Sunday, November 27, 2011

Vogue Pattern #1144 by Pierre Cardin in L'Officiel, September 1961






Lanvin Castillo #1132 in L'Officiel, September 1961

Lanvin Castillo Vogue Pattern #1132, 1961

Dress in pink jersey from Rene Veron
An inverted pleat gives the skirt an agreeable suppleness.  
The bodice is graced with a turnover collar which stands away from the throat.


 
Layout for #1132


                                  Lanvin Castillio pink jersey dress in L'Officiel, September 1961

Jacques Fath #1370

Jacques Heim #1469

Reposting Heim #1469.  Don't know what happened to the photo?

Friday, November 25, 2011

Vogue Pattern #1370 by Fath & Femme Chic, Spring 1957

Here is a Jacques Fath afternoon dress featured in the Spring 1957 issue of Femme Chic along with the Vogue Paris Original pattern #1370 of the same dress.  In polka-dot silk chiffon along with another dotty design by Jean Desses on the opposite page.




My First Vogue Pattern

Hello.  Since this is my first entry, I suppose I should introduce myself.  My name is Henry and I have an abiding fascination for sewing patterns.

My earliest remembrance, the first memory of holding a pattern was when I was six years old or so... while idly wandering around some little thrift hop with my Mom, and spying this oversize pattern envelope:  Vogue Paris Original #1469 by Jacques Heim, a 1959 design.  I asked my Mom to buy it an she humored me.  So for a mere 10 cents I collected my first pattern.  I loved the diagram on the back with all the pattern pieces laid out.  The extreme curve at the jacket back intrigued me... how you could make the fabric form volume.  I loved the watercolor drawing on the cover and the instruction sheet, maybe the most of all, because it showed you how the construction of everything worked.

Vogue Patterns became imprinted in my early memory reminding me of fun times with Mom and our shared love of clothes.  My Mom passed away, unexpectedly, when I was just 20 years old and over these many years sewing patterns, Vogue Paris Originals in particular, have now obtained a Proustian quality of childhood memory for me when I let myself get all dreamy.

Enough talk...
Here is the very first pattern from my collection, age 6.

Vogue Paris Original #1469:  designed by Jacques Heim.
Beautifully cut stand-away back jacket has the curve follow to the front with no side seams.  The end of the curve on the sides becomes bias for a supple fit.  Shaped collar and long fitted sleeves.