Comments | annawick: sewing

annawick

sewing

Nov 07, 2009 12:45

Alrighty, my costuming friends. When I am not broken any more I'm going to start swing dancing with a buddy of mine. As a fan of swing music, I want a swing outfit to wear. So, any reccomendations of some '30s and'40s patterns, dresses, skirts, pants, whatever. I'm pretty excited about it.

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guen_the_cat November 8 2009, 02:49:14 UTC

I've got a Ton of vintage patterns I downloaded during that free week from that place that I can't rightly remember right now. I'm giving Jaelie a copy of the patterns the next time I see her, which could possibly be next Saturday. You should poke through those patterns to see if anything fits your fancy!

annawick November 8 2009, 04:18:06 UTC

sweet! will do!

spar30 November 8 2009, 21:10:01 UTC

good for you! ZOmbie leg needs the workout

jaelie November 10 2009, 15:26:55 UTC

There are of course the vintage/retro patterns from Vogue, Butterick or Simplicity. These patterns you can get for cheap if you wait for a sale. One non-commercial pattern maker that I know of one "Swing" era pattern: Sensibility.com.

jaelie November 10 2009, 15:31:10 UTC

Oh, yeah (sorry for all the little extra notes lol). I have some of these patterns. If you want to borrow them, you may!

jaelie November 15 2009, 00:08:36 UTC

I have the CD for you from Maggie with the patterns. And I just got an email from someone who does vintage patterns who totally slipped my mind: http://www.evadress.com/ I have a few of hers (like two), but haven't tried them out yet.

jaelie November 10 2009, 15:28:05 UTC

By the way, I think it's *awesome* you're going to start swing dancing. Where are yall planning on going to do this? Who is teaching you? Your buddy?

annawick November 11 2009, 02:33:35 UTC

http://www.sonsofhermann.com/ sons of herman hall is one place that my buddy dances. There are a couple of other places he goes, but I don't remeber where he said. They have lessons at the Sons of Herman and Zac (my buddy) is gonna work with me too :)

saintvickery November 16 2009, 03:41:48 UTC

I've got a swingy pattern from my mom's collection. I don't know when it was printed, but the price on it says 15 cents. The only problem is it's a girls pattern, but I thing we could grade it up to a larger size it you liked it.

Also I have a vintage dress that belonged to my grandmother that might fit you. It may not have a wide enough skirt for swinging, though.

annawick November 16 2009, 05:39:15 UTC

I'd love to look at these. Can you bring them on Thanksgiving?

saintvickery November 16 2009, 13:41:03 UTC

Can do.