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Written by ornament_gal
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Thursday, 15 March 2012 |
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After a long break, I am adding pattern images to the database again. A huge thanks to Angie for letting me know that I accidentally broke the database. As an ex-Software QA person, I am very good at breaking things. Sometimes it takes me a little while to figure out the fix. But once I worked out the fix, I was hooked on adding images.
I love mail order patterns. I became a bit obsessed with collecting Workbasket magazines a few years ago. There are boxes stashed in various corners of various rooms. This week the box of shipping envelopes ran dry so I cleaned the top of the filing cabinet and found one of those boxes of Workbasket magzines.
The stack I'm working on is currently in the 1960's. Later, we'll visit the 1970's and then the 1980's. The 1980's mail order patterns tend to sadden me. The designers seem to throw away all thoughts of 'designing' garments and instead gave us sack-like garments to sew. Yet, somehow more pieces and more steps were needed to sew these sack-like garments. There's something to be said about the mind who could design a 1950's dress requiring nine pattern pieces with one sheet of instructions.
Of the early 1960s mail order patterns that I've been scanning tonight, the word that comes to mind is 'tabs'. Tabs were big. Collar tabs that criss cross and button down to the bodice. Tabs that come over from the back and for the 'shoulder seams' as they button the dress together or hold an attached shrug to the dress. The cleverness of the designs captivate me.
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