Hello, all! It’s been a few months since I’ve posted here; If you read my blog, you’ll know that I’ve been battling the most evil poison ivy known to man, and I haven’t been able to do much else! I’ve gotten it mostly under control now, so hopefully I will be able start posting more [...]
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Today over on A Few Threads Loose I posted about a wonderful piece of vintage lingerie from my personal collection. I wanted to share it with all of you over here at We Sew Retro as well because it was just too pretty not to! This 1930′s bra has many hand made details but has [...]
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From the moment I saw the pattern cover, that wide-eyed, round-cheeked girl with her tip-tilted nose reminded me of 1930s star Jessie Matthews. So this was dubbed the Jessie Matthews dress… I finished it just in time for a party a few days after Christmas and have worn it quite frequently since – albeit usually [...]
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Discovered a thin book from Dover Publications in the library one wet weekend: Fashions of the Thirties, 476 authentic copyright-free illustrations, selected & arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton. (Still available online, also an updated version that includes a CD – such modernization!) The tiny Publisher’s note states the images were taken from the Fashion Review [...]
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I’ve just done a tutorial on hand sewing a headscarf to use for those vintage hairstyles. I’ve actually used the one featured in the tutorial already to keep my curlers in place when setting my hair. I’m a recent convert to the world of scarves. Not only (to quote jane austen) do they save a [...]
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Now that we have our first summer show up and running, I get to concentrate on the second summer show – which goes into first dress rehearsal tomorrow! Yikes! The same actress who wore this dress will be in play #2, in a smaller role. She’s playing a tightly-wound British secretary – I envisioned her in [...]
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Well, our play opens tonight – which means that all of my toiles have been turned into garments, and everything is fit and ready to go! Now I get to play catchup and post some fun things. This dress ended up being my absolute favorite – the combination of the dress design and the fabric [...]
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Earlier this month, I posted the first of the toiles I made up for our upcoming production of ‘Fallen Angels’ – an adorable little mid-30′s dress, made using a vintage pattern. Remember? Well, since then we had an initial fitting on the actress – there were some modifications that had to be made, which wasn’t [...]
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The Pattern I bought the pattern for the 1930′s Pleated beret with accent trim as a PDF-pattern from Kalliedesigns at Etsy. When writing this the cost was $4.25. It was mailed to me very promptly, well within the time limit of 24 hours. The pattern is a copy of an old one, and is a [...]
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A few months ago I was given this beautiful vintage dress by my mother-in-law. She bought it several years ago, but having only ever wore it once, decided she’d like to pass it onto me! I’d love to be able to give her a little more information on what period the dress hails from, and date [...]
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