MYSTERY 1940's and 1950's PLUS SIZE Pattern Unboxing (with other eras tossed in for giggles)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- It pays to have friends! A friend of mine in California decided she no longer wanted to be a pattern seller, so she sold me all her patterns. So this is the BEST box of the 10 she sent me.
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As much as I may try, I was not able to get ALL the patterns live in time for time. Please accept my apology and know that I will finish listing all of then by mid-afternoon tomorrow. Thank you all for your patience as this box had WAY more patterns to check than usual.
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I love the 2046 that you kept lmao
If you size up and make that cute lil pink dress that you kept the pattern of, can you share your sized up pattern .. you said you're a bust 48 and so am I, but I have no clue how to size up anything .. and that dress is adorable !
Years ago I worked in the medical world and had to wear scrubs to work every day. Soon I was making them for everyone. I bought the S-M-L size pattern and traced the pieces out by laying a clear shower curtain over the pattern pieces tracing out the size I wanted with markings with a permanent marker. I stored between pieces of tissue paper and rolled up on an empty paper towel roll with a plain white paper on the outside label ed and banded shut.
Did I place an order on your shop a few hours ago? Yes. Did I go back and snag one of these? Also yes. This was such a good box of patterns!
After a week that involved not 1,not 2 but 3 drs visits,WE NEEDED THIS VIDEO DESPERATELY!!sorry to burden you with my pain,but I was also to get meds,to yup,releave me from my pain,but my dr didn't get the prescription in time&the pharmacy is closed until yup you guessed it Tuesday.. so I am living for THIS video! Joy❤happy new year
We love Bob. Not the damage he causes but just his Bobness.
I came here to say the same thing. 🐀
My husband has a little dog which looks like it was made from that toy pattern. He was born in 1954 and it was sown up by his sister a couple of years later. I'd have bought the pattern but it was already gone :(
You made me laugh so much during this; and, I drank a lot of water. So thank you! I haven't dipped my toe into vintage patterns cause I have a 48 bust. *cries in FBA*
I loved the little stuffed animal one and it’s gone but they were all beautiful 🧸
I worked in a fabric store in the mid 90s and for some reason I was obsessed with a very similar pattern for pillows covered in beads and trim. So impractical! I'm really glad I never took the plunge on that.
Hey Steph. I love pattern reveal videos. 40s and 50 styles are so pleasant to view. I 've made vintage animal patterns and loved the results. You really couldn t buy many stuffed animals in the day. Aprons too, and coats, love, love. Keep inspiring.
Simplicity 6189 was the spittin’ image of a groovy outfit that I bought in the big city of Vancouver, BC during the Christmas holidays when I was 12 years old and I wore it when I made the scene back at my small-town school. The top and stockings were of a shiny turquoise and white argyle pattern, and the skirt was navy blue. At three inches above the knee, it was the very first miniskirt ever worn in my school! Thanks for the Me-mo-rees! Blessings from Canada 🇨🇦
I keep hoping to see one of the many patterns I made during the late '70s-late '80s. I am just trying not to focus on the fact that I actually used what are now vintage patterns. You rock Stefanie!
Yeah fully agree that bows make all patterns better 💖
All the bows! 🎀🎀🎀
Simplicity 2172 is so pretty 😩 love that button detail just so precious. But if I had pattern spending money, simplicity 1154 would be my pick. The fit, the flare, the little top. Ugh so gorgeous!
I love these unboxing videos, I always watch them with a notebook and write down the ones I like. Unfortunately, being in the UK, buying from you would mean very expensive postage, so I'm keeping an eye on eBay on my side of the pond. Thank you for everything, and have a lovely start of 2024!
I love the last one you pick at the end so pretty I don't saw but that pattern cute I am big girl to inam 44 dd lol
Your editing makes me giggle :D
Did i fall asleep while trying to water this last night and so... watching again
simplicity 1624 - looking for that, in large, for over 40 years. Mom had that pattern. She made all versions. When she passed, in 1982, I found them in her summer clothes storage, in great shape
Love the guest appearance of Jonathan Frakes
Dear big 5, if you can hear me, please "accurately" reproduce that second dress S2106. It's so stinking adorable!
The 38 thing is such a dyslexic experience. I do this all the time esp with times. Ik exactly what i mean like conceptually in my head ik i mean a specific time but say the wrong one and theres a path my brain takes to get there but yeah. I swap numebrs or ketters around all thime bc theyre right next to each other. Another example is if theres a paragraph and 2 lings have the same wording in the same place i will cut out the end of the first line and beginning of the second line. Chaos i tell you
Just found your videos, brilliant been watching them for hours this evening. I’m in the uk and you have cheered me up so much, was feeling down and demotivated but not any more, thank you. So glad you have made so many!
All the patterns, I love your reactions!
I found the pattern that I thought was missing. It was all wrapped up in material and plastic wrap. Thank you so much
I would really appreciate a collection of pieces for people who are actually fully flat chested. I really wish I could find things that fit my chest that arnt like sweaters and things.
Great video and I actually caught it early enough that the patterns were still available! Now one of them will be mine! Once it gets here of course.
Of all the decades (loosely-speaking) you demonstrated, the post-war 40s to mid 50s have to be the most stylish. Just gorgeous!!!
Hi Stephanie, made it to the end. ❤❤❤ Watching your videos. I check out your store all of the time. I'm looking for something in a Katherine Hepburn as a lady mob boss pattern. You get them in from time to time. Invariably I am dead broke when that happens. But one day, you shall have the pattern and I shall have the money and we will be friends.
Did I say I love the videos? They are Awesome!
Love these beautiful clothes!
make the jacket a pull over by putting a zipper under an armpit
20 minutes in and I'm out of water. 🤣 brb...
I want you to know I am present and correct with my own screaming goat and I will be *forever* grateful you put me onto them. My friend says the one he got from me wins best Christmas gift he’s had in many years. I told him who put me onto it 😉
I'm drinking tea, not water, I hope that meets the directive.
Your shirt and that color looks stunning on you!!!
Almost finished my tea with a drink anytime you said cute.😅
Love seeing all the patterns from all the eras and your reactions!😂
I'm seeing a LOT of 1960s patterns that I made. 7475 with the sash, in moire satin for a party.
And the stockings of 6189 so you could have WILD PAISLEY LEGS!
These unboxings are so fun!
The one from the 60’s with the stockings, I remember my older cousins wearing stockings like that with garters. They still used garters in the 60’s. I had a flashback just now, lol.😮 Thankfully, when I became a teen in the 70’s, we had moved onto orange-ish pantyhose.
Hehe, those 70's flared almost secret pants...and the other 70s pattern with the skirt with the v-shaped yoke... except I have no idea how to fit my ass into bottoms that are based on a bust size :P So I will just have to draft them myself.
Simplicity 6189 I have that pattern! Actually I have 2. Found the first at St. Vinny's but it was missing the stockings so bought it again off Ebay. I wanted the stocking pattern to go with my kirtle. :D It's a WHACKY stocking pattern!
All of the 70s knits are giving me flashbacks to all the time I spent with my mother in the Stretch and Sew shop when I was a kid in the 70s. The amount of double-stretch polyester I was clothed in during that decade probably contributed to half the climate change issues we are facing today.
Well this was a lovely, unexpected treat! Love watching you unbox and react to patterns. The empire waist ones with matching boleros were my favourites. Definitely not my style but SO PRETTY 😍
Ahhhhhhh.... I might need simplicity 5355. That is my FAVORITE pant shape... But boy would I ever have to size it up.
I liked the little stuffed animal pattern. So cute!
I wish I could order a copy of a pattern that you like and let you keep it instead of getting the original cause I always freaking mess the things up that way you can keep it lose pieces and like totally ruin a vintage pattern because I have a few vintage patterns I've bought cut it out and still not been able to make it because I lose pieces before and everything gets lost before it actually gets made Because I am horrible with patterns most the time I just do draping but I want to try them. I am a bust 45. I also need them sized up I'm 40 DD size 18 on most of my clothes some can go down to 12 or 16 depending on the cut and brand I just hate to mess up patterns. I need practice and I want to do things Are more old-school clothing, because I'm not into modern stuff for the most part
So many…hard to pick my favorite! My favorite era, though, was the very early 50’s❤️. I really appreciated your naming of various pattern details (boatneck, empire waist, bolero jacket, etc.) for the less fashion-aware (ahem…myself) to learn something new. Just stumbled across your channel; LOVE it!
My favorite -- the evil Christie Brinkley jacket that has no pattern. You know I'm going to have to see if one was ever made.
😤 Simplicity 4357 -- admittedly, I have a problem. I love double breasted dresses, I love asymmetrical. I LOVE THIS! I have a couple similar . . .not that that would stop me .
I LOVE YOUR PATTERN VIDEOS!!!!
I'm between a bust 38 and a 40 and I love the 40s, and pretty much everything I want in the videos is sold out by the time I get there. But I really hope whoever gets them is enjoying them!
I'm just pausing at 15 minutes in... ooooh-ho-hooo that is a good box. Good luck with your final keep choice. I myself favour the 30's-50's - somehow it feels like those three decades are telling a longer story.
All the best for the New Year, Lady. Let's hope it's a good one. Now. Back to California dreaming... Good. Box. Maybe best-est ever.
- Cathy (&, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Did you notice that the long skirt in Simplicity 7497 is reversible? So awesome!
Think how sad it was to spend your 20s in the 80s. EVERYTHING was oversized. You felt like a 5 year old playing dress up in your mother's clothes... except hers were better looking. Sigh. But at least the hair, make-up and jewelry was just awful. The shoes were cool though.
I’m just amazed at the changes in American sizing. I mean a size 16 in 1945 has a bust of 34”. A size 16 now is 42-44 inches!! That’s 10 inches difference for the same “size”. Proving size numbers are just made up malarkey 😉😂
5:00 sorry my great gran insisted I learn flat pattern drafting and "from sight" duplication from age 8. At the time I considered contacting CPS as I saw math as a form of abuse. 😂 But now I am SOOOOOOOO GRATEFUL.
Torture your children with science and knowledge, they don't know what is good for them. Teach them to trust and respect you, that not everything is rainbows and lollipops they will thank you long after you've died. ❤ Thanks Grandma I can literally see the pattern pieces in my mind.
Unfortunately I am WAY more PLUS sized than any of these. I find the casual elegance of the 40's attractive though I've never tried to make any, while most of the 60's and 70's are right out (except for some of those massive palazzo-type pants, they're fun)
I absolutely LOVE half-sizes. I'm 5'3" and a little more ample than I used to be.... but, the half-sizes fit my frame better. I find that most Miss patterns are too wide in the neckline and shoulder-to-shoulder, the waist is about 2 inches too low, and of course the hemline is too long. For a while I was really stumped because I was shortening the skirt but everything else was too big. Half-sizes for the win! I wish contemporary patterns came in half-sizes! (Has everyone also gotten taller than people used to be???)
Aaarrrrggg, Went to your website to buy the cute stuffed animal pattern, but it was ALREADY SOLD!😥
What are the chances that you would have two (count them, two) patterns from the seventies that I actually owned and made clothes from 😆. A pleasant trip though time (accompanied by some wildly inappropriate advertising ) \(^-^)/.
Oh, fun!! I have a similar vintage dress with those interesting shoulder tab details (Simplicity 2407) - I thought i remembered it being sold as 1930's, but guess it was 40s!
Stephanie, after being introduced to you and your videos thru Karen Brown’s channel, I’ve been binge watching you. Love your energy and your humor. Brilliant for sure!
Hello from the UK 😊 Delightful video, as ever. Beautiful things to look at, with your customary warm, funny, knowledgeable and entertaining commentary.
One thing I'm wondering... Would there be any way you could keep the banner with the pattern year on the screen for just a little longer...? I've had to do pause and rewind a few times, cos it's felt a bit 'blink and you miss it'.
Could you maybe have a slightly smaller banner, with just the year, positioned by the picture-in-picture of you, so that it doesn't obscure anything of the pattern envelope, that stays on the screen for the same length of time as the envelope? If you see what I mean... Something like that...?
I'm a complete non-sewer, BTW - but I adore the history of material culture. I admire and delight in the skill of those, like yourself, who specialise in and recreate the craft of the past.
This was so fun. I love the 40s and the 70s most. I really enjoyed the ones you selected, particularly the keyhole neck. Also, I learned a thing: I'm a 1/2 size!
'Leona Rocha was a fit expert. Born in Hawaii, she originally enlisted in the Army’s dental technician course. She used her GI bill benefits to train as a designer at the FIT, she was a past president of the American Home Sewing Association, and even wrote a book about fitting with simplicity. She was a founder of a sewing notions company called Fashionetics, and was the inventor of The Fashion Ruler while still a student, and it is still sold today. In the early 80’s, she partnered with Simplicity to do seminars about fit. At that time, she also hosted a TV show called The Sewing Show on cable four days a week, twice a day. It was a thirteen week series about how to sew at home and properly fit home sewn clothing. She later became an executive at Vogue-Butterick patterns - and married one of their executives. She ran for office on Maui, where she still lives today.' ~The Vintage Fashion Librarian
Enjoyed going through this box with you. Cant wear any of those sizes, but I do remember much younget days when I could have. High school days in the late 60's, size 7-8. Won't discuss today sizes. 😂 Thanks for the memories!
damn i was too late to buy anything
Hello, you keep referring to not using ziplock plastic bags for pattern storage. Which bags do you recommend? I did not find them listed on your website.
My fav pattern was the stuffed animals.
I am sure my Mom had that pattern.
She also made a ballerina doll.. she used satin for the body and
embroidered the face and used yarn for the hair.
Maybe you have that pattern?
She also made dolly clothes out of men’s ties.
Seven kids, where did she get the time and the energy ?
My Mom is where I got the ‘how hard can it be’ gene.
Except her stuff always turned out pretty amazing!
Happy New Year Stephanie 🇨🇦!
Do you ever let people come look yhrough patterns and fanric? Dont know why i didnt think sooner. Have been in FL since Christmas, leaving soon😢 but would live to get some goodies directly from you.
I’ve just cut out a vintage size 16 1/2 pattern. Boxy & short waisted - yes, please - fingers crossed.
I can't find the the70s simplicity 5355 pattern on your website.
I could be wrong but the images of women from 1940s shows the women hunched over.
Got around to this video too late to snap up S2389! It's gorgeous. Will seek it out here in Australia :) love your videos!
To remove any tape…..try Undu solvent adhesive remover. It’s what museums use.
LMAO! I'm here! And thank you for the water reminder. I had forgotten, and that's exactly what I need right now.
300 ml... and GO!
Well that got me through 20 min. : P
I think the phrase the of the day was actually "oh wow!"
Thanks for keeping me company, and helping me hydrate.
Best of the box was probably that cross over collar.
Um, at the 29 minute mark, the little girl on the far left has slight zombie eyes! A little creepy there… looks like she’s got the walk as well??
i need that Christie brinkley pattern just for the pure fact shes why I'm called Christie
I use manilla envelopes with the hole and prongs that are a bit bigger than the general pattern bag size and taped the pattern bags to the respective front and back of the envelope. I only have done it to the patterns that the bags are starting to rip. Is this an ok option for keeping them safe?
haha, makes me want to buy one, but I don't do inches and whatever, so nope 😅
How many times did you gasp or audibly ooh during this video? Answers below
Love the assymetrical dresses. I will not size up to 46 bust at least now. I would do better to slice and dice a bigger dress.
genuine question - why not trace all the (components of) patterns that you like and then sell them?
take a shot of vodka every time you see a sewing pattern in a Stephanie Canada video 😂😂😂😂
What fun, all of those older patterns. I have a few from my Grandmother.
Swap your stashed pattern for a new one from the box if you really want to keep more?
I just found you today. I love your vibe, and you made me smile.
What do you do with the incomplete "le sad" patterns?
46:45 Hahaha! The Scarlet (A) Letter!!! Poor child...
The only pattern I've completed was for a bag. I just found several patterns I bought circa 2007 and want to actually try some out. Well, I traced clothes I liked and used those patterns but I hadn't uses purchased ones. It's about time I try!
Not really any favorites. I have too many patterns as it is. 😱🤣🤣
Half size = short and fat, Just my type!
Stumbled across your feed and watched the video of the 2nd haul. I didn’t realize that there would be a good market for old patterns. I sew but not clothing. Every time I’ve tried I have not been successful. I loved looking at all the patterns especially the older 1930s and 1940s interesting. Wondering if they made them for us plus sized girls. 48ddd. Wondering if they made patterns for the more to love girls. I’m gonna ad you to my feed cuz I love your crazy self. I would love to see some of those patterns used for some of today’s fabrics. Do you have a buy, make and show and tell channel or web site? Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks for the entertainment!😊
Aww thank you! Yes, they did make plus size patterns (those are the ones I tend to use) and I actually do have my own website full of vintage patterns, fabrics and notions! www.backroomfinds.com
Simplicity 1579 aaaahhhh the sweetheart neck, the little straps, and for me, with my big old old lady bingo wings, I wouldn't need to make the cape...
😂 Bingo Wings!!! I’m dying!!
Simplicity # 8403 the second piece is a DUSTER. The green dress with the triangles are reminiscent of military ephilets was war time. Uhhmmm...Secret Pants, yeph, thats our girl Rachael M. But I need that pattern (3711) in a 3X 24/26 HELP. The 2507 Pattern in green is beautiful. I am shocked actually. That is the most complicated neck lineand sleeves I've seen them put out. It reminds me of my Vogue $17.00 pattern. BTW Have you tried using an iron with a steam cloth to remove the tape? Also, will help kill spores.
I love watching unboxings. I screenshot my favs and I use them for inspiration for costuming designs for my TTRPG characters and as potential vTuber outfits.
I loved this video! Thanks for sharing!
So fun and so much a joy to see you undbox patterns - I do not understand the zices? I'm from Denmak and we use metric...oh! I dream I'm making so many of this wonderful dresses! Thank you, I really enjoy your videos
I love how your glasses and top (dress?) matches! Very cool!
...also, I enjoyed Simplicity 9806 the most (/▿＼ )
I always enjoy your unboxing videos! I'm kinda glad the patterns are usually sold by the time I see them on your website, though, because I'm starting a no-buy January and a low-buy year. 💸💸💸
so 10 inches is the amount you'd recommend for grading? That's awesome, I didn't realize you could do more than a few inches! (also very new to grading so, the more you know)