This suit is listed on eBay (and it's crazy expensive). But it's oh-so-gorgeous …
To me, this feels like the kind of suit worn in novels by heroines who take jobs as governesses, etc. before returning to their prior station. A conservative cut in a fabric that is just slightly too attention-getting, yes? (And of course it goes without saying that in the kind of novel I'm talking about, this suit would call attention to the heroine's startling blue or violet eyes …)
[Thanks to Robin for the link!]
A Dress A Day 
Beautiful. Good thing it’s too small for me because it’s way too expensive.
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I love that pepulum overlay. It’s very subtle yet puts this jacket into another level of design. The back view shows how that overlay is cut at an angle. I think this is a fairly simple idea worth trying on a similar simple jacket or dress!
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Well, if that’s not New Look, I don’t know what is. Definitely influenced by Dior’s Bar Suit. Beautiful.
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That’s a lot of fabric for a 40s skirt.
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I agree completely. This is something one of Mary Stewart’s intrepid British heroines would have worn in one of her earlier novels. ::love::
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It looks like something Hepburn would have worn in an early film where she had the most perfect buttoned up outfits: little hat, gloves, blouses and jackets buttoned to the neck and perfect leather purses. She was what they used to call prim, but not prissy.
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Be still, my little Steampunk heart. The peplum, oh, my goodness, the peplum! I have to lie down now.
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And naturally our Heroine would be wearing lipstick (perfectly applied) to match those killer buttons.
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Mary Poppins!
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Oh. My. I want to make one of these, badly.
Good call on the Mary Stewart novel. Perhaps the heroine of The Ivy Tree?
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I would like this please.
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Arrgh I just checked the measurements and this would FIT me. How to restrain myself?
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Oh my gosh, I totally see this as the evil mother’s outfit. Sure she’s all conservative, but her outfit screams ‘I’m more beautiful than my daughter!’
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I imagine someone from the Ministry of Magic wearing this!
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I swear I had a pattern just like this. It was a Louise Scott New York pattern, but darned if I can find the pattern number now.
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This has nothing to do with this post but you have to see this 1947 wedding dress and romantic story about a Soldier and a parachute.
http://newsdesk.si.edu/snapshot/parachute-wedding-dress
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Don’t the wrinkles under the arm and bust indicate that the mannequin is too large in the bust for this? Button looks like it too.
Was this tight fit a conservative cut in the New Look era? Would anyone hire a governess with this undisguised figure?
I like the color it looks here, blue-violet, better than the red & navy stripe the close-up shows. Definitely too attention getting.
I made a vest with this fit, and the peplum, once, out of a tapestry-print corduroy. When I had a waist like that. I loved it…
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It makes the waist look teensy. Don’t know if I could squeeze in there. But it’s terribly cool
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Oh! Awesome. I must make myself one like it but where, oh where will I wear it?
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Stunning! Hell, I’d wear it whether it matched my battleship grey eyes or not.
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I long to be that heroine…….with that suit on, I’d meet Heathcliff FOR SURE :):)
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