I think this dress is aDORable. The pockets! The buttons! The CAPE! So cute. Even though the women in the illustration are obviously deciding which of the cater-waiters they will later kill, dismember, and eat.
This is also one of those rare pattern envelopes where I would follow the suggested color schemes slavishly. Red gingham-y print? Sure. Yellow poplin? You betcha. Then I'd make one in grass green, with white trim.
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Love this dress!
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WOW!
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This reminds me of a lovely blue roses Easter dress with a matching cape when I was 6.
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I agree. This is an adorable dress.www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
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What a cute summer dress!I love how the envelope reads Half Size Slenderette, letting the buyer know that this was a slimming style. I remember that half-size was code for what was called chubby teen and childrens clothing.
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Interesting! So thats what half size slenderette means. I Googled the phrase without much luck and thought maybe it referred to petite lengths. Half size slenderette has been running through my head all afternoon.
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Personally, I prefer the CHUB-DEB line of patterns for those post-holiday months, but the Half-Size Slenderettes sound intriguing, as well. (Are we ALL half-sizes now, since the 1950s and 60s foundation garments have been tossed out?)
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Note to comments: Half sizes were for short women with a fuller or mature figure. For example my 5 foot tall, 110 pound grandmother wore a 10-1/2 to 121/2 half size. She was slender with a mature figure. She would have looked ridiculous in an 9 or 11 junior petite which were made for young people. I wish the pattern companies would bring back patterns for us shorties.
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Youre right, it is so cute!
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ha! I have this pattern, and the fabric I intended to use…..two summers ago! it IS adorable.
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Awwwwwww, What remarkable dresses, masterpieces, charm. http://www.picktorrent.com I love it.
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Yall just solved a mystery for me!Ive got a dress pattern thats a half-size and, when I made it up, the natural waistline ended up just under my bust. But if half-sizes were for petites, that totally makes sense, since I havent been petite since I was eleven years old. I didnt think I was that incompetent at following patterns!* * * * * * I love that dress, but those are some sly-looking women. Secret agents? The one on the left could be Natasha from the Bullwinkle cartoons before she hit the vodka too hard and had to take up with Boris.
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I agree theyre scary dames. Its like these two women have turned to a life of violent crime to compensate for their half-size state. Kind of a Napoleon Complex for girls?
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Its the crime-fighting duo of Halfsize and Slenderette! Whenever an innocent citizen of Gingham City is in danger, they whip on their minicapes and super-pointy shoes and fly to the rescue. Slenderette is having a chuckle over the fact that none of the other reporters at the Daily Pleat recognize her when shes wearing white gloves.
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oooooooooooooooh no wonder half size patterns fit me better===52 with ahem a mature figure
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oooooooooooooooh no wonder half size patterns fit me better===52 with ahem a mature figure
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Theresa: I believe we all saw you looking pretty d@mn swell in a dark blue wrap dress you made for the office once? When everyone posted pics of sewing projects? Whats with this farkakt mature figure caca?
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Ive made one dress from a half-size/slenderette pattern. I am 56 with a full bust, and I found that if I lengthened the torso to fit, the bust was full enough without any adjustments. I now look for the half size whenever Im shopping for patterns.
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