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To those that missed the $3 Simplicity sale last night, it looks like there is a sale continuing until 7/7.

McCall's and Butterick patterns are $4.99; Vogue Patterns are $6.99.

It is for paper and pdf patterns.

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McCall's M6504. Ok, so for this one I was making A and then towards the end there accidentally did the shoulders for C. Now I could have just ripped the seams, but I had used a serger, so it had cut some of the fabric away, and I thought you know what surely one of the scraps is large enough that I can just make the sleeves, and I got really lucky. So yay! M6504 with sleeves and no tail, so really it looks like a completely different dress and I totally don't just wear the same thing over and over again in different colors. 😉

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About that Bustline: McCalls 8338

This re-issued pattern from the 1930s explains why the Dress Doctors could sometimes tsk-tsk poor design in women’s clothing. We could debate all day about modesty versus prudishness, about sexual double standards, and other factors, historical and contemporary, in fashion’s display of women’s bodies. My critique of this pattern is the design is trying to hard.

As the pattern description states: “Gathers... create fullness in the bustline.” True, gathers have the obvious advantage of increasing bulk wherever they appear, whether at the bustline or the hipline. In various historical eras, when a particular kind of silhouette became the fashion, designers used gathers to allow women to create the illusion of more curves than they possessed. But by outlining each breast with an obvious curve, the cut of this dress seems kind of desperate. As if the wearer is saying, Yes, I really do have breasts under here! Oh yes, I do! See? You can imagine more subtle cuts to the bodice that would create a similar silhouette. The other design details, Peter Pan collar, puffy shoulders and sleeves indicate this is a young woman’s dress, so why make her so self-conscious of her figure? I am seeing it from the point of view of the small-busted woman here, you may have noticed.

Of course, women’s evening wear has bared women’s flesh and form in obvious ways too, but this looks to be a day dress done up as it was in small patterns. And the suggestions for fabrics are crepes, linens and woolens with none of the fabrics usually recommended for evening. It looks to date to the late 1930s when the waistline was clearly defined and when hemlines were moving up to just below the knee where they would be frozen for the duration of World War II.

You can find this pattern at your local fabric store or online here: https://somethingdelightful.com/mccalls/m8338

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Mock up garment for my next cosplay: Clemensia Dovecote from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The blue Line is wheee that textured contrast will go.