Not one to, you know, ease back into sewing, this pattern is one in my collection I have had for…well, a long time. Now that I’m not pregnant any longer and I’m back to the size I was before, I need to get back to sewing.
I posted this on my Facebook page, and Erin (of this blog) and I discussed it. While I have it all cut out, and all the gathers done by hand, the sewing part has not been completed yet.
My pattern is a size 14 (I got this picture off the Vintage pattern wiki), and it is a bust 32. No where in my pre-pregnant body was a 32 bust even going to fit, so I had to do alterations. Now I am not one of these that feel the need to “save” my vintage patterns for posterity, and I use them without copying them off (if they are damaged, torn or otherwise have a problem I will). I know this is a sore topic for a lot of vintage pattern aficionados, but I am not overly hard of pattern pieces (and I am not a vendor, so what do I care?).
I paper fitted this to my body, which means I just held up a pattern piece to my areas and figured it out/measured what I needed. In the bodice area, I added an inch to the bottom, since women in the 40s had very perky boobies that were very tiny, and I don’t. I also added a bit to the sides (2.5 inches, but I also had to re-account for a hem in the surplice bodice) and added a couple inches to the waist and skirt. That was it. Then I cut.
Now on to sewing.
Cute pattern! Looking forward to hearing how the project turned out.