I really hope SewRena grabs some of these to make up. All those tulle frilly options make my heart sing and I think she'd be stunning in them!!!

The Laura Ashley wedding dress pattern was THE most popular pattern for bridal parties in the tiny, tiny town where I grew up. I used the pattern for 3, yes THREE, brides maids dresses during my Junior and Senior years in when many of my friends were marrying. (It may have been influenced by the fact that the dress made a tiny baby bump barely visible. Oh, well.)

Po ( long o) de swah. I don’t care if you mispronounce things. You are always entertaining. 🥰

The 50's had such a refined glam sense of style! But I think the last time I was a 29-32" bust and a waist smaller than Scarlett O'Hara's I was 12 years old.

For the 5790 the "muslin" is probably what we would call cotton lawn today.

God they knew how to dress in the 50's. And they had lovely fabrics to choose from. Now we have crap.

Too bad the designers for the Met Gala and Cannes festival didnt avail themselves of some of these glamorous looks!

Thank you for yet another "motivating" video--I want them ALL! I miss the structure and romance of vintage clothing. I started sewing at 13 using my babysitting money on fabric. I made my wedding dress using a Vogue pattern turned out exactly as I wanted it to. It's been YEARS (like MORE than a few decades), but I'm ready to start up again, thanks to you!! 🧵👏✨♥😊

Stephanie thank you for another entertaining video. When I find patterns like this they make my heart flutter. I cant wait to see what the next installment is. Have a great day.

Around 1959 my oldest sister 17(?) had a friend who gave two used prom gowns to my middle sister, 10 (?)and me 6(?) to play dress up. They were cupcake dresses and could have been made from the first pattern you showed. One was baby blue and the other was yellow they were made of tulle and taffeta with rhinestone dots. About a year later we were given a pink cupcake dress of a slightly different pattern maybe like the second cupcake dress you showed, same fabrics.

This 64 year old life long sewist would say pur-kale.

I'd love to see Bianca the Closet Historian draft and make the Vogue S 4931at

well.. you asked

I made Vogue 9824 from 1959 for my daughter (It was the pattern my mother made for a prom back then. I has the petal bust thing...We actually made them higher...my daughter managed an entire night dancing at a wedding without the petals drooping. Yes, lots of engineering. It was a really satifying sew. Thiose vinatge patterns are a joy.

"Look at the pouf!"

Am loving Stephanie butchering the french fabric names!!

Those ruffled bodices were a boon to the flat-chested prom goers.

I still dream of gowns like this. Shirley Temples STORY TIME was my favorite show because of her gowns she wore!😊

OMG that was funny. You pronounced percale differently from what I'm used to and I said to my TV "it's per-KAYLE". Then you say "if I'm pronouncing any of these wrong, forgive me. So I said "ok you're forgiven 😂😂😂

What is old is now new, the gowns are so beautiful and fun.