a trunk of her grandmother&#39;s 1950&#39;s clothes and Doris Day as a role model. The descriptions of the clothes are mouth-watering!
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01700179548680940886" rel="nofollow">Jill</a>
DATE:Jan 12, 2010 2:01:00 AM
If you don&#39;t mind a fairly violent crime novel where hand sewing, the restoration of vintage clothing, and beautiful dresses are an integral part of the plot, then you might enjoy Frances Fyfield’s <i>Blood from Stone</i>. Here’s a review:<br />http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/blood-from-stone-by-frances-fyfield-801133.html
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vintage-life.net/archives/13" rel="nofollow">Alice</a>
DATE:Jan 13, 2010 9:09:00 AM
Hi, See some nice patterns of vintage wedding dresses in this blog.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<span class="anon-comment-author">Anonymous</span>
DATE:Jan 14, 2010 1:01:00 AM
Cupid and Diana, by Christina Bartolomeo.  Novel about a woman who runs a vintage-clothes store.
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com" rel="nofollow">Kathleen</a>
DATE:Jan 14, 2010 7:13:00 AM
Somebody told me about _Memorial of Mrs Morse Stewart_. I&#39;ve only read bits of it. It&#39;s addictive. Eloquent prose, hilarious, insightful, a snapshot of life in the mid to late 1800&#39;s. While not specifically about sewing, she speaks quite a bit about fashion and style. It&#39;s in the public domain and can be downloaded here via google books:<br />http://bit.ly/6sVGQ3
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AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15166705366415665993" rel="nofollow">cpeep</a>
DATE:Jan 27, 2010 12:35:00 PM
I second The Thing About Jane Spring!
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