I hope you enjoyed this new series. I do indeed intend to keep going to adventure into what home sewist have been able to make thru the years. If you enjoy sewing patterns here is a whole playlist of other videos: ru-vid.com/group/PLaG2bBTXx7U74Wmx6LkyCC1NVgw6a1PqU
I know I’m a little late to watching this video, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! Right up to the 1970s patterns when I almost spit my coffee out when you showed pattern 8643…. I kid you not, I actually made that pattern way back in 1980 when I was in middle school home economics class. I wanted to make the hamburger, but it took too many supplies, so I made the donut, yarn-sewn sprinkles and all!! I also remember it taking bags and bags of pillow fill to make that thing look decent. I think I have to stop after eight bags because it was getting expensive for a first time project! Such memories 😂
This was totally fun, I just wish you had left the pattern on the screen longer, or even while you talked about it, so I could get a good gander at it.
The weirdest part of 2010-now patterns is that most of them don't reflect any fashion trends or style rules at all... it's like they go to an arts school and let the first semester fashion students go wild
And there is almost nothing for little boys. I had to take a men's costume pattern and severely size it down for my 7 year old once before there was NOTHING and I hadn't discovered the little indie pattern companies yet.
@@Alagboriel the thing is, there's nothing to buy either. There are three million new little girls special occasion dresses every year and one $100 black sport coat for boys. It's ridiculous. I've made so many vests and jackets because I'd like my son to be able to wear more than t-shirts and either jeans or sweatpants.
The 1980's pattern, V8826 by Erica Wilson, a British embroidery expert, is actually an adaptation of a traditional English farm worker's smock. These were originally made from flax or linen: the smocking and gathering gave it shape. The embroidered motifs identified the wearer as a shepherd, carpenter, forester, farmer or other type of laborer. I have an entire book devoted to these smocks and their history as a folk garment of the 18th and 19th centuries. I would love to find this pattern.
~1960 my mother made me a cute frog costume. I wouldn't wear it because it wasn't scary. So my older sister took the rubber mask and cut into it and sewed it back together and said there now it's a sea monster. So then I wore it. Glad not to disappoint my dear mother who worked so hard on the costume.
I love this. Could you consider keeping the pattern on screen slightly longer, for out oogling pleasure? I am not as quick on the visual uptake as I wish, and had to stop and go back a bunch to share in the joy!. So funny!
I had a tent dress in high school. I loved wearing it because of how it moved around me and it was so,so comfortable. For a teen with poor body image, these were a godsend.
This was all kinds of fun! If you do it again, please leave the pictures of the patterns up while you're speaking about them. They flashed off so fast that unless I was close enough to my computer to press pause...I only had your description (which was entertaining none the less!!!)
The Vogue wedding dress is eerily similar to the double bustle Vogue dress my sister in law insisted on making for her wedding. It had 50,000 pieces (felt like) and we literally had to pin her in because, as predicted, she didn't finish it before the ceremony. I think four or five of us sewed on that damn thing and still couldn't finish it. To this day, I have no idea how she got out of it.
ABSOLUTELY NEW YORK PATTERNS CATALOG!!!!! You forgot the odd thing the early 20s did where it had the straight kind of loose top and the poofy skirt that looked like a limp version of something Marie Antoinette would wear.
As someone who was a teen in the 80s, how dare you. Our fashion was amazing. Also, I sent myself into a coughing fit from laughing so hard, especially about the costumes. Loved this video!
The scooped neckline with the point ("inverted sweetheart") has a very late 18th century vibe to it, there's this one yellow Robe à l'Anglaise from 1776 at the Met that has the same neckline!
The longer we can linger over the images, the more shock / laugh value. Also let's us burn the image into our brains so we can recall them at random moments (doctor waiting room, check out line) and shudder or cackle and make everyone around us a little uncomfortable. 😉
Loved the bubble butt wedding dress --- was the 1980s the decade were almost all wedding dresses featured a gift wrapped fanny? A big bow at the butt. Or was that the 1990s? Yes, please, more of these. Most costubers focus on pretty fashions, it's nice to be reminded that bad taste is not new.
The Simplicity pattern I used for my wedding dress in 1985 had a bow on the butt option. I chose to leave it off and have never regretted the decision.
My wedding dress(still in my closet) has a bow on the butt. Think I cared about a part of my dress I couldn't see, when I was trying to hide my pregnant belly in the front? Hardly, lol!
@@StephanieCanada ! I'm watching My Fair Lady and Audrey's white dress has a reverse sweetheart embroidered in! I had to share with someone 😆 None of my friends sew
Vogue 2620 (about 19:55) is fabulous. I am sitting in my fleece hooded version right now on a chilly late autumn morning in NZ. Absolutely perfect for menopausal women who can't do tight waists and just want to be comfy.
I also found myself oddly enamored by many of these until we got to the 90's and it got way too personal as I also had a mom who sewed me things and was a minor in that decade 🧐🤬😳😆
It was worse for me. I was a child of the 1980's and a teenager in the 90's. I survived the stirrup pants of the 80's only to be subjected to the flares of the late 90's complete with the ginormously tall platform tennis shoes. I lived through all of the fashion disasters of both decades. However, in the 2000's, I stopped following fashion altogether. I just plain stopped caring and went for what I want to wear even if it doesn't follow any fashions.
Thank you for a good laugh!! Especially the 1980s had me almost falling out of my chair because of laughter. I had to literally pause the video to recover my composure.
OMG,Stephanie, the hamburger pattern! My first sewing teacher used to make hamburgers with ALL the fixins made from fabric to sell at this big art fair that we used to have in town. This was back in the 70s, so that pattern looks spot on. I'm thinking they should bring it back.....LOL
This is the only pattern I recognized as I have it 😂 The hot dog was a favorite to make and since McDonald's fries were so popular I made one of those too lol.
I had to take home ec in 8th grade (in the early 80s). We had to make a pillow, and there were three choices: a rectangle with frilled trim, initial pillows, or the oreo pillow. The oreo was by FAR the most popular choice. :)
It's impressive how very odd some patterns .... I would have liked to have gotten to look at them longer than the few seconds they were on the screen. I do love how very odd they are. I think your videos are awesome! ❤️
I’m choking laughing. I LOVED that Betty Jackson 1990s pattern and made lots of pieces from it. It was a well cut pattern. I STILL have it. Great video. I’m laughing still. 😊😊😊
I was in elementary school in the 1960’s. Now at 64, I love my A-line dresses/pinafores/jumpers. I have made at least 5. They toss on so fast in the summer. And my heavy wool, lined, huge-houndstooth jumper that’s my first choice, with wool tights. Loooove them Your mileage clearly varied.
I'm unironically in love with the inverted sweetheart neckline, though. (And the frog just made me think of the Girls's Costume Warehouse video which I might have to go watch even though even by my count it's a little early for Halloween stuff.)
I watched this on my Roku on my TV, way too late at night, and wanted to say how much I laughed! And I agree with you about how weird some of these were. As a person born in the 1950s, I actually remember very well some of these fashions. Not that my poor mother sewed much: but what little she did sew was amazing! A dress with smocking on the bodice? I loved that dress, even though it was pink. But I digress. I loved this video, and would love to see more. I have no vintage patterns to add to your mix, but I'm sure others do.
I remember in the 80s/early 90s I made a drop waist large square collar dress with pleated skirt, puffed short sleeves and lace edge on the collar from a pattern I had. It was hideous I. Design looking back on it now. It was a mash up of so many styles. Thanks for the memory walk! 👍🤦♀️👏😂😳
I had a dress like Simplicity 9262, and it was one of my favorite dresses. I got LOTS of compliments on it, and ir was so comfortable. I wish I still had it. It had laser cut flowers at the bottom. I have to say... I kept watching this waiting for the "bad" patterns
So funny! I have some insight for you on Simplicity 9262 from the 2000's: this is sort of an overview of the 'Quilt Mom' look. That oversized (usually denim) jumper worn with a scoop neck t-shirt and often some low-heeled sensible loafers could be seen at every quilt show for years then. It also provided a vehicle for some heinous applique work and oh, there were many patterns just for that. I think it was either on Fons and Porter's or Alex Anderson's tv show that they made a joking reference to the look. You're welcome. And I'm not sorry to say I put my 90's daughter in some of the biggest bubble butt toddler clothes the pattern companies had to offer. What was I thinking?
I feel like you can’t underestimate just how many women did indeed spend the 50s just, wildly drunk- possibly while also on sedatives. My grandma once told me she went to a cocktail party at the neighbors and ended up passed out on their front lawn, and her final thought before she lost consciousness was “but what will the children do for supper?” because apparently she was getting black out drunk at like, 4 PM. When she told me this story I was baffled by how she could have drunk so much in what has to have been a pretty short space of time but in hindsight I’m sure she was also on Valium… now I’m just surprised she lived to be 95. Anyway she was absolutely not alone in this so I have to imagine a dress with a built in railing really did come in handy at times… Maybe showing up drunk to work explains some of these patterns…
Wow! The crotch stuff is killer. My first thought was giant maxi pads on belts from the day finally found camouflage for their bulge.. Too practical?? Lol I'm watching this at 5 am and woke my partner up with the amazing sheep screaming. That is the sound of the day now. The blousy back tight front look like backwards maternity dress. This made my day. Thanks!
Please you can make a tour for the New York Pattern Catalog? I always hate 80's clothes, for me it is the decade of bad taste. You could just do one from the 80's.
I personally loved my linen and lace Jessica McClintock patterns Like tv i think there is sometimes really good and really bad happening simultaneously.
Late to the party but oh this video. I laughed out loud sooo much and I needed that, been grouchy all day. You cheered me up so thank you. And also a vote for a video of the whole 50s catalog.
I absolutely love the couture 80s sewing patterns! I've scored a couple of the Belleville Sassoon, Victor Costa, Givenchy ruffle monster frocks from the 80s. Can't wait to get better with my sewing so I can attempt sewing them
I made Simplicity 7332 back in the 90's and even wore it to work. I made the view that was basically a jumper. I was a big fan of Gunne Sax. I remember going to a boutique that carried only the Gunne Sax ready to wear line. We were all a little weird back then.
1. My contribution: A while back, found the shape-of-the-pattern diagram from an unknown pattern. It was basically a rectangle with drawstrings and armholes. When I tried to track it down by doing an image search, most of what I came up with were post-apocalyptic cosplay outfits. Gracious: Kwik Sew 3624 from 2008. 2. Comments on one of your chosen styles: Tent dresses (1960s). For females only recently freed of girdles, stockings, and garter belts, these were comfy, fun and easy to wear. I mean, if the 1950s had the sack dress, why not a tent dress😉?
I saw the 1920s frog pattern on Tumblr where someone actually had sewn it and modeled it. It was even more hilarious in real life than on the pattern picture. Unforgettable!
I worked in the catalog department of JC Penney in the late 90s. We had all of the catalogs from the 80s under the counter and my high school friend and I would flip through the wedding dress section and just howl. My mom ended up making my wedding dress and I found the absolute most basic Vogue pattern because I was so scarred. It was a lovely sleeveless Badgely Mischka A-line that she finished three days before my wedding 😂
I'd love a flip-through of the NY catalog! Set to the weirdest music you can find on RU-vid's free-to-use catalog. There have been some DECISIONS in pattern creation. But I kind of like the food pillows! Silly, yes, but fun! Simplicity 8496, the one with the HUGE sleeves. I have this pattern and OH MY GOSH. Other than that, I don't think I have or can think of much in the way of weird patterns. Plenty are dated but that doesn't make them weird, just a product of their time. I do have some regrettable, unisex patterns from the 1980s-1990s that are never going to look good on anyone. If I'm up to it, I'll go through my collection to see if I have anything truly noteworthy!
That Vogue 2620 looked great on that skinny extremely beautiful model! I think it would look great in slinky fabric on a slinky model, or in something see-through (diaphanous) with daring tight clothing underneath (again on a slinky model would be best). Or a clear plastic raincoat, with said daring underclothes and tall boots. Oh, that we could get that 1920’s frog costume now, my frog-loving offspring swooned when I showed it to them. Overall, we old ones knew no better, we raved over what was new and in style. Perhaps excluding the awful shoulder pad build-up of the 80’s. Thanks for sharing and Blessings from Canada 🍁
My mom and I used to look at wedding dress patterns (because Truly Victorian didn't exist, and we needed bones for costumes), and BUTT ROSES. Pewpewpew massacre the wedding guests!!
I really got a laugh out of this especially the 1960’s tent dress. My sister made one I think like Simp7148 in a green print. I can remember it so well!
