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Lately I’ve been trolling vintage pattern web sites, mostly because it’s just so much fun and there is serious style out there that still looks good today. This weekend on Patterns From The Past I found Simplicity 6284 that I actually wore! (you need to scroll down the page to find it, this is not a robust web site) My mother made me the jacket and vest and I wore it for my senior class photo. The fabric may actually be silk taffeta; I did a burn test today and got that characteristic smell and soft black ash that silk makes. I think the collar fabric is a cotton or rayon matte shantung. Both fabrics are vintage and came from my grandmother’s stash, and the buttons are mother of pearl. Mom (who posts comments here as PVE) matched up the plaid pretty well I’d say so she gets a big hug fromm me! I <3 YOU MOM! The inside is not lined except for the sleeves, and she clean finished the seams with an overlock stitch. This is not a serged stitch however, this jacket made was more than a decade before before sergers were available to home sewers. At the time straight stitch machines did a approximation of a true overlock stitch. The facings are bound with black lace and the sleeves are lined with silver polyester satin. The rest of my outfit was a pair of RTW black satin jeans and black platform shoes with a 3 inch heel. I think the jeans had a rhinestone applique on the back too. It was a killer 70′s look lemme tell you!
So if you know a young sewer who loves that Steampunk look trust me this is the pattern for her.
That jacket is adorable! I can’t believe you still have it.
I wish I would have kept the things my mother sewed for me; it’s so cool you have that piece of history! I was a teen in the 80s and the McCall’s NYNY patterns came out when I was in high school–they were the most fashiony patterns at the time, and I tortured my poor mom into sewing half of them. (I also did a few myself.) Since I don’t have the garments anymore, I’ve been tracking down all the patterns again just for my own guilty pleasure.
How Cool ! Wonderful that you thought to save it
Don’t you love how fashion comes back…. this one is a goodie and I wish we could see a pic of you wearing it
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Blush blush Sweetie. The love extended to me is cherished. There’s a likelyhood the pattern you chose is in my bins. I’ll go through them & let you know. You decided the buttons as well. Whatever was sewn for you invariably had your input. Toddlerhood & on. I had to do a decent match & clean finish. Memom made certain I knew she wanted to see the outfit when it was finished. She “inspected” it thoroughly!
Gigi – the jacket is available because it was in the back of a closet of mine. Took up some coats she posted about earlier that her maternal grandmother had stashed away. Granddaughters asked if there were any more of mom’s teen clothes. Mentioned I had some ready to take to Salvation Army. Suggestion was the bag go through the progeny first. Among the all was the outfit in Phyllis’ blog. Being a 4th generation sewist, she does her ancestors proud, & has her maternal grands sewing approach. Truly Phyllis’ sewing efforts are many notches above mine. Her fashion eye is along the lines of her grnadmother & her dad as well. The genes prevail!!!!
For the curious – the machine used was a Kenmore 71 straight stitch. The last one pictured on –
http://www.ismacs.net/sears/sears.html
About a year or so after it was bought to sew my “Phyllis” maternity clothes an attachment was offered for doing overcasting. It has 3 scrolls – fine medium – heavy and worked rather well, considering. One of the scrolls broke & Phyllis’ dad was able to solder it back together.