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?
Well, no, not when the weather in the now sucks so badly. In general, too, I much like 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. maybe our work will live on in ways we never intended or imagined?
I love the brown version here — I love brown for summer, especially brown and yellow — although the border print is really cute, too. Although ideal now, with the snow and the cold and the having to wait yet one a lot more week for Daylight Savings, I’d probably like anything that promised summer!
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 ideal now.
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