From one of my mid 30s Simplicity pattern booklets.
Oh, if only it were that easy :)
Flutter Sleeve Evening Gown start
I have started on my first dress for my dust bowl look. I'm finally getting around to making the rayon flowered evening gown from my flutter sleeve reproduction pattern.
Gathering Dust Bowl accessories.
I've been looking through my catalogs getting ideas for my dust bowl look. Dress cuts, fabrics, blah blah, but what I really need are accessories. Shoes and headwear. I know that will complete the look.
Building a Dust Bowl wardrobe.
Perhaps it's the encroaching warmer weather but I've been thinking about the light breezy and ruffled fashions of the women of rural middle America. The farmer's wives and working gals who wanted the latest fashions but could not or being where they were, were often a year or so behind.
It's that transition phase from the dropped waistline of the 20s but before the high puffy sleeves of the mid to late 30s. I see lots of flowing lawns, and brightly colored cottons and great ruffled sleeves.
The colors also appeal to me. I grabbed some prints I was looking at at ReproductionFabrics.com and if you have never been there, you have been warned. They carry the most amazing repro textiles from as early as the Victorian Era to the late 50s. Amazing pattern, all cotton and all I want dresses of!
It's that transition phase from the dropped waistline of the 20s but before the high puffy sleeves of the mid to late 30s. I see lots of flowing lawns, and brightly colored cottons and great ruffled sleeves.
The colors also appeal to me. I grabbed some prints I was looking at at ReproductionFabrics.com and if you have never been there, you have been warned. They carry the most amazing repro textiles from as early as the Victorian Era to the late 50s. Amazing pattern, all cotton and all I want dresses of!
Here is the main palette I'm looking to work from.
Catalog Sunday
This Sunday and perhaps for a while I'm focusing on dust bowl fashions. Dust Bowl is really a location of America, but the time frame I mean is 1931-1935. The styles still had many 20s elements but also flowing ruffles and necklines and laces. I love the looks of that time.
This Sunday I have Lane Bryant scans from 1932,
March Pattern Showcase!
Man Month Project: 30s Man's Shirt final
As I look back on my work on this shirt, I realized I may have been a tad arrogant in thinking my skill level was up to par. I had a lot of trouble with this, I don't think it's mostly my skill, but with all the obstacles I came up against, I wish I could have handled them better.
I mean it's totally wearable, I'm not *that* bad, but as far as my own satisfaction with construction, I'd give my work on it a C-.
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