Something like 3 years ago, I happened to land on a shared photo album from a fellow home sewing enthusiast...and she had a most awesome jacket posted. I asked her for the pattern; turns out it was a long out of print Vogue Oscar de la Renta pattern. Ah, well, perhaps I might stumble onto it one day...
Well, as we were driving back from Florida I got a message from that lovely lady, who had found a factory-folded copy of that pattern in my size.
Y'all, I ordered it right there from the car.
It came this week.
SEPARATE PIECES FOR THE LINING AND THE INTERFACING.
Who DOES that anymore?
Of course, due to its vintage status, I don't expect it to have the bust point marked, or the finished garment dimensions anywhere to be found. I haven't unfolded the tissue yet to verify it, but I can use a tape measure to determine what alterations I need.
Unless it's buried on the tissue paper somewhere, there's no copyright date to be seen; I really don't know how old it is. The model doesn't have Big Hair, so that rules out the late 80's - early 90's, lol. But...the price on it is $6.50, which I would put early 80's.
Six dollars and fifty cents.
I paid a fair amount more than that, especially throwing in shipping. But what I paid is comparable to the current list price on designer patterns.
Not sure when I'm going to work this into the sewing queue; I have done nothing to the blue cardi since I cut it out...although I did put blue thread on the serger, lol.
But I am looking at it a lot. :-)
Your happiness shines through this post. Happy sewing!
ReplyDeleteYAY - Lisa! Sew-along, sew-along!
ReplyDeleteAs it happens I have a couple of 1980 and 81 Vogue counter pattern catalogs. So I took a look. Vogue 2655 was in the May 81 book but not in the 1980 catalog. Jean
ReplyDeleteWow! That's amazing! 1981...40 years ago and it's still a great style. Thanks!
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