"Then they have the audacity to show me dark green and chartreuse green suiting... Which is just almost cruel, honestly..." Watching one of your videos never fails to amuse me. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Also the idea that they did jersey is so intriguing... Excuse me while I go down a rabbit hole of research...

@MysteryMommy1

2 жыл бұрын

THIS

As someone studying history and realizing how big of a project it is to digitize primary sources, I think this kind of video is wonderful! You're leaving a digital record of a primary source and that's so cool to see happening on a KZread channel. Love your videos, as always.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sam!

Located in Detroit, MI, Hudson's was closed in 1983. Also known as J.L. Hudson's, it was 2,124,316 square feet, the second largest department store next to Macy's in New York. It carried a nickname "The Big Store". It was also the tallest department store in the world at 410 feet tall. Thanks for sharing these bits of historical inspiration!

My mom was a young lady during this time, I'm so jealous that she got to wear these snazzy dresses. Thanks for sharing!

If you do end up making the draped bodice corset waist dress, I'd love to see how you get there from your usual block.

@michellecornum5856

2 жыл бұрын

AMEN!

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Coming soooooon 😉✨

These pattern reviews and the catalog reviews are very rapidly becoming one of my favorite things!

Wool jersey almost sews itself. It's easy to cut, and I've even hand-washed it before cutting with no ill effect. It does have a tendency to curl towards the knit side, just like hand knitting, but this is manageable. Too much handling will cause the edges to curl more quickly. A good pressing with a steam iron, letting it cool first, will tame the curl long enough for you to sew the seam. You don't need stretch stitches; a very narrow zig-zag stitch will do. On your Singer you may have to stretch the seam slightly front and back as the machine pulls the fabric through - this can be difficult to do well so you may want to dust off your modern machine (if you still have it). Give the seam a press with a steam iron, let it cool, and serge the allowances together before handling them too much. You're good to go!

@imamonstr

2 жыл бұрын

Where have you bought wool jersey before ??? I didn't even know it was a thing !!

@agcons

2 жыл бұрын

@@imamonstr Somewhere in metro Vancouver, sometime in the mid 1980s. I cannot remember the name of the shop, but it might have been Fabricana Imports (they got a lot of my hobby money back then). It was an odd width, too: 122 cm instead of the common 90, 115, and 150 cm of most fabrics. I haven't looked for it since because due to drastic life changes in the '90s I stopped sewing. I'm getting back into it now that I'm close to retirement, and wow, have things changed. Decent fabric stores seem to have vanished.

I'm absolutely in love with those patterns! And you can bet that I'll be wearing them if can sew them! Those dresses and suits, can you imagine wearing one in a good quality woven soft wool?! It would feel absolutely luxurious! Heck, I'll evern wear the gloves!

I so enjoy your catalog sharing. Being a short buxom woman who needs to lose some weight I'm not sure that I could carry some of these off although I 'd like to give it a try. That apron for a messy cook is right up my alley! I would make 3 or 4 of those little darlings. Oops! I forgot to say thank you very much! 🦉🐈‍⬛🥸

I'm loving this Cataloging Catalogs series 🙂 2804 ftw!

Oh dear God! I am going to need a glass of port (?) for this episode! It will be part of my social media reward this weekend! That and the episode with the Crimson Peaks dressing gown. Yeesh.?? This is heady stuff!!! Have a great family day long weekend, Bianca! Willl check back in by Sunday as there are some odd and wonderful specialty markets this weekend to explore despite the weather. Thank you..this looks very fascinating!!! 🌍🌏🌎🍾🍷j

I always wondered about rings/bracelets over gloves. Perhaps that’s just Miss Piggy?

@waterbitten

2 жыл бұрын

Hehehe, although I think Miss Piggy was intentional

@tenaoconnor7510

2 жыл бұрын

The older movies with formal dresses and gloves, the ladies usually had bracelets over their gloves. Marilynn Monroe and Madonna also wore them in a vedio or two. Pearls and diamonds 💎

@catzkeet4860

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense that you’d wear bracelets over gloves….gloves were de rigeur, so unless you wore your bracelets over your gloves you’d never see them. Rings however, would have to be so, SO much larger to fit over a glove, that they’d be pretty much useless for wear without your gloves……not acceptable for your wedder and engagement rings.

Ooh can you please show how we can make extra gathering like in the skirt shown on the right at 3:52? Honestly, that whole dress looks like a dream, so a whole tutorial on that would be amazing. And I can't wait to see a video on your favorite midriff style dress; that one was my second favorite!

The blue dress with the hip flange in the booklet reminds me of the blue dress Burnadette is making 😻 thanks for sharing. Some of the dresses are so pretty. I rarely wear dresses but some of them could be nice blouses.

@armedvsokord

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same, it could be the inspiration for the Wheel of Time dress.

@lynn858

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

Thank you for sharing! This was fabulous! I have a few of these patterns from when Butterick released some of their vintage patterns a few years ago. I may have to pull them out again. And I, too, want every hat! And the gloves!

@joiedevivre2005

2 жыл бұрын

As a ginger, I also have an unshakable love for green & chartreuse.

Thanks for this. Makes me want to make use of a coat I had put away. So much fun. Goes well with a glass of wine.🍷xo

You always brighten my day with your adorable and charming personality. Oh ya...and the fashion 🤗

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cathy!!

The one with the bowwwws on the neckline 😍😍😍😍🤩

My most favorite series!! I would love a gored? Skirt demo if you please.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Can do!

Bianca. What an amazing mini collection of Butterick pattern books. I'm with you on the colours presented that had me salivating like a dawg! The dress you chose, you simply have to recreate and I/we all await in anticipation of that moment. Lu from London x

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

14:45 You're talking about the peplum but I can't take my eyes off that "north star" shaped neckline. And now I have a mighty need for a top with such a neckline.

They got so creative with gathering and cuts and seams in those years! I bought a couple of digitized pattern drafting magazines (with a grid you make from your measurements) from I think the 40s and 50s and the styles that are in there are absolutely delightful!

These are always so fun to watch. I love old catalogs and magazines. I have quite an extensive collection of Delineator magazines. Also, the lady on the cover kind of looks like you!

Love the Y dart on the purple ensemble at 9:43!

I didn't encounter my first vintage clothing store until I went away to college, mid-80s. The store always had quite a few of those fitted 40's wool coats. Back then the 40s were only as distant as the 80s are now, so they were probably a lot easier to come by. I remember I wanted a black one so badly, but I guess it was out of my budget then because I never did buy one.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

I got suuuuper lucky this month as I was sent as gorgeous fitted black wool 40s coat as a gift 😭❤ It fits perfectly and has weird eye shaped silver buttons, a dream!!

@kellylincoln8244

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheClosetHistorian pics or it didn’t happen! ;p

I was thinking that the corset gathered dress would look amazing in a two tone fabric when you mentioned the fabric in your stash! 😂 Great minds think alike!!

So much inspiration 🤩🤩 I ‘ll dive into the scans 😊 thank you again!

For chartreuse dress crepe you can always buy a white or ivory dress weight rayon crepe and then pre-treat it, dye it, and post-treat it with a fixative. I know it's fiddly and adds a *lot* to your working time on a gown, but that tends to be what I do with unpatterned cloth that I want a specific hard to find color of. It also helps especially for me because I'm in LA and can go to the fabric district and just bulk-buy a white fabric of my choice at a huge discount and make a half-dozen dresses in various colors off of one massive cut.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I were cool enough and patient enough to try dying fabric...but alas I am not 😅

@natrajkumari

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheClosetHistorian 😂😂😂 Honestly, fair! It can be super annoying, and even though I do it all the time, there are definitely days where I'm staring at the pot going "why didn't I just spend extra and search harder to buy this in whatever color it was I wanted."

This was very cool. I have a lot of pattern envy now!

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate you taking the time to narrate these! I've tried to watch some vintage catalog flipthroughs on other channels, but without narration my goldfish brain just wanders off (plus your commentary is insightful and funny!)

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this. The patterns are beautiful!

I love these :) Also, when you say "dart fullness', I think of the Artful Dodger - like ... dartful-ness? I was in a childhood play of Oliver Twist as a kid, and it makes me smile every time :)

I'm happy to watch your exploration in sewing jersey or tailored suits. You don't need to be the expert for it, I'd just be along for the ride :D.(mind you, I'd understand not wanting to sew with knits....just scary for me)

At 13:39 there is a really neat purse that is almost like a sack that goes over the arm in the back. I adore that! I haven’t seen anything like it… and so the hunt begins….

@octavia088

2 жыл бұрын

I believe there is at least one vintage purse pattern out there that includes that style. There are many purse patterns from the 1940’s. Leather was scarce during the war so women made their own bags from cloth. Fortunately, bag patterns seem to have survived better than the clothing patterns. I have collected quite a few.

I love when you share these with us! It’s eye candy and great inspo for future projects I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to because there are so many beautiful ideas…but I love it! 🥰

Thanks for sharing, I loved this time spent with you. The plush toys, I made from my vintage patterns from 1943 and 1947 a mommy and baby lamb, giraffes and elephants for my Grand daughter. I don't know who loves them more, me or her. Keep inspiring.

Love the inspiration in these books. Thank you.

I love Butterick patterns. Thank you for sharing this

Thanks sooo much for sharing this video! ❤️❤️❤️

Fabulous designs! I'm so excited to see how you create any of these 😊

Now I really want a purple cape! Love these videos!

2804 is gorgeous, I do hope you get to make it!

Lynda Maynard teaches tailoring online. I start her tailoring 1 in the spring. It’s one evening a week and by the time I take all 3, I’ll have upped my tailoring skills. She’s a wonderful teacher.

Oh my gosh yessss!! I am still learning so forgive me if I use the wrong words. But a black hat with a Satin chartreuse fabric underneath. Especially the hat you showed. Were you only get a get sort of quick peeks at the color. And chartreuse.......ugh 🤩 *Chefs Kiss*

Butterick has always had a great style! Great book

I love these 1940s fashions. I want them all. I have one Simplicity pattern book 1943 15 and 25 cents patterns. This was 70.00 many years ago. I never see these catalogs. I do have some patterns. I have a fall/ winter and spring/ summer 1947 Montgomery Wards catalogs. Like you I look through and say I want that and this! I recently bought a 1940s winter suit or skirt and jacket with a peplum. So much fun! Thank you for sharing.

YAY!!! I love catalog videos!!

I love seeing the vintage pattern books. I wouldn't mind sewing one of them.

In bookbinding we call the brown discoloration from paper acidity 'acid burn'. I dont know about in the US but here in the UK paper made during WW2 is known to be very acidic due to wartime shortages and rationing (I dont known enough about industrial paper making to explain why).

@Eloraurora

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard Stephanie Canada, who deals in vintage sewing patterns, say that 40s patterns are sometimes more brittle or discolored due to how they made the paper, which suggests it was at least somewhat a factor in the US, too.

These outfits are just wonderful! Love that draped bodice with corset waist dress as well! Would love to see how that one is put together!

Boiled wool ski pants with a heavy ribbed cuff is a dream garment of mine.

Wowowow! Stunning designs to inspire for sure. Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait to see you do the fitted corset dress because I’d love to try and do one too and boy howdy I have no idea how that would work.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Coming soon! ✨

I watch these catalog flip throughs over and over and over. They're so great for inspiration and ideas! Thank you so much for sharing your collection with us and I can't wait to see what you make from this book!

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kathy!

I love these videos of yours, awesome dress content and sassy snarky remarks :) That purple coat though! I do have some gorgeous cashmere blend wool I bought in forest green to make an autumn coat, there was some great inspiration on those pages! Thank you for sharing!

The big Hudson's in downtown Detroit closed in the 80s, but the company continued as a chain of department stores until the early 2000s, when it became Marshall Field's, and now it's owned by Macy's. I miss Hudson's - I never got to shop at the big one downtown, but my mother bought the materials for her wedding dress there in 1965 (yes, they sold fabric by the yard - it's where you went to get something extra nice). The stores aren't as nice and special as they used to be.

I love stretch velvet myself but buy ready-made after my one and only experiment with making an evening gown in it!! Stretch fabrics have a life of their own and rules of making to match but OHHH the Goodies in that Catalog!! Thanks for sharing them!!

Loved the videos. Vintage rocks! Hugs from Montana

I so love your catalog videos! I have a few wards catalogs myself. I so love the early 40s the most. The hats and accessories are great! Wish you could still buy these and people still wore hats and gloves!

Love looking through these pattern books with you. The first book showed some coats, I would lean more towards the purple cloak. Several of the other dresses certainly look doable once I get my machine out and am able to make a few pattern blocks. Once again, thank you for sharing these treasures with us. I agree about gloves being fiddly. Made a pair ONCE...never again.

Thanks for sharing.

I've been leaning toward nice, heavy rayons, so I'll keep an eye out for chartreuse ones! I don't make children's clothes and have little interest in them, but for the sake of preservation and archiving, I'd scan the children's-wear, too.

This is absolutely my favorite of the catalogs you’ve presented! Thank you so much it’s gorgeous! Like you, I fell in love with pattern number 20804! I would make it in all colors. Thank you so much Bianca.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nancy!

beautiful patterns

Oooo I would like to see what you would do with that full apron❤️ Cute and functional!

Oh my gosh! I actually have that 1860's fashion plate!! My copy is dated "October 1864" and actually includes a lovely teal colored gown alongside the red jacket outfit.

So many possibilities for future videos. (HINT HINT) You, me, and knits. I own an alarming amount of knits for not knowing how to sew with them. I love these flip through videos! I am loving the detailing on the partially obscured fashion plate of the one pattern book with the red. These videos take SO many re-watches! There is always something we missed or something we need. And you make pattern manipulation seem so easy!

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michelle!

I was just browsing through the Butterick book at work (a fabric shop), and I saw that the re-released the dress (2802) that has all the gathering curved down and across the hip. It's B6374.

Ohh the dropped waist and the 'teen' pinafores are awesome. I'm truly saddened that super high waists on everything are firmly back into fashion, I've not found low waisted or dropped waist jeans in forever, I have no butt to speak of, lol. So dropped waists please come back! Maybe you could do a vid on trouser alterations like how to make a high waist pair of pants, medium/dropped waisted?

Butterick actually reissued that lovely dress pattern with the dropped gathered swoop waistline under B6374, it looks like it's surprisingly not cut on the bias. Also, the word "svelte" is pronounced like the word "smelt," just replace the "m" sound with a "v" sound. I love your videos

@lynnries7729

2 жыл бұрын

Doubtful any pattern from 'the war years' would be bias cut when advertised as 3-yard designs. It would have been considered extravagant and wasteful when so many things were rationed.

Oh emm gee I think even sliced bread doesn't do you justice. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. I'm 57.... :(. You're just marvelous. Too marvelous for words (it's a song... Thank you Frank Sinatra

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Esther!

I wish they would still make these pattern books and put them in magazines

this is going to be long😳 first Ive been watching your channel everyday since the world broke without ever liking or commenting because i refused to make an account. but here i am. I broke done and made one. And this is how Id make that red dress with the mid section. first the yellow drawing of it makes me think that the center is bias cut and the rest on grain. like they were moving to on grain to save fabric but the center section is like a left over from the earlier bias cut dresses and used in the curvy area. how ever if i was to make it. first i would do a side seam zipper. the top although high is a fold over so it can open up for the head. and the grains would be. back top on. front top although historically would be straight id use bias for at least the front flap because it makes such pretty drapes. the mid section front id do on grain with the shaping in the center front and side seams. the middle back id do on the bias. ive draped skirts with this style section and that was the combo i liked best for that style. of course this way there is no center back seam and skirt just on grain. lastly you have a lovely voice and size 8 hands might not be the average for women because all the size 6 brings the number down it is in fact the most common size. size 8 glove sells out dramatically faster then any other size. thats why theres no vintage ones left. they were worn to death. had more owners being easier to pass on

Yay, love the 1950s redingotes! Just made a "make-do-and-mend" style dress which incorporated a centre-front contrast godet. I'm gonna call it a redingote, and why not?

Ah, Butterick; it's how I got my vintage 50s (which I won't be using as it's too short for a religious woman lol ;) and my 80s one which I have already used and modded! It really seems to be the go-to source this last 100 years, and may I say your taste in choice was excellent!

Thank you : )

I adore the children's wear of the 40's. 😁

Keeping an eye out for 2804!

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

😉 Coming soon!

Michigan Native here sadly Hudson’s is no longer around.

I wonder if Stephanie Canada can find that pattern. I love when you do these videos!

Ese vestido rojo está espectacular.... definitivamente tienes que hacerlo

Nicole Rudolph has been streaming on Twitch and recently marked and cut out dark green wool suiting for a pair of trousers. I can't remember where she said it was from but I remember that she mentioned where she had found it. I hope that helps. :)

The career Girl Page gave me life Just by existing against the constant rethoric that women "back then" (ah yes, that extremely specific time frame thats super easy to in down...) Stayed at home and didnt even think about careers because it just wasnt done.

Jersey works better with a babylock, really need that overlock stitch to prevent fraying. if you stay stitch all the pattern pieces before sewing, you can use a regular machine, but yeah, jersey needs a different kind of attention. In my experience. Other seamstresses may have different experience I'm sure.

❤️✨

Looked down at the skirt I’m wearing and yes, indeed, it is gored, and now I know how to add aesthetically pleasing pockets to it!

No drool on the pages....I commend you, my lady.

Fun!

I loves suits from the 40, 50, 60 I'll like to see you sew those suits and do suits of Jacqueline Kennedy and do Princess Diana's suits dresses and gowns do actresses dresses and gowns from the 40,50and 60s and show the shoes if you can.I loves your channel you are so talented and show coats wraps and capes from those era's.

I'm not gonna call it spooky exactly... but I spent last month obsessing over 40s dresses with that waist feature and wishing you would do a video on it so i could attempt it... so i'm excited

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Coming soon!

Well Bianca. Stock up on gridded parer, sharpen those pencils and break ourt the rolls of stcky tape and lets get sraerted.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

I literally did buy a roll of paper this last week 🤣 Coming soooon!

J.L. Hudson's is still around, sort of... They were bought out by Target.

Butterick actually sells the pattern from the dress at 4.24

My mom was a young lady in the 50s I loves the suits coats dresses hats gloves.if you can show casual and dressy hats and gloves from the 30, 40, 50,&60s

Butterick b2804 found on Etsy.

It would have been so great if those patterns included instruction for the hats featured.

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes they say where to buy them...which still doesn't help us much 😂

Back in the 90s, I had a semi-formal dress cut very similar to the one at 18:39 - unfortunately, the hang of the drape on the top cast a weird shadow that made it look like I was pregnant. :(

I'm sure someone has already commented but, the one dress on the first page, with the button detail at the hip was reissued, it's Butterick 6374. BTW you're super talented you could totally draft the corset detail dress, in fact you're probably already doing it, you're doing right now aren't you.lol

@TheClosetHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

I am indeed literally doing it right now 😂 Thank you!

@cheaphussey5028

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheClosetHistorian called it!

Fun 🤩🤩🤩💖💖

The blue dress at 24:56 is strikingly similar to Moiraine's Dress (Wheel of Time) Burnett Banner reproduced, wonder if that was partly the inspiration?

More fashion from the past!!!!!