#is from a vintage sewing pattern

[mestamps]

Tried drawing the rich boi! His coat has gold flecks ^_^

#Saiko Metori #Saiki K Saiko #Bagumbo attempts art #i used a reference #the coat #is from a vintage sewing pattern

[badassindistress]

Look at my new Vintage Patterns - kids collection

A friend of my mother's gave me a bag of her old patterns, including some great ones from around 1985.

Look at these delightful illustrations:

We start with some sweet sailor suits and dresses I mostly kept for costuming purposes and vintage appeal. The one on the left is from 1984, I'm guessing the sailor suits are as well.

Then some more modern baby clothes because adorable and maybe something I could make for the Freckling if I ever go mad enough to want to make teeny-tiny clothes again.

Then some coats and pyjamas that I think one of my baby cousins would go wild for.

And then some fun kid's clothes! Look how dapper those vest-wearing girls are! And the skirt looks very convenient and cute too.

I still haven't recovered from the strawberry suit I made for a cousin's baby, but should the urge overtake me, I am now well prepared...

(Link to the grown-up fancy lady patterns here).

#yes i did name things from the 80s vintage just to deal psychic damage to my friends born in the 80s <3 #vintage sewing patterns #a talia original #excerpts from my life #i like the girls in their dapper little vests a whole lot #patterns from the past

[legzeppelin]

obscenely cute matching outfit i made :•) heart eyes

#fabric is vintage silk i got from the fabric thrift store #i used a free sewing pattern from mood fabrics for the shorts :•)

[morallygraygf]

ok so recently i was looking at the dior spring couture 2021 collection and i noticed that this dress looked... oddly familiar

it bothered me for months because i knew id seen this dress before, i just didn't know where.

until i was looking through some vintage sewing pattern boards on pinterest and found this late 40s - early 50s vogue pattern

notice the dark green dress. did the designer from dior take inspiration from it? even the way the model is posed looks similar.

#fashion history #dior #dior 2021 #40s fashion #50s fashion #new look #vintage sewing #vogue pattern #vintage sewing pattern #id say the pattern is from '49 or '48 but the seller on etsy says it's 50s so 🤷🏽‍♀️ #1940s #1950s #1950s fashion #1940s fashion #historical inspiration

[rotzaprachim]

Having those thoughts in part because I’ve gone on a deep dive into wanting to learn how to sew again

#I loveeee vintage and vintage revival patterns I wish I could make them myself #Especially hitting some of those lines between formality and a little more tznius #And living in a really hot area like most of the stuff for my climate from big box stores is just beach coverups #I’m not sure if it would be Too Much for my adhd Brain or a Good project #But the amounts of math and engineering in home sewing are incredible #Fundies going on about women staying home from school to learn traditional skills and then 19 year olds on YouTube and their grandmothers #Are calculating curved surfaces to take a dress pattern up half a size

[chaoticintellectual]

one thing about my grandma is that sometimes parents or siblings of her friends and neighbors die, and because she is well-known to sew and knit, they'll offer her the stashes of yarn, patterns and fabrics of the deceased, and she'll say yes but not actually have any use for it, and so she'll pass it down to me, and that's how I end up with a bunch of stuff

#most of the time it's pretty mundane and not always to my taste #but sometimes it's also very useful or actually cool and vintage #like i got these boxes of thread and floss from the 70s #and the boxes themselves are pretty cool #i also got a bunch of sewing patterns from the 80s-90s

[wildestheart4ever]

What’s the damn point of sewing brands categorizing their patterns by numbers if they’re gonna be repeating those numbers???

#Random #Sewing #Found I vintage suit I liked from McCalls #on tiktok #but the text on the pattern envelope weren't facing the correct way #so it took it me a while trying to figure out what it might've been before giving up #found the pattern on Pinterest #and it turned out one of my guesses WAS correct #but it was showing me a different McCalls pattern with the same number #wtf McCalls???

[mossymanor]

Low res preview of the dress up game I'm working on! It will be fairy themed, only one skin tone for now until I can figure out the code and get it working, but then I plan to add more as well as additional dresses and wings. I also still need to design the menu/controls.

#it's mostly collaged together from images from vintage sewing patterns paper dolls magazines etc as well as photos for some of the dresses #i got a little ahead of myself doing so much work on the graphics before i can even make it functional with the code and everything #but now i will have images to work with when testing it out #and i also have a clearer idea of what i want it to end up being which should help too #wip #also not 100% sure of what size/resolution is generally good for websites esp if you want it to be responsive 🤷‍♀️ #but this is a 16:9 aspect ratio so hopefully that's ok??

[palaeoplushies]

I'm making a Clydesdale using a vintage sewing pattern, I've chosen mohair and wool furs and it's stuffed with wool, too. The tail and mane are made with sheep hide offcuts from a tannery on Skye (Skye Skyns). I'm waiting for some glass eyes to arrive.

There's a little polyester for the hoofs and the sewing thread I used is a polycotton blend. Other than that, it's natural fibres (but not vegan).

He's called Carnera after the locally famous Irn Bru horse.

#horse #vintage plush making #mohair #Clydesdale horse #Clydesdale

[nyc-looks]

Frankie, 28

“I'm wearing all vintage: pants are Levi's laired with a wool kilt, an oversized cotton button down that I sewed and altered to make it more cropped and textured by adjusting where I buttoned the shirt! Skirt and shirt are from Brooklyn Vintage Company, pants and blazer are from Flower Child Cleveland. I often describe my style as ’if an art teacher, clown, and a pirate had a baby it'd be me’ I mainly gravitate towards chunky, whimsical silhouettes with as much pattern mixing, layering, and cohesive color stories as possible.”

Oct 20, 2023 ∙ Chelsea

#nyc looks #street style #street fashion #style #new york #outfit #vintage #fashion #new york street style #plaid #plaid skirt #plaid pants

[badassindistress]

Look at my new Vintage Patterns - 1980s Fancy Lady Edition

A friend of my mother's gave me her old patterns (look here for the cute kid's stuff) so I thought I'd ensure you can all marvel at them.

There are some gems of the 1980s here:

We start with these ladies from 1985 Vogue who have definitely not killed their husbands

Then quite a nice wrap dress from Vogue Americana. i love when they do both an illustration and a picture

Then some Dior, not my favourite

This Givenchy Suit is A Look at least, particularly with the hat

And then this Nina Ricci dress which is just A Lot. I feel like I'm looking at a nightgown. However, there is a gem hidden in this pattern!

You get a little Vogue label to sew on your clothes! Just to prove that you are wearing Vogue or something. It's a very scratchy label , which makes it even funnier. I just love it

#the fact that the other vogue patterns have the label printed on the back but no label in it #suggested the others were actually sewn into clothes to make them wors e #which matches what i know of the lady who gave me these #a talia original #excerpts from my life #vintage sewing patterns #patterns from the past #i will keep these safe #and if i ever make a friend wildfor 80s fashion #i have the perfect gift #it really annoys me that not all patterns have a year on them #maybe i should start annotating my modern patterns for future generations #i know have a pattern magazine from the 50s #one from the 60s #one pattern from the 70s #and these from the 80s #presumably i have 90s patterns as well #considering i started sewing in 2008 and not all my patterns were new #this pleases me #if you'd like to see more of these patterns lmk

[thesims2comics]

The premades girls in their scripted wedding dress! ✨

(Poses references from various vintage sewing pattern books)

#cassandra goth #titania summerdream #dina caliente #the sims 2 #ts2 #premades #veronaville #pleasantview #my art #thesims2comics #dont like titianas pose v much but dina absolutely SLAYS

[demonzoro]

none of this is proofread but here's my ideal modern au for the goth fam. wall of text incoming, sky is blue, etc.

mihawk: World's Most Reluctant College Professor. history/archaeology. reluctantly employed because his place of residence (half-wrecked castle) is owned by the university and one of the terms for him to live there for free is to teach classes. initially hired as a publicity stunt that petered out. actual respected swordsman in the modern age but the reality is "swordsman" is... not very lucrative. really important to me that he is forcibly employed while having gigantic unemployed energy.

his ass is not showing up to a lecture hall unless under extreme duress (shanks showing up to his place unannounced again🙄). fully aware his papers are only taken as a credit filler (robin lectures the papers that are more practically applicable). almost exclusively "teaches" by emailing out reading lists and assignments. actively trying to get his students to drop his paper so he can do fuck-all for the rest of the year.

zoro: phys ed major. he's so serious about his main courses as well as mihawk's stupidly niche paper. probably the first person the "Dracule Mihawk Teaches Here!" publicity stunt has worked on in years. has trouble with the heavy focus of book-smarts this paper requires but powers through it best he can until mihawk sets some indecipherable tome as part of a reading list and zoro is like. okay. you leave me no choice.

he fully shows up on mihawk's doorstep at 9:44PM on a tuesday night brandishing this tome. mihawk answers the door because he is two bottles into his wine.

zoro, furious that this piece of shit tome has no audiobook alternative: this. YOU. explain. NOW. mihawk: a student. at my doorstep. did shanks blab to you. zoro: your address is publicly listed as a minor tourist attraction. mihawk (<- didn't know that): hm. come in.

zoro is treated to a full drunk history session and the supermarket gift wine mihawk has been avoiding but accidentally opened. he wakes up the next morning and zoro is still there in one of the guest rooms. he's like what are you doing here and zoro is like. i don't have a whole day to waste getting back to my dorm i need to do your assignment.

mihawk, fully aware the dorms should only be a max twenty minute walk away: interesting. get out.

safe to say, zoro thinks visiting mihawk's home is easier than emailing him. which is true in some ways since mihawk takes small joys in putting unread emails straight into trash.

perona: fashion major OBVIOUSLY. really interested finding vintage/archival sewing patterns/designs and modernising them. LOVES using essays as outlets for her rants. blase on everything else in life but takes her course so seriously. HATES zoro ever since he almost made her fail an assignment because he had checked out a book she needed and held it for fucking aaages.

similarly zoro hates perona bc she almost made him fail an assignment by hogging the only lightbox on this side of the campus that makes it possible to read some of the archival material mihawk puts on his impossible reading lists.

zoro gets lost in mihawk's castle and meets perona in-person for the first time outside of a name on a booking sheet and they have a huge stupid argument. zoro storms off and accidentally finds mihawk again this way and he's doubly mad because he can't believe mihawk has been chasing him away all this time while letting another student just live in the east wing.

mihawk (<- didn't know that): there's a what.

turns out perona just said "umm dorm fees? rent? in this economy? there's a wrecked castle 20mins away from campus it's free real estate". and she's right. she also finds out mihawk has staff access to archival materials not readily open to students and she immediately whips out a wishlist.

anyways i imagine perona graduates and becomes a fashion designer. zoro decides booksmarts is not for him and drops out to focus fully on a professional athlete career or make his way as a stuntman. models for perona on occasion. mihawk fully quits his job after those two leave bc they were the only ones in years that made it interesting. retires but robin recommends him as a consultant to the museum society and he does some work there. ALWAYS calls zoro or perona if he's restoring smthng cool he thinks they would love.

jfc are you still here. i kiss you on the lips

#mihawk wld slay as a retired-not-retired professor #and by slay i mean you are killing the students good gd. #but like tbh what else wld you transfer the warlord of the sea vibe to ..... his apathy/antagonism to the world govt #what better parallel than forced tenure and HORRIBLE university admin.... college bureaucracy .... [shudders] #btw i know nothing abt history papers or how unis work #this is all made up for maximum antics. #✨ #goth fam

[sewlastcentury]

Going to a vintage-dresser pride party on Friday and realized I didn’t have any rainbow clothing. 12 hrs later, problem fixed!

I used the pattern block I made for my 1840s cabbage rose dress (did I ever post that here?) and extended the front before trying it on and drawing out the point I wanted. The stripes on this fabric are diagonal, so it was actually kind of difficult to place all my pieces so that they’d be doing the right thing 😅🏳️‍🌈

I needed to make this quickly and I don’t have a serger here, so it’s unlined and I only finished some of the seams after sewing it together, but I think that’s pretty historically accurate anyway 🤣 I’m super happy with how it’s turned out!

[ I drafted the bodice pattern from Elizabeth Friendship’s book Making Working Women’s Costume, and I’m wearing it over my old Redthreaded 1860s corset. ]

#victorian fashion #1840s fashion #historical fashion #historical costuming #pride month #sewing #rainbow dress

[vincentbriggs]

hi uh, i really enjoy your art and your sewing, I'm even subbed over on youtube, but I jsut wanna say thanks for being you. It's really cool to learn you're trans, and it's revitalizing my desire to get back into historic sewing. I didn't know if or how big the trans communityw as in the recreation sewing, but knowing we're out there in this community too is really assuring. I'm super excited to start working on patterns and styles I haven't been able to do before. Thank you for all you do!

Hello, thank you!! There are quite a lot of trans people who are into historical sewing! I can't think of very many here on tumblr - there's @rowzien who does lovely early 19th century stuff, and I'm sure plenty of trans costuming people will say "same hat!" in the comments of this post.

There are a lot more that I know of on instagram, so I'll just list a bunch off. (I pretty much never look at my instagram feed and don't remember the names of most of the people I follow, let alone their genders, so I likely missed some but ah well.) Some of these are more cosplay, larp, or vintage focused accounts, but there's some sort of sewing and/or costuming on all of them.

jonesyollie (friend who made the timesheet from the previous post!), bequeermakestuff, evilqueenbeecosplays (sadly there aren't many ladies in this post, but I'm sure there are more out there!), ora_lin (they sell patterns!), noodle.stitch, ashlgcostumes (they have a lot of youtube videos and a nice speaking voice), rose_prince_lee, qtcostumer, enby.vintage, kiyoteacups, transcending_time_costuming, slightly_teddy (he's also on tumblr but hasn't posted in ages), angryhistoryguy (he once said in a facebook comment that he has so many transmasc reenactor friends that they could make a Monstrous Regiment), woodsmokeandwords, and marlowelune (SUCH good historical/fantasy everyday clothes, agh! love their wardrobe and illustrations!).

Honourable mention to matthewpcarlsen and dario_princiotta, who haven't put pronouns in their bios and I don't want to speculate on anyone's gender, but it's some good gender juice either way. Matthew pairs a bushy moustache with perfectly fitted Victorian gowns and looks amazing in them, and Dario is really into tightlacing and weird sculptural corsetry.

This is, alas, not a particularly diverse list of people. Like the costuming community at large, it skews towards white and afab, but that does seem to be gradually improving over the years - I certainly see a lot more people of colour doing historical costuming now than I did a decade ago. (I've been into historical sewing since approximately 2010).

As your ask demonstrates, when people don't see themselves represented in a space they're more likely to avoid it/assume it's not for them, which is the entire reason I occasionally mention being trans in my posts!

#ask #costuming #historical costuming

[she-makes-rainbows]

Here are a few pics I took back in February of the colorful look I wore for Valentine's. 🌈🩷 I made the dress myself using a vintage pattern and vintage-inspired print fabric from Spoonflower. 🌼

The pattern itself was a nice and straightforward sew, so if you're into casual '60s styles I definitely recommend it! It's the perfect simple a-line style for showcasing a fun graphic fabric print and with the addition of oversized pockets and a chunky metal o-ring zipper down the front you can get a pretty authentic mid-late '60s look without much effort!

My version of the dress deviates slightly from the pattern as I opted to make single welt pockets rather than large patch pockets. This design choice was mainly out of necessity as I was short on fabric yardage and didn't have enough for much else aside from the main body of the dress. Luckily I was able to utilize the generous plain white selvage edges that were provided on the fabric to create the pocket welts and contrasting stand collar.

I'm currently in the process of putting together a good old fashioned BLOG (what a throwback, right?) where I'll get more into technical detail about my sewing projects, including this one. So if that's something you're interested in watch this space for updates! I'm hoping to have it launched by the summer. 🤞😊

#completed projects #sewing #handmade wardrobe #rainbow fashion #rainbow style #vintage sewing #'60s #simplicity patterns #1968 #spoonflower #60s style #my outfits #shemakesrainbows