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My Amelia in a blouse from a 1948 McCalls pattern (dress pattern) and a skirt inspired by one Bette Davis wore in the film "June Bride", also 1948.



whoops, her shoes are unbuckled!

I really like the looks of that. A nice, pretty, everyday historic outfit, neither too plain nor too overcomplicated. And it looks wonderful on her.

Did you resize the pattern yourself? Or is it one of those Hello Dolly resized patterns (that she claims she drafts herself)? Just curious as I've got a load of vintage patterns that I want to resize too I love that outfit - such a lovely combination of colors!

Greyhaunt wrote:Did you resize the pattern yourself? Or is it one of those Hello Dolly resized patterns (that she claims she drafts herself)? Just curious as I've got a load of vintage patterns that I want to resize too I love that outfit - such a lovely combination of colors!

Although I've used Hello Dolly patterns (I totally believe she did it herself as they are not always well done) I scaled that dress pattern down myself. Hm. do I have a picture of the dress? Let's see. Yes, I do.



I just left off the skirt and added a band for the blouse.

here's my blog post about scaling down the dress and hat pattern. http://daretodolly.blogspot.com/2012/10/stylin-like-1949.html

Sometime today, I'll finish my post about drafting the green skirt in the first post.

I always enjoy your miniature couture!

aaaaand, the blog post is up.
http://daretodolly.blogspot.com/2013/08/garments-from-scratch.html