AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: Acid Yellow Glamour
DATE: 6:23 PM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://lucitebox.com/item.php?tab=Dresses&item_ID=132&item=Amazing%20Two%20Tone%20Vintage%2040s%20Crepe%20Dress" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="40s glamorous yellow and black dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/holly_yellowandblack.jpg" width="300" title="I want the job for which this dress is the uniform." hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Wow, this dress (at <a href="http://lucitebox.com/item.php?tab=Dresses&item_ID=132&item=Amazing%20Two%20Tone%20Vintage%2040s%20Crepe%20Dress">Lucite Box Vintage</a>) is over-the-top, in the best possible way. I love the two-tone, the glass buttons, and  the belt, which has either a moustache or lips on it. For reals:<br /><br /><img alt="40s glamorous yellow and black dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/dressmoustache.jpg" width="400" title="See? I told you." hspace="10" /><br /><br />I am a huge fan of the different-colored sleeves poking out of a dark top. This looks fantastic. <br /><br />I don't want to hear that you can't wear this color. Anyone can wear any color if they want to badly enough. All you have to do is care more about your own pleasure in the color than about other people's pleasure in looking at you. This is one arena where I say you should be absolutely selfish. You think that yellow washes you out and makes you look funny? If yellow makes you happy, wear it! Happiness is more important. (And you can always add some lipstick, right?)<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/1940s.html">1940s</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/yellow.html">yellow</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/15073384914868842133" rel="nofollow">Miss Amelina</a>
DATE:Mar 13, 2010 10:16:00 PM
Haha!  I don&#39;t know, man. I&#39;m pickin&#39; up what your puttin&#39; down.....but there is this one very pretty gal who comes into the shop where I work, and she always wears a terracotta colored coat---that looks dreadful on her.  I mean it *really* washes her out makes her look ill.  So I always try to imagine her coat is sky blue, so she will look better in my head....does that make me a shallow bunny? :)<br />This dress is awesome, though.  With a big A.
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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/11924061599542401196" rel="nofollow">Louise</a>
DATE:Mar 13, 2010 10:23:00 PM
This dress is fabulous. The devil is in the details.
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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/08235341738044433500" rel="nofollow">Steph</a>
DATE:Mar 14, 2010 12:50:00 AM
I love the mustache belt buckle.  I think it would be easy enough to contrive one from super heavy interfacing the next time I do a self-fabric belt..
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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/11323421017122879884" rel="nofollow">Dora</a>
DATE:Mar 14, 2010 1:17:00 AM
Huh -- reminds me of this woman who came up to me in a clothing store a while ago, and told me that the yellow top I was trying on was really washing me out. I know she meant well, and I actually agreed with her assessment, but, I mean, thank you, complete stranger whose opinion I didn&#39;t ask for!<br /><br />Some people are so WORRIED about you not looking your absolute best, they don&#39;t consider the possibility that you know what you&#39;re doing and you&#39;re just not similarly obsessed.
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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/15972256857498433293" rel="nofollow">3KillerBs</a>
DATE:Mar 14, 2010 8:08:00 AM
Personally, I never feel happy in a color that I know clashes horribly with my skin tone in an ugly way. Making myself up to a completely different skin tone so I could wear an unflattering color would be far too much trouble to be consistent with happiness.<br /><br />I am not, however, afraid to wear a great deal of any color that I do feel flatters me. I do not let being 45yo and 250lbs deter me from my beloved pink. <br /><br />Nothing on earth will ever make me look slim. But a flattering style in either pastel pink or fuchsia pink will make me feel good and look good.
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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://undergroundalicia.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">isabel</a>
DATE:Mar 14, 2010 9:35:00 AM
In my opinion, yellow is not that bad... I know a lot of people who look fantastic in yellow -and I think grey is much worse!
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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://tania-gru.livejournal.com/" rel="nofollow">tania-gru</a>
DATE:Mar 14, 2010 12:13:00 PM
I have a wonderful book that you should get, although it is in danish, it has the most wonderful patterns for clothes for babies, children, teens, women and a few mens pieces. It is &quot;Professorinde Ella Lunds Store Sybog&quot; translated that is &quot;Professora Ella Lund&#39;s Large Sewing Manual&quot; It has a book and a box of 41 pattern sheets. The adult women&#39;s clothes is danish size 38-40-42-44-46. According to the book that is chest measurements of cm 88-92-96-100 waists of 66-70-74-78<br />and hips of 92-96-100-104
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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/06472725206838046219" rel="nofollow">TE</a>
DATE:Mar 14, 2010 6:40:00 PM
&quot;All you have to do is care more about your own pleasure in the color than about other people&#39;s pleasure in looking at you.&quot; Once more I will quote you on my FB page. Females aren&#39;t obligated to be the world&#39;s eye candy. And you can quote me on that. Terry Ellen Carter.
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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/07485398330431664029" rel="nofollow">lucitebox</a>
DATE:Mar 15, 2010 8:59:00 AM
Thanks for posting this dress, Erin! <br /><br />Well, I have to comment because while I&#39;m not always out to please other people when I get dressed, I DO have to please myself.  At the end of the day, (which is basically when I get to wear my cute clothes since my mornings and afternoons are taken up with my dog walker job) I won&#39;t be wearing yellow.  Frankly, I look like a washed-out, sad sack, rusty hen in it. It&#39;s a particularly ghastly sight when I wear golden ochre shades. Welcome to Death Warmed Over, population me.   <br /><br />Having written that, I see no reason why I couldn&#39;t wear this dress. All that black is the perfect foil for the acidic yellow. Alas! It&#39;s not my size. (I&#39;m seeing Imelda May tonight. This would be a good weather appropriate dress for me to wear to see her concert.)<br /><br />This dress comes from a cache I acquired from Edna, a Midwestern clothes horse whose taste was very distinctive. The majority of the items are from the &#39;40s and &#39;50s. The Edna Collection features a range of sizes. (Many are around the same size as this dress.)  Since I got this haul, I have been waking up pretty early because I&#39;m so excited to work!  It&#39;s so fun to deal with such cool stuff.  <br /><br />I&#39;m nowhere near finished listing the collection. Keep an eye on my site for the new additions. Next up--a fabulous &#39;50s plaid dress I&#39;m calling the Scottish Princess.  Well, that&#39;s the working title for now. We&#39;ll see how it looks when it&#39;s photographed on Sabrina.<br /><br />Thanks again. It&#39;s always a treat to read your thoughts about items in my store. <br />Holly
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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/10408008074242523257" rel="nofollow">Jenny</a>
DATE:Mar 15, 2010 9:25:00 AM
This dress should absolutely be worn to &#39;Stache Bash, the annual gathering of the <a href="http://www.americanmustacheinstitute.org/" rel="nofollow">American Mustache Institute</a>!  If a woman ever wins the Goulet Award, this would be the perfect dress to wear for the awards ceremony!
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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/07485398330431664029" rel="nofollow">lucitebox</a>
DATE:Mar 15, 2010 10:42:00 AM
Jenny--Ha! Awesome plan! <br /><br />I couldn&#39;t stop thinking about the ideas presented here. I don&#39;t necessarily embrace them. I&#39;m not as self-tolerant or self-assured as I could be when it comes to yellow. <br /><br />I&#39;m inclined to agree with 3killerbees: &quot;Making myself up to a completely different skin tone so I could wear an unflattering color would be far too much trouble to be consistent with happiness.&quot; <br /><br />I have other reasons for not wearing yellow. Here&#39;s <a href="http://www.lucitebox.com/blog/?p=1512" rel="nofollow">a blog entry </a> that just about covers my thoughts.
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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/10969793426398422933" rel="nofollow">belphebe</a>
DATE:Mar 15, 2010 11:41:00 AM
Yellow has always been my favorite color, but I have a hard time finding the right shade to wear. However, I have occasionally found dresses or fabric in just the right shade.<br /><br />Also, years ago I found a better way to &quot;wear&quot; yellow that didn&#39;t wash me out: I bought a yellow car!  :-) Oh sure, I couldn&#39;t take it inside with me, but I really felt good driving to and from work in that bright car!  (not to mention that it was easy to find in a parking lot full of black, white, and beige cars!)<br /><br />Sadly I don&#39;t have a car anymore, but I will do my best to get a yellow one the next time I can afford to buy a car!<br /><br />With respect to this dress, the majority of the dress is black, so I could wear it since there isn&#39;t that much yellow close to my face.
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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">mellorcr</span>
DATE:Mar 15, 2010 12:12:00 PM
HA HA!  With regards to &quot;if it washes you out, you can always wear lipstick&quot;, I&#39;m in a dance company and one of our in-jokes: if someone has any issue at all with their costume we jokingly tell them &quot;wear more blush and no one will notice&quot;
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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:Mar 15, 2010 1:00:00 PM
I love yellow, which is not a good color for my complexion, so I get another color, blue or black or something that does look good on me, between my face and the yellow.  I call this &quot;head it off at the pass&quot; technique.  Just keep the offending color away from your face.  This dress does that nicely and it can also be done with a blazer, sweater or jacket over the color in the vacinity of your face and neck.
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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:Mar 15, 2010 10:32:00 PM
Does this dress have pockets?  I won&#39;t wear  a dress unless it has pockets.   Good color mixing the yellow with the blue.
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Mar 18, 2010 5:31:00 PM
I think yellow is very pretty for baby nurseries, otherwise I am not attracted to it. I have seen some nice, bold, yellow and white floral prints (circa about 1961), but I kind of admire them without being drawn to them.<br /><br />I would sadly say it is probably my least favorite color. And it does bring out a sallow undertone in my skin.<br /><br />I&#39;m sorry.
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Mar 18, 2010 5:44:00 PM
PS: <a href="http://assets.madame.lefigaro.fr/images/photo_set_item/picture/000/054/347/5hum15/1-Renee-Zellweger-25-03-01.jpg" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> is the one time I&#39;ve seen yellow look absolutely FANTASTIC. I don&#39;t know how she did 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/13355049728821123373" rel="nofollow">Carla</a>
DATE:Mar 18, 2010 6:39:00 PM
Tell you what: you do what you want to with wearing yellow and I&#39;ll do what I want to.  Yellow and orange turn ME yellow and orange.  No thanks.  They&#39;re fabulous on someone else!
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AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: Inspiration
DATE: 6:00 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>Seen last week on the <a href="http://www.colettepatterns.com/blog/inspiration/vintage-details-navy-rose-and-vines?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ColettePatterns+(Colette+Patterns)">Collette Patterns</a> blog: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.colettepatterns.com/blog/inspiration/vintage-details-navy-rose-and-vines?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ColettePatterns+(Colette+Patterns)" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="navy dress with taffeta roses and leaves" src="http://www.dressaday.com/navyroses_and_leaves.jpg" width="400" title="Blue flowers ... always good." hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />The tone-on-tone of this is really gorgeous. (Click on the image to go to the blog and see a full-length view.) I would love to see something like this on a non-princessy wedding dress, say a simple silk sheath in cream with cream roses along the waist and hem in taffeta or even organza. <br /><br />While I'm at Colette's blog, I would like to point out how cute these little <a href="http://www.colettepatterns.com/blog/tutorials-tips-tricks/bias-tape-bows">bias-tape bows</a> are. Adorable!<br /><br />And speaking of embellishments, I *think* I saw recently a dress with a heart on it, where the heart was made of random sizes of heart-shaped buttons. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Or did I just make it up? <br /><br />(The dress itself is available <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37200682">here</a>, and it's a larger size, too!)<br /><br />Thanks to <a href="http://www.thelittlehuntingcreekcompany.com/index.asp?Category=114&PageAction=VIEWCATS">Kathleen</a> for the link!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/embellishment.html">embellishment</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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://damenora.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">&#39;nora</a>
DATE:Mar 2, 2010 8:39:00 AM
Oh my goodness, thank you for the link to Collette 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/00916595282859161595" rel="nofollow">Joni</a>
DATE:Mar 2, 2010 9:45:00 AM
Boy, that&#39;s pretty! And I love the Collette blog. If I hadn&#39;t sworn off buying patterns for 2010 I think I would have ALL of them. I will definitely have to try the bias-tape-bows trick on a 1940s blouse pattern I have waiting to be made up!
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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/02986387347283221427" rel="nofollow">Packrat</a>
DATE:Mar 2, 2010 9:45:00 AM
This is gorgeous.  Your idea of using this on a wedding dress it wonderful.  Thanks!!!
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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/03265763475632104771" rel="nofollow">Sara</a>
DATE:Mar 2, 2010 11:51:00 AM
Collette Patterns--what a neat place to visit, thanks!
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Mar 2, 2010 7:44:00 PM
Yeah...really neat! Would look cool as a white crepe dress with orange satin applique, too.<br /><br />Good way to cover the waist seam, and create a seemingly more unbroken line to the garment.
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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/12695378275098872995" rel="nofollow">Zoltar Panaflex</a>
DATE:Mar 2, 2010 11:19:00 PM
Patrick Kelly used to do a variety of jersey dresses with a heart shape on the front made of buttons. That was a little while ago, in the dreaded 80&#39;s.
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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/06867928749393717523" rel="nofollow">Vegan</a>
DATE:Mar 2, 2010 11:30:00 PM
Gorgeous! And someone snatched it up already. I loved the bias tape bows, too. Very sweet!
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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/13406250938110067165" rel="nofollow">Dressim</a>
DATE:Mar 3, 2010 8:06:00 AM
Beautiful patterns! Thanks for sharing!
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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">Kate</span>
DATE:Mar 4, 2010 3:38:00 PM
Is this the button dress you were thinking of? I think you wanted to try it with hearts--it was near Valentine&#39;s Day.<br />http://www.outsapop.com/2010/02/margiela-artisanal-at-yoox.html
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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/02754785341905724718" rel="nofollow">Miss Sews-it-all</a>
DATE:Mar 5, 2010 10:36:00 AM
Simpy fab! I love those vintage details that seem to be missing from today&#39;s styles.
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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/14508982175297094458" rel="nofollow">Beth</a>
DATE:Mar 5, 2010 10:44:00 AM
Thank you so much for featuring this Salvage Life dress! I when I find things for the shop with such unique details. <br /><br />xoxo<br />Beth, owner of Salvage Life
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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/14508982175297094458" rel="nofollow">Beth</a>
DATE:Mar 5, 2010 10:45:00 AM
oops, that was supposed to say &quot;I LOVE when I find things for the shop with such unique details.&quot; :)
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AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: Green Dot Dress
DATE: 7:05 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.shrimptoncouture.com/main/whats-new?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.SC.tpl&product_id=308&category_id=10" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="green silk dot dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/shrimpton_greendotdress.jpg" width="400" title="So I guess in another life I designed for Title-Teen?" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Cherie at <a href="http://www.shrimptoncouture.com">Shrimpton Couture</a> has been doing some interesting things lately (including adding some <a href="http://www.shrimptoncouture.com/main/whats-new?page=shop.browse&category_id=121">reworked vintage and jewelry</a>) but what caught my eye and didn't let go on a recent browse through her site was this dress. <br /><br />Here, look at it again, closer up: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.shrimptoncouture.com/main/whats-new?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.SC.tpl&product_id=308&category_id=10" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="green silk dot dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/shrimpton_greendotdress2.jpg" width="400" title="They're like little islands in a beautiful sea!" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />There are lots of vintage dresses I love but couldn't imagine ever wearing (or making) myself, but this one looks as if it could have come right off my sewing machine. Or rather, right off my sewing machine if I had the patience to sew underarm gussets in silk, which I've only done once (which is how I know I don't have the patience for it). <br /><br />I love the colors of this fabric, and the neckline, and the pleats, and just about everything. (No mention of pockets, which I'm taking as 'Of course this dress has pockets, no need to discuss it,' instead of 'Pockets? What pockets?')<br /><br />If only it were my size ... or I were its size. Hmmph. I'll just have to keep an eye out for this fabric. If they made it once it must exist somewhere, right? Or I could put it on my ever-expanding <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com">Spoonflower</a> list ... I'd rather have it in cotton, anyway. With pockets. <br /><br />Click on either image to check it out at <a href="http://www.shrimptoncouture.com">Shrimpton Couture</a>, and while you're there you should have a look around ... she has pretty, pretty stuff!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/05316749500678318719" rel="nofollow">Sal</a>
DATE:Aug 3, 2009 8:15:00 AM
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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/03496964785825887590" rel="nofollow">omchelsea</a>
DATE:Aug 3, 2009 9:05:00 AM
That&#39;s gorgeous.
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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.indiamos.com/" rel="nofollow">India</a>
DATE:Aug 3, 2009 9:48:00 AM
Oh! I love it. So glad it&#39;s not my size.
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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/02986387347283221427" rel="nofollow">Packrat</a>
DATE:Aug 3, 2009 12:41:00 PM
Love the print and colors; love the style.  My vote is still out on whether or not I like the two together.
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Aug 3, 2009 1:05:00 PM
That is a delight. I wish it had a belt or sash, though (designed to go with it, not faked and tacked on later) to cover the seam at the waist.
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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/04314542159287533507" rel="nofollow">Gertie</a>
DATE:Aug 4, 2009 8:31:00 AM
I just love the placement of the pleats on the skirt! Gives it such a lovely shape.
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Aug 4, 2009 11:30:00 AM
i wish i was small enough to wear it.  i&#39;d wear it every monday to make mondays better
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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/10664958809507132842" rel="nofollow">rino</a>
DATE:Aug 4, 2009 4:33:00 PM
oh, i just love this one<br /><br />but then i´m a vintage-fan
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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://knitosaurusrex.etsy.com" rel="nofollow">Knitosaurusrex</a>
DATE:Aug 4, 2009 4:44:00 PM
I would just be able to squeeze myself into it with major Spanx help, but sadly, it is out of my price range.  It&#39;s what is heartbreaking about lovely vintage dresses in silk...always very dear!
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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/18445661464880955455" rel="nofollow">canadian sadie</a>
DATE:Aug 4, 2009 8:50:00 PM
I am in love with this dress.
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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">CHICKDOWNTOWN.COM  Kyra</span>
DATE:Aug 6, 2009 9:43:00 AM
I really really like this dress! Even though it is vintage style, it is definitely a breath of fresh air. So cute and perfect for summer
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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://spoonflower.com" rel="nofollow">Kim F.</a>
DATE:Aug 6, 2009 10:42:00 AM
Aw, a pretty aqua dress AND a mention?  Thanks so much, Erin!
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DATE:Aug 10, 2009 9:32:00 AM
Very good looking pretty dress.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aubade.ws" rel="nofollow"> Aubade lingerie </a>
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DATE:Aug 10, 2009 5:46:00 PM
this is SO beautiful! i love your blog. :o) Mia x
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DATE:Aug 14, 2009 9:51:00 AM
This is absolutely gorgeous.. I&#39;m glad you came upon it! Well.. kinda. I&#39;m trying really hard not to spend all my money, but this dress is so tempting!
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DATE:Aug 17, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Shrimpton Couture good enough but never tried please i have not prompt enough to try it <br /><br />Sunil<br /><br /><a href="http://iwaayinternetmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/08/cash-online-get-easy-cash-at-your-door.html" rel="nofollow"> Cash Online Get Easy cash at your door step</a>
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AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: Oooooh, I like this dress (and it's on sale)
DATE: 8:07 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.glamoursavvy.com/catalog/item/6216413/6308648.htm" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="coral Miss Elliette dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/elliette_coral_dress.jpg" title="So timeless you are even forbidden from wearing a watch with this." width="400" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Pam at <a href="http://www.glamoursavvy.com/">GlamourSavvy</a> is having an anniversary sale, now through the end of July, with 35% off everything! Which makes this dress, originally $84.99, about $55. Nice! Just enter keyword "Celebrate" at checkout and discount will apply.<br /><br />I reeeeeaaaalllly like this dress, by the way. (And I'm sure the fact that it was photographed by a swimming pool had NOTHING to do with. Honest.) It's very pretty, but it's cotton, so not too fancy. You could dress it down with flat sandals and turquoise beads and dress it up with some fancy jewelry and high heels. (This is an ideal "I've got to go to a wedding dress," too -- it's coral, not red!) The crinkly cotton won't get too wrinkly, and the lines are lovely. [Click on the image to visit the listing.]<br /><br />Anyway, I'd definitely check out the GlamourSavvy sale ... this is not the only lovely dress hanging out by the pool!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/Miss_Elliette.html">Miss_Elliette</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/sales.html">sales</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/08334530129557894905" rel="nofollow">Lisa</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 10:04:00 AM
Want.  Badly.<br /><br />I just love red.
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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/06236395473044597459" rel="nofollow">Rachel</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 10:06:00 AM
Oh my goodness! I LOVE THAT DRESS!!! I&#39;ve been wanting to make one just like that! Do you know of a pattern that is very similar?
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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/11649677045881448393" rel="nofollow">Trudy Callan</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 10:06:00 AM
What a great dress. Would love to have!<br /><br />www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
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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/07485398330431664029" rel="nofollow">lucitebox</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 10:53:00 AM
That&#39;s a great deal! <br />Not my size :(<br /><br />I love coral, too! I would definitely want to wear it with turquoise &amp; flats as you suggest.
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 11:11:00 AM
That is a rip-snorting great dress. It&#39;s very Marilyn...in her more understated, Arthur Miller period. Speaking of <b>Wedding Guest Garb</b>, I think we should start a charity stash for all those people who [LIE and] whimper they only have either a black, white or red dress to wear. It would be like that program that collects prom dresses for the disenfranchised. <i>(Party Poplins for the Petty?</i> Better name suggestions welcome.)
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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/16039821154377578633" rel="nofollow">xstpenguin</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 11:14:00 AM
I can totally see you in that dress.  It is just calling your name <br />- the midriff thing for starters.  <br /><br />Does it have pockets though - if nothing else to keep your watch in!?<br /><br />Cheers,<br />AJ
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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/02986387347283221427" rel="nofollow">Packrat</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 11:59:00 AM
Oooo I love this,too, but it isn&#39;t the right size or style for me.<br /><br />Note to commenters:  Try Simplicity pattern 3774 (from 2007).  Also, somewhere in my stuff there is a similar dress pattern (with a short full skirt) that I made that in the 1970&#39;s.
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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">emmy jay</span>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 1:31:00 PM
<i>This is an ideal &quot;I&#39;ve got to go to a wedding dress&quot;,</i><br /><br />My thoughts exactly! (Actually I&#39;m making a dress a lot like this right now to wear to wedding on Saturday -- crinkly cotton, midriff band, nearly identical bodice, and floaty skirt -- but mine is that lovely dark jade color I can never resist.
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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/03900187113661637599" rel="nofollow">Jimena</a>
DATE:Jul 8, 2009 7:09:00 PM
me too...love it<br />beautiful dress<br />xoxo
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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/13789211727345316055" rel="nofollow">Meagan</a>
DATE:Jul 9, 2009 12:26:00 AM
Ooh now that is cute.<br /><br />I&#39;d have to have it in Turquoise Blue. Flaunt some bright yellow heels and a bold necklace or bracelet.<br /><br />&lt;3
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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/13789211727345316055" rel="nofollow">Meagan</a>
DATE:Jul 9, 2009 12:28:00 AM
I notice it has been sold... did you get it!!??
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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://marmota-b.blog.cz" rel="nofollow">Hana</a>
DATE:Jul 9, 2009 1:55:00 AM
Yeah, the same question - did you get it?<br /><br />I love it. I love it very, very much. Don&#39;t do this to me. I decided that there will be no more projects planned for <i>one day</i> this summer, that I have enough of those.<br />Although, I guess that&#39;s not a good thing to do, blame it on you. I wouldn&#39;t have to go read your blog in the first place, and once I do, it&#39;s obvious that I&#39;ll find beautiful dresses here...<br />Good thing is, I have a similar dress in my wardrobe, probably also vintage, although not <i>this</i> vintage. Similar, not the same, with petal sleeves which I love, and I was thinking of recreating it. Now I have another incentive to do 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/11580943708767670334" rel="nofollow">Lila Leeds</a>
DATE:Jul 9, 2009 4:51:00 AM
That dress looks like a casual version of a Jean Desses creation. Beautiful. I wonder if it is made from a Desses pattern?
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Jul 9, 2009 12:58:00 PM
The link says it&#39;s by someone called <b> Miss Elliette</b>. I don&#39;t know all the vintage manufacturer labels. The two I know I like are <a href="http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/component/option,com_alphacontent/section,6/cat,59/task,view/id,422/Itemid,100/" rel="nofollow">Lilli Ann</a> and <a href="http://www.14to42.net/37street3.html" rel="nofollow">Suzy Perette</a>
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DATE:Jul 9, 2009 1:18:00 PM
PS: I have no idea why <a href="http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3D%2522suzy%2Bperette%2522%26b%3D21%26ni%3D20%26ei%3DUTF-8%26pstart%3D1%26fr%3Db1ie7%26fr2%3Dtab-web&amp;w=205&amp;h=360&amp;imgurl=www.enokiworld.com%2Fgoods%2Ffogartyscribble.jpg&amp;rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enokiworld.com%2Fgoods%2Ffogartyscribble.htm&amp;size=19k&amp;name=fogartyscribble+...&amp;p=%22suzy+perette%22&amp;oid=1e376f8b7f96977c&amp;fr2=tab-web&amp;no=40&amp;tt=377&amp;b=21&amp;ni=20&amp;sigr=11jfcvrcv&amp;sigi=11caq3a4j&amp;sigb=13j1e94t0" rel="nofollow">THIS LINK</a> comes up for “Suzy Perette”, but it&#39;s a neat little read re: vintage fashion labels  <b>: )</b>
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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/10095579652112798374" rel="nofollow">Jen ~ MOMSPatterns</a>
DATE:Jul 9, 2009 3:20:00 PM
Cookie.. I&#39;ve seen some (and have some, around here SOMEwhere) GREAT Miss Elliette dresses! Very feminine.. I think they were a hot ticket item on ebay eons ago?<br /><br />And I knew that was Pam&#39;s shot before I read anything.. she&#39;s got that Poolside Branding going on, for certain!<br /><br />Hi Pam!
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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.chickdowntown.com" rel="nofollow">CHICKDOWNTOWN.COM Brooke</a>
DATE:Jul 9, 2009 3:33:00 PM
Cute!  Nice cut and color and you definitely can not beat the fact that it&#39;s on sale.  I&#39;ll definitely have to check that out!
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DATE:Jul 10, 2009 2:49:00 PM
It&#39;s got a sort of Joan Holloway vibe to it.
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DATE:Jul 11, 2009 10:15:00 AM
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AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: Happy Birthday, Lucite Box!
DATE: 7:00 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.lucitebox.com" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Lucite Box Sale" src="http://www.dressaday.com/sabrina_dressaday.jpg" width="400" title="Happy Birthday to ME!" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lucitebox.com">Lucite Box Vintage</a> is one year old and is having a birthday sale! Holly says: <br /><br /><blockquote>To mark the first birthday of Lucitebox, I'm having a major site wide sale that runs for the next ten days. Turning one is fun, so come and celebrate by checking out our vintage fashions--all of them are on sale now through June 19th.<br /><br />New items will be added throughout the duration of the sale, so drop by frequently to see what's new. Thank you so much for your support and patronage. I really appreciate it!</blockquote><br /><br />And, just so you know -- Holly helped me with my Closet Cleanout 2009 project, in which I am releasing a lot of vintage back into the wild, instead of letting the poor dresses languish in my closet (or worse, in rubbermaid bins) all lonely-like. So (full disclosure) a <a href="http://www.lucitebox.com/item.php?tab=Dresses&item_ID=102">few</a> of the <a href="http://www.lucitebox.com/item.php?tab=Dresses&item_ID=99">dresses</a> in her <a href="http://www.lucitebox.com/item.php?tab=Dresses&item_ID=98">sale</a> are consigned from me.<br /><br />Oh, and while I have your attention, a big project I've been working on opened up on Monday -- a project to find and describe all the words of English! You can check it out at <a href="http://www.wordnik.com">wordnik.com</a>. (It's still in early beta, but we hope you get what we're working towards!)<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/sales.html">sales</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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.baltimorestyle.com/" rel="nofollow">Lisa Simeone</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2009 10:20:00 AM
Oh, wow, two of my obsessions in one handy post!  Will check out the wonderful Lucite Box&#39;s sale, and will definitely contribute to wordnik! (you may be sorry you asked . . . !)
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DATE:Jun 10, 2009 11:33:00 AM
Thought you might be interested, English may have gotten its millionth word this morning.  If you can count words that is.<br /><br />http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/10/million.words/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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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/06736176758196612844" rel="nofollow">Erin</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2009 11:36:00 AM
Sadly, the millionth word is, at best, a hoax:<br /><br />http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=972
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2009 12:11:00 PM
Oh! Those are perfect <i>Mad Men</i> dresses! We can send that link to our friends who are fans of the show! With a big set of rhinestone earrings, you&#39;re good to go. <br /><br />(Speaking of big rhinestone earrings, I loaded on a pair, as my new look, to match my increasing size, is 1980&#39;s Liz Taylor: <b>http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=4666</b>)
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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/07485398330431664029" rel="nofollow">lucitebox</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2009 12:54:00 PM
Thank you, Erin! And, thanks so much for the consignments. They&#39;re just wonderful. I can&#39;t decide which I like most, but I do love the &quot;exploded houndstooth check&quot; dress:<br /><br />http://www.lucitebox.com/item.php?tab=Dresses&amp;item_ID=102<br /><br /><br />Cookie! What a sickening situation. I&#39;m pleased to learn that you survived the carnage and are now perched in what sounds like an amazing nest. (I plan to use &quot;home cheapo&quot; every time I refer to that store.) You will most commonly hear me say, &quot;And then, I don&#39;t know what happened, but I got lost inside Home Cheapo again!&quot;) I seem to get lost in there quite easily. Those tools and...things...they all have a sameness that&#39;s beyond comprehension.<br /><br />Cookie, will you email me through my site? I want to talk to you and would need to have your email address to do that. Thanks.<br />Holly<br /><br />Holly
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2009 1:42:00 PM
Groovy! Shall email you  :) <br /><br />Yes, the West Hollywood situation is a BIT better now, thanks to a lot of residents putting in about 5 years of pressure...but we still aren&#39;t caring for our landmarks (and more importantly, our POTENTIAL landmarks) as we should. We have so many charming, middle class buildings here that were perhaps not the very FINEST, most EXPENSIVE architecture, but were nevertheless directly influenced by the higher-end stuff, and still convey not only Hollywood&#39;s earlier age, but the COMPLETE continuum of the local design trends (such as courtyard housing.) And what I have learned through this is that for a collection to be truly complete, it should represent all levels of a subject...including the &quot;missing links&quot;. It&#39;s like, future generations would get a very skewed perception of the film industry if the only films that were preserved were the Best Picture winners. That would just be scraping the surface of what we enjoyed, and what was produced.<br /><br />Thanks for reading the article at <b>Preservation Nation!</b>
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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.baltimorestyle.com/" rel="nofollow">Lisa Simeone</a>
DATE:Jun 11, 2009 6:53:00 AM
Cookie, you are not only a grand queen, you&#39;re a grand writer.  The National Trust for Historic Preservation has hit the jackpot with you!<br /><br />More power to you as you fight the philistines in West Hollywood.
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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/07485398330431664029" rel="nofollow">lucitebox</a>
DATE:Jun 11, 2009 11:25:00 AM
Hey,Cookie...I sent you an email earlier today. <br /><br />Yep. What Lisa Simeone said!
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Jun 11, 2009 12:26:00 PM
Thank you, little friends! All the City Hall loyalists (ie, residents with their hands out, or grubby political aspirations) hate me, so now we have to strap ourselves in for the backlash. Eeeeee!
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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/05151128140345216126" rel="nofollow">Teresa @ Grammy Girlfriend</a>
DATE:Jun 11, 2009 5:24:00 PM
What a super cute blog.....loved reading through it.  <br /><br />The blog world is so new to me...Hope you will stop by for a visit.  I am posting on our Disney trip now and then on to a new grandson in two weeks..
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jun 11, 2009 8:59:00 PM
my fav is the yellow wiggle dress
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jun 11, 2009 8:59:00 PM
my fav is the yellow wiggle dress
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jun 11, 2009 9:08:00 PM
cookie you rock...and you look amazing
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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/10399199434149364281" rel="nofollow">liz</a>
DATE:Jun 12, 2009 6:49:00 AM
Wordnik is awesome; an excellent collection for the wordsmiths amoung us! Good job Ellen :)
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DATE:Jun 12, 2009 12:20:00 PM
Thanks, Theresa. We&#39;ll do some picketing at an endangered building site, or something, when you&#39;re here. Or maybe just pass out cookies.
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jun 12, 2009 10:37:00 PM
Anything for the cause
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DATE:Jun 15, 2009 3:08:00 AM
Love, love, love the wordnik.
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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.useyourbean.com" rel="nofollow">Susan @ Use Your Bean</a>
DATE:Jul 15, 2009 4:41:00 PM
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AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: One Vintage Dress, With Zebras, Please
DATE: 5:25 PM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24565203" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="bow-tie pattern vintage dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/zebra_bowtie.jpg" width="400" title="Zebras are reactionaries ... " hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />I love this dress, but I think I would have posted it even if I didn't because I love the surreal zebra mask. So much better, and funnier, than modeling the dresses wearing giant sunglasses. I understand the desire for anonymity, but giant sunglasses (especially worn inside) just make people look like drug addicts, or wannabe celebrities. But the zebra mask! The zebra mask is genius. (And the name of the Etsy shop is <a href="http://www.animalheadvintage.etsy.com">Animal Head Vintage</a>, so there you go!)<br /><br />And look at the POCKETS!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24565203" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="bow-tie pattern vintage dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/bowtie_pockets.jpg" width="400" title="These are pockets you can really sink your fists into. " hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />If you want this, click on the images to visit the listing (this seller has a lot of nice stuff, actually). Good luck!<br /><br />Sorry for the radio silence the last couple days -- I had a cold and an unexpected trip, which, taken together, meant I was in a Land of No Blogging. (I do NOT have the swine flu. Do not panic. Go about your normal business.)<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/etsy.html">etsy</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/surreality.html">surreality</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/zebras.html">zebras</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/12776283905130149324" rel="nofollow">reilly</a>
DATE:May 6, 2009 6:05:00 PM
I noticed that seller recently! I actually saw that dress and then the price tag so I didn't click on it - but, wow, the animal masks. I like the fox one best.
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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:May 6, 2009 7:24:00 PM
Antelopes are missionaries....<br />:-)<br /><br />You're so clever, even when you're sick. And that fabric, with that bit of red showing - just right. Great dress. <br /><br />Dawn
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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/15581836733935812927" rel="nofollow">Little Hunting Creek</a>
DATE:May 6, 2009 8:15:00 PM
I like that dress all right, but I WANT A ZEBRA MASK!
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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/06508451343010474943" rel="nofollow">Dee Dee Warren</a>
DATE:May 6, 2009 9:37:00 PM
WAY too expensive. Does anyone know what pattern that is?
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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/02986387347283221427" rel="nofollow">Packrat</a>
DATE:May 6, 2009 11:01:00 PM
Love the dress.
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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/02760552385792635375" rel="nofollow">Julie The Vintage Goddess</a>
DATE:May 6, 2009 11:10:00 PM
Expensive?<br />I have to disagree, that is a great price for an awesome vintage dress.<br />(don't want to start a argument about prices, don't know the seller, but how cheap should it be?)<br /><br />anyway....<br />The masks are crazy and creepy and awesome all at the same time.<br />So much better then a pouting model.
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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/06508451343010474943" rel="nofollow">Dee Dee Warren</a>
DATE:May 6, 2009 11:16:00 PM
I buy vintage clothing on ebay frequently.  $50 max, and I have got some great vintage clothing for less.  It would also have been very helpful if the models measurements were given. I know the flat dimensions of the dress were, but I wouldn't buy based on that.  If at least the bust and waist measurements of the model were given it would be helpful.<br /><br />It is a beautiful dress, and the model looks like my size.  But I wouldn't pay any more than $50 for 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/16499755597730735670" rel="nofollow">sewbettie</a>
DATE:May 6, 2009 11:17:00 PM
those pockets = perfect
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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/11102524397278597786" rel="nofollow">Erin</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 12:43:00 AM
Oooh, WANT. A bit out of my price range, but the colors! The pockets! Dang.
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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/11102524397278597786" rel="nofollow">Erin</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 12:43:00 AM
Oooh, WANT. A bit out of my price range, but the colors! The pockets! Dang.
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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/09473756861381738567" rel="nofollow">Esther</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 5:56:00 AM
Oh I want both the dress and the mask ! Wonderful !
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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/05316749500678318719" rel="nofollow">Sal</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 7:49:00 AM
I SO would've snapped up this dress, but one of your other readers beat me to it. Darg!
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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/07834088646321136916" rel="nofollow">Christy Sews</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 8:10:00 AM
The mask is so "Breakfast at Tiffany's".  I love 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/11649677045881448393" rel="nofollow">Trudy Callan</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 9:10:00 AM
I love the pockets.<br /><br />www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:May 7, 2009 9:22:00 AM
Swooning
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:May 7, 2009 9:24:00 AM
I browsed the site and thought the prices were reasonable ... especially for Vintage in good/near mint condition.
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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/08369916687134171187" rel="nofollow">Lydia</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 10:02:00 AM
Between this and that Vogue pattern you've made so much of recently, I have *got* to find a pattern with this neckline. And soon.
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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/08334530129557894905" rel="nofollow">Lisa</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 12:29:00 PM
That mask is freaking me out.  Kinda reminds me of the beginning of Batman, which makes me miss Heath Ledger........but then there's that creepy mask.  Must go look at her other listings.
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 12:29:00 PM
Erin, I'm sick, too! The CLAMMINESS is the worst. People just aren't supposed to feel like clams. <I>Blluugggh.</I>
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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:May 7, 2009 12:51:00 PM
This dress crys out for a red belt, red shoes and and a saucey little red hat with just a whisp of veil.  Too cute!
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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.revivalfabrics.com" rel="nofollow">Nan Jaeger</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 12:52:00 PM
That's one sweet dress.  Were the little bow shaped red designs flocked?  love it!
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:May 7, 2009 3:22:00 PM
I hope Erin and Cookie both feel better soon.<br /><br />Cookie, did you get your vacumming done?
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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/03161793223531050486" rel="nofollow">Marla</a>
DATE:May 7, 2009 4:44:00 PM
Lovely! Grey is an underappreciated color, and it's fabulous with red.
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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">La BellaDonna</span>
DATE:May 8, 2009 5:49:00 AM
OOh, there HAS been a lot of that going around.  Sorry you haven't been feeling well! <br /><br />I actually thought that WAS a dress you had made, Erin, it seemed so YOU.  I don't think the price was out of line, but I'm distressed by a seller of vintage clothing describing the sleeves of a 50s dress as "sloped" rather than "kimono," and the skirt merely as "full," rather than "gored" or "full circle," as appropriate.  It tells me that the seller's knowledge level is not in my comfort range.<br /><br />And I will observe that prices for vintage dresses can vary CONSIDERABLY depending on what part of what country you are shopping for that vintage.  It doesn't make the price the seller is asking WRONG: it means that prices vary considerably.  There are costs involved for the seller in finding his/her stock, AND costs involved in the selling of it.  If it's not within your price range, then don't buy it - but that doesn't mean there's an inherent "rightness" to your personal price level.
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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/07485398330431664029" rel="nofollow">lucitebox</a>
DATE:May 8, 2009 9:08:00 AM
Oh sh!t! I wasn't at the computer much yesterday. I love the dress and would have snapped it up myself. (It's a somewhat hard to find size.) <br /><br />As to model's measurements: It's possible that the dress is clipped and pinned to fit her. I sell vintage dresses and my mannequin is a size 2/4. I never give Sabrina's measurements as everything is clipped to fit as if it were her size. I offer a range of sizes. I'm usually surprised when someone says, "Your mannequin is so skinny. Nothing you have fits me."  <br /><br />Okay, now I'm going to spend the rest of the day wishing I had that dress. It's AWESOME and I love the presentation. <br /><br />Hope you feel better soon, Miss Cookie. And Erin--you, too! We need you here.
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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.eurotailors.com" rel="nofollow">andrea</a>
DATE:May 9, 2009 11:41:00 AM
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DATE:May 9, 2009 4:52:00 PM
Oh, am I loving the zebra mask!  - fantastically sinister.  Hope Cookie and you are over la grippe (or whatever) soonest, Erin. <br /><br />Boy, have I missed DaD! Life has obscured my ringside view lately. Will there ever be an affiliate/sorority badge/ring/neckerchief/apron available? If so, just lemme know. Only a matter of time, I'm guessing...
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AUTHOR: Erin
TITLE: Book Review Week: Born-Again Vintage
DATE: 7:30 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><img alt="Born Again Vintage" src="http://www.dressaday.com/bornagainvintage_book.jpg" title="Being born the first time was traumatic enough ..." hspace="10" width="400" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307405273?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=undefined061-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307405273">Born-Again Vintage</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=undefined061-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0307405273" alt="" style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> is another book I'm not really the audience for. I figured this out along about page 10, where the author refers to a "frumpy fifties housedress." (I clutched my pearls and said "Well, I never!" Then I shook out my skirts.)<br /><br />If I wanted to eviscerate some perfectly good (or not-so-good: think qiana shirts from the 70s) vintage and clap together the pieces into new, wearable garments, that would be one thing (and occasionally a fun thing, too) but here's a list of things I do not consider wearable:<br /><ul><br /><li>jeans cut off at the knee with sweater sleeves sewn on them, "to create the look of a leg warmer while eliminating the struggle of "boot-horning" your cuffs"</li><br /><li>(while we're on the subject of leg warmers) leg warmers made from sweater sleeves, in general</li><br /><li>leg warmers AT ALL</li><br /><li>a corset made from a sweater</li><br /><li>short-shorts (made from anything)</li><br /><li>arm warmers</li><br /></ul><br />If these sound like garments that have pride of place in your closet (and you have a lot of sweaters to cut up) then maybe this book is for you. I'm afraid that I spent my time flipping through this book wanting the "before" garments a LOT more than the "afters". And when the author wrote (on page 65) "Cutting any fabulous vintage dress is a risk, but the end result here shows that it is worth the gamble," I'm afraid I said "No it's not!" out loud. (Sorry about that, guy in the coffee shop next to me.)<br /><br />If you DO want to cut up perfectly good vintage dresses and sew them to t-shirts, this book offers more than enough information to get you started. (And if that's what makes you happy, fine. Go, have fun!)<br /><br />[P.S. the pocket haiku from yesterday are FANTASTIC! I'll post the winners (and some runners-up) next Monday.]<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/books.html">books</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/reviews.html">reviews</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/16549832311783126674" rel="nofollow">Alison</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:00:00 AM
That's so disappointing!  The picture on the cover is so cute that I was expecting better things.
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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/12990420090276258427" rel="nofollow">Nicole</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:11:00 AM
The book sounded intriguing and I was thinking about buying it, but now I'm SOOO glad I held off. Those "fashions" sound like things you'd see on the Go Fug Yourself website. The legwarmers/jeans combination? Words fail me.
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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/08369916687134171187" rel="nofollow">Lydia</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:26:00 AM
Great. Like we don't already have a hard enough time finding wearable vintage these days. Now there's a new group of people <B>cutting the stuff up</B>. *ugh*
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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/02760552385792635375" rel="nofollow">Julie The Vintage Goddess</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:29:00 AM
Jeans with leg warmers are so, so wrong in the first place, let alone with sweater sleeves sewn on in the place of said leg warmers.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:32:00 AM
Eek! Thanks for the warning. Not at all what I expected.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:38:00 AM
CUT UP a vintage dress! And make some of these horrors? Where are my smelling salts? I must lie down for  spell...
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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/16163175961766563965" rel="nofollow">Myra</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:45:00 AM
No kidding.  I cannot stand refashions that mutilate something pretty, it should enhance the original or be equally nice and serviceable.  I just don't get armwarmers and being a teen from the 80's, legwarmers, unless you danced Flashdance-style.  I had a pair and never wore them, could never get them to look right.
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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/15212663858639818685" rel="nofollow">Emily</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:51:00 AM
Leg warmers are useful, in their place. Which is mostly on dancers and cyclists training for racing. Same for arm warmers, tho they're useful to a wider range of people, like anyone who types in a chilly house.<BR/><BR/>It really does sound like you can sum up the book with corset... from a knit. Corsets should *fit* which means stretchy is bad.
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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/08994698941156818418" rel="nofollow">wundermary</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 10:59:00 AM
Actually, I hate this sort of thing. I hate any book or article that encourages the destruction of vintage items as a cheap and ready source for material. Yes, there are cases of an item being so damaged that it is simply ready for the garbage and might as well become the subject of a cut-up / overhaul / whatever. But, what happens many times is very good stuff that managed to have integrity for 30-50 years winds up as a trendy discard.<BR/><BR/>I had the same type of aloud reaction as you when, in the fall, a popular crafty magazine ran a project making pipe cleaner legged spiders from black spray painted jello molds circa 1930s. They had you poking holes in the mold to insert the pipe cleaners. Ugh!<BR/> <BR/>No, the molds aren't terribly valuable. But, as a jello mold collector, I instantly imagined myself five years from now continually encountering the classic single serving jello molds with holes in them at yard sales.<BR/><BR/>Thinking about this book gives me the same sinking feeling.
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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/00987419772389129033" rel="nofollow">Marge, Born Too Late Vintage</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 11:19:00 AM
Just goes to show that you are a classic vintage lover, rather than a grunge vintage lover. <BR/><BR/>I err on the side of classic as well.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 11:20:00 AM
You know, it's quite sad to see DIY, clothing repurposing painted in such a frivolous and disrespectful light in this book, because I think (and a quick jaunt through Etsy backs me up) that there are some very reverent, talented artists and designers out there who do amazing things with recycled clothing--and without being complete jerks about the source material.
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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/06065181995721482551" rel="nofollow">Otherwise known as Jen</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 11:34:00 AM
Oh my! The book seems almost sacrilegious! The whole time I was reading your review, my mouth was opened in shock and, at the same time, the corners downturned in horror.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 11:52:00 AM
The author should be ashamed of herself.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 1:00:00 PM
If you do want to cut up perfectly good vintage dresses and sew them into t-shirts, don't cross the street in front of me. <BR/><BR/>I will run you over with my bike.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 1:44:00 PM
I used to think arm warmers were silly until I started to ride my bike to work! A pair of arm warmers keeps my poor wrists warm while I ride!
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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">Lauren</span>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 1:47:00 PM
I have nothing against people re-purposing vintage that is damaged or just not wearable as-is, or is of a type that is readily plentiful and not historically important (ie not very old or not a major designer label, etc.). <BR/><BR/>However, I have a major beef against people who take perfectly serviceable vintage that is already desirable for the condition/style its in and alter it in such a way that once the person doing the DIY work is through and no longer wants the garment, no one else wants or has a purpose for the garment either.<BR/><BR/>Don't ruin a great dress just on a whim, and don't sew hacked off sweater sleeves on short-shorts.
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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/08890247002393491537" rel="nofollow">julia m</a>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 2:08:00 PM
I altered and hemmed a vintage skirt to fit me (which required, yes, some cutting). Um, I had no idea this made me a legitimate traffic accident victim. Can I keep wearing my skirt in safety? Do I have to promise never to commit such sacrilege again, to give the true lovers of vintage a chance?
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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">Trevira</span>
DATE:Apr 7, 2009 2:42:00 PM
This is obviously a generational thing, and I'm too old to sign up to this.  Plus I'm super defensive about garments that have survived intact for decades.  My instinct is to preserve them, not chop them up.    <BR/><BR/>julia m makes a great point - its important to remember that people have always altered/adapted secondhand garments to fit or suit.  And we can't be too judgmental about that.  But the dress historian in me, contemplating mint surviving garments butchered, is screaming too!
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 3:04:00 PM
julia m, I do not think this makes you a "traffic accident victim".  You modified a skirt to fit you so that you could get lots of wear out of it. You did not turn a perfectly good vintage skirt into a tote bag or a trendy garment that would be discarded when it is no longer fashionable (or so I assume).<BR/><BR/>When you get tired of that skirt, you can sell or give it to someone else your size or smaller and they will be able to enjoy the skirt as well.
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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:Apr 7, 2009 3:57:00 PM
I was at the library this very day and picked up that book... the sweater-sleeves-sewn-to-jeans combo made me shudder with horror and drop it back on the shelf. Perhaps I should have re-shelved it with the spine facing in so that no one else will be fooled into thinking that pants/legwarmers are hip! (What's next? Skants?!)<BR/><BR/>Julia, I like to think that making your vintage skirt wearable is a fulfillment of its original destiny, which is to be worn and not stored in a box until it gets all moth-holey. Even if it requires some cutting. I think that vintage items are 'happiest' when they are being *used* (books are to be read, aprons are to be mussed, etc.) but I might actually be crazy.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 4:10:00 PM
People who make minis out of wonderful 50s dresses are clueless.  esp. when they are doing it to things to sell.  People who wear 50s dresses everyday, and who will pay good money for them, don't want a mini-dress.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 4:30:00 PM
I did what Joni did but at a bookstore.  I stood there in complete disbelief!  I turned to the craft book shopping stranger beside me and we both agreed it was hideous.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 5:03:00 PM
Julia M--of course I won't hit you with my bike because you altered your skirt to fit you. I was kidding. I'm a non-violent person.<BR/>I'm not nuts. I wouldn't dream of hitting someone on my bike. I lived during the 80s, too, when cutting off your 50s dress was the Pretty In Pink thing to do. Damn that movie and the travesties I committed because of it. <BR/><BR/>Recently, I had a slim 50s pencil skirt altered. I asked the seamstress not to cut before hemming, just to press and hem. She also added two darts to the waist. It looks great and it could even be put back to its original form if need be. <BR/><BR/>I want to add that it would be difficult for me to know what type of garment is legitimate for re-purposing and which isn't. How old is 'not that old' and how do we know what's not important enough? (I love slinky 70s disco shirts (even Quiana) even though I don't wear them.) <BR/><BR/>Since my own criteria is the only criteria I'd want EVERYONE to use, then I have to say that it's not the sort of thing I'm willing to advocate since no one in their right mind would obey my rules.  (I'll bet we each have our own limits and criteria and I'm guessing they're going to differ vastly.) <BR/><BR/>Sorry, crafters, would-be fashion designers, and knitters. Without looking at the book, I cannot say this with certainty, but I am willing to guess that I wouldn't wholly support these endeavors. I'm afraid I would find that the majority of this type of clothing qualifies as craftulence.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 6:37:00 PM
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 6:39:00 PM
This review made me laugh. I had this book out from the library as soon as it was available and quickly discovered that it definitely wasn't for me. I also would rather have some of the before clothes, especially the pretty dresses.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 6:43:00 PM
Basically I don't have a problem with repurposing if it means reusing instead of the item going in a landfill.  I do have a problem with repurposing if it means you are using sweater sleeves as leg warmers.  Because, honestly, no one will be able to pull that off and have people believe it a)is cute or b)actually looks like leg warmers and not cut-off sleeves.<BR/>JenL
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 7:19:00 PM
The picture on the cover?  What's she mad about?  I think someone cut the sleeves out of her sweater and sewed them on her jeans and now she's got cold arms and ulgy legs.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 8:56:00 PM
Thanks for bringing this book to our attention.<BR/>I found it last week at the local bookstore and was seriously horrified by much of what I saw.<BR/>It's one thing to 're-purpose' or 'rescue' damaged goods, and quite another to mutilate a perfectly decent 30+ year old garment.  <BR/>Once it's gone....it's gone!
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 9:32:00 PM
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh<BR/><BR/><BR/>full on pet peeve of mine.<BR/><BR/>actually, beyond peeve, into the realm of fury. I have a shop next to my vintage shop where they do this, though purportedly only to damaged pieced. I hope that is the case. However, one Saturday a girl came into my shop and held up a beautiful hand painted 40s sundress and exclaimed she would "love to see what the girls next door could do with this fabric!".<BR/><BR/>A) its not fabric, its a dress. created and designed, DESIGNED, by a designer 70 years ago. someone already designed AND hand painted it. the arrogance attached to looking at another designer's work and deeming it less than par to the degree it deserves to be destroyed is staggering. <BR/><BR/>B) I hear this from actual "designers" as well. If indeed you are a designer, how can you disrespect another designer to the degree that you decide its cool to destroy what they created for your own creation? By all means, let it be your inspiration, copy it, let it be the basis of your next big thing. But taking that very piece, lovingly saved for years by someone who loved THAT design is nothing short of disrespectful AND cheating. If you can't sew a bodice with a side zip, don't take a dress that has one and hand stitch a shoddy skirt of another era's textile to it to make it your own. Its plagiarism, its lazy and its utterly insulting to your fellow designer. <BR/><BR/>Clearly this is an issue close to my heart for a myriad of reasons....this trend is destroying beautiful designs never to be found again, and smacks of selfish disregard for the art of fashion. <BR/><BR/>Ang
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 9:42:00 PM
I sold a ton of leg warmers at Nordstrom, to women who I'm sure were very enthusiastic over this trend, and gleefully ripped the tags off the leg warmers, finished dressing...<BR/><BR/>And realized how bad they looked.<BR/><BR/>It's a mistake to 'cut up' clothes, other than fitting them, or making them look better, but making foolish looking outfits to sound outré just makes the wearer (with a few rare exceptions) look equally foolish.<BR/><BR/>There are a few incredibly rare creatures who can carry off outré looks, but they don't need books to tell them how to do it, they're already doing it.
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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:Apr 7, 2009 9:53:00 PM
While I agree that the whole sweater sleeve sewn into jeans suggestion is unconscionable, I would hope that one does not entirely toss leg warmers out with the baby bathwater.  <BR/><BR/>Certainly not in any fashion sense, but leg warmers and long-handled underwear have their place in garmentary.  The rugged types frequently wear them in the damp and biting cold when thick tights and heavy fabrics just aren&#39;t enough.  As an office-worker in Alaska, I learned that they are easily adjusted &amp; removable- so as not to show but still to cover one&#39;s nether regions from all sorts of updrafts when wearing dresses.
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 9:55:00 PM
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DATE:Apr 7, 2009 11:36:00 PM
Stop chopping 50s dresses! <BR/><BR/>I will buy them from you!!!
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DATE:Apr 8, 2009 12:44:00 AM
Speaking of thick tights to wear in damp and biting weather,  I want to recommend the wool-blend tights at www.warmlegwear.com.  Erin posted some time ago about how she stays warm in the winter by wearing two pairs of tights under her dresses, and I wanted to suggest an option that might be less compressive.  <BR/><BR/>I just went to an interview in rainy 50-degree weather.  I wore a knee-length skirt and wool-blend tights, and I was reasonably warm but still looked polished.  Plus they're machine-washable!  I stretch them after washing and hang-dry so they don't shrink.
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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">Mardi</span>
DATE:Apr 8, 2009 5:21:00 AM
Your post reminded me of the 80s movie Pretty in Pink where the main character cuts up her older friend's gorgeous fifties style prom dress to make an abominable 80s straight up and down horror-frock.  I still feel horrified when I remember that scene, and this brought the feeling right back!<BR/><BR/>I have some great 60s dresses - as a teenager I used to buy them from op shops - sadly they don't fit me but there's no way I'd hack them up!
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DATE:Apr 8, 2009 5:37:00 AM
oh! I was totally judging the book by the cover and would have bought it! <BR/><BR/>thanks for the heads up!<BR/><BR/>Although I agree with most of your "wrong" list, I must confess, I do love leg warmers (although would never dream of making them out of sweaters - there's frugal living and then there's er....an interesting look!)<BR/><BR/>http://mymaterialvoid.wordpress.com/
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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:Apr 8, 2009 6:45:00 AM
This sort of thing isn't the least bit surprising.  These are the same sort of people who see a pretty leather-bound book and without checking to see if it's worth anything cut out all the illustrations and paint over all the pages and call it "art".  There seems to be an entire generation of folks out there who have no idea of the worth of things.  They'd cut the legs down on a Chippendale table and paint if pink if it went with their scheme.
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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/06030876110045275504" rel="nofollow">Kelly</a>
DATE:Apr 8, 2009 6:55:00 AM
I 100% agree with your review.  I was so hopeful when I opened this book but unfortunately found myself appalled and annoyed at every.single.project- what a let down.  Thanks for posting your review of 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/14313164876855565140" rel="nofollow">Latter-Day Flapper</a>
DATE:Apr 8, 2009 8:25:00 AM
I had to stop watching "This Old House" because I couldn't stand to see them cut up and modernize old houses--this book would probably give me high blood pressure.<BR/><BR/>I like limb-warmers because my offices is freakishly cold, but I draw the line at cutting up perfectly good vintage clothes.  Recycle damaged items, sure, but "fabulous" vintage and scissors should never meet.<BR/><BR/>How does exactly one make a corset from a sweater, anyway?  I mean, the point of a sweater is that they stretch and can be worn over your clothes, and the point of a corset is that it doesn't and should be worn under your clothes.  They're, like, the antithesis of one another.
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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:Apr 8, 2009 11:07:00 AM
Is it my imagination or is the collar on the front cover illustration wonky as hell?
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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/11016862676620203040" rel="nofollow">raven</a>
DATE:Apr 8, 2009 4:56:00 PM
I will probably still look at this book out of morbid curiosity...sort of like rubbernecking at an accident.  Good vintage is hard to find...so the thought of cutting it up to make something trendy and potentially disposable saddens me.  Yes, there are damaged pieces out there that are perfect for making accessories and bags...but for crying out loud...leave the wearable things alone!<BR/><BR/>Side story, that I am sharing because some of you may understand my upset.  A few years back I was in a show that took place in the '30s.  As I am a costumer/seamstress as well as an actor, and a collector of vintage clothing, and the show had a tiny budget, I offered to loan some things to the costumer.  She went through with me and I told her which non-vintage things she could alter/decorate/keep for their collection and which things were vintage/important to me.  Unfortunately, she had some assistants.  One assumed she could have her way with everything.  She took two pieces that belonged to my grandmother.  One, she simply shortened, and whilst now too short for me to wear as a 1930s garment, is at least still wearable.  The other, a negligee I wore as a dress, she hacked in half (literally...hacked) and turned the bottom half into a drawstring skirt.  The costumer apologized up and down, and asked ifthere was anything she could do.  I replied that what's done is done, I appreciated the apology, but nothing could be done about it.  I also vowed to myself never to loan clothing to anyone that I could not bear to have destroyed.  Lesson learned.  I kept the pieces, due to the way she "altered" them, they were unsalvageable, but they have sentimental value to me.  I feel like this book is encouraging that kind of behavior.  I am picturing some girl taking something from her mother's or sister's closet, cutting it up, and that mother or sister being heartbroken.<BR/><BR/>Wow, this book review has made me way more emotional than I expected.
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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/01332459807065582158" rel="nofollow">Liz</a>
DATE:Apr 9, 2009 5:02:00 AM
"leg warmers AT ALL" - does this veto include handknit legwarmers? I'm kind of hankering after some for the next cold snap.
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DATE:Apr 9, 2009 6:05:00 PM
Way back in the late 70s, I ran across a book called The Yestermorrow Clothes Book, or How to Remodel Secondhand Clothes.  Now consider that in 1976, secondhand clothes meant what today would be some pretty nifty vintage.  The book tells how to do everything from shrink a 1940s sweater to convert an antique kimono into bellbottoms.  <BR/><BR/>So this type of restyling has been going on a very long time, and I'll admit to a few creative episodes with the scissors myself back in the day.  But time passes, and one can no longer just waltz into the Salvation Army for a 50s housedress.  But there is a steady supply of 80s and 90s garments.<BR/><BR/>And from looking on ebay, etsy and other selling sites, people are referring to 90s stuff as vintage.  Hopefully the majority of the frock chop is happening to this latter day vintage.  It's really all about the look; many younger vintage lovers don't seem to care if the dress is 50s or 80s as long as it is what they think is cute.  I don't know, but I can't get quite as upset over an 80s "All that Jazz" dress being shortened.  I mean it looks like we will NEVER run short of them!<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong - I'm firmly in the camp of the Do Not Cut (as those of you how have read the rants on my blog well know!).  But consider that any action taken with a piece of old clothing shortens its life, and that includes washing, wearing, and even displaying.  This issue is not as black and white as we'd like to think.
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DATE:Apr 10, 2009 11:18:00 PM
I am intrigued by this book! These comments are all so interesting - but reading the original post I actually said yes! cool! to everything on the list. OK, I am a dance teacher, so legwarmers are totally allowed, right? Recently my Nana gave me a vintage 60s dress she'd made. It was ankle-length, jewel-necked and long-sleeved. I cut length off the hem and sleeves, and cut a V-neck. My auntie remains horrified, but after sitting in a drawer for forty-odd years, it's now being WORN. There's no way I would have worn it in it's original state.
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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:Apr 11, 2009 3:25:00 PM
Me, I just LOVED your (I clutched my pearls and said "Well, I never!" Then I shook out my skirts.) comment. thank you.
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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:Apr 13, 2009 8:54:00 AM
kind of agree with Nadine. Not to the yes cool bit... I don't like a lot of those particular refashioning ideas but my mother's given me full permission to cut up an attic full of clothes and I've changed a lot of necklines and skirt lengths and a few design features to what suits me. <BR/><BR/>There's a skirt of my gran's that I love wearing. It was a black skirt with white spots and a panel with red flowers and mustard coloured vines. I didn't like the mustard vines so I removed that panel and resewed it and reinforced all the seams where it was starting to go and put in a new hook and eye closure where the old one had gone. Yes I could possibly have sold this to someone who would have liked it in it's original state and who would've been happy to wear it purely in it's original state but I didn't want to. I LIKE the connection to the past. I like that what I'm wearing is my gran's skirt. I like to imagine the fun she had while wearing it, the dances she might have gone to, how pretty she felt in it. I wouldn't have worn it as was because to me that panel looked wrong but I don't feel that as in love with vintage style as anyone else could be they'd have appreciated the particular connection with the past that sewing and wearing this skirt gave me.<BR/><BR/>Working with the clothes my mam gave me makes me think more about her life before us and life in general before me and my brother and my dad. I think about her as a teenager growing up in my gran's house and I think about all the travelling she did. I guess it's a bit like the way fashion sparks off erin's wonderful stories about the lives of dresses. <BR/><BR/>I just don't think vintage needs to be in it's original state to give us that connection to the past and I don't see how wanting to adapt an item of beauty to ones own particular tastes is a bad thing. If I have a beautiful vintage dress (infinitely moreso the ones with sentimental value) and I'll want to wear it after a few adjustments, I fail to see why that means I should sell it purely because someone else might so happen to love the elements of the garment that don't work for me.<BR/><BR/>Clothes aren't simply art. They're wearable art. They're a part of day to day life. Their adaptability is one of the wonderful things about them. Maybe it's because my gran sewed herself and believed in altering clothes to suit and making something new and loved again through carefully thought out changes that I feel the way I do and maybe it's because I was raised on hand me downs that I prefer to refashion what already exists to suit than be a larger part of the consumer chain. I don't think I'd be into that particular book but I don't think I'm any less within my rights to enjoy vintage in my own way as anyone else
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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/05513709637877453335" rel="nofollow">sibelimsss</a>
DATE:Apr 16, 2009 10:06:00 AM
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TITLE: More Sales
DATE: 9:04 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.specialistauctions.com/auctiondetails.php?id=880541" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="tan paisley shirtdress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/margepaisleydress.jpg" width="400" title="Ooh, shirtdress! Paisley shirtdress!" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Okay, one more post about a sale before I sort out just who got the WORST and BEST Xmas presents ... Marge is closing her <a href="http://www.specialistauctions.com/shop.php?userid=103645">Born Too Late Vintage</a> store (don't worry, Born Too Late Vintage Patterns is still going strong) and so you should hurry over and make some offers. (Especially if you have a thing for hats, she has a ton of wonderful hats!) <br /><br />I really love this rayon/cotton paisley shirtdress, B36, only $25 (or make Marge an offer)!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/sales.html">sales</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/shirtdress.html">shirtdress</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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://theworksofourhands.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">mickey</a>
DATE:Dec 30, 2008 1:36:00 PM
Thank you for this one! I just found several pieces for a show and I'm going back to look for more!
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DATE:Dec 30, 2008 3:36:00 PM
Dang you, Erin! I just went and spent money on a bunch of fabulous, classy things.  You were right about the hats-- all gasp-worthy.  Thanks a lot.
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DATE:Dec 30, 2008 7:37:00 PM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.poshgirlvintage.com/1950s-cotton-novelty-clock-dress-p-259.html" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="clock dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/clock_dress.jpg" width="400" title="Does anyone ever really know what time it is?" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />I am obsessed with this clock dress that Theresa sent me. It's already gone, of course, from <a href="http://www.poshgirlvintage.com">Posh Girl Vintage</a> ... and it would have barely fit me anyway (and by "barely" I mean, I could have zipped it up, maybe, if I could renegotiate that whole "breathing" thing with my lungs). If one of you bought it, will you tell me that you love it, and that you wear it every (suitable) day, and that you have given it a special nickname? Please?<br /><br />The best part, of course, is that scrumptious clock print. I bet I could dig up the requisite <a href="http://store.doverpublications.com/">clip art</a> and <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com">Spoonflower</a> myself some of that, don't you think? Should it be a big border print, like this one, or a smaller scatter print? Over red stripes, and or black and white as they are here?<br /><br />As a joke, I'd love to wear this dress without also wearing a watch. (Which would, even as a joke, last about ten minutes, because not wearing a watch drives me nuts. I once bought a new watch at the airport because mine had broken in the car on the way over. And it was only recently that I stopped wearing a watch 24 hours a day, including in the shower [I have a lot of Swatch watches].) <br /><br />Interestingly enough, the clock here is set at roughly 8:23, and not 10:10, as fakey watches usually are now. Which means (at least according to <a href="http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=600223">Google Answers</a>) that the print is really and truly old. <br /><br />While you're mourning the unavailability of this one, you might want to check out some of the <a href="http://www.poshgirlvintage.com/1930s-cotton-eyelet-white-dress-p-42.html">other</a> <a href="http://www.poshgirlvintage.com/1940s-casablanca-black-evening-dress-p-327.html">pretty</a> <a href="http://www.poshgirlvintage.com/1950s-colorful-stripes-dress-p-45.html">dresses</a> at Posh Girl ...<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/novelty_prints.html">novelty_prints</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jun 25, 2008 7:03:00 AM
I feel so special. I am glad you like it. I thought it was the most cool thing I had seen in a long time.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 7:10:00 AM
That's very cool. I saw fabric some what like that at the JoAnn Fabric Store. It was very interesting and I think I'll buy it:]
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 7:15:00 AM
A watch comment (having been in that business....).  Watches are set at 10:10 because, in that position, the hands usually do not obscure any detail on the dial -- a date window, a logo, etc).  Also, the hands look 'happy', they make a smiley sort of face.  Back when I was in the business, we introduced a new watch and wanted to call it the Ten-Ten.  It was nixed by higher ups in the corporation.  Its a catchy name and would have been a nice 'in' joke.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 7:25:00 AM
Love it.  Go with the scatter print on black & white stripes and you'll have a stunner! Or you could go red pinstripes, but wide red stripes would compete with the clocks. Thank goodness for Spoonflower.
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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">Wenjie</span>
DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:05:00 AM
Very cute dress.<BR/>I guess the it is 8:23 instead of 10:10 is because that the clocks are on the down part of the dress and that makes the dress looks more stable and nice.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:11:00 AM
That is the most gorgeous pattern for a sundress. I love the way the top is high cut.  I also love that the skirt is not gathered right in the front, but more over the hips and back I assume.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:39:00 AM
I love this bold border print! It makes the dress. Were it a scatter print, it'd be any other novelty print (except, you know with clocks set at 8:23.) It's very cool! Thanks for showing that. And thanks for sending it, Theresa. LOVE IT!<BR/><BR/>Holly
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:55:00 AM
Ooh! I love the Casablanca Black Evening Dress.<BR/><BR/>Also: I say with printing the clocks, the bigger the better.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 9:08:00 AM
Oh definitely keep it as a border print. Making the clocks small and scattered wouldn't be nearly as effective.<BR/><BR/>--Lydia
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 9:47:00 AM
That is such a great site! Thanks for mentioning it, I spent a lovely hour just gazing at all the dresses. It's like walking in a museum; I won't buy anything, but I sure like looking at it.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 9:53:00 AM
Oooh...is that a key on the end of the belt? A CLOCK KEY????<BR/><BR/>Yes, yes, yes!
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 10:08:00 AM
Definitely border print, definitely larger scale--and why not up the hours 'round the hem? It could be a, ha ha, day-to-evening kind of dress. Go from nine to nine! How could would that be.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 10:13:00 AM
Indeed, what-i-found, that does look like a clock winding key at the end of the belt. What a hilarious detail. That just slays me.<BR/><BR/>This is an awesome dress. And I agree with lucite box, I like that it's a border print.  As for creating fabric like this, I think the bigger the better for those clocks.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 10:23:00 AM
Oooh, just having a look at the dresses on Posh Girl vintage, finally I have found dresses with the same bust/hip ratio as me! yay! the second link is gorgeous, shame I don't look good in black/have a spare $625/have anywhere to wear it!
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 10:26:00 AM
Oops, that should read bust/waist, not bust/hip (though the hip measurement looks fine too!). I am now a vintage clothing convert.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 12:32:00 PM
Nice dress. There's a very pleasing Alice-in-Wonderlandishness about it, but whether Alice or the White Rabbit (suitably feminised) should wear it, I'm not sure.  <BR/><BR/>I've been watchless for several weeks now (lost one watch, two ran out of batteries concurrently but I haven't got to the repairers yet, and the discarded Swatch that I pinched from my son I...left in a pocket and put through the washer/dryer - totally terminal treatment, I'm afraid).  My cell phone tells me the time, of course, and I'm no longer looking at the arrangement of freckles/hairs on my left wrist in perplexitude. But I feel somehow reckless - that's me, over here on the dangerous edge of things!  <BR/><BR/>Good luck locating this fabric, Erin.  I vote for the red pinstripe idea.
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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:Jun 25, 2008 1:06:00 PM
i want to know what the back looks like. i always want to know what the back looks like. we can't see the backs of our own clothing, but the rest of the world can. <BR/><BR/>oh erin! pleeeeeease use your enormous adad-clout to get dress-image-posters to include shots of the back. even if it's simple and basic and nothing special, i wanna see it.<BR/><BR/>sincerely,<BR/>thorn
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 2:12:00 PM
I love the dress, and I love the watch key detail, but otherwise the belt seems stringy.  I would replace it with a wider patent leather belt in black or red.  Maybe wear the watch key as a pendant.  <BR/><BR/>I am also a time a holic.  I wear a watch and there are usually at least two clocks in every room of my house.  Can't live without them!
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 3:46:00 PM
That is an awesome dress; I love it!  I do hope you are able to get some similar fabric; Spoonflower would be a great source.  Opposite of you I NEVER wear a watch!  I stopped wearing one about 3 years ago and love it.  I try to live my life so that I don't need one.  I'm so much happier....!
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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:Jun 25, 2008 3:49:00 PM
Ah, Erin, ADaD is my daily breath of fresh air -- and hilarious, succinct writing. I'm still snickering over "Texas compound-long."<BR/>I recently did not win a clock-themed 40s dress on ebay from fave seller Denisebrain (with the more traditional 10:10 time):<BR/>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280237299208&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123<BR/>Liz F. from Brooklyn
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 3:58:00 PM
The dress is fabulous!   I vote keep the clocks big and red pinstripes might compete too much...  I also am addicted to my watch and wear them everywhere, including the shower.  I feel like I lost a limb if I don't have it on.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 3:58:00 PM
You know something, silk screening has come a long way in recent years.<BR/>I bet you could get the local "T" shirt printing shop (the one that screened kid's summer camp "T"s around town) to print up a pocket watch border print on your choice of yardage at a suprisingly affordable price.<BR/>(now that I think about it, this would be sooooo easy to do, never mind the extra brownie points for patronizing a local business)
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 5:29:00 PM
i LOVE this dress!  i would love to walk up to someone on the street while wearing it and ask, "excuse me, have you got the time?" :)  i would pair it with a white shrug and a pair of spectator flats!
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 6:31:00 PM
I love this dress...everything about it. In fact, I would change a thing. Hopefully you will be able to duplicate the clock and will be able to wear it the next time we get together...how else will I be able to swipe it from your suitcase!??! :)
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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">Kim M</span>
DATE:Jun 25, 2008 6:32:00 PM
Okay...that was supposed to say I wouldn't change a thing!! OPPS...
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:01:00 PM
I accidentally stumbled across this blog last week and spent the weekend reading the archives and saving links to dresses I'd like to duplicate. Wow.<BR/><BR/>After a long period of remodeling I'm about to get my sewing machine out again and I've found a lot of inspiration here even though I loathe both orange and polka dots, cringe over loud novelty prints, and love culottes and divided skirts. :D<BR/><BR/>Wonderful how a simple change of color scheme and details can personalize a style and make it an expression of a person's individuality.<BR/><BR/>That is, after all, one of the greatest joys of sewing -- the ability to wear the shapes and colors that I like and which look flattering on me regardless of what anyone else in the world thinks of them and without any reference whatsoever to the dictates of the fashion gurus.<BR/><BR/>I'm learning to draft my own patterns because no two measurements on my body are the same size and I do so much alteration that I figure it can't take any longer to start from scratch. <BR/><BR/>I'm looking forward to reading your blog daily.
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:22:00 PM
Is it a solid stripe, or is it ticking-striped like a mattress?<BR/>Either way, too cute!
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:25:00 PM
Please forgive the unrelated comment. Ms. ADAD, did you ever complete your Duro-roundup? And could a Duro ever have a Secret Life?<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing your wonderful site.<BR/><BR/>Teresa
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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/12671379391189827831" rel="nofollow">lorrwill</a>
DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:43:00 PM
My spoonflower vote:<BR/><BR/>Big timepiece border with small, scattered timepieces - or just parts for a steampunky flare - red stripes. The black is too correctional facility for me.<BR/><BR/>~Punky Steamster<BR/>aka Dixie Hoyt, FRA, Conspirator<BR/>(who has not worn a watch in several years)
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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">Jessica</span>
DATE:Jun 25, 2008 8:56:00 PM
Acks! I love the shape of this dress. Anyone know of any patterns that are similar? Vintage or not...and--what's under the dress, giving it fullness?  Tulle?
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 9:51:00 PM
cute dress.  I can't wear it because I can't wear watches.  They alway break.<BR/><BR/>:D
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DATE:Jun 25, 2008 10:02:00 PM
I am so glad most of those Posh Girl Vintage dresses are too small so I don't have to be too sorry to see someone else get them...<BR/><BR/>(Also, great alt text.)
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DATE:Jun 26, 2008 6:49:00 AM
Lavon - I can't wear watches either! I thought I was a mutant. I stop time. Literally. Every watch I have ever tried simply stops working after I wear it just a few minutes.
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DATE:Jun 26, 2008 2:26:00 PM
That is a marvelous dress!  I would Spoonflower myself watch fabric with all the clock faces set to different times and not one of them being the ubiquitous 10:10.
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DATE:Jun 29, 2008 1:26:00 AM
I was so sad when I saw this dress on her site and it was sold.  It's so cool it hurts.  Great pick!
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DATE:Jul 9, 2008 7:49:00 PM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12290146" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Bamboo Applique dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/bamboo_dress.jpg" width="400" title="Pretty is a renewable resource." hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Naomi sent me this link, from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5125294">Ramona West Vintage</a>. I love that applique -- so pretty and fresh. <br /><br />The dress is $65, and measures B37/H43. <br /><br />I wish it had pockets, because I think it would look great with these random shoes I bought on eBay over the weekend:<br /><br /><img alt="Joan & David Circa T-strap sandals" src="http://www.dressaday.com/circa_sandals.jpg" width="400" title="Not bad for $30." hspace="10" /><br /><br />After I hit "Buy it Now" I realized that I didn't remember the last pair of shoes I'd purchased in a real store, which is pretty weird. (And I count discount chains like DSW and Loehmann's when I say "real stores".) I don't have particularly hard-to-fit feet (8.5, you are my friend) and I'm willing to pass along failures pretty speedily (or turn around and relist them if they don't fit). Has anyone else decided they can do all their shoe-shopping on Zappos and eBay?<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/etsy.html">etsy</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/06913468668645542284" rel="nofollow">the_lazymilliner</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 9:23:00 AM
I bought a pair of sandals at 6pm.com and I'll likely do so again in the near, near future, but I don't know if I'll do all my shopping online.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 9:56:00 AM
I seem to buy all my shoes from Fluevog, Anthropologie or Zappos.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 10:00:00 AM
Not so much ebay, but lots of catalog shopping for shoes as my feet are very wide and brick-and-mortar stores don't usually carry much in my size.
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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/12671379391189827831" rel="nofollow">lorrwill</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 10:03:00 AM
LOoooove the colors in this dress. <BR/><BR/>Zappos, etc. yes. Ebay, no. But I have not bought shoes to wear from a store in about a decade. <BR/><BR/>I bought some plastic cheapos from Payless to make shoe molds and for parts in 2005, however.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 10:23:00 AM
I love this blog!  I'm getting back into dresses after years & years of jeans and T's.  LOVE that dress!  Sooo cute.  I have bought shoes on-line -- but only casual ones from sites like landsend.com, not dressy.  I'm going to have to check out some of those websites you all are mentioning, though!
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 10:30:00 AM
I buy all my shoes online because I do have hard-to-fit feet (11). I used to have nothing but Sketchers because they were the only store that usually had my size in stock, but now I've become a stereotype I have so many shoes. It's fantastic.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 10:30:00 AM
I'm pretty right-on with you re: zappos and ebay; free returns are good, so spot a pair you like, try 'em on, and then hunt forever on ebay if you want a better deal. (Though I only do that, really, with super '$pensive brands like clergerie.) I do occasionally check out nordy's and DSW, but I hardly ever buy anything; I like the snooty but funky <I>and</I> practical and generally hard to come by feetwear.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 10:31:00 AM
Most of my shoes come from Zappos.com, although I reserve the right to peruse the shoe racks at TJ Maxx from time to time.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:03:00 AM
Love the dress.<BR/>I do have very hard to fit feet - and pretty much wear only NB or SAS brand shoes. I get all the SAS on E-bay (they are way to expensive for me otherwise - I just wait until they have what I need and at my price.) <BR/><BR/>The NB, when I need a new pair next fall, I will probably go to Zappos since they have all the styles and sizes to choose from. In the past I went to a sports shoe store, but they are limited in styles and sizes in stock. <BR/>Blessings,<BR/>Patti
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:05:00 AM
I love that dress.<BR/>I have size 11AAAA (super-narrow) feet and it's a pain finding shoes in Canada. I have ordered from Zappos, but most of my shoes from Harry Young in Toronto - a bricks and mortar store with a fairly conservative selection, but they fit!<BR/>I have bought vintage shoes on Ebay with success for both me and my equally narrow sister, btw.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:15:00 AM
Adorable dress! I love the colors and it does look very fresh and cool, although I suspect I would find that neckline rather confining. I bought my 1st pair of shoes online just a couple of months ago. Saw a cute pair of Keens (Portland Blossoms) http://www.keenfootwear.com/product_detail.aspx?sku=5370 in the Eddie Bauer catalog. Went to the Keen website and found the must- have color, deep lichen, NOT available @ Eddie Bauer. I spent weeks trying to find them, finally find them @ Online shoes. I've never worn Keens before and ordered the wrong size. The customer service was great, the shipping was free. It was a really good experience.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:16:00 AM
I love Zappos but need to try ebay!Erin,I know you love your Jack Purcell shoes for casual days but do you ever wear casual sandals with dresses? I am in need of "comfy/casual sandal without looking too earthy" advice. My comfy danskos aren't working with my half circle skirts/dresses which I just made, and my other choice is a pair of zebra print birkenstocks! I am running around with 3 kids all day so I don't want to look too dressed up!
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:21:00 AM
Zappos yes, ebay-not so much. I don't have hard to fit feet but I do know which brands are best for me and tend to like what those brands offer. But Zappos has such a great customer service that if I don't like something, its never a problem to return or exchange.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:26:00 AM
I've bought most of my shoes on line for about the last 7 years, I wear a size 10.5 EE, so finding them to fit in a 'real' store is almost impossible and VERY expensive.<BR/><BR/>Tru
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:40:00 AM
I'm lucky enough to live near a few wonderful small, locally owned shoe stores that carry the cute but practical "comfort" brands, and I like to support them. Unfortunately, no one else in my neighborhood seems to like red shoes as much as I do and I can only find the colors I want online. <BR/>In general I find that the price of online discount stores plus the shipping is about the same as buying in a real store, and then I get the added benefits of wearing them home and helping out a small business. The exception is 6pm, which I recently discovered and may totally change the way I think about online shopping.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 11:48:00 AM
What I <EM>would</EM> have said was that, yes, I buy 90 percent of my shoes online, and 80 percent of those are from Zappos.<BR/><BR/>But I like to be scientific, so I just did a survey of all the shoes I could see lying around in my bedroom (housekeeping? not so much). What I found was interesting (to me, anyway): 37.5 percent from bricks-and-mortar stores, 62.5 percent from online sellers. And of the online purchases, only 35 percent came from Zappos—a mere 22 percent of the total.<BR/><BR/>So, what's happening is that I probably <EM>do</EM> do roughly three-quarters of my shoe-shopping at Zappos, but then I return two-thirds of what I order from them. Whereas on the rare occasions when I try something on in the store, if I buy something, I keep it. And when I buy from other online vendors (<A HREF="http://www.danskooutlet.com/" REL="nofollow">DanskoOutlet.com</A>, I love you!), I'm both more circumspect and more likely to keep things that aren't perfect, because shipping both ways is expensive and making returns is a nuisance.<BR/><BR/>In any case, I've never bought shoes from eBay. Ooh, the horror! To me, eBay is like buying something at a tag sale: returns are out of the question, as the store isn't even going to still <EM>be</EM> there the next day. Have you ever successfully returned anything to an eBay seller?
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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">Jean C.</span>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 12:06:00 PM
So, the dress is really cute! O.k. miss sewer... what is wrong with this picture? If you want it... why not add the pockets you like? You could find fabric in at least one of the colors to match the dress or appliques... right? How badly do you really want it? LoL The shoes are great... I seem to remember having something similar years ago! Jean
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 12:21:00 PM
i do love zappos but i find that an occasional trip to DSW is required - sometimes i just *need* to buy a pair of shoes that i wasn't actually looking for. :)<BR/><BR/>i'm having the hardest time finding a casual, shorts-and-skirts-appropriate sandal for summer! i've been to two stores and zappos (where i did find some cute ones, but was not willing to drop the $85...) <BR/><BR/>anybody out there got a great link to a great pair of sandals under $60?
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 12:25:00 PM
I wear a women's 12 narrow, so basically, before the internet, I would have had to construct my own shoes out of duct tape and string. I do not think I've bought a pair of shoes from a brick-and-mortar since I left size 10 in the sixth grade, except for ordering running shoes through my local shop. I'm pretty sure <I>they</I> can only get my size off the internet, though. <BR/><BR/>(Even online the 12 narrow selection is so boring I could cry; one of my crafting goals is to make my own dress flats one day.)
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 12:34:00 PM
I wear a 6-1/2 wide  - but i have to try everythign on because soemtimes I have to wear a 7 or a 7-1/2. I don't want to hassle with returning things and goignto the post office.
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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">xstpenguin</span>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 12:51:00 PM
It's green, it's even in my size! and the idea of being hugged by a panda - love it.<BR/><BR/>However, it's mega short (by my standards) and I'm not a fan of sleeveless (on me) so, sadly, no.  But that appliqué is perfect!<BR/><BR/>My best packing tip... on the way to Germany friend no 1 packed (she's French living in Scotland, she knows packing) and on the way back to Scotland friend no 2 packed (she's German AND a lawyer, she knows Organised).  When I do it, not so much with the organised.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 12:58:00 PM
Smartbargins.com has been getting my shoe-buying money of late. I can highley recommend it.<BR/>Kris O
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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/05897963557767227247" rel="nofollow">bonnie-ann black</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 1:10:00 PM
a few years ago when i decided i was going to wear only two-tone golf shoes (sans cleats, of course) i started buying them on ebay and have never shopped in a store again.  until this past week, when i bought two pairs of sandals on sale at Easy Spirit.  however, it turns out the foot bed of the sandals causes an irritation and allergic reaction on the soles of my feet.  the sandals have been passed onto the less sensitive feet of my sister.  back to ebay.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 2:01:00 PM
Sigh.  I have size 6 feet, wide with high arches.  Three out of four pairs I slip on don't fit, so I have to buy shoes the old fashioned way or risk getting bored in the post office line to return it all.
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 2:29:00 PM
I can squeeze in an 8 wide but more likely am a 10. I buy all my dressy shoes and loafers at thrift stores, and tennies at the SportsLocker.<BR/><BR/>Just bought what I think is a fairly simple, sleeveless shirtwaist dress pattern to be my first project from scratch. Am going to fit it on my neighbor, as this is an exercise in familiarizing myself with sewing technique, and she'll like it. (Simplicity 8972 Top Stitch Dress and Sash if you want to see.) Interestingly, this is a 70's/80's pattern that actually isn't bad! I saw it at the pattern Rescue site for free, then it was gone, then I found it for sale somewhere else. I AM EXHAUSTED.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 2:34:00 PM
This is it, BTW...NOT the other vintage 8972 that's some dorky crocheted vest or something. (And how do you create a proper link here at Erin's site?)<BR/><BR/>http://www.autumnsgarden.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=150&category_id=106&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 2:51:00 PM
I just CANNOT buy shoes online. There is no way you can know if shoes are comfortable that way. I can buy them online if I've tried them on first IRL. <BR/><BR/>Dress is lovely though.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 3:14:00 PM
Love the big gal feet parade here! I'm an 11 also and shoe shopping online has opened up a great world of possibilities. <BR/>I do still love my local Off-Broadway shoe store. They are great and pretty inexpensive.
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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/13269184261724049476" rel="nofollow">Cookie</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 3:33:00 PM
We were all probably chosen for The Global Sewing Conspiracy because big feet can run fast, and do fancy kick boxing moves.
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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">mickey</span>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 3:59:00 PM
Am I allowed to promote a rebate site here? With all this online shopping, some of it can be cash back for you if you use Ebates. I know Zappos participates and I think I got cash back from Fabric.com.<BR/>If you sign up here we both get a $5 bonus:<BR/>http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=uSNhEYNrvP8S5QrUzF3LLg%3D%3D<BR/><BR/>And, Erin, if this is not cool I completely understand and did not mean to break any DAD rules on posting!
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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="sarahbmichael.com" rel="nofollow">Sarah Michael</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 4:09:00 PM
I don't know what I'd do without zappos. Finding a 10.5 with room for toes is hard, and finding one that looks good is harder.   Ebay has the occasional amazing exactly right shoe, too, and I am also willing to reslist or otherwise move any ebay mistakes along to their next owner.
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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://nuranar.livejournal.com/" rel="nofollow">nuranar</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 4:50:00 PM
I've bought all but one pair of vintage shoes online. I've got two pairs of <B>1940s mesh Naturalizers</B> - yum! For those I go by insole length and width to get the size right. For non-pointy-toe shoes with a heel no more than 2.5" high, 10.25" long is just about perfect.<BR/><BR/>In other respects, I'm a perfect size 9 so I have pretty good luck with modern shoes as well. I'd buy even more online if it weren't for the Naturalizer store 10 minutes from my house. Very dangerous, that place is.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 4:52:00 PM
I forgot to add that for modern shoes, Endless is the way to go. I've shopped on Zappos, but I always come back to Endless. Free OVERNIGHT shipping can't be beat.
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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="www.knackeredhack.com" rel="nofollow">Eirlys</a>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 5:02:00 PM
Nope, not bought shoes on eBay.  Not yet.  But hey, we're the same size, so if you get any mistakes, give me a sneak preview before you post them. <BR/><BR/>Like the sandals - was wearing something rather similar today.
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DATE:Jun 10, 2008 5:19:00 PM
I think it's been years since I've bought shoes anywhere but Zappos and eBay. I probably return more stuff to Zappos than they'd like, but it's not all bad for them. I figure, I end up trying stuff I wouldn't buy if I couldn't return them. Free return shipping rocks my world. <BR/><BR/>eBay is great for those brands that you're super familiar with and know that your size will be just as it always is. I buy most of my Birkenstocks via eBay.
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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">/anne...</span>
DATE:Jun 10, 2008 10:55:00 PM
Waaah!<BR/><BR/>I can't get free shipping here in Australia, and Zappos and Anthropologie (I LOVE their shoes!) won't sell to me, as I'm a Nasty Foreigner.<BR/><BR/>OTOH, I've got high arches, and I really have to try shoes on first, AND walk up and down for quite a while to see if they're OK. Even so, I have shoes in my wardrobe that mysteriously shrunk on the trip home, and never got worn :-(
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DATE:Jun 11, 2008 11:11:00 AM
Zappos and Endless have been working quite well for me. No eBay.
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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">La BellaDonna</span>
DATE:Jun 11, 2008 11:42:00 AM
<B>Cindy,</B> for my version of "sandals" with half-circle skirts and dresses, I usually wind up in Aerosole's "4-Give" sandals, or somebody's close version.  This is because the sandals are a combination of leather and elastic, so they're very ... 4-giving, and they also stay on my feet.  They also have a very small toe-cap, as opposed to being completely open, which means Fewer Blisters for me (very important!).  And they come in many colours - I have gold, silver, red, black, nude, and am planning on adding orange this year, and perhaps purple.  My other footwear of choice is flat boots or "skimmer" style shoes from Grasshopper; they look like ballet flats, but have padded insides like sneakers.  And because I have chisel-shaped feet, I put three pairs of grommets in the shoes, so I can lace them on and they won't fall off, making them even more balletic!  Sewing a ribbon strap or elastic on at the ankle would also work, especially since they're canvas shoes.  Comfy, casual, colourful, fun and attractive!<BR/><BR/>I love Zappos, but would be a little hesitant about Ebay because of the long feet.  I did buy a nice pair of poulaines online, though!
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DATE:Jun 11, 2008 3:37:00 PM
For sandal-wearing blister sufferers out there, I can highly recommend the specialist plasters (sorry, Anglo-English there, Band-Aids) available. Little miracles, really. Will change your summer shoe-wearing, I guarantee.
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DATE:Jun 11, 2008 9:50:00 PM
I have a closet full of ebay shoes.  You can't go wrong if they are a brand you are familiar with. I buy lots of shoes at Talbots and know they usually fit.  Also, open shoes like sandals are safe too.<BR/>Most sellers have a return policy. For the price, you should take a chance!
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DATE:Jun 12, 2008 10:15:00 AM
I LOVE vintage shoes - I cannot wear the new pointy ones at all, since my feet are not pointed...<BR/><BR/>Whatever happened to 'MaryJane's', anyway???
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DATE:Jun 13, 2008 7:17:00 PM
Now over half of my shoes are off of ebay or etsy. I love the look and quality of vintage heels and the price too. Why pay $20 for cheap shoes when you can pay $10-20 for shoes that have managed to last 20-40 years. Plus, if they don't fit right I just resell them.<BR/>I also have big feet (sz 10- 10 1/2) but I say I need big feet because otherwise at 5:10" I might fall over without them to prop me up. We wouldn't want that.
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TITLE: Quick! Check this out ...
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.lucitebox.com/item.php?table=Dresses&item_ID=29" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Lucite Box Vintage splatter-print dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/lucite_splatter.jpg" width="400" title="Did I hear a hubba-hubba?" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />You have GOT to go take a look at this splatter-print 50s dress that is up at Holly's new <a href="http://www.lucitebox.com/item.php?table=Dresses&item_ID=29">Lucite Box Vintage</a> site. For one thing, it's a hard-to-find size: B40-W32-H44. For another, it's cotton. In addition: it has pockets! (Plus it's only $75!) And the print ... I love that print.<br /><br />This would be a great dress to wear to a wedding (as a guest) -- throw a little cardigan over it, and you're set to go to anything from a noon wedding outdoors (add big white sunglasses) to something cocktail-y (add rhinestone jewelry or serious shoes). <br /><br />I love these sheath-y dresses with the interesting necklines; they're sexy without being OVERTLY so. This dress shows no cleavage, eschews transparency, and isn't split up to THERE, but it's still sexy ... without needing thong underwear. When did we start thinking that a mere cumulative total of exposed skin was enough? It isn't. <br /><br />But don't stay here listening to my grousing -- anyway, I've got to go yell at some kid to get offa my lawn -- go take a look and decide for yourself ...<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/sexbomb.html">sexbomb</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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="www.knackeredhack.com" rel="nofollow">Eirlys</a>
DATE:May 28, 2008 8:18:00 AM
Two great necklines in a row, Erin.  Is there a name for these unusual shapes, anyone know?  Agree with you that less is more in the exposed flesh stakes, most especially once one is over a certain age (moi).
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DATE:May 28, 2008 8:31:00 AM
Mmmm. Delectable!
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DATE:May 28, 2008 8:37:00 AM
Yes, it is lovely - and I thought those cool little pleats at the back were the best part of the dress.<BR/>pb
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DATE:May 28, 2008 8:45:00 AM
Love it!  That color is gorgeous.
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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/12671379391189827831" rel="nofollow">lorrwill</a>
DATE:May 28, 2008 9:56:00 AM
oh noes! <BR/><BR/>You revealed one of the big secrets of the Vintage Sewing Conspiracy! That we are drawn to certain vintage styles because they are sexy and alluring without being at all tawdry or trashy.<BR/><BR/>:-)<BR/><BR/>Dixie S. Hoyt<BR/>Conspirator, FRA
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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">DaisyLynn</span>
DATE:May 28, 2008 9:58:00 AM
Hi, I am a religious reader of your blog... check at least once a day, hoping you'll add something new when I wasn't looking. :-)<BR/><BR/>I wanted to ask a questiona nd thought you wonderful ladies out there might be able to help. Has anyone sewn the walkaway dress before?<BR/><BR/>I'm trying to draft my own copy of it and can't figure out whether the front part is fastened in any way... is it hooked in the back, or to the sides of the back, or just allowed to flap around underneath...???<BR/><BR/>Intriguing problem, as I've only seen the cover design and back sketches of the pieces. I'd be grateful for ANY help!<BR/>Thanks!<BR/><BR/>DaisyLynn
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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:May 28, 2008 10:09:00 AM
DaisyLynn: if you goal is to draft the pattern for the "walkaway" dress as a project, then why not make it any way that you wish?  <BR/><BR/>If you goal is to sew the dress, why not just buy a copy of the reprinted pattern?  I believe it can be had very cheaply on sale at JoAnne Fabrics.
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DATE:May 28, 2008 10:09:00 AM
DaisyLynn: if you goal is to draft the pattern for the "walkaway" dress as a project, then why not make it any way that you wish?  <BR/><BR/>If you goal is to sew the dress, why not just buy a copy of the reprinted pattern?  I believe it can be had very cheaply on sale at JoAnne Fabrics.
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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/06736176758196612844" rel="nofollow">Erin</a>
DATE:May 28, 2008 10:15:00 AM
DaisyLynn: have you looked on Pattern Review for reviews of the pattern?
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DATE:May 28, 2008 10:32:00 AM
I would wear that blue kick-pleated dream of a dress everyday, if it was in my size. Thanks, Erin, for the inspiration. Off I go to find a pattern that somewhat resembles said dress. Has anyone here seen a pattern that looks like this beauty?<BR/><BR/>Bootsie Arete<BR/>Fellow Conspirator
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DATE:May 28, 2008 10:49:00 AM
Thanks Erin!  I love the dress,  and it just so happens that I am going to a wedding in Napa, Ca. in July at a winery.  I know, poor me.  It will be blazing hot, and this dress is so perfect that I reserved it and when my check clears, it's mine, all mine.  Yea!  From Karen S.
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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">Teresa</span>
DATE:May 28, 2008 11:22:00 AM
AHHHH!!  Someone beat me to it!  Ah well...it wasn't my size and I'm not actually a fan of wearing dresses although I might be convinced for the Septebmer Wear a Dress Day, just maybe.<BR/><BR/>I have a wedding to go to in North Carolina in August!  Heat & humidity here we come.  I'm looking for a cool, comfortable pants/top pattern (yeah, I said pants!) that will carry me through.  This blog has convinced me that I can make what I want as I certainly can't buy anything that fits well, will wear well, and is within my budget (much lower after paying for the airline flight!)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the inspiration.<BR/><BR/>Teresa
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DATE:May 28, 2008 1:18:00 PM
I'm with daisylynn. There are a million reasons to want to draft your own version of something.<BR/><BR/>From the diagram on the butterick website it looks like the back buttons the same way as the front. <BR/><BR/>Remember you can always unfold the instructions in the store to see how something is made. In fact, it's an excellent way to further your education (so is deconstructing well-made thrift shop clothes). <BR/><BR/>Good luck with your draft!
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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/11920922154575116718" rel="nofollow">Kathleen</a>
DATE:May 28, 2008 1:28:00 PM
DaisyLynn:  See Rachael's blog about the Walkaway dress pattern (http://feeds.feedburner.com/MammaMade)<BR/>With the Great info she gives there, you may be able to draft your pattern without some of the issues.  I have a  problem with the back part of the dress pulling the front part waaay up - and am working on some solutions, but haven't a lot of time to spend at the moment. Good luck!  <BR/>Thanks ladies for all your inspiration!<BR/>Kathleen S  aka Flagon Donaldson
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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:May 28, 2008 2:02:00 PM
I love those sheath-y dresses too.  <BR/>I have a >waist< <BR/>and   <   HIPS   > <BR/>and this shape dress makes all that seem okay, and even intentional and sexy.  Without being obnoxious.<BR/>-Shaun
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DATE:May 28, 2008 2:48:00 PM
The front of the walkaway dress buttons in back, with a button loop made of an extension of the bias that trims everything.  Yeah, it's way back heavy, a full circle skirt just in back.  I've altered my pattern to make the back a half circle (I just DON"T need so much fabric dragging me down), but I haven't made it up yet.  <BR/>-Sandra
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DATE:May 28, 2008 3:48:00 PM
De-lurking to say:<BR/><BR/>Great point on being sexy does not equate revealing skin! Continue to grouse...:)<BR/><BR/>~Anna
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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.noile.net" rel="nofollow">Noile</a>
DATE:May 28, 2008 6:32:00 PM
I made the walkaway dress and used flat hooks to close the back, and buttons to close the front.  To keep the under-sheath from riding up, I sewed the buttons to the front of the under-layer, and button the skirt onto it.<BR/><BR/>Here it is on my blog:  <A HREF="http://www.noile.net/?p=157" REL="nofollow">Butterick 4790</A>, if you want more details.
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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/02395228631699632403" rel="nofollow">Maggie</a>
DATE:May 28, 2008 7:59:00 PM
I read somewhere that any dress is sexy because it's the only article of clothing we don't share with the boys! True, I guess. It's a feminine icon and Erin, you do it proud!<BR/>Marguerite
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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:May 28, 2008 8:14:00 PM
I've often thought that the WalkAway dress would benefit from a waist stay in the full-skirted wrap-from-back-to-front part of the dress. That would allow the full skirt to be supported from the waist and not pull the bodice out of shape -- in theory, at any rate. I haven't made this dress yet. How to make a waist stay: http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_clothing/article/0,,DIY_13751_2316162,00.html<BR/><BR/>I suspect our 1950s sisters sewed this dress with very little ease at the waist so that the fit at the waist was quite snug. These were women who wore girdles or waist cinchers nearly everyday.<BR/><BR/>CMC
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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/00610574815597108033" rel="nofollow">Kelly</a>
DATE:May 28, 2008 9:51:00 PM
Everything is perfect with this dress. I wish that I had one in my size for every day of the week. Thanks for sharing. :)  <BR/><BR/>Oh Sandra, I would love to know how you made your walkaway dress pattern with a half circle skirt. I believe that when I tried I was actually trying to make it more complicated then it actually had to be.. :)  <BR/><BR/>k
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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">Jean C.</span>
DATE:May 28, 2008 10:24:00 PM
So cute! Yep, the pleats in the back make it one of those... I don't have to be that careful if I cross my legs... they aren't going to break off cause it's soo tight! This gives some breathing room... for the legs! The neck reminds me of the green dress you just made! Cute!
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DATE:May 29, 2008 2:30:00 AM
Thanks to everybody who helped with comments!<BR/><BR/>I can't just buy the pattern because I live in Austria... We don't get such cool repro vintage stuff here.<BR/>But I now have quite a few ideas how to go on, and your comments have given me the heads-up on a few potential problems! I liked the buttons on the front idea, I might use that. <BR/><BR/>Thanks again!<BR/><BR/>DaisyLynn
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DATE:May 29, 2008 7:31:00 AM
Your insidious indoctrination is working - you have me looking out for vintage dresses in local charity shops now! Not that I would really see me wearing them. I found a beauty in Crimplene, of all things, yesterday, and one more in Irish linen. No elegant find like that one though!
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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/17089005785568027219" rel="nofollow">Dr. Julie-Ann the Fairy Godmother Coach</a>
DATE:May 29, 2008 10:44:00 AM
I LOVE this dress!  It is a perfect example of why I prefer vintage to modern--it is so feminine, it is sexy without needing a thong (that part cracked me up), it is practical, it is timeless.  <BR/><BR/>*sigh*  Thank you for featuring this dress.<BR/><BR/>(And congrats, Karen S. for being the one to snag it)<BR/><BR/>Julie
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DATE:May 30, 2008 7:19:00 AM
Daisylynn, you can order it off the Butterick Pattern Site.
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TITLE: A concrete reason to buy an abstract dress
DATE: 7:38 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://shrimptoncouture.com" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="red abstract plaid" src="http://www.dressaday.com/redabstractplaid2.jpg"  title="I am not afraid of ketchup." hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Cherie at <a href="http://shrimptoncouture.com">Shrimpton Couture</a> sent me a link this weekend to a different dress (a wonderful red and white seersucker with some great piecing ... but which is already on layaway, and I figured, hey, who needs to be taunted more on a Monday than Monday already taunts people), but, in checking out THAT dress, this one caught my eye. <br /><br />I love abstract plaids for so many reasons. First of all, plaid is cheerful. I think "cheerfulness" should be a strongly motivating force behind all clothing decisions. Also, abstract, free-form plaids don't need to be matched as carefully as "real" plaids. And the last, and probably most important reason, is that if I were to spill something (preferably something in the red-orange family of foods and/or beverages) plaids like the one on this dress wouldn't show it! That's a big plus for plaid, I think.<br /><br />This dress is a nice coated cotton, with ORIGINAL BELT, lined (!) and it's $125 at <a href="http://shrimptoncouture.com">Shrimpton Couture</a>. (measurements 36-28-38)<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/plaid.html">plaid</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/12653868813242090154" rel="nofollow">mad-for-plaid</a>
DATE:Mar 3, 2008 8:40:00 AM
Hi!<BR/>Plaid is my favorite color!  I prefer the even plaids and plaids without white in them.  I'm a dress lover but I'm hard to fit so I'm always, always, searching for a great pattern.  I'm certainly not Twiggy (a busty petite!) but the mod styles from the 60's 70's are my thing, believe it or not.  I'm always loving the sweet look of your fun prints,full skirts, pockets and belts, though.  Thanks Erin!
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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/06913468668645542284" rel="nofollow">the_lazymilliner</a>
DATE:Mar 3, 2008 8:42:00 AM
I like plaid too. In fact when I sew with it, I try not to drive myself crazy matching all those lines. Life's too short for that kind of craziness.
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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">Toby Wollin</span>
DATE:Mar 3, 2008 8:57:00 AM
I'll include gingham in the mix as well for a measure of "cheerfulness". When I got married in the 70s, my husband and his best man wore red gingham shirts with their blue suits. My dress was made of white eyelet that had red gingham ribbons woven into the fabric at intervals. And yes, I wore flowers in my hair. But cheerfulness is a definite plus with clothing. Elegance is great, but sometimes(especially on Mondays) you need a big dose of cheer.
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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/16569580986314165225" rel="nofollow">PhantomMinuet</a>
DATE:Mar 3, 2008 9:17:00 AM
That is a very cute dress, and I also learned something.  I didn't know this pattern was called an abstract plaid.<BR/><BR/>And being of Scottish extraction (way back when), I love me some plaid.  :-)
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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/03881982139372582792" rel="nofollow">Nora</a>
DATE:Mar 3, 2008 9:45:00 AM
Yeah you could totally wear spaghetti with impunity in this dress.  And you'd be black and white and red all over, like the news!<BR/><BR/>I love plaid too and agree it's hard to find plaid without too much white in them; in fact it seems hard to find plaid fabric in general, especially that isn't flannel.  And abstract plaids, those seem extra rare.  That's why I'm going to be making a lot of cheerful out of polka dots this spring; but I appreciate how plaids are a little more serious than dots, while remaining cheerful.  Something about the linearness.
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DATE:Mar 3, 2008 9:54:00 AM
That fabric design is also very slimming...which is also a good thing for most of us.
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DATE:Mar 3, 2008 10:12:00 AM
That is one of the most gorgeous dresses I've seen in a long time. <BR/><BR/>I'm so glad I found this blog. I don't wear pants - only dresses/skirts - so I'm chuffed to be here. <BR/><BR/>Great dress. Must. Have. Now.
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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/16527241089629026268" rel="nofollow">Shay</a>
DATE:Mar 3, 2008 4:12:00 PM
Plus it is on the bias.  Anything in a red or pink plaid that is on the bias should be purchased just on principle.
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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/11861919146758680118" rel="nofollow">AmeliaB</a>
DATE:Mar 4, 2008 2:15:00 PM
Very pretty dress!  I love plaid two (well most plaids not olive green/orange ones). :)<BR/><BR/>Amelia
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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/04987784369262215571" rel="nofollow">Shrimpton Couture</a>
DATE:Mar 5, 2008 7:43:00 AM
Thanks for showing my dress Erin! I wish the pictures could pick up on the great pleats on the skirting! They are beautiful flat, perfectly matched knife pleats!<BR/>xoxoCherie
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TITLE: "This gives the gown a whimsical quality."
DATE: 8:31 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.kittygirlvintage.com/page17.htm" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Kitty Girl Vintage Belt dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/ShieffSatin.jpg" width="400" title="I could use a good belt of something right now." hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />There's a ton of nice stuff up at <a href="http://www.kittygirlvintage.com">Kitty Girl Vintage</a> right now but this one (as you might expect) caught my eye. That enormous belt -- how perfectly surreal!<br /><br />It's described as a "small/tall  36" 26" free hips (17" shoulder to waist, 39" waist to hem)" and is $366; a bit pricey, yes, but I think it's worth it.<br /><br />This dress is the perfect bridge between the too-safe Little Black Dress and full-on sartorial eccentricity; training wheels for speeding away from boring eveningwear, if you will. <br /><br />If money were no object (and in my dress fantasies, it never is), I'd get a rhinestone necklace made up just to go with this dress, one where the clasp was also an giant buckle, meant to be worn at about the 4 o'clock position on the neck.<br /><br />Sadly, it's fairly apparent from the photo that the huge buckle is not also a capacious (and very hard to reach) pocket. That would just be too perfect ... <br /><br />[Click on the image to visit the listing page.]<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/1950s.html">1950s</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/belts.html">belts</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/satin.html">satin</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/14381389578551133960" rel="nofollow">Leigh</a>
DATE:Feb 1, 2008 9:10:00 AM
I don't know, it looks like it could be a pocket to me - the top of the buckle is gaping like it's open, and I don't see a gap at the bottom.<BR/><BR/>I don't like the real belt with it - that's just not committing to the idea :) Off with the belt at the waistline!
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 9:13:00 AM
What a fabulous scroll-down!<BR/><BR/>I opened the page to see only the top of the dress. Touch of whimsy you say?... Colourful geometic splodges, maybe? Dangly fluffy pompons perhaps?... Scroll down to reveal...<BR/><BR/>Nope, never saw that one coming!... how beautifully surreal indeed...
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 9:39:00 AM
wow, I love that dress!  That pocket's such a great unexpected touch
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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/06425688196255789403" rel="nofollow">Tea</a>
DATE:Feb 1, 2008 9:46:00 AM
I thought perhaps the dress was trying to mimic a witch's hat. A very fancy witch's hat. I would definitely wear this on Halloween. Maybe make my shoes be the eyes. Maybe wear a hairy crinoline.
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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">E-Girl</span>
DATE:Feb 1, 2008 10:08:00 AM
It looks like a pocket to me.  Did you ask the seller?
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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:Feb 1, 2008 11:50:00 AM
What do you mean "belt", I don't...oh, my god!  That's pretty awesome.  I agree with Leigh, the belt at the waist has to go, and I think that's a pocket.
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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/10349614576439565049" rel="nofollow">Nancy</a>
DATE:Feb 1, 2008 11:56:00 AM
Oh how fun! I agree about the jewelry. Something massive and encrusted with sparkly jewels would be fantastic! Very Elizabeth Taylor.<BR/><BR/>On another note, I just discovered the image rollover text. It didn't show up on my old computer. It makes your site even better!
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 12:06:00 PM
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 12:06:00 PM
Until I read your description, I honestly thought it was a pot bellied stove... :blush:
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 12:07:00 PM
My first reaction when I saw it (without reading the text) was "why have they put a giant safe on a dress?"  Then read, looked again and went, "giant belt? where? that belt at the waist looks normal to me? Oh!!".  So they should definitely get rid of the small belt, ruins the joke, really.  Or I could be particularly dense today.  You choose!
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 1:28:00 PM
Love it! I think it's a pocket too
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 2:09:00 PM
I've been watching way too much CSI and Crossing Jordan, because it looks like one of those body drawer door thingees in the morgue to me.
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DATE:Feb 1, 2008 7:23:00 PM
Oh, I love a quirky dress! that's definitely a pocket - fabulous!
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DATE:Feb 2, 2008 10:50:00 AM
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DATE:Feb 2, 2008 10:17:00 PM
My first impression of this dress was that it was intended to look like an antique cast-iron wood stove and the rhinestone bit was the oven door handle.
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DATE:Feb 3, 2008 1:34:00 AM
I thought it looked like a safe!
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DATE:Feb 3, 2008 9:56:00 AM
My vote is for pocket, as well.  A pocket to hold a hammer and a power drill!
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DATE:Feb 3, 2008 11:57:00 AM
I'm pretty sure I've seen a rhinestone necklace out there, done up like the "belt" you describe, so I bet you can find one, or one of your devoted readers can.
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DATE:Feb 4, 2008 10:49:00 AM
Not sure about the bigger belt around the skirt, the smaller one at the waist is adorable. The whole thing reminds me of the "Scarlett O'Hara, but..." dress that Kit and Ricky made on Project Runway that got her eliminated. Its almost there, but in the end, kind of strange, and ultimately boring.
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TITLE: Isn't It Madness?
DATE: 7:33 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.shrimptoncouture.com/default4.asp" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="chessboard sequined dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/chess_sequin_dress.jpg"  hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />This may come as a shock to some of you, but I'm not a big person for musicals -- for theater in general, actually. I enjoy it when I am put in the way of seeing any, but my first impulse when seeking entertainment is to reach for a book, and my second is to reach for a long, arc-y, plotty TV show (like <a href="http://www.hbo.com/thewire/">The Wire</a> -- the hotness of <a href="http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/actors/dominic_west.shtml">Dominic West</a> will go a long way towards warming up January here in Chicago), and my third is to watch <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/medium.html">national icons blow up in spectacular and original ways</a> while eating popcorn. So: not so much with the musicals. <br /><br />But now I think that it would be hilarious to wear something like this to an opening night for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)">Chess</a>, wouldn't it? Sure, I'd be flamboyantly overdressed, but I would have made an <i>effort</i>. <br /><br />A $650, lose-ten-pounds-first kind of effort, but it would probably be worth it. <br /><br />If it's worth it to you, this is up at <a href="http://www.shrimptoncouture.com">Shrimpton Couture</a>. I'm not sure exactly how to navigate to it, sadly. The site doesn't have individual linkable pages for each dress. But you probably won't mind browsing around, as there's a lot of other eye candy there, too, and the pictures are good!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/musicals.html">musicals</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/stunt_dresses.html">stunt_dresses</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/00170387142104252294" rel="nofollow">Barbara Prime</a>
DATE:Oct 22, 2007 9:24:00 AM
No kidding there's lots of eye candy on that site! I went for a quick look, and ended up admiring every dress they have on there. I have a lovely 1950's dress myself, and there's something really special about wearing an original. Although, it would be fun to sew them too, as you do.
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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:Oct 22, 2007 10:12:00 AM
(Please forgive me.)<BR/><BR/>Nope, it's Sparta.
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DATE:Oct 22, 2007 11:14:00 AM
Someone should tell the folks at Shrimpton Couture that "cheongsam" does not equal "geisha."<BR/><BR/>I love the idea of a leopard print cheongsam (in fact I might have to make one, now), but it is not, absolutely not, not even in the slightest bit..."geisha."
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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/17913488955830757520" rel="nofollow">Dat One Splatted Mag</a>
DATE:Oct 22, 2007 11:27:00 AM
I repeat from your earlier post on Mccalls 7163: I got here too late to buy the dress, and I can't find it elsewhere! Help! Where else can I shop for patterns such as these??<BR/><BR/>I like that Chess Dress, by the way. I'd play chess way more often if i could wear that.
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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/06736176758196612844" rel="nofollow">Erin</a>
DATE:Oct 22, 2007 1:15:00 PM
Dear Dat: I'd try eBay ... set up a saved search!
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DATE:Oct 22, 2007 1:35:00 PM
Depending on what type of theatre was holding the opening night, you wouldn't be overdressed at all.
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DATE:Oct 22, 2007 1:36:00 PM
I love their "Socialite" red squirrel bomber jacket!
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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">Scarlettb</span>
DATE:Oct 22, 2007 1:40:00 PM
...and that's why I'm a costumer.  I can't wear that dress, but I could sure as hell make one of my actresses wear it.  It's actually very much like the hilarious beaded peacock tunic dress I put one of my characters in for Titanic (which opened this weekend, and which has been a total nightmare for repairs and alterations)
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DATE:Oct 22, 2007 10:51:00 PM
Okay, Erin - you now have TWO secret lives to write!
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DATE:Oct 22, 2007 11:20:00 PM
I first read that sentence as "national icons who, while eating popcorn, blow up in spectacular and original ways" and I was muy confused.  I was picturing, I dunno, Angelina Jolie going on a 4000-calories-of popcorn/day diet or something.  (It took me a bit to figure out what the trailer had to do with anything, too.)
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DATE:Oct 24, 2007 11:27:00 AM
I like how you said "Sure, I'd be flamboyantly overdressed, but I would have made an effort." I went to a preview reception of an exhibit at an art museum yesterday and in a rush, I just threw on black silk pants and top...knowing I'd look "right", if a bit boring. And I did. But when I saw the one or two women who'd made the effort and put on gorgeous (vintage) dresses I was filled with self-reproach. A dress always looks right, too ,and much less boring. When, when, when will I learn?!?
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.mainstreetvintage.com/listingview.php?num=5143&ref=21" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Damn Good Chevron Dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/crazy_chevron.jpg" width="400"  hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Julie at <a href="http://www.mainstreetvintage.com/listingview.php?num=5143&ref=21">Damn Good Vintage</a> sent me this dress that's up for sale in her shop right now. And all I can say is I wish I knew the woman who put this together. I mean, sure, there's an even chance she was a raving loon (okay, better than an even chance) but I bet she was FUN. I bet she ate ice cream without moaning about how fat she was, and I bet she didn't mind running so as not to be late for the movie previews (the best part) and I bet she could imitate the mannerisms of your worst ex-boyfriend in such a way that you howled with laughter and forgot all about how badly he broke your heart. You know, the female equivalent of a mensch. And I bet, if you asked her, she would have let you borrow this dress, even though it was her favorite and even though she knows you tend to gesture with your french fries and spill ketchup everywhere. <br /><br />It's B38, W30, $110 and completely inexplicable. There's a supernumerary bow on the shoulder. The sleeves have ties. Those buttons -- they HOLD THE SKIRT ON. I don't understand, but then, do I really need to?<br /><br />If you buy this and actually wear it, drop me an email. We can go to the movies. I'll wear my <a href="http://www.dressaday.com/2007/04/does-this-make-me-look-crazy.html">crazy skirt</a>, and bring the Raisinets.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/crazy.html">crazy</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 11:13:00 AM
You can bet this garment has an interesting story! Wonder if there were shorts to be worn underneath the skirt? There were patterns of that era that were skirt/short sets. <BR/><BR/>Marie from Texas
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 11:14:00 AM
Okay - and check out the clown skirt:<BR/><BR/>http://www.mainstreetvintage.com/listingview.php?num=5196&ref=21
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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">kim p.</span>
DATE:Oct 17, 2007 11:25:00 AM
What (bizarre) fun!  My mind is racing with the possibilities:<BR/><BR/>--Drum majorette?  Hard to lose track of her on the field, plus she could use those buttons to hang all manner of props (whistles, batons, gloves, who knows)<BR/><BR/>--Hostess with the most-est?  Maybe there is a collection of matching aprons that attach to those buttons.  Also good for hanging feather duster for last-minute touch-ups before the guests arrive!
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 11:35:00 AM
I hate this dress and love this post. Thanks for entertaining me (almost) every day. :)
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 11:49:00 AM
My mind, it is full of bogglement!
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 11:54:00 AM
I used to have a friend who was in a wheelchair from MS and sometimes she would turn up in very bright outfits. Most people would say "you must be feeling cheerful to wear that"..<BR/>"No", she would answer, "I'm wearing this to make me cheerful" <BR/><BR/>She was great fun and typing this I miss her even though she died a good 20 years ago.
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 12:12:00 PM
Thanks Erin, it is a crazy mad dress.<BR/>I would love to see the pattern for it and she really did a great job of matching the stripes.
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 12:19:00 PM
The buttons? Why? Why?
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 12:22:00 PM
It looks like the dress of a woman who was afraid of gathering.  "hey, buttons can hold it on and then I won't have to sew the skirt to the bodice!"  <BR/><BR/>But yes, she would also have been very fun at a slumber party. Especially wearing that dress.
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 12:47:00 PM
I must be the only one who actually like this dress. Not in an "I'd wear this all the time" sort of way, but a dress like could make me happy just hanging in my closet. That's where it would probably stay for all eternity because my personality is not quite colorful enough to carry such a dress off. I wish it was though. Because that is a DRESS!
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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/17152874147507606801" rel="nofollow">Carol@Dandelion Vintage</a>
DATE:Oct 17, 2007 1:04:00 PM
I think the dress is great, the stripes, the bold colors, the little details. All make for a stand-out style, in a very good way. And I bet the hip treatment and the buttons looks great on  hips that fill it out a little more.
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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:Oct 17, 2007 1:38:00 PM
I love the dress and I would wear it, if it was my size!<BR/><BR/>I would also love to buy the clown skirt so I could wear it to Thanksgiving dinner just to annoy my brother.  He hates clowns (and is afraid of them), but he can be a real pain in my derierre.<BR/><BR/>Linda
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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/15131228968579714876" rel="nofollow">Jill B</a>
DATE:Oct 17, 2007 1:52:00 PM
Wow, that seems like the kind of dress you make for the challenge of it - you can put it together and stand back and say, "THAT was an accomplishment," and you don't worry about what it might actually look like in a fashion-sense kind of way.
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 2:04:00 PM
This? Is the best thing ever. And I was laughing so hard at your post I nearly peed in my pants!  LOVE IT!
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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">saidee</span>
DATE:Oct 17, 2007 2:05:00 PM
I had to laugh at Amy B's comment about fear of gathering: I will go to almost any lengths to avoid making buttonholes! I just hate doing them and even the ones that are  automatic-guaranteed-to-be-exactly-the-same on my Bernina fail me sometimes. <BR/><BR/>This dress is made from taffeta! Holy moly: matching stripes with that slippery stuff had to be a challenge! I would have loved anything made with that gorgeous fabric, but this dress is over the top!
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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:Oct 17, 2007 2:13:00 PM
I think I may have seen a pattern for this dress on one of the vintage sewing pattern sites. It's also possible that merely viewing this incredible dress has induced hallucinations that I saw a vintage sewing pattern for a dress like this. The buttons on the hips are a rather unique feature.<BR/><BR/>Regardless, I'm now inspired to sew some kind of Completely Over The Top dress for the holidays which may or may not involve buttons.<BR/><BR/>CMC
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 3:51:00 PM
It's a dress, No! it's a swimming suit with a skirt you can button on. <BR/>Thanks for a great post Erin!
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 4:11:00 PM
It's fun, it's funky, I most certainly dig!<BR/><BR/>I'm a fan of your blog! Perhaps you'll be a fan of Punky Penny. Get ready for all the details on LA Fashion Week - showing soon at <A HREF="http://www.punkypenny.com" REL="nofollow">www.punkypenny.com</A>. Ciao, sweets!
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 8:10:00 PM
I would be so happy if I saw you in your crazy skirt and someone in that dress, goin' to the movies.  <BR/><BR/>What is the female equivalent of a mensch, anyway?  Cause that's a word I need.
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 8:34:00 PM
That's neat, what you said, Esther.<BR/><BR/>And chanief — if you really like it, maybe you really ARE colourful enough for it …<BR/><BR/>Thanks again, Erin! Too fun.
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DATE:Oct 17, 2007 9:15:00 PM
That dress is awesome. :)<BR/><BR/>it's too big for me. :<<BR/><BR/>I suffers the wanty.<BR/><BR/>-d
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DATE:Oct 18, 2007 1:11:00 AM
Thanks for the laugh, I could actually see you character and almost felt like I knew her...:)
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DATE:Oct 18, 2007 2:05:00 AM
What a wonderful dress! (and what a wonderful text, thank you!). Love the colours and the quirkiness - I'd wear it, and it would make me happy just to own it.Heck, I'd sew it if I got along with my sewing machine (we hate each other)!<BR/>Maybe she had solid-colour tops (in the colours of the stripes) she could button the skirt on if she felt like wearing something different? Or solid-colour skirts to button onto the stripey top? Actually, I think that's a great idea and would make a wonderful travelling outfit where everything fits together!
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DATE:Oct 18, 2007 6:08:00 AM
It looks like the skirt has been buttoned on backwards.  That pleat in the front looks like a kick pleat.  Hmmm, wonder what the other side looks like.
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DATE:Oct 18, 2007 6:55:00 AM
Love it. I'd wear in a heartbeat. Love your ramblings my dear~panda<BR/><BR/>andapanda-rlf
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DATE:Oct 18, 2007 6:58:00 AM
Your "crazy skirt" looks just fine to me. And that's all I'm saying. :)
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DATE:Oct 18, 2007 8:34:00 AM
I LOVE that dress.  Is it one of those convertible ones with a shorter, pencil-type skirt underneath?  Personally, I hate buttonholes way more than attaching skirts, so I'd have to be on a real tear to do such a thing, but it cracks me up.
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DATE:Oct 18, 2007 11:09:00 AM
the best part is you could wear the top separately, i suppose! but then you'd have to wash it more often and the colors wouldn't match. <BR/><BR/>I'd be ALL OVER THIS if it weren't taffeta. i look terrible in shiny fabrics.
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DATE:Oct 21, 2007 4:18:00 AM
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DATE:Oct 28, 2007 11:16:00 AM
The dress is hideous. <BR/><BR/>I don't think "mensch" is gender specific. So, the woman who wore this dress can just be a mensch without gender specification. If someone else picked this dress out for her and she wore it anyway, she was definitely a mensch.
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DATE:Aug 19, 2009 11:33:00 PM
I just saw a pattern for this dress on ebay days ago!  Maybe last week.  Okay, it might have been a little different, but I don&#39;t have it saved to check.  If I remember correctly it was from the &#39;20s and was a clown costume pattern.  I don&#39;t *think* I am merging two sightings anyway.<br /><br />I know this comment is years late, but what can I say!  I am working through the archives still :)
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ALL-BUTTONED-UP-Smart-Vintage-50s-NEIMAN-MARCUS-Dress_W0QQitemZ130152346653QQihZ003QQcategoryZ48868QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Neiman Marcus dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/neimanmarcusgal.jpg"  width="400" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Seriously. Holly at LuciteBox Vintage has had this up as a <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ALL-BUTTONED-UP-Smart-Vintage-50s-NEIMAN-MARCUS-Dress_W0QQitemZ130152346653QQihZ003QQcategoryZ48868QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem">Buy-It-Now on eBay</a> for like, a week now and it's STILL THERE. I was looking at my list of to-be-blogged topics and thought "There's no way that dress is still up," but when I went to check, it was. Sheesh! What is up? Is everyone still getting back from Labor Day vacation? Are you still trying to get that last week of wear out of your summer sandals? Does everyone have the horrific head cold I came down with? <br /><br />I mean, check out the back:<br /><br /><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ALL-BUTTONED-UP-Smart-Vintage-50s-NEIMAN-MARCUS-Dress_W0QQitemZ130152346653QQihZ003QQcategoryZ48868QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Neiman Marcus dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/neimanmarcusblt.jpg"  width="400" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />That alone should have made you hit that handy "Buy It Now" button. <br /><br />Anyway, it's navy, B36/W26, and just plain gorgeous, and pretty affordable at $74. <br /><br />Everyone should have a very structured dark dress for the days where you Mean Business. This is a brook-no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners dress. I have one that is black crepe and insanely severe; but it can go from lady-scientist to hardcore-vamp with a change of shoes and a slash of red lipstick. This is one of those dresses, and believe me, once you have a dress like this you feel a renewed sense of confidence. It's like having a $100 bill in your pocket, an unmetered parking space, a new pair of kickass shoes, and a fantastic idea, all at once. Even when you're not wearing it. Just having it in your closet, ready to pull out in case of emergency, is enough. <br /><br />So why is this one still available? I don't know. I am going to have to fall back on my traditional there's-no-good-explanation explanation: sunspots.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/ebay.html">ebay</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/neiman_marcus.html">neiman_marcus</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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://mypage.iu.edu/~rlspang/" rel="nofollow">Rebecca Spang</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 9:39:00 AM
The dress IS gorgeous, and there MAY be sunspot activity, but there could be other explanations. Such as: it's navy, which can be tricky to match. It should fit me in the waist but I might have to take in the bust--and that would be difficult, given how structured it is. And, finally, buying vintage on-line strikes me as an inherently risky venture.  For all the glories of a well-wielded tape measure, it's still important to TRY IT ON.
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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:Sep 18, 2007 9:42:00 AM
Aaaaack! The neck is choking me! Give me a pair of scissors now! Phew. Relief. I feel better now. Oops. I ruined a vintage dress. Now I have a real story to tell when I sell in on eBay, just like that mom who sold an ordinary baseball for a gazillion dollars.
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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/09599043861484871206" rel="nofollow">Ladygrande</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:04:00 AM
Well, darn! I was that size in 1964. Not now! If I was, that dress would be mine. Can't talk my girls into it either - they like casual. Don't forget - it needs a little hat!<BR/><BR/>Marie
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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/00985099019783464580" rel="nofollow">WendyB</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:04:00 AM
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:06:00 AM
For me, too many dark stars aligned:  the navy star, the 26-inch-waist star, and the choking-collar star.  And, for some reason, it makes me think this is exactly what a severe schoolmarm at David Copperfield's school would have worn!  Sorry!
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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/13146226457767703585" rel="nofollow">ita</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:14:00 AM
*Maybe* we're thinking that we have a closet full of unworn dresses this blog has *forced* us to buy, and are trying to behave.
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:26:00 AM
I guess you can take the girl out of the library, but not the library out of the girl, because I love it.  I love the structured top and all the leg room underneath (so you can really kick ass in it).<BR/><BR/>Sadly it's a mite (and by mite, I mean 3-4") too small for me.  Too bad, because I've got several pairs of shoes I could wear with such a dress now (red slides, wine patent pumps, and brown curved-heel boots...)  And how great would it look with these tights I'm coveting:<BR/>http://www.sock-dreams.com/_shop/pages/socks_detail_ProductID_352.php
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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">Sarah</span>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:31:00 AM
When I first saw it--I thought,"School marm", too!! Eesh...much too severe, too tiny waisted, choking neckline. But I'm sure there is a one-of-a-kind gal who can fill this dress and knock off a great look...somewhere out there.
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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:Sep 18, 2007 10:42:00 AM
I would have a hard time getting into it.  I would need emergency lipsuction to remove, well, half of my bust, 6 inches from my waist, the hips would work (I am smaller on bottom than on top), and I have lots of shoes I could wear, and I never adverse to an excuse to buy another pair...*grins*<BR/><BR/>Linda
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:54:00 AM
I adore this dress, EXCEPT the collar.  I've been toying with buying it myself, but then there's that collar again.  If only it was a simple round neck.  I have the  "most" perfect Aurora Borealis choker with matching cuff to good with it a simple neckline....sigh  <BR/><BR/>If I could see/touch this dress and know that I could remove the collar then yeah, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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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">kathyg</span>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 10:58:00 AM
Lovely dress, but oh...to have a 26" waist..in my dreams!
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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/13210249894351503887" rel="nofollow">Miss Kitty</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 11:03:00 AM
It's so gorgeous...and I'm still too big. %^$@#$%@^!!!!!
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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">Jora</span>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 11:18:00 AM
My heart just skipped a beat for this dress. Alas, it's just not working for me size-wise. It is quite inspiring though.
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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:Sep 18, 2007 11:22:00 AM
Tiny waist + relatively large bust + choker collar = very hard for most of us to fit into.
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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/06425688196255789403" rel="nofollow">Tea</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 11:26:00 AM
I would like to find the pattern for this dress because I would un-choke the neck, make the waist bigger and the bust smaller, and have the perfect winter dress to make again and again.
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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">Lady Be Good</span>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 12:21:00 PM
For my part, although I love the structure and color of the dress, I take issue with superfluous fabric flaps. I can't figure out why this seems 'superfluous' to me, and not "devinely detailed", but it does. Oh yea... and its too small;)
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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">woodsywoman</span>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 12:47:00 PM
I'm no novice when it comes to hitting the BIN button or taking a leap of tape-measured faith in terms of vintage fabulosity. And fabulous this is. Problem is, I already have a few of these Fierce Fraulein dresses and far too few occasions that call for them. You're right about the instant confidence they impart. I pull mine out whenever I need to strike fear in the heart of an underling or convince a client that I really am much more experienced than I look. I see the dress is gone now; may the buyer enjoy her new-found powers of intimidation!
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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/00124557439529440749" rel="nofollow">Mami Castaneda</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 2:55:00 PM
This is EXACTLY the kind of dress I would buy - exactly - except for the fact that I don't fit into it. In fact, I am on the plus-side of plus-size, so the one on ebay is a no-go. Then again, give me a pattern to adjust and I'd make mine in a heart-beat. I've gotten GOOD at adjusting looks for petite women into curvy-friendly numbers! :-)<BR/><BR/>I love your blog. Thanks!
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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/17058968076601943527" rel="nofollow">lsaspacey</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 3:16:00 PM
Apparently all it needed was you dear, because it is now GONE. Congrats! You are the word of wisdom and the remedy to sunspots.
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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:Sep 18, 2007 3:18:00 PM
yep I'm joining the if only my waist was a 26 I would now own that dress crew, perhaps there is a pattern for the larger around of us who still would like to own an "I Mean Business" dress.
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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/05642083033884262289" rel="nofollow">Kristen</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 4:05:00 PM
perfect dress for the perfect measurements. if only i could have "pregnant boobs" without the belly that goes with it, i might have the right measurements. (that sounds like i'm pregnant. i'm not, i'm just SAYING) :)
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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/04123565899428479438" rel="nofollow">angldst</a>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 4:49:00 PM
Darn, that dress would fit me, I'd look good innit, and I'd find shoes on the rack 'o d00m on the back of my bedroom door for it.  Sadly, I clicky, and someone else has gotten there before me & snapped it up.  *cry*.  <BR/><BR/>Oh, well.  There will be other dresses, oh yes.  <BR/><BR/>-d
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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">Minya, Warrior Seamstress</span>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 6:20:00 PM
I'm not sure I understand "very structured" as it applies to dresses.  Can someone explain?
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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">Adrienne</span>
DATE:Sep 18, 2007 7:25:00 PM
Like it - modest, pretty and only a bit short for my taste; have no money and too much fat. I have to learn to cut out the beenies and weenies so I can make one for myself...
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 7:53:00 PM
Minya, I interpret "structured" as just that - made with fabrics that stand up, crisp straight lines, and lots of very...buttoned-up and defined details.  A pencil skirt = very structured, a peasant skirt = totally not.  If I can picture it holding up without a person in it, that's VERY structured.
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 8:06:00 PM
I could never get into it either, but I really like it. I, too, have reservations about the collar.  It seems to sit too high and the collar itself looks too small for the dress.  I'd like the round neck idea with a vintage crocheted lace detachable collar.
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 8:14:00 PM
I didn't like it on sight, but now with the other comments I realize why. Way too tight neck! I don't understand the front flap thingy either, I mean what is it? That plus I'm also a Plus size. Glad someone found it and gave it a home.
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 8:54:00 PM
I love it.  It's the 26 inch waist that would have stopped me from buying it.<BR/><BR/>The front panel is so nautical, which is so me.
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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:Sep 18, 2007 9:21:00 PM
The mere sight of that neckline is making me claustrophobic.  Let me out! Let me out!<BR/>Rita
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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:Sep 18, 2007 9:53:00 PM
i'm thinking damn i wish that was a few sizes bigger!
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DATE:Sep 18, 2007 11:35:00 PM
My first thought, upon seeing the first picture, was "Now izz the time on Shhprockkits ven vee dahhhnce!"<BR/><BR/>The back is, indeed, stunning; alas, I, too, would have to cut the neck out. I can't stand things touching my neck. Even necklaces. (((shudder)))
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DATE:Sep 19, 2007 12:25:00 AM
I agree, it's great except for the collar. By gum, though, you'd feel ten feet tall and bulletproof in that one!<BR/><BR/>For something a bit more festive (and easy to breathe in), check out this piece:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/2v3wga" REL="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/2v3wga</A>
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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:Sep 19, 2007 6:05:00 AM
Wh is the collar tight? We wear turtlenecks, and we let FAR TOO MUCH OUT these days concerning our breasts anyway - espcially the over 35 crowd and up who do not realize their'buddies' just do nt look good anymore, anyway! <BR/><BR/>Beautify America; COVER!
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DATE:Sep 19, 2007 9:52:00 AM
Wow, this is such a beautiful dress. I love all of the auctions. Thanks for the recommendation.
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DATE:Sep 19, 2007 10:42:00 AM
always a pleasure to see the adorable Holly Lucitebox featured! and you are <I>so </I>right about the Ida-Lupino-aspect of the authoritative energy that dress inspires....
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DATE:Sep 19, 2007 2:42:00 PM
Holly Lucitebox has a real flair for style.
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DATE:Sep 19, 2007 4:17:00 PM
it's NAVY<BR/>and $74
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DATE:Sep 20, 2007 6:43:00 PM
When I grow up, I want to be just like you.
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DATE:Sep 20, 2007 10:27:00 PM
Can I say it's ugly?  Becuase I think it is.
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DATE:Sep 21, 2007 1:59:00 AM
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DATE:Sep 21, 2007 9:05:00 PM
Eh? 35 and up? Sorry, but I know many a woman, 35 and up, who can still pull off a tasteful decollete. Give me a break... 35 and up. Sheesh.
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DATE:Sep 22, 2007 7:57:00 AM
Great dress, yes,  but that neck has me choking just looking at it. Would definitely need to try it on before dropping $75. <BR/><BR/>You made me aware that I really need a severe scary dress dress in my closet, though,for confidence building through wardrobe building! ;-)
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=003&amp;sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&amp;item=130134284370&rd=1&amp;rd=1" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Orla Dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/orladress1.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />I get quite a few emails from people who are a modern size 14 or 16 and can't find anything vintage they like in their size. "Be patient," I tell them (which is horrible of me, because no one EVER likes to be told "be patient"). "Keep checking eBay, your perfect dress will turn up eventually." <br /><br />So if you were one of those emailers and you don't bid on this dress (B46), I don't want to hear any more whining from you, young lady. This dress is about as perfect as you'll ever see, and I can't believe <a href="http://stores.ebay.com/lucitebox">Holly</a>'s actually selling it (she's lost some weight and it doesn't fit her any longer ... of course, if I had this dress hanging in my closet, I'd be tempted to slam back the malteds until it fit me again, too, so I understand).<br /><br />I don't know where to start with what I love about this dress. The <a href="http://www.orlakiely.com/">Orla Kiely</a>-ish print? The scallops along the side? The buttons? It's so hard to decide ... did I mention that it has a pocket? And that it's lined in red? <br /><br />If this fits you, you should jump at it, because I will bet you will wear it to pieces (and probably, if you're anything like me, hold on the pieces for years in the fashion equivalent of a reliquary, or like a jar of ashes on the mantel). It's just that kind of dress.<br /><br />The auction ends Wednesday, so hop to it!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/ebay.html">ebay</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/larger_sizes.html">larger_sizes</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</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/04469221444125058881" rel="nofollow">Nancy</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 10:07:00 AM
Fabulous dress! Makes me want to buy it and take it in to fit me! Don't you wonder who made it, where it has been all these years? Hmmm...time for a secret life of dresses entry? hint hint
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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/13277868381528890409" rel="nofollow">The Momma Chronicles</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 11:05:00 AM
I'd love to find vintage dresses in my size (a smidge or two bigger than anything available) and I couldn't sew a dress to save my life.  I console myself with vintage aprons, part of my daily uniform.  And usually, one size fits all.  Happy happy!
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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/09599043861484871206" rel="nofollow">Ladygrande</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 11:13:00 AM
It is quite lovely .. and reminds me of the lovely day dresses my mom used to wear. And the buttons! Oh, my, the buttons! And lined in red?!!
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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/03164285960157275523" rel="nofollow">Wayne</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 11:34:00 AM
She looks a little wooden.....
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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/01286710491372625416" rel="nofollow">Cynthia</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 11:48:00 AM
my favorite part is all I have to do is show up at the site and someone else has done all the legwork on finding me the perfect vintage dress.
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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/07481020287828015170" rel="nofollow">Housefrau</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 1:39:00 PM
Since I don't sew (I am just a sewing peeping jane), maybe I am missing something. How are the sizes for patterns determined, and why are they always so different from the sizes on ready-made clothes? I often see "size 14" on the patterns you post, Erin, even though the bust-size seems to indicate that the dress size is smaller than a size 14 dress one would find in a store. Or is it just that the correlation between the size-number and actual size has changed drastically over the years? And is bust size the main way to determine the size of a pattern? Is there a standard ratio between bust and waist size in patterns?<BR/><BR/>Anyone care to illuminate this issue for those of us who are ignorant?
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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/00987419772389129033" rel="nofollow">Viviene</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 1:53:00 PM
There are plenty of other places to buy large size vintage other than Ebay.  There are lots of other websites that cater to women who know what they are looking for and can't find it on Ebay. <BR/><BR/>Holly's dress is lovely and I'm sure it will find a great home.
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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/16882578423517346342" rel="nofollow">The Slapdash Sewist</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 3:21:00 PM
Housefrau, patterns have been adopting "size inflation" much more slowly than ready to wear, though it's definitely seen in patterns.  I made a vintage 1940s bathing suit recently and I was a size 16, while in modern patterns I'm around a size 10.  In ready-to-wear I range from 2-4 in adults and around a 5 in juniors.<BR/><BR/>The ratio between bust to waist is varies by company and designer, but the proverbial 36-24-36 (graded up and down for other sizes) is about standard for proportions.<BR/><BR/>I don't quite understand the concept of using only bust measurement to determine what size you are in vintage, but that is the definitely the prevailing method.  Maybe the confining girdles and other undergarments of the day made it possible, if not comfortable, to have "perfectly" sized hips in proportion to your 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/12050090145961509902" rel="nofollow">scormeny</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 3:33:00 PM
This is for Housefrau, regarding clothes sizes.<BR/><BR/>It is wonderful for home sewers that the pattern industry in the United States has set a standard for sizing patterns -- it means that as a sewer, once you've taken measurements and have translated those measurements into a size, then you can buy more or less any pattern you see that is printed since the 1950s or so, without having to re-check your measurements.<BR/><BR/>BUT, the fashion garment industry has not followed the same logic or the same practice.  Therefore, since the 1950s, a size 10 in the clothes you buy at the store has, in general, gotten much bigger than it used to be. Lots of people say it's because the average vanity and size-consciousness of women buyers means they'll pay more if it says size 10 than if it says size 16.  And, of course, as Americans have gotten bigger, those vanity-sized size 10s have gotten bigger too.  Buying vintage clothes usually means you have to go by measurements, which are absolute, not by "size," which is arbitrary.<BR/><BR/>Maybe someday the sewing pattern industry will go back and re-configure the body-measurements-to-size ratio, but I doubt it.  I think it's great that our Dress a Day gal and many eBay sellers include both the marked size and the bust and waist sizes of garments and patterns they sell and review; the measurements are always what will tell you if a garment fits, not the "size."<BR/><BR/>Butterick has a pretty good article on the topic with some notes on bust sizing.  I think that bust and waist are the minimum measurements I'd want to see before purchasing a fairly fitted top or dress, and hips as well on a dress if the skirt area is fitted; bust only if it's less fitted (since that's where it's likely to be tightest) is fine.  Of course, I say that as a "DD" cup -- the bust is always going to be the hardest-fit area for me.  For a close-to-couture fit in a garment you were buying online, you'd also want to know the shoulder-to-shoulder width, the armpit depth and the around-the-upper-arm measurements, I believe.
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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/12050090145961509902" rel="nofollow">scormeny</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 3:34:00 PM
Oops, here's the Butterick article link:<BR/>http://www.butterick.com/tech/sew_v_ready/sewready.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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 3:56:00 PM
It's a beauty and in my size! Alas, it's already at $51.90, definitely out my purse size! It's nice to see a larger sized dress featured. All those itty bitty dresses were making me feel FAT!
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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:Jul 16, 2007 7:30:00 PM
Regarding the bust measurement--I can't remember if I read this on the Butterick site or if I just figured it out from reading that site. The main reason that you use a bust measurement is because that is the hardest place to do adjustments or alterations.  I've done adjustments and alterations on hips and waist fairly well (annoying but do-able) but doing the bust is a pain.  It's hard to make sure you don't get the bullet bra look, etc.  Another thing is that the bust is a lot closer to adult eye level.  You really want the fit to look best where it's closest--even if you'd rather not have people staring there--they will look at least once while they are talking to you. ; )<BR/>jen
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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/02444470688023029334" rel="nofollow">Retro Attic</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 9:25:00 PM
This IS the perfect dress!
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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/11705434652330242519" rel="nofollow">Marie</a>
DATE:Jul 16, 2007 9:59:00 PM
regarding the sizing discussion, I don't understand how Butterick can have an article saying "take your measurements, find out what Butterick size you are and you can always buy what fits you" when I have to go between 1 and 3 sizes down from what my measurements say to get something that fits me. The pattern say my hip measurements make me a size 18. I make a size 16 skirt or trousers because I don't want to be size 18 and I am 14-16 ready-to-wear (in NZ) so it seems silly. The skirt/trousers is too big and I take more off the side seams. And then, it fits. If I measure the pattern pieces and ignore all the sizing info I get around this rigmarole. It's completely illogical and incomprehensible. I made a close fitting bustier-type bodice recently and I had to go down one size from her measurements to get it to fit - don't tell me they put ease in a strapless top? Otherwise the bust-waist-hip ratio was perfect, just all over the same amount too big. I've only sewn 3-4 dozen items of clothing in the last couple of years, so I don't think I'm doing it wrong.
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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:Jul 16, 2007 11:06:00 PM
Yes, but don't the different pattern companies seem to fit you differently? I've made Simplicity dresses in size 8 and been swimming in them... and when I tried a Butterick in the same size, I had to bum a serger so that I could make the seams really really skinny in order for it to fit. Am I the only one that's had this problem?<BR/><BR/>And I'm with Marie on the pattern sizes being too big. If I went by my bust measurements I'd be sewing patterns in size 14 or 16, I think. But I wear an 8/10 in RTW and that's what seems to fit me in homesewn clothes as well. I've learned that the only surefire way to guarantee fit is to make a muslin.
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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:Jul 17, 2007 12:49:00 AM
Once I made the mistake of using the "finished garment" measurement chart to chose my pattern size instead of the "body measurement" chart. That resulted in a huge blouse.  Another time I tried to use my RTW size and I couldn't get the garment on!  Most pattern companies have both charts but there is at least one company (can't remember which) that only prints their body chart in their catalogs and they print the finished garment chart on their patterns. I haven't done a lot of sewing in the last few years and the stuff I've made wasn't too fitted so I don't know how the patterns are fitting lately.  Other than those mistakes I've always had pretty good luck.
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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">Ladyschweig</span>
DATE:Jul 17, 2007 8:09:00 AM
Ugh.  Ease is an issue that has not made sense to me in all my 36 years!<BR/>For some reason I can adjust fit and ease in my knitting much more easily which is odd as I have only knit for 3.5 years.<BR/><BR/>That all said, lovely dress!  This is a dress that says "I love your curves!"
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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/07481020287828015170" rel="nofollow">Housefrau</a>
DATE:Jul 17, 2007 11:26:00 AM
Wow, everyboy, thanks for the info and discussion on sizing. I didn't realize there were so many factors to consider. <BR/><BR/>This further cements my belief that the best way to dress is to staple a tablecloth around one's body and call it a day. :)
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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/12050090145961509902" rel="nofollow">scormeny</a>
DATE:Jul 17, 2007 4:37:00 PM
Have any of you sewers ever made yourself a sloper?  If you buy the McCall's Palmer/Pletsch patterns, the instructions come with an enormous amount of information and guidance on fitting a pattern to your specific body type.  I took a class where we made slacks from McCall's 3740 and it was very illuminating (and the pants I made fit great).  I recommend the Palmer/Pletsch patterns if you think you want to get your garment sewing to the next level.  Among other things, once you've got a good set of slopers made, you can mix and match parts of it to create your own patterns that you know will look smokin' on you.<BR/><BR/>As to the observation that patterns often sew up "too big" -- isn't that so much better than "too small"!  You can almost always add to the seam allowance, you can rarely reduce it.<BR/><BR/>No doubt about it, sewing to fit takes time and patience -- that's probably why the Duro has been such a popular pattern, as it is quite forgiving and doesn't require much adjustment to look right.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.sew-whats-new.com/sewinglessons/sloper.shtml" REL="nofollow">Sloper article</A> <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.palmerpletsch.com/patterns-mccalls.htm" REL="nofollow">Palmer/Pletsch patterns</A>
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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/05820302122487013871" rel="nofollow">Anonymous</a>
DATE:Jul 17, 2007 11:24:00 PM
I came across this and had to show you....<BR/><BR/>http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=179185.0<BR/><BR/>you must check this out.  Its a dress made out of paper flyers :)
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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">saidee</span>
DATE:Jul 18, 2007 3:44:00 AM
There's wearing ease and design ease; vogue patterns used to include in their descriptions close-fitted, fitted, semi-fitted, loose-fitted, very loose fitting, etc., and each term had a specific meaning translated to inches of ease. A bustier should have no ease or maybe even slightly negative ease; a bathing suit would have quite a bit of negative ease. Negative ease is in style now for those young enough to get away with it...<BR/><BR/>To understand how you like your clothes to fit, if you are making a blouse, put on a similar garment you have that you like and pull or pinch the excess fabric out one each side of your body until the blouse is skin tight. Now look at the excess fabric and measure it. Don't forget that it is doubled on each side. The result is your preferred ease for that style garment. Now you know how much ease to allow beyond your body measurements when you sew the same type blouse.<BR/><BR/>The pattern companies are much more standardized than RTW ever dreamed of being, but that is changing. Even those of us who have been sewing for a long time need to check the catalog descriptions carefully for notes about fit because not all pattern lines w/in a pattern company use the same fitting rubric. The new Connie Crawford patterns for Butterick are even based on RTW sizing, which is a complete departure from what used to be the norm for the Big 4. It's measure, measure, measure, and make a muslin before you cut into your precious vintage Darth Vader fabric!
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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/12050090145961509902" rel="nofollow">scormeny</a>
DATE:Jul 19, 2007 1:48:00 PM
Amen, Saidee, and thanks for that (possibly chilling) news about the  Connie Crawford line.
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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="www.sewcherie.etsy.com" rel="nofollow">Cherie</a>
DATE:Jul 19, 2007 7:17:00 PM
Having been a thrifter, costumer, and now larger sized vintage pattern collector, I actually have a decent collection of ACTUAL Vintage Plus sized dresses from late 40's to early 70's.  I'm even going to be selling a few!<BR/><BR/>Right now the couple I have for sale are here:<BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheriezel/sets/72157600183574266/
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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">Rebecca</span>
DATE:Jul 21, 2007 7:23:00 PM
Should any of you dear DADers be in Lancaster, PA, I can highly recommend Zap Inc. on Queen Street.  (They are locally famous for supplying the costumes for the Austin Powers movies.)<BR/><BR/>I shop there frequently and come across dress after generously sized dress.  Really!
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TITLE: Good Intentions
DATE: 11:40 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/IM-Vintage-50s-floral-print-silk-fabric-42-x-4-yd_W0QQitemZ280132563297QQihZ018QQcategoryZ29820QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="blue gray silk fabric" src="http://www.dressaday.com/bluetextsilk.jpg"  hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />I *absolutely* meant to post about the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/contest_sew_useful.php">Etsy/Instructables contest</a>, but the last few weeks have been pretty hectic, what the conferencing and the travel and the husband-gone-fishing-in-Canada-ness of it all. But right now I am looking at a week with very few conference calls in it, and only three or four deliverables, so isn't it good that they extended the deadline to July 16! That's a week from now, plenty of time for you all to enter and win a NEW SEWING MACHINE! <br /><br />I also meant to post about the <a href="http://www.burdastyle.com/communication/news/show/108">BurdaStyle contest</a> ... they extended their deadline, too, to July 15. That's plenty of time to design, sew, and mail, right? Right? <br /><br />I think there's some other stuff I was going to post about, as well. Maybe I will catch up this week, stranger things have happened. <br /><br />Oh, and someone in the comments a few days back asked for another fabric week, and well, seller <a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZatticconQQhtZ-1">atticcon</a> has listed a ton of vintage fabric, including the blue silk up above. Blue-gray *textured* silk. Mmmmmm. Perhaps my good "I'm not buying any fabric until I go to Japan" intention is going to take a workout this week.<br /><br />Anything else I've forgotten? Leave a comment or email me ...<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/contest.html">contest</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/ebay.html">ebay</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/fabric.html">fabric</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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">xstpenguin</span>
DATE:Jul 9, 2007 12:00:00 PM
You forgot to tell us (better show us!) what dresses you wore to all those conferences!<BR/><BR/>And you forgot to make up all the gazillion patterns you've been buying so we can see how fabulous they look.  You know, in all that free time you've had lately.<BR/><BR/>Cheers!
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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">Marie-Christine</span>
DATE:Jul 9, 2007 1:45:00 PM
Oh, don't buy this fabric!  I also like the huge flowers, but the color's too dull.  And think of what you can get in Japan instead...
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jul 10, 2007 7:33:00 AM
Erin, <BR/>I refer you to to rules # 1, 5 and 11 of "Rules for Purchasing Fabric."
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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/07866168372574793883" rel="nofollow">Dusty Penguin</a>
DATE:Jul 10, 2007 12:54:00 PM
New reader here--hooked already.  But what are the rules?  A blog search didn't help me any, and curiosity is killing the cat!
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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">xstpenguin</span>
DATE:Jul 10, 2007 1:05:00 PM
http://www.dressaday.com/labels/rules.html<BR/><BR/>Here you go.  From one penguin to another! ;-)<BR/><BR/>(Actually my penguin collection IS pretty dusty.)
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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/07866168372574793883" rel="nofollow">Dusty Penguin</a>
DATE:Jul 11, 2007 9:37:00 AM
Most of my penguin collection had to go...too many moves.  Thanks for the link.  Love those rules! What a great post that was.
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TITLE: Crawly, but not creepy
DATE: 7:41 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.mainstreetvintage.com/listingview.php?num=4716&ref=21" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="snail dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/snaildress1.jpg"  width="400" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Julie (at <a href="http://www.mainstreetvintage.com/store.php?ref=21">Damn Good Vintage</a>) has this adorable snail-print dress up right now. It's only about $75 but it's teeeeeeny. Waist 24. <br /><br />I love the little snails -- how could you not? And I wouldn't even mind the inevitable escargot jokes. (Although my favorite escargot reference is <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4142589710053232729">this one</a>. [warning video link])<br /><br />Don't the snails look as if they were drawn by Ian Falconer (who does the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOlivia-Ian-Falconer%2Fdp%2F0689860889&tag=undefined061-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Olivia</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=undefined061-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> books)?<br /><br />Here's Olivia:<br /><br /><img alt="olivia" src="http://www.dressaday.com/olivia.jpg"  hspace="10" /><br /><br />And here's a closeup of the snails:<br /><br /><img alt="snail dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/snaildress2.jpg" width="400"  hspace="10" /><br /><br />I think this similarity is deeply significant, but I don't know why. Or how. All I know is that if this dress were in my size (PETER PAN COLLAR, people, <i>and</i> POCKETS) I would own it. <br /><br />This also reminds me that I have some really cute bug-print fabric that I bought to make my son a camp shirt, and since he has shown NO interest in me making him a shirt (or, in fact, me making him anything that isn't various complicated Star Wars costumes) I think the statute of limitations has run out and I can use it for a dress. Right? Right. (Besides, I think I bought six yards, so I probably have enough for both.)<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/novelty_prints.html">novelty_prints</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 8:45:00 AM
I love this snail dress. I love the ruffly front. (It's sleeveless -isn't that  on you *I don't* list? Doesn't it ease the pain of it being so teeny because it is not perfect?)<BR/><BR/>Yes, the statute of limitations has  run out. Make your bug dress, so perfect for summer. <BR/>I love snails. I had a whole bunch of water snails as pets when I was younger -purple, blue, and gold shells. They were beautiful and so easy to care for!<BR/><BR/>I saw cute gold fish in plastic baggy fabric on line yesterday -- Fat Quarter Shop -*I think*
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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">Vyola</span>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 8:50:00 AM
Oooooo, those are <I>totally</I> Olivia-esque snails!  They will do ballet across your skirt and sulk when the cat does not applaud.
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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/03881982139372582792" rel="nofollow">Nora</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 8:57:00 AM
I love Olivia and I love that dress.   Pockets - AND pintucks!  <BR/><BR/>We have quite a snail problem in our area - sometimes on a quiet evening you can actually HEAR them munching the garden - but I'm fond of them in a way.  And they won't take an entire veggie in one swoop, like the gophers.
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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/13899243813271500908" rel="nofollow">damgoodvintage</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 9:08:00 AM
You know I love my snail dress, but what I would love even more is a dress with little Olivia's dancing across it.<BR/>I love Olivia....
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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/14443554484239174837" rel="nofollow">dorotheasclosetvintage</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 9:33:00 AM
MUCH love, and indeed so very Olivia like!!! I wish for a 24" waist more often than is healthy...not even so much for the "I want to be thin" reasons as much for the wanting to wear cute vintage more often reasons. Great dress, Julie!! Ang
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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/06736176758196612844" rel="nofollow">Erin</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 9:37:00 AM
I'm okay with sleeveless; it's backless or spaghetti-strapish that I can't do. :-(<BR/><BR/>I want a 24" waist, for much the same reason! But not enough to stop eating to get it ...
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 10:02:00 AM
Olivia Fabric <BR/>http://www.quiltbasket.com/s-101-olivia-dreams-big.aspx
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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/13282616663639286469" rel="nofollow">Wendy</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 10:24:00 AM
One spring I had the pleasure of making smocked dresses for three little girls. One was a bug dress for the daughter of biologist parents, one was a manatee dress for my niece who had a passion for manatees and the last was a shark dress, with a pieced shark bodice and sharks teeth hemline.<BR/>No ruffles and lace for these girls. <BR/><BR/>Wendy in NM
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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.vintagefashionlibrary.com" rel="nofollow">Laura</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 12:18:00 PM
I saw that dress the other day, and I absolutely love it. Sadly, I know a 24" waist is not in my future...
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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/05897963557767227247" rel="nofollow">bonnie-ann black</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 12:24:00 PM
wendy:  i have a couple of nieces who would *love* those kinds of dresses -- the shark one in particular.  did you just adapt a regular smock dress pattern and do pieces on the hem from white material?  sounds wonderful.
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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://thefray.typepad.com" rel="nofollow">ambika</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 1:29:00 PM
The pintucks along the front are lovely.  The whole thing is just gorgeous. <BR/><BR/>But I don't think I even had a 24 inch waist at the age of 16.
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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/08708930750311253889" rel="nofollow">jessicajlee</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 3:24:00 PM
I love this print and dress! It does look like Olivia... who I also love. If only I were a 24 waist.
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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">Alison</span>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 3:45:00 PM
I have the waist, but not $75 dollars.<BR/><BR/>And god do I want this.<BR/><BR/>Such is youth.
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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/10775988058784931139" rel="nofollow">Danni</a>
DATE:Jun 7, 2007 7:04:00 PM
Reminds me of Ms Frizzle and the Magic School Bus, personally!<BR/><BR/>I think it's great. :)
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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">Carol</span>
DATE:Jun 8, 2007 7:02:00 AM
More Olivia<BR/><BR/>http://www.andoverfabrics.com/OurDesigners/SingleDesigner.asp?Designer=Ian%20Falconer
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DATE:Jun 8, 2007 12:49:00 PM
Whoa...I just took pictures of snail print fabric that I saw in Switzerland.  Maybe the motif trend will crawl over here! Cute as a bug, I say.
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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">tarna</span>
DATE:Jun 8, 2007 1:13:00 PM
Well - the pattern is on it's way.  With the cooperation of the postal service, you should have it early to middle of next week.  I love this blog.  And I cannot wait to see how the dress turns out.  Happy sewing!
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TITLE: Hey Viv! Need a Crinoline?
DATE: 8:05 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://heyviv.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=960&catid=82" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="crinoline" src="http://www.dressaday.com/crinoline_white_adult.jpg" whspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Theresa sent me this link to the <a href="http://heyviv.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=960&catid=82">Hey Viv!</a> store, where you can buy yourself a brand new 50s-style crinoline, for all your swishy-skirt needs. They're about $27, not including shipping, and also come in black, pink, and red.<br /><br />I'm not a big crinoline-wearer myself -- I have enough trouble getting in and out of cars as it is -- but I'm tempted to get one. Just for parties, I'm telling myself, although I know if I had one I'm sure I'd try to wear it every day, like a six-old-girl with brand-new patent maryjanes. <br /><br />I think some of you have sent me links to other retro-undergarmenty places in the past, links I have carefully filed, never to see again. If you feel generous, leave them in the comments? <br /><br />Hints for actually managing the wearing of a crinoline are welcome, too.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/crinolines.html">crinolines</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 8:33:00 AM
Yay! You picked me!I think I like crinolines (at least they way they look) because when I was in the first grade we read Dick and Jane and Jane always had the best dreses with crinolines underneath. I wanted  a dress like that so bad! I just have to tell you, I went to a wedding this weekend and SO MANY women were wearing BLACK! One lovely young lady wore a pale green, polka dot strapless with a built in crinoline. It was all bunched up under her dresss --- so I HAD to fix it. I just had to. It was making me NUTS! Thanks again!
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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">lindylady1</span>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 8:43:00 AM
Check out girdlebound.com for retro style foundation garments & hose.  Just the thing for achieving the proper shape and smooth line under those vintage frocks.
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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">ita</span>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 8:55:00 AM
Oh!  I hope someone posts a site where I can buy silky full slips instead of the Spanx stuff that's all I can find in stores. I have some vintage 50s shirtwaist dresses with lace panels that need the opacity.<BR/><BR/>I have a crinoline and quite like it, although I haven't managed to wear it anywhere other than out to dinner.  My main problem is that there's nothing between it and me, and it's quite scratchy.  But it was a cheapie off eBay, so I'm not complaining.<BR/><BR/>Now I need to go off to Hey Viv!
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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/09310589020539831213" rel="nofollow">Shannon</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 9:28:00 AM
http://scpbanks.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Erin,<BR/><BR/>The link above is to an avid sewer's website - she's crazy good, and blogs about it almost nonstop.  She just made herself a crinoline and got lots of comments back on how to take care of them, etc., that you might find interesting.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I enjoy your blog very much, and look forward to your POV on dresses every day!  Have a good one!
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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/00394073543168209042" rel="nofollow">Jonquil</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 11:01:00 AM
I bought the killer Gap shirtdress (the one with the shirt collar and full skirt), and it is truly a lovely thing.  Among other things, it isn't gathered by anything but the sash.  This means that people who are high-waisted or have disproportionate  -- by fashion industry standards -- measurements can belt it to fit.  I think it may need a white crinoline, if I can find one short enough not to  peek out under the hem.  Thanks for the link!<BR/><BR/>I'm also thinking of replacing the self-belt with either a pink or blue satin sash.
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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/16514691359578897631" rel="nofollow">Debby</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 11:04:00 AM
That would be fun to have one for wearing to a party.
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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/00364235843222794829" rel="nofollow">Summerset</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 11:14:00 AM
I see Shannon has been here before me.  Thank you, Shannon!<BR/><BR/>Check out www.sewretro.blogspot.com, for my post on my crinoline.  Just scroll down a post.  I've also included "without" and "with" pictures to show what a crinoline can do for a dress.  I've had a few ladies who remember wearing these things in the 50's and 60's comment on my blog (Shannon already gave the link) - very neat. <BR/><BR/>With regards to the scratchiness, I seem to recall that people did wear a regular slip underneath so that the netting wouldn't scratch.
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DATE:Apr 30, 2007 11:18:00 AM
I wear a slip closest to my legs, then a crinoline or two (all depends on the shape I'm trying to achieve), then the skirt on the outside.  I find a slip reduces the scratchiness and keeps the crinoline from bunching unattractively between the legs.
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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">Susie</span>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 11:26:00 AM
LOVE the Rago Shapewear that is sold on girdlebound.com as pointed to by Lindylady1.<BR/><BR/>Rago's website will tell you which product lines give what kind of control.<BR/><BR/>http://www.ragoshapewear.com/html/menu.shtml
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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">harthad</span>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 11:45:00 AM
Great retro underthings at Secrets in Lace, www.secretsinlace.com
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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/13431557867878383150" rel="nofollow">pirate</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 11:45:00 AM
I just finished making a full circle skirt for my daughter who swing dances.  She wanted a not-so-poofy petticoat underneath so I used Simplicity 5006 (view e).  It has two layers of netting gathered onto a dropped yoke.  The dropped yoke eliminates bulky gathers at the waistline.  I used 1 layer of netting and 1 layer of tulle rather than 2 layers of netting.  Instead of gathering the netting to the yoke, I pleated them as the gathering resulted in very unattractive buckling.  Pleating the tulle/netting gave me a nice restrained poof rather than a **SPROING** effect. :-)    Under the tulle layer, I put a silky layer, which would be next to the skin ... completely eliminates the scratchy tulle/netting problem.  <BR/><BR/>The reason we didn't go with a full slip between the petticoat and body is because when she is swing dancing, you don't want to *see* that full slip; you want the entire petticoat to twirl around as the skirt does.
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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/17949495995023045699" rel="nofollow">robin</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 12:00:00 PM
i have an old very sophisticated crinoline from sak's...it's basically a netting circle skirt, no tiers, in navy blue, tie waistband. I've been known to wear it over a slip as a skirt itself. why does no one make such sleek and pretty crinolines any more? they're mostly ruffly and juvenile. <BR/><BR/>tips on keeping the damn netting (on a regular crinoline) from bunching is appreciated. it seems like in the winter all of the netting ends up in front when you're walking. Then again I walk everywhere.
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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:Apr 30, 2007 12:31:00 PM
There are a couple authentic true to the era options for the scratchy netting problem.  The first comes from an old magazine from the era.  Make a full circle underskirt from lingerie fabric and trim the bottom hem with fine lace.  Sew the underskirt to the crinoline yoke.  That's the solid part between the waist and the hip.  The full circle will swing and twirl with the dress, and the lace is pretty when it occasionally peeks out.  Option tow is from an old poodle skirt pattern from the fifties. There's no name on the envelope, only a pale green label with a line drawing of the skirt. This crinoline had satin ribbon trimming the edge of the netting on the leg side, that is, what we would consider the wrong side.  With the satin ribbon, there was no more snagged hosiery. The pattern called it the "can-can" crinoline. (and my aplogies if this becomes a double post)
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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/16315707196260271427" rel="nofollow">Lexy Girl</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 1:01:00 PM
I have been looking for a place to buy frilly underthings besides wedding stores (hello mark-up)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the link!
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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">La BellaDonna</span>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 1:51:00 PM
<B>Ita,</B> if you have problems locating a full slip (or a pretty full slip), consider using a slip-style <I>nightgown</I> instead.  They come in lots more colours, and you actually have a chance of finding a silk one, if that's your preference!  I often wear silk nightgowns as slips, and they're perfect under wrapdresses!  I'd passed that suggestion along to a woman at my gym, and she came in wearing a very pretty black-and-white print wrapdress, with a red slip-style nightgown under it.  She had on red shoes and a wide red belt, and looked absolutely smashing.  <BR/><BR/><B>Lexy girl,</B> have you tried weddingsforless.com for the ... wedding things for less?  I seem to recall some pretty affordable prices for floor-length and tea-length crinolines.
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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/00394073543168209042" rel="nofollow">Jonquil</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 1:54:00 PM
I think this:<BR/>http://www.secretsinlace.com/product/165/32<BR/><BR/>would get you a very nice halfway between a scratchy crinoline and a limp skirt.  Or perhaps I want it because it's pink.
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DATE:Apr 30, 2007 3:27:00 PM
Hot Rod Voodoo (http://hotrodvoodoo.com/hrv/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3&sort=20a&page=2&zenid=9f4a7c4f2b0d947578eed91dd506d6a9) is where I buy most of my new crinolines and petticoats. They have a good selection of options for length and fluffiness.<BR/><BR/>As to tips for wearing them: always make sure that you know where the edges of your skirt are, so you don't knock things off shelves and tables.
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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">Kate in England</span>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 3:40:00 PM
I'm loving the vintage undies links! Gotta get me some of that shapewear...<BR/><BR/>More vintage-style undies (based in the UK this time) at <A HREF="http://www.whatkatiedid.com" REL="nofollow">What Katie Did</A>.
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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/11861919146758680118" rel="nofollow">AmeliaB</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 3:53:00 PM
I've wanted to get one forever.  Ever since I figured out that skits don't "poof" on their own.  Unless you are constantly twirling or you get a crinoline. :-)<BR/><BR/>~Amelia
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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/14627520987199375398" rel="nofollow">stacy</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 6:23:00 PM
I found a softer netting that isn't scratchy or too stiff that I make my children's fairy skirts/tutus out of.  I think it was intended for wedding veils.  You can remedy the bunching up problem by cutting it like overlapping flower petals instead of using one long piece.  Super easy to make (harder to explain), wouldn't be too difficult to size it up for an adult.  Another layer of (colored) tulle on top of the (white) netting gives a very nice effect, without causing itchies.
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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/08889206883385015823" rel="nofollow">Rikibeth</a>
DATE:Apr 30, 2007 10:02:00 PM
I'm afraid I can't offer suggestions on managing crinoline as undergarment -- I did that once, for a poodle skirt costume on stage.  I have three crinolines, but I wear them as SKIRTS, because that's <I>de rigeur</I> in goth clubs.  They look fabulous with my black leather corset!
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DATE:May 1, 2007 8:14:00 AM
A seamstress at teh SewRetro blog showed one she had made using a Vogue pattern, and also showed pictures of her dress with and without a petticoat so we could see how necessary they were. The best part -- speaking as a woman who remembers wearing those as a little girl -- was that she told hwo she had made it more comfortable to wear.
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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:May 1, 2007 8:32:00 AM
The one and only time I wore a crinoline was with my wedding dress.  I sewed the dress and crinoline, it took four months and is the best sewing I have ever done.  The dress is pale pink raw silk, off the shoulders with a big skirt.  I wanted an elegant look and I loved wearing the dress.  Oh and it has 23 buttons with handmade loops down the back.  But I came here to tell you about the crinoline.  I made a cotton slip to wear under, and it was quite comfortable.<BR/><BR/>Lucette
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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">Sondra</span>
DATE:May 1, 2007 8:41:00 AM
From one who wore crinoline petticoats the last time around in the 50s...We wore a plain slip next to our skin.  Otherwise, they chewed up the nylon stockings, as well as the thighs. The stockings were held up by a garter belt. I can't imagine a junior-high girl wearing all this complicated underwear to school today.<BR/><BR/>Laundering the petticoats was a production.  We washed them carefully, so as to avoid tearing the edges of the net.  Then we starched them.  After much experimentation and passing of tips, we determined that the stiffest result was obtained by dipping the net in a super-saturated sugar solution.  They couldn't be hung on the line, because that would give them a lop-sided shape.  They were carefully arranged in perfect symetry on towels on the floor.  Imagine the dining room floor covered with the petticoats of three girls in the family.  Around Christmas time, we sewed small jingle bells onto the ruffles, so we not only swirled and poofed; we jingled. We sometimes wore as manuy as three can-cans.   Walking down an aisle, squeezing into a school desk or into a car seat required clever manuevering.<BR/>Thanks for the chance to reminisce!
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DATE:May 1, 2007 4:47:00 PM
Like a previous commenter, I had a crinoline from one of my stints as a bridesmaid. Long since given away. I love the look but in reality wouldn't have much opportunity to wear it. However I too would love to find silk slips if anyone has any ideas.
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DATE:May 7, 2007 2:08:00 AM
Here's a link to a Dutch store that sells petticoats.  http://www.suzet.net/petticoat.htm  The site's in Dutch, but check out the gold one.
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DATE:Nov 24, 2008 12:22:00 PM
I know it's a year and a half later (that's me, a day late and a dollar short) but couldn't help commenting on crinoline's and slips--I LOVE slips, but they seem to have gone the way of the Edsel these days.  I remember when the dresses I used to wear to school had netting sewn into them--quite scratchy as I recall.  I've not tried any of the "spanx," products, I hear they're marvelous, but all I can imagine is that they would ride up and bunch around my waist.  I mean, what is keeping them down?
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DATE:Feb 2, 2009 9:54:00 AM
Hmm.. perhaps my squeem <A HREF="http://www.laurensilva.com/v/shapewear-girdles-bodyshapers.html" REL="nofollow">shapewear</A> can blend well with that crinoline. :D
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DATE:Dec 6, 2009 8:24:00 PM
One way to avoid the scratchiness is to bind the edges of the two or three layers closest to the skin with a lightweight tape.
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DATE:Mar 1, 2010 2:11:00 PM
Hi - late Lulu here on the crinoline thing. I make my own crinolines for square dancing. I have a Johnson ruffler machine just for making gathers.There are websites for buying crinolines in may variations just google square dance petticoats.<br />I make them from crystal organza, lame, nylon organdy or lining fabric with net in between the layers, or bind the net with ribbon. Use tulle if you want that &#39;net look&#39; without the scratchiness on the botton layer of the organza. Zigzag over heavy nylon line in the hem to keep them stiff.<br />wash on gentle, slip it over the agitator - starch and dry over an open umbrella. SD ones are very full, the &#39;softie&#39; ones are less stiff. Hope this helps.
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TITLE: Dvorak or QWERTY?
DATE: 7:17 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.dorotheasclosetvintage.com" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="keyboard dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/dvorak.jpg" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Angela at <a href="http://www.dorotheasclosetvintage.com">Dorothea's Closet</a> sent me this -- it's not for sale, though, so put your credit cards away. She bought it to sell and had to keep it (that's one of the reasons I'd never be a good vintage store proprietor: I'd keep too much)!<br /><br />Angela said her four-year-old daughter told her it looked like the dress had "buttons" -- she meant "keyboard keys". (I remember when my son was four; he was obsessed with pushing buttons. We spent a lot of time in elevators that were making unscheduled stops at all floors.) And, yes, don't they look like keyboards? <br /><br />Isn't this a great dress? I'm happy just knowing it exists. I'm even happier knowing it has pockets:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dorotheasclosetvintage.com" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="keyboard dress" src="http://www.dressaday.com/dvorak2.jpg" hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />Pockets that LACE UP, no less!<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/computer_geekery.html">computer_geekery</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 8:50:00 AM
I used to know a guy who switched all of his computers to Dvorak. It made me nuts to sit down at one of his computers thinking that I could quickly google something at his house and only being able to type nonsense!<BR/><BR/>Love the dress though.
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 8:54:00 AM
I love this dress!  And, as someone who spends way too much time communing with my keyboard, I'm kind of glad it's NOT for sale.  If it were, I would have to buy it and wear it to work everyday.<BR/><BR/>But, I have so many questions:  Is this a VINTAGE keyboard dress? If so, how can that be?  Also, what kind of fabric?<BR/><BR/>I just love, love the cut of this dress--and the slightly kinky lace-up pocket!  It would be very useful in my continuing quest to subtly subvert the stereotypes of my profession (librarian).<BR/><BR/>Angela, if you ever need to make some room in your closet, I'll take this one off your hands!
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 9:02:00 AM
Hi! Hey, glad you liked the dress Erin! It IS vintage, late 40s to early 50s, by Mode O' Day....side metal snaps, made of cotton. I love the cut of it too, its rare anything from this era fits me right! The waist normally sits too high, but this one is low enough to not make me look cut in half. I really wonder what THEY saw in that print back then, where its inspiration came from? <BR/><BR/>Ang
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 9:18:00 AM
It's great, but I'm not in love with the lace-up. Does that make me boring?
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 9:47:00 AM
If you are wearing a cool dress, it is important to find an elevator that goes to lots of floors in a high rise building.<BR/>Get in the elevator on the ground floor, push ALL of the buttons, and treat each floor as a grand entrance, posing so the dress will be seen at it's best advantage.<BR/>(You might want to make sure you get into the elevator alone at the first floor, otherwise the elevator door will open to a murder scene as fellow elevator riders will strangle you, regardless of your fashionable attire.)
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 10:31:00 AM
Jill,<BR/>Only you would have thought of this!<BR/>You could just do this at several of the downtown buildings - spend the day cavorting all over Houston - but, you would have to have the proper hat, of course!<BR/>Hats On!
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 11:56:00 AM
Some of the "keyboards" have 4 rows of 9 keys, while others have 3 rows of 10 keys.<BR/><BR/>I attach no meaning to this. I'm just pointing it out.
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 1:03:00 PM
I love the perspective that children give us. Independantly I wouldn't have seen the keyboards, but now it seems totally obvious and deliberate! OK... now I'm off to don my favorite outfit and find an elevator in a tall building to ride in all day!
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 2:53:00 PM
I love this dress. Children's delight in pushing button must be related, I would think, to their discovery of causation at a distance. It's one thing to push a tower of blocks and see it fall, but it's so much more exciting to push a button and have an elevator come!<BR/><BR/>Celeste
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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/03477115095178104278" rel="nofollow">oracle</a>
DATE:Apr 25, 2007 4:20:00 PM
I love this dress, too. My reactions to the print came instantly, one after the other, like this: 1) WOW! KEYBOARDS! HOW WONDERFUL! 2) Eew, it's kind of Borg-ish. 3) But the cut and style of the dress is really great, and what it does to the keyboards pulls them back again into something flowy and not machine-like. 4) But, eew, they still kind of look machine-ish to me, and the way they keep coming out at you like that kind of freaks me out.<BR/>Still, I love it.<BR/>I'm going to see the documentary movie "Helvetica", about the typeface, in Montreal on May 5. It's being shown as part of the Logo Cities Symposium, which also looks very interesting!<BR/>http://www.logocities.org/about<BR/>(The next URL isn't from Logo Cities website but has a bettter "about" the latter to give the gist.)<BR/>http://www.dexigner.com/graphic/news-g10779.html
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 6:03:00 PM
Speaking of were they got the inspiration perhaps they were dreaming of eating a late night snack of huge waffles? te he. :-)  <BR/><BR/>~Amelia
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 6:25:00 PM
I like the Escherine of it.  <BR/><BR/>Also, Dvorak all the way.  It's a pain for people who want to borrow my computer, but it feels so much less reachy.
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DATE:Apr 25, 2007 11:48:00 PM
I love, love, love this dress! Reminds me of a building in the Vancouver business district - at night the lights emphasize the deep recessed windows, making it look even more like an overgrown waffle...
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DATE:Apr 26, 2007 12:01:00 AM
I just got the new Keepsake Quilting catalog, which lead me to this: http://www.keepsakequilting.com/KQShopping/partvmed.asp?action=lookup&partno=5196&subject=U101&catpos=2<BR/>OK, so pseudo-keyboards are more romantic.
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DATE:Apr 26, 2007 5:56:00 AM
I love, love, love this dress!  I am experiencing dress envy!!!!
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DATE:Apr 26, 2007 6:40:00 AM
My immediate reaction was "of COURSE it's keyboard fabric!!" when I realized ... it probably wasn't.  Looking at it more, I think it is melty swooshy Salvador Dali skyscrapers and office buildings, more likely.<BR/><BR/>Or melted sets of pepper plants, who knows?
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DATE:Apr 26, 2007 1:15:00 PM
Speaking of buildings in Vancouver (Cin), I recently discovered the Vancouver Central Library when I found myself walking beside it a couple of weeks ago. What a gorgeous thing! Here's a URL about it, but the photos do it no justice at all, as it must be walked around, and through, and through and around again!<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Public_Library<BR/><BR/>Oh, oh, OH! To have a beautiful Summer cotton printed with 4-5" motifs of the Library shot from several different angles. The motifs' main colour would be Library Brown, and the print would also occasionally feature a smaller motif of the rooftop garden, in plant green with tiny brightly coloured flowers in dotting it. The whole thing would be slightly (but not too) cartoonized so that the lines and the colours would be clear. OH!<BR/><BR/>Confound google-blogger, which every day now makes a total mess of my attempts to log in, forcing me to re-set my password every time and the next day doesn't recognize it and after it finally DOES recognize it, it deletes my original comment from the box when it should be posting it! By now, I've copied the comment to clipboard so many times to try to prevent this from happening that I've lost track of whether I've got it on my clipboard this last time, and THIS time the thing goes through and whoosh! The comment is gone.<BR/>Ugh. This never happened on Old Blogger. It's almost enough to stop a person from trying to post at all.
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DATE:Apr 27, 2007 12:46:00 AM
Hehehe this dress made me laugh. I use dvorak, it's great, instant security.  =)
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TITLE: Again with the Summer
DATE: 7:48 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/STRIKING-50S-SUNDRESS-VERY-UNIQUE-MINT-SZ-14-V-V_W0QQitemZ250089519560QQihZ015QQcategoryZ4161QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank"><br /><img alt="Butterick 5248" src="http://www.dressaday.com/butterick5248.jpg"   hspace="10" /></a><br /><br />I know, I know, there's still snow outside (at least there is in Chicago) and I'm jumping ahead again to the summer dresses. What is wrong with me? Can't I live in the now? Stay in the moment?<br /><br />Well, no, not when the weather in the now sucks so badly. In general, too, I much prefer the future to the past, but vintage sewing gives me the best of both worlds. I can rummage around in the so-called dustbin of history for aesthetic flotsam like sewing patterns, and then wear them in front of my computer. I can't imagine that the makers of this pattern, for instance, ever even touched a computer. Maybe they never even saw a punch card! And yet the only way I could really find their work now is through one. It kind of gives you hope for all sorts of other things assumed to be ephemeral. Perhaps our work will live on in ways we never intended or imagined?<br /><br />I love the brown version here -- I love brown for summer, especially brown and yellow -- although the border print is really cute, too. Although right now, with the snow and the cold and the having to wait yet one more week for Daylight Savings, I'd probably like anything that promised summer! <br /><br />As you can see from the image, it's B32. Click on the image to visit the eBay auction ... I think this is at about $12 right now.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/Butterick_5248.html">Butterick_5248</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/patterns.html">patterns</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.dressaday.com/labels/vintage.html">vintage</a></p>
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DATE:Mar 3, 2007 9:15:00 AM
I love that this is a quick and easy pattern--I just bet when you look at the collar and yoke. Threads magazines newest issue has an article on funnel neck-lines proving that in fashion all things do come back around!
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DATE:Mar 3, 2007 9:46:00 AM
All things summer (well most) can be winter too!  Extend the sleeves to mid-forarm and make it out of wool crepe.  That neckline is worth it.<BR/>-Sarah
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DATE:Mar 3, 2007 11:51:00 AM
Very pretty, and I agree with you - I'd rather think of summer coming, instead of this yucky Chicago weather!
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DATE:Mar 3, 2007 2:27:00 PM
The shape of that bodice is so great. I think it would fail on me (34A), because it seems to want a 36C to fill it out, regardless of that Bust size they post. I mean, really, 32? Does that mean the waist is 16"? crikey. It's a Barbie dress, and I LOVE it.
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DATE:Mar 3, 2007 2:31:00 PM
I have never been the hugest fan of brown and yellow, but it's really grown on me lately.  I always thought it was dated, but now 'the way things used to be' looks really good.  I know, I'm getting old =)  There's no clearer sign...
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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">Marie-Chrisitne</span>
DATE:Mar 3, 2007 3:25:00 PM
I'm totally with you on summer dress fantasies when it's howling outside...  Besides, what if spring came and we had nothing to wear??
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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:Mar 3, 2007 7:18:00 PM
I love this pattern!  Do you own this?  If so, where'd you get it?<BR/><BR/>Don't feel bad; you're not alone looking ahead to summer clothes.  I've already picked up some summer fabrics and patterns, including a cool batik and the McCall's Duro pattern.
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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.beckyoh.com" rel="nofollow">Becky O.</a>
DATE:Mar 4, 2007 8:25:00 AM
"Besides, what if spring came and we had nothing to wear??"<BR/><BR/>Oh, Marie-christine, I never thought of that! Sneaky Spring : )<BR/><BR/>I love these dresses with full, swishy skirts. Great hips need lots of fabric to show themselves off.<BR/>~Becky
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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://thefray.typepad.com" rel="nofollow">ambika</a>
DATE:Mar 4, 2007 10:13:00 AM
THis is one of my absolute favorite necklines.  And summer clothes are something I'm craving--even pulling the whole dress over jeans fashion foul just to feel a a little less wintry.
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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:Mar 4, 2007 5:03:00 PM
It's already getting warm here in SC. And I am sure Spring will come and I will have nothing to wear. I love that this is one of those wrap dresses. Those sleeves and that neckline would not work with my football player shoulders. Sigh. I bought the other wrap dress pattern from the Butterick Retro collection. I need  to find/buy the fabric.  I like chocolate brown with light pink or teal.
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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.memoija.com" rel="nofollow">valentina</a>
DATE:Mar 4, 2007 6:50:00 PM
Gasp. I cannot believe that you wrote  Daylight Savings. Tsk, tsk.
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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/06736176758196612844" rel="nofollow">Erin</a>
DATE:Mar 4, 2007 7:45:00 PM
Um, why the tsk-tsking?<BR/><BR/>Daylight savings time is an acceptable variant, and some usage guides prefer it -- for instance, Brian Garner:<BR/><BR/> <BR/>daylight saving(s) time.   Although the singular form daylight saving time is the original one, dating from the early 20th century—and is preferred by some usage critics—the plural form is now extremely common in AmE. E.g.: “When daylight savings time kicks in, a guard will be posted from 5 to 10 p.m.” (New Orleans Times-Picayune).<BR/><BR/>The rise of daylight savings time appears to have resulted from the avoidance of a miscue: when saving is used, readers might puzzle momentarily over whether saving is a gerund (the saving of daylight) or a participle (the time for saving). Also, of course, we commonly speak of how to “save time” (of saving time), and this compounds the possible confusion. Using savings as the adjective—as in savings account or savings bond—makes perfect sense. More than that, it ought to be accepted as the better form.<BR/><BR/>Regardless of whether you use the plural or the singular, you can prevent most miscues by hyphenating the phrasal adjective: daylight-savings time or daylight-saving time.<BR/><BR/>from: "daylight saving(s) time"  The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style. Bryan A. Garner. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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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/05748466566601520483" rel="nofollow">LaLa</a>
DATE:Mar 4, 2007 8:13:00 PM
Hey!  LOVE Your site!  So cute :)  I thought you may be interested in mine as well:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.tralalaonline.com" REL="nofollow">TRA LA LA</A><BR/><BR/>If you want to do a link exchange, just let me know doll!<BR/><BR/>- Lauren
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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/16549832311783126674" rel="nofollow">Alison</a>
DATE:Mar 4, 2007 9:17:00 PM
Rats!  I have been outbid!<BR/><BR/>Does anyone know of a pattern with a similar collar?  I must have something like that for my wedding.
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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/01983223015773238369" rel="nofollow">Kate</a>
DATE:Mar 5, 2007 4:42:00 AM
Over jeans? Ye gods! I've lived too long! Why not enjoy the anticipation of summer? Plenty of time to work on the dress to perfect it. Whatever happened to pretty? Go for the hat too. K Q:-)
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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">Theresa</span>
DATE:Mar 5, 2007 7:36:00 AM
Alison, if you don't rquire a full skirt..Erin posted a pattern with that neckline a while back. I think  it was a Vogue pattern. (I think it was during Fashion Week) I know I've seen it. I'd look for it for you--but I am at work and they block the  images on that site--why? I have no idea. www.voguepatterns.com/indexfv.html
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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/16549832311783126674" rel="nofollow">Alison</a>
DATE:Mar 5, 2007 10:44:00 AM
Theresa, is <A HERF="https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12773096&postID=117108133571416506&isPopup=true">this </A>the dress you are thinking of?
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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:Mar 6, 2007 5:08:00 AM
Erin, do you think it is possible to add a small ca sleeve to this without ruining it?
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