I hope you enjoyed this new series. I do indeed intend to keep going to adventure into what home sewist have been able to make thru the years. If you enjoy sewing patterns here is a whole playlist of other videos: th-cam.com/play/PLaG2bBTXx7U74Wmx6LkyCC1NVgw6a1PqU.html
I know I’m a little late to watching this video, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! Right up to the 1970s patterns when I almost spit my coffee out when you showed pattern 8643…. I kid you not, I actually made that pattern way back in 1980 when I was in middle school home economics class. I wanted to make the hamburger, but it took too many supplies, so I made the donut, yarn-sewn sprinkles and all!! I also remember it taking bags and bags of pillow fill to make that thing look decent. I think I have to stop after eight bags because it was getting expensive for a first time project! Such memories 😂
This was totally fun, I just wish you had left the pattern on the screen longer, or even while you talked about it, so I could get a good gander at it.
I love this. Could you consider keeping the pattern on screen slightly longer, for out oogling pleasure? I am not as quick on the visual uptake as I wish, and had to stop and go back a bunch to share in the joy!. So funny!
The weirdest part of 2010-now patterns is that most of them don't reflect any fashion trends or style rules at all... it's like they go to an arts school and let the first semester fashion students go wild
And there is almost nothing for little boys. I had to take a men's costume pattern and severely size it down for my 7 year old once before there was NOTHING and I hadn't discovered the little indie pattern companies yet.
@@Alagboriel the thing is, there's nothing to buy either. There are three million new little girls special occasion dresses every year and one $100 black sport coat for boys. It's ridiculous. I've made so many vests and jackets because I'd like my son to be able to wear more than t-shirts and either jeans or sweatpants.
This was all kinds of fun! If you do it again, please leave the pictures of the patterns up while you're speaking about them. They flashed off so fast that unless I was close enough to my computer to press pause...I only had your description (which was entertaining none the less!!!)
The 1980's pattern, V8826 by Erica Wilson, a British embroidery expert, is actually an adaptation of a traditional English farm worker's smock. These were originally made from flax or linen: the smocking and gathering gave it shape. The embroidered motifs identified the wearer as a shepherd, carpenter, forester, farmer or other type of laborer. I have an entire book devoted to these smocks and their history as a folk garment of the 18th and 19th centuries. I would love to find this pattern.
Yes, Bernadette Banner has a video in which she sewed smocking like this all by hand. I had no idea how intricate and labor-intensive these designs were.
~1960 my mother made me a cute frog costume. I wouldn't wear it because it wasn't scary. So my older sister took the rubber mask and cut into it and sewed it back together and said there now it's a sea monster. So then I wore it. Glad not to disappoint my dear mother who worked so hard on the costume.
The longer we can linger over the images, the more shock / laugh value. Also let's us burn the image into our brains so we can recall them at random moments (doctor waiting room, check out line) and shudder or cackle and make everyone around us a little uncomfortable. 😉
The Vogue wedding dress is eerily similar to the double bustle Vogue dress my sister in law insisted on making for her wedding. It had 50,000 pieces (felt like) and we literally had to pin her in because, as predicted, she didn't finish it before the ceremony. I think four or five of us sewed on that damn thing and still couldn't finish it. To this day, I have no idea how she got out of it.
ABSOLUTELY NEW YORK PATTERNS CATALOG!!!!! You forgot the odd thing the early 20s did where it had the straight kind of loose top and the poofy skirt that looked like a limp version of something Marie Antoinette would wear.
The scooped neckline with the point ("inverted sweetheart") has a very late 18th century vibe to it, there's this one yellow Robe à l'Anglaise from 1776 at the Met that has the same neckline!
Loved the bubble butt wedding dress --- was the 1980s the decade were almost all wedding dresses featured a gift wrapped fanny? A big bow at the butt. Or was that the 1990s? Yes, please, more of these. Most costubers focus on pretty fashions, it's nice to be reminded that bad taste is not new.
The Simplicity pattern I used for my wedding dress in 1985 had a bow on the butt option. I chose to leave it off and have never regretted the decision.
My wedding dress(still in my closet) has a bow on the butt. Think I cared about a part of my dress I couldn't see, when I was trying to hide my pregnant belly in the front? Hardly, lol!
@@StephanieCanada ! I'm watching My Fair Lady and Audrey's white dress has a reverse sweetheart embroidered in! I had to share with someone 😆 None of my friends sew
I had a tent dress in high school. I loved wearing it because of how it moved around me and it was so,so comfortable. For a teen with poor body image, these were a godsend.
I also found myself oddly enamored by many of these until we got to the 90's and it got way too personal as I also had a mom who sewed me things and was a minor in that decade 🧐🤬😳😆
Vogue 2620 (about 19:55) is fabulous. I am sitting in my fleece hooded version right now on a chilly late autumn morning in NZ. Absolutely perfect for menopausal women who can't do tight waists and just want to be comfy.
As someone who was a teen in the 80s, how dare you. Our fashion was amazing. Also, I sent myself into a coughing fit from laughing so hard, especially about the costumes. Loved this video!
I actually own Butterick 5353.... because it was so bad and bought it well before the meme became a thing! There are a few more gems in my collection you'd probably appreciate. And I cannot resist a trapeze dress pattern either. Thank goodness for fellow pattern hoarders that expose these gems to the world!
I really got a laugh out of this especially the 1960’s tent dress. My sister made one I think like Simp7148 in a green print. I can remember it so well!
I'd love a flip-through of the NY catalog! Set to the weirdest music you can find on TH-cam's free-to-use catalog. There have been some DECISIONS in pattern creation. But I kind of like the food pillows! Silly, yes, but fun! Simplicity 8496, the one with the HUGE sleeves. I have this pattern and OH MY GOSH. Other than that, I don't think I have or can think of much in the way of weird patterns. Plenty are dated but that doesn't make them weird, just a product of their time. I do have some regrettable, unisex patterns from the 1980s-1990s that are never going to look good on anyone. If I'm up to it, I'll go through my collection to see if I have anything truly noteworthy!
Please you can make a tour for the New York Pattern Catalog? I always hate 80's clothes, for me it is the decade of bad taste. You could just do one from the 80's.
I personally loved my linen and lace Jessica McClintock patterns Like tv i think there is sometimes really good and really bad happening simultaneously.
I'm unironically in love with the inverted sweetheart neckline, though. (And the frog just made me think of the Girls's Costume Warehouse video which I might have to go watch even though even by my count it's a little early for Halloween stuff.)
OMG,Stephanie, the hamburger pattern! My first sewing teacher used to make hamburgers with ALL the fixins made from fabric to sell at this big art fair that we used to have in town. This was back in the 70s, so that pattern looks spot on. I'm thinking they should bring it back.....LOL
This is the only pattern I recognized as I have it 😂 The hot dog was a favorite to make and since McDonald's fries were so popular I made one of those too lol.
My mom and I used to look at wedding dress patterns (because Truly Victorian didn't exist, and we needed bones for costumes), and BUTT ROSES. Pewpewpew massacre the wedding guests!!
Hahahaha!!! As usual I accidently stumbled upon this video but seeing as I am a home seamstress and you prefacing it as weird, well this was just up my alley...........so to speak, lol! Enjoyed all the weirdness and yes the frog costume was freaky!!!!
I feel like you can’t underestimate just how many women did indeed spend the 50s just, wildly drunk- possibly while also on sedatives. My grandma once told me she went to a cocktail party at the neighbors and ended up passed out on their front lawn, and her final thought before she lost consciousness was “but what will the children do for supper?” because apparently she was getting black out drunk at like, 4 PM. When she told me this story I was baffled by how she could have drunk so much in what has to have been a pretty short space of time but in hindsight I’m sure she was also on Valium… now I’m just surprised she lived to be 95. Anyway she was absolutely not alone in this so I have to imagine a dress with a built in railing really did come in handy at times… Maybe showing up drunk to work explains some of these patterns…
It's impressive how very odd some patterns .... I would have liked to have gotten to look at them longer than the few seconds they were on the screen. I do love how very odd they are. I think your videos are awesome! ❤️
So funny! I have some insight for you on Simplicity 9262 from the 2000's: this is sort of an overview of the 'Quilt Mom' look. That oversized (usually denim) jumper worn with a scoop neck t-shirt and often some low-heeled sensible loafers could be seen at every quilt show for years then. It also provided a vehicle for some heinous applique work and oh, there were many patterns just for that. I think it was either on Fons and Porter's or Alex Anderson's tv show that they made a joking reference to the look. You're welcome. And I'm not sorry to say I put my 90's daughter in some of the biggest bubble butt toddler clothes the pattern companies had to offer. What was I thinking?
I’m choking laughing. I LOVED that Betty Jackson 1990s pattern and made lots of pieces from it. It was a well cut pattern. I STILL have it. Great video. I’m laughing still. 😊😊😊
Look at the awfulness of McCalls 5309 from the 60s. No sublety there. Also, McCalls 8190 from the 60s, which gives the unfortunate effect of a period accident.
I had to take home ec in 8th grade (in the early 80s). We had to make a pillow, and there were three choices: a rectangle with frilled trim, initial pillows, or the oreo pillow. The oreo was by FAR the most popular choice. :)
Wow! The crotch stuff is killer. My first thought was giant maxi pads on belts from the day finally found camouflage for their bulge.. Too practical?? Lol I'm watching this at 5 am and woke my partner up with the amazing sheep screaming. That is the sound of the day now. The blousy back tight front look like backwards maternity dress. This made my day. Thanks!
I was in elementary school in the 1960’s. Now at 64, I love my A-line dresses/pinafores/jumpers. I have made at least 5. They toss on so fast in the summer. And my heavy wool, lined, huge-houndstooth jumper that’s my first choice, with wool tights. Loooove them Your mileage clearly varied.
I remember when that ridiculous Belleville-Sassoon dress pattern (Vogue 1801) came out. I was looking through the catalogue with a friend and we burst out laughing at the same time. I wondered out loud about why any woman would want to look like she'd shit her drawers copiously and repeatedly. My friend had no answer, so we turned the page to see what else there was in store for us. Some of the 1980s patterns were truly godawful; others I still have and will never discard.
I remember in the 80s/early 90s I made a drop waist large square collar dress with pleated skirt, puffed short sleeves and lace edge on the collar from a pattern I had. It was hideous I. Design looking back on it now. It was a mash up of so many styles. Thanks for the memory walk! 👍🤦♀️👏😂😳
I wonder if the modesty panel was put there to stop the pinny getting in the way if you are on your knees cleaning the floor. Also I have a blouse that has 2 sleeves 😁
I thought maybe it was there so when you were up a ladder cleaning the ceiling your husband couldn't see up your skirt (silly smiley face emoji here - if I could work out how to do one!)
I love that bustle dress. Is that actually is a modernized representation of a historic costume. The 30s design is called a jabot and the sleeve detail is a tuck. I personally like patterns that have some interesting details.
I had a dress like Simplicity 9262, and it was one of my favorite dresses. I got LOTS of compliments on it, and ir was so comfortable. I wish I still had it. It had laser cut flowers at the bottom. I have to say... I kept watching this waiting for the "bad" patterns
It was the 80s...definitely cocaine over LSD lol. Awful costumes. And omg, I had one like Butterick 5353...and I had the romper. Yes, my mother made it. And yes, I wore it. It was made from a very large floral. A VERY large floral. Also, I was in high school (late high school), not a small child (who can get away with such things)
Late to the party but oh this video. I laughed out loud sooo much and I needed that, been grouchy all day. You cheered me up so thank you. And also a vote for a video of the whole 50s catalog.
You could definitely rock the look. I, however, am faaaar too round. I'd probably come out looking like an inverted tulip. A middle-aged, inverted tulip... yah, no... - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
I worked in the catalog department of JC Penney in the late 90s. We had all of the catalogs from the 80s under the counter and my high school friend and I would flip through the wedding dress section and just howl. My mom ended up making my wedding dress and I found the absolute most basic Vogue pattern because I was so scarred. It was a lovely sleeveless Badgely Mischka A-line that she finished three days before my wedding 😂
Weirdos Unite! (and yeah, I stole that off of a guy named Chrome, who does Vancity Vanlife - but how could I not theft it... 'tis so good...) Thank you for the goat scream. I used to daydream of retiring to a wee hobby farm, where I would make all the goat cheese I desire. Then I found out about the, uh, vocalizations... It's official. I need Frog Couture in my life. Especially when the owner of the building comes in for his "yearly inspection" of our apartment... As for the 70's food pillows - our adults were stoned. It's the only explanation... As for the 80's 2150. Saddest Improve Group. Ever. Well. Anyone I know who tried acid in the 80's had Really bad trips - but that's what happens when you buy off of a Hells Angel...? Seriously, you could use this to re-launch The Ring series. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
@Steve Zytveld Hi Cathy and accidentally Steve, just wanted to pop in here and say I'm a fan of your TH-cam commenting. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
1. My contribution: A while back, found the shape-of-the-pattern diagram from an unknown pattern. It was basically a rectangle with drawstrings and armholes. When I tried to track it down by doing an image search, most of what I came up with were post-apocalyptic cosplay outfits. Gracious: Kwik Sew 3624 from 2008. 2. Comments on one of your chosen styles: Tent dresses (1960s). For females only recently freed of girdles, stockings, and garter belts, these were comfy, fun and easy to wear. I mean, if the 1950s had the sack dress, why not a tent dress😉?
Brace yourselves...bubble hems have been seen on the runway in the last six months. Weird bubble hem everything is coming back....Also yeah Y2K super micro rise pants as well. SIGH.
The bad 80s wedding dresses started with Princess Di. They were around into the 90s. I went shopping with a friend trying to find a flattering wedding dress was impossible. Everything had massive butt bows and massive sleeves. The gowns looked horrible if you were tall and slim. For everyone else it was a nightmare.
Butterick 4820 reminds me of the Maternity Bibs my mom made for me in 1989. I want to say they were McCalls 9414 bib shorts in Lemon Yellow. The bigger I got (due in August), the more I appreciated the roominess but my Army friends said I looked like the sun coming at them. Maybe mom should have made them in camo to match our uniforms.
I dont think the second 1920s one is a romper though... I think it may be meant to be a bathing suit? look up 1920s bathing suits and you will find some similar...
when i saw the frog costume did a little scream, paused the video and sat there with my hands over my face and tears in my eyes for longer than i'm willing to admit because it's SO cute and endearing to me, i love it so much
New York Catalogue video please!! Also maybe a second one of these "weird patterns videos" there's a solid plethora (agreeably mostly 80s centered) this was fun! Do you think that the weirder patterns got the more uncommon they did in correlation? As a bit of concrit could you maybe show the pattern image or text boxes (eg mccalls being down for the count due to the pandemic) for a second or two longer if they aren't a copyright issue if in doing so? They go by so fast! Thanks :)
I can’t tell if your top is part of dress or if it’s separate, but I absolutely love it on you. Love the pattern, the style and the fabric and you look wonderful.
You make a mistake in just flashing the photo and then speaking about it when we can scarcely know what you are talking about. I tried to catch and freeze the frame but it just became too irritating!
Thank you for a good laugh!! Especially the 1980s had me almost falling out of my chair because of laughter. I had to literally pause the video to recover my composure.
M6703 - I had 8 shirts that were made like this and I was oddly sad when they went away. As someone with a bust of 52" and a waist of 36", the draping worked on large bust and smaller waist. It looked weird on most everyone else though.
Agreed! I have a big bust and small waist and that style really worked for me. For most people, though, it was better to move the gathers slightly higher to right between the boobs, or just under them.
I made Simplicity 7332 back in the 90's and even wore it to work. I made the view that was basically a jumper. I was a big fan of Gunne Sax. I remember going to a boutique that carried only the Gunne Sax ready to wear line. We were all a little weird back then.
I went to a wedding where one of the guests wore the sleeveless version with the long long pants in a white cotton floral. It might sound sugary by modern standards, but she had long dark hair and looked so amazing in it that I felt badly dressed in my conservative teal Thai silk blouse over dark teal wool pencil skirt.
Serious 90s flashbacks with Butterick 5353...those portrait collars were definitely...a look....and I was one of the unfortunates the style vaguely flattered... 😬
I grew up in the 80's and was a teenager in the 90's. One of my younger sisters had the romper with the gigantic square collar. 19:00 It was pink with huge flower patterns.
Yes, I am pretty sure one of my friends had multiple dresses with those collars over Gunne Sax florals! I know I had some jumpsuits back in that era, with the almost corset-like waist and the poofy gathered pants. They worked well for me at the time, as I had a fairly large bust and a tiny waist with a “generous” behind. So that silhouette - minus the ginormous collar - really worked for me. :)
As a child of the 80s.... my mom made me knickers. I do not understand why this became a fashion choice in the 80s but it tied in with learning about pilgrims at the same time.
I hope you enjoyed this new series. I do indeed intend to keep going to adventure into what home sewist have been able to make thru the years. If you enjoy sewing patterns here is a whole playlist of other videos: th-cam.com/play/PLaG2bBTXx7U74Wmx6LkyCC1NVgw6a1PqU.html
I loved this video. It's hard to see the costumes on a phone. It's all I have. I hope you do another with bigger images. Thanks!
I'd like to see the patterns on screen longer.
I agree. Pattern images flashed by quickly & too quickly & too small. I love the video format. Super fun.
Thank you! Next time will you please leave the patterns up a little longer while you diss (cuss) them? heehee TY TY TY
I know I’m a little late to watching this video, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! Right up to the 1970s patterns when I almost spit my coffee out when you showed pattern 8643…. I kid you not, I actually made that pattern way back in 1980 when I was in middle school home economics class. I wanted to make the hamburger, but it took too many supplies, so I made the donut, yarn-sewn sprinkles and all!! I also remember it taking bags and bags of pillow fill to make that thing look decent. I think I have to stop after eight bags because it was getting expensive for a first time project! Such memories 😂
This was totally fun, I just wish you had left the pattern on the screen longer, or even while you talked about it, so I could get a good gander at it.
agree! less than 2 seconds per picture - impossible to even get an idea what feature exactly is discussed ;((
Agreed, though I found it easy enough to just pause the video. A bit longer would have been nice though :)
I love this. Could you consider keeping the pattern on screen slightly longer, for out oogling pleasure? I am not as quick on the visual uptake as I wish, and had to stop and go back a bunch to share in the joy!. So funny!
The weirdest part of 2010-now patterns is that most of them don't reflect any fashion trends or style rules at all... it's like they go to an arts school and let the first semester fashion students go wild
Oh I wouldn't know, I don't buy new patterns. But thank you for the heads up!
And there is almost nothing for little boys. I had to take a men's costume pattern and severely size it down for my 7 year old once before there was NOTHING and I hadn't discovered the little indie pattern companies yet.
@@stillmagic714 its all the damn fast fashion industry fault
@@Alagboriel the thing is, there's nothing to buy either. There are three million new little girls special occasion dresses every year and one $100 black sport coat for boys. It's ridiculous. I've made so many vests and jackets because I'd like my son to be able to wear more than t-shirts and either jeans or sweatpants.
This is a Perfect discription!
This was all kinds of fun! If you do it again, please leave the pictures of the patterns up while you're speaking about them. They flashed off so fast that unless I was close enough to my computer to press pause...I only had your description (which was entertaining none the less!!!)
The 1980's pattern, V8826 by Erica Wilson, a British embroidery expert, is actually an adaptation of a traditional English farm worker's smock. These were originally made from flax or linen: the smocking and gathering gave it shape. The embroidered motifs identified the wearer as a shepherd, carpenter, forester, farmer or other type of laborer. I have an entire book devoted to these smocks and their history as a folk garment of the 18th and 19th centuries. I would love to find this pattern.
That sounds fascinating!
Looking at it again, I can see the resemblance to the farm worker's smock. Thank you for giving it the historical context it needed. 😊
I thought it had seen a reference to that.
I think Folk Wear makes a pattern based on original farmworker smocks.
Yes, Bernadette Banner has a video in which she sewed smocking like this all by hand. I had no idea how intricate and labor-intensive these designs were.
Greetings from someone who was a child in the 80’s and whose mother sewed... ;)
~1960 my mother made me a cute frog costume. I wouldn't wear it because it wasn't scary. So my older sister took the rubber mask and cut into it and sewed it back together and said there now it's a sea monster. So then I wore it. Glad not to disappoint my dear mother who worked so hard on the costume.
Yes, exactly! Back then we didn't expect or want everything to be "cute."
To be honest you could do 30 minutes just on the 70s. Men's rompers anyone?
Oh absolutely! I think there will have to be a part two.
Knitted men's rompers! I have these machine knitting pattern booklets and the fashion shoots of the men are so funny. They also smoke on the images. 😂
@@missmatti, how I wish I could see those pictures! I was very much alive during the 1970s. Men’s fashions then were un-wonderful. Ha-ha!
It was the disco, baby! I still miss seeing the men in tight patterned pants with high heels. Glad to see facial hair make a come-back in the 2020s!
This was a great video, but you should show the image longer. Many flew by to quick.
Thank you for your input. I will take that into account for the future.
The longer we can linger over the images, the more shock / laugh value. Also let's us burn the image into our brains so we can recall them at random moments (doctor waiting room, check out line) and shudder or cackle and make everyone around us a little uncomfortable. 😉
The Vogue wedding dress is eerily similar to the double bustle Vogue dress my sister in law insisted on making for her wedding. It had 50,000 pieces (felt like) and we literally had to pin her in because, as predicted, she didn't finish it before the ceremony. I think four or five of us sewed on that damn thing and still couldn't finish it. To this day, I have no idea how she got out of it.
I verbally guffawed at the frog pattern 🤣 My toddler came running lol
Oh when I first saw it, I busted out laughing!
Hahahaha two years later and I'm still using this as a drinking game every time you say no 😉👍😁
ABSOLUTELY NEW YORK PATTERNS CATALOG!!!!! You forgot the odd thing the early 20s did where it had the straight kind of loose top and the poofy skirt that looked like a limp version of something Marie Antoinette would wear.
The robe de style! It’s my favourite dress type of the decade.
The scooped neckline with the point ("inverted sweetheart") has a very late 18th century vibe to it, there's this one yellow Robe à l'Anglaise from 1776 at the Met that has the same neckline!
It is odd though. Very: Made you look!
Loved the bubble butt wedding dress --- was the 1980s the decade were almost all wedding dresses featured a gift wrapped fanny? A big bow at the butt. Or was that the 1990s? Yes, please, more of these. Most costubers focus on pretty fashions, it's nice to be reminded that bad taste is not new.
I think my next one will be the patterns that made my jaw drop in a good way. But I may need to revisit, as I definitely had MORE
The Simplicity pattern I used for my wedding dress in 1985 had a bow on the butt option. I chose to leave it off and have never regretted the decision.
"Gift wrapped fanny option" = 🤣
My wedding dress(still in my closet) has a bow on the butt. Think I cared about a part of my dress I couldn't see, when I was trying to hide my pregnant belly in the front? Hardly, lol!
I was an 80s teen and frilly was in. You can thank Madonna for that.
I kinda like the "inverted sweetheart" dress too lol. My immediate reaction was "boob scoop?" 😅 Makes me think Sophia Loren though
It reminds me of those cupless bra lingerie sets
Oh I truly enjoy it. It was so funny to hear the group go :ew: while I was all gung ho!
@@StephanieCanada ! I'm watching My Fair Lady and Audrey's white dress has a reverse sweetheart embroidered in! I had to share with someone 😆 None of my friends sew
Could attach pearl straps to it and it would look gorgeous.
First thought was BOOB BAR
I had a tent dress in high school. I loved wearing it because of how it moved around me and it was so,so comfortable. For a teen with poor body image, these were a godsend.
I had one too ,I was expecting at the time ,it was pretty comfortable.
I also found myself oddly enamored by many of these until we got to the 90's and it got way too personal as I also had a mom who sewed me things and was a minor in that decade 🧐🤬😳😆
The “modesty strap” is truly strange.
"..because nothing says wedding day like OOPS I crapped my pants" LOL this was hilarious, thanks Stephanie! :D
Hahaha 💩
Vogue 2620 (about 19:55) is fabulous. I am sitting in my fleece hooded version right now on a chilly late autumn morning in NZ. Absolutely perfect for menopausal women who can't do tight waists and just want to be comfy.
Hysterical video!!!! Loved It! But now my grandson wants the frog costume.
Thank you. The image was from Vintage4Me2, but I have no clue if it still available.
As someone who was a teen in the 80s, how dare you. Our fashion was amazing. Also, I sent myself into a coughing fit from laughing so hard, especially about the costumes. Loved this video!
8:03 Full tour! Full tour!
P.S. The screaming goat clip made my whole day 🤣
Would love to see that New York Patterns catalog at some point
Sounds good! Thank you.
I fourteenth this!
@@StephanieCanada me too
I actually own Butterick 5353.... because it was so bad and bought it well before the meme became a thing! There are a few more gems in my collection you'd probably appreciate. And I cannot resist a trapeze dress pattern either. Thank goodness for fellow pattern hoarders that expose these gems to the world!
I really got a laugh out of this especially the 1960’s tent dress. My sister made one I think like Simp7148 in a green print. I can remember it so well!
I'd love a flip-through of the NY catalog! Set to the weirdest music you can find on TH-cam's free-to-use catalog.
There have been some DECISIONS in pattern creation. But I kind of like the food pillows! Silly, yes, but fun!
Simplicity 8496, the one with the HUGE sleeves. I have this pattern and OH MY GOSH. Other than that, I don't think I have or can think of much in the way of weird patterns. Plenty are dated but that doesn't make them weird, just a product of their time. I do have some regrettable, unisex patterns from the 1980s-1990s that are never going to look good on anyone. If I'm up to it, I'll go through my collection to see if I have anything truly noteworthy!
Please you can make a tour for the New York Pattern Catalog? I always hate 80's clothes, for me it is the decade of bad taste. You could just do one from the 80's.
Will add it to the list!
I notice that none of the big 4 have done any 80s patterns in their "retro" or "vintage" releases ...yet?
Oh lord. I seriously hope NOT
I personally loved my linen and lace Jessica McClintock patterns Like tv i think there is sometimes really good and really bad happening simultaneously.
I'm unironically in love with the inverted sweetheart neckline, though. (And the frog just made me think of the Girls's Costume Warehouse video which I might have to go watch even though even by my count it's a little early for Halloween stuff.)
Oh same! I seriously hope I find it someday so I can make the extra bewb dress.
OMG,Stephanie, the hamburger pattern! My first sewing teacher used to make hamburgers with ALL the fixins made from fabric to sell at this big art fair that we used to have in town. This was back in the 70s, so that pattern looks spot on. I'm thinking they should bring it back.....LOL
AmaZING
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This is the only pattern I recognized as I have it 😂 The hot dog was a favorite to make and since McDonald's fries were so popular I made one of those too lol.
I think this is a fun video format just sit down every once in awhile and laugh and the thing we all love :)
Thank you! It was a fun video for sure!
My mom and I used to look at wedding dress patterns (because Truly Victorian didn't exist, and we needed bones for costumes), and BUTT ROSES. Pewpewpew massacre the wedding guests!!
These are absolutely hilarious! I, for one, would love to see a flip through of the New York Pattern book!
These patterns could have been on the cutting edge of fashion or the cutting edge of insanity. One will never truly know which 🤣
Hahahaha!!! As usual I accidently stumbled upon this video but seeing as I am a home seamstress and you prefacing it as weird, well this was just up my alley...........so to speak, lol! Enjoyed all the weirdness and yes the frog costume was freaky!!!!
Loved this. You suddenly showed up in my feed. For the next video, would you show the pattern longer. It would be helpful. Thanks for the giggle. 😆
Thank you for your input. I will take that into account for the future.
Don’t feel bad! I had one of those sailor romper/knicker things in the very early 1980s.
AH-mazing
I had one with the idea of making it for my daughter - never got around to it lol
Now that I'm seeing this I kinda want to try one of these to see how it would look on me.
I feel like you can’t underestimate just how many women did indeed spend the 50s just, wildly drunk- possibly while also on sedatives. My grandma once told me she went to a cocktail party at the neighbors and ended up passed out on their front lawn, and her final thought before she lost consciousness was “but what will the children do for supper?” because apparently she was getting black out drunk at like, 4 PM.
When she told me this story I was baffled by how she could have drunk so much in what has to have been a pretty short space of time but in hindsight I’m sure she was also on Valium… now I’m just surprised she lived to be 95.
Anyway she was absolutely not alone in this so I have to imagine a dress with a built in railing really did come in handy at times…
Maybe showing up drunk to work explains some of these patterns…
Ha ha! "Showing up drunk to work!"
I love the pattern matching on what you are wearing. Perfect
It's impressive how very odd some patterns .... I would have liked to have gotten to look at them longer than the few seconds they were on the screen. I do love how very odd they are. I think your videos are awesome! ❤️
So funny! I have some insight for you on Simplicity 9262 from the 2000's: this is sort of an overview of the 'Quilt Mom' look. That oversized (usually denim) jumper worn with a scoop neck t-shirt and often some low-heeled sensible loafers could be seen at every quilt show for years then. It also provided a vehicle for some heinous applique work and oh, there were many patterns just for that. I think it was either on Fons and Porter's or Alex Anderson's tv show that they made a joking reference to the look. You're welcome. And I'm not sorry to say I put my 90's daughter in some of the biggest bubble butt toddler clothes the pattern companies had to offer. What was I thinking?
This also reminded me of the sixties and seventys hippy look earth mother all th way
McCalls 2150... The inspiration for "Five Nights at Freddie's"
I’m driving in the car, laughing hysterically, and intentionally trying not to look.... and failing! Thanks bumper to bumper tourist traffic!! 🤪
Please be careful!
I’m choking laughing. I LOVED that Betty Jackson 1990s pattern and made lots of pieces from it. It was a well cut pattern. I STILL have it. Great video. I’m laughing still. 😊😊😊
Look at the awfulness of McCalls 5309 from the 60s. No sublety there. Also, McCalls 8190 from the 60s, which gives the unfortunate effect of a period accident.
This was hilarious to watch. You are to funny😂
I had to take home ec in 8th grade (in the early 80s). We had to make a pillow, and there were three choices: a rectangle with frilled trim, initial pillows, or the oreo pillow. The oreo was by FAR the most popular choice. :)
Wow! The crotch stuff is killer. My first thought was giant maxi pads on belts from the day finally found camouflage for their bulge.. Too practical?? Lol I'm watching this at 5 am and woke my partner up with the amazing sheep screaming. That is the sound of the day now. The blousy back tight front look like backwards maternity dress. This made my day. Thanks!
So glad my mother never got around to sewing the clothes she always bought the patterns and fabric for in my childhood. The 80's/90's was not kind.
As someone who sewed in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, thanks for bringing back THOSE memories. 😉
I was in elementary school in the 1960’s. Now at 64, I love my A-line dresses/pinafores/jumpers. I have made at least 5. They toss on so fast in the summer. And my heavy wool, lined, huge-houndstooth jumper that’s my first choice, with wool tights. Loooove them
Your mileage clearly varied.
I remember when that ridiculous Belleville-Sassoon dress pattern (Vogue 1801) came out. I was looking through the catalogue with a friend and we burst out laughing at the same time. I wondered out loud about why any woman would want to look like she'd shit her drawers copiously and repeatedly. My friend had no answer, so we turned the page to see what else there was in store for us.
Some of the 1980s patterns were truly godawful; others I still have and will never discard.
That blueberry jumpsuit looks super comfy tho!
Ok, but I really need to figure out how to recreate that 40’s/50’s hearts dress😬😬
I remember in the 80s/early 90s I made a drop waist large square collar dress with pleated skirt, puffed short sleeves and lace edge on the collar from a pattern I had. It was hideous I. Design looking back on it now. It was a mash up of so many styles. Thanks for the memory walk! 👍🤦♀️👏😂😳
The elastic balloon at the legs and thigh remind me of our physical education outfits in the 70's lol.
Sewing Stand Up! Who knew this was a genre?? Love, love, love your videos for the tips, info and the comedy! Thank you!
You are fabulous! First time viewer.....love this collection of wacky patterns, I would like to see them longer on the screen though. Fun video.
I think the 'rompers' were what dance students wore instead of streatchy leotards. Gusset? huge range of movement.
I wonder if the modesty panel was put there to stop the pinny getting in the way if you are on your knees cleaning the floor. Also I have a blouse that has 2 sleeves 😁
I guess that is possible but it doesn’t make it any less funny. 🌳
I thought maybe it was there so when you were up a ladder cleaning the ceiling your husband couldn't see up your skirt (silly smiley face emoji here - if I could work out how to do one!)
I love that bustle dress. Is that actually is a modernized representation of a historic costume. The 30s design is called a jabot and the sleeve detail is a tuck. I personally like patterns that have some interesting details.
I had a dress like Simplicity 9262, and it was one of my favorite dresses. I got LOTS of compliments on it, and ir was so comfortable. I wish I still had it. It had laser cut flowers at the bottom.
I have to say... I kept watching this waiting for the "bad" patterns
It was the 80s...definitely cocaine over LSD lol. Awful costumes. And omg, I had one like Butterick 5353...and I had the romper. Yes, my mother made it. And yes, I wore it. It was made from a very large floral. A VERY large floral. Also, I was in high school (late high school), not a small child (who can get away with such things)
Also, I laughed really hard at auto-saggy boob. For far longer than I probably should have.
So relieved that I don't have a single one of these patterns
Late to the party but oh this video. I laughed out loud sooo much and I needed that, been grouchy all day. You cheered me up so thank you. And also a vote for a video of the whole 50s catalog.
My gawd that hamburger Oreo cookie pattern I had use in Grade 8 home etc.
Oh my goodness! Amazing!!
Ha!...we had the choice between that or a puppy pillow. I made the puppy. It actually was a fun project and Ihad it for years.
fashion can be hysterical...lol..I had a tent dress, and my cousin had the same dress at the dance....we were twin tent cousins...yay!
I would love to see 8658 made just for kicks and giggles
I would, but it had made it way onto a new home now.
You could definitely rock the look.
I, however, am faaaar too round. I'd probably come out looking like an inverted tulip. A middle-aged, inverted tulip... yah, no...
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
I worked in the catalog department of JC Penney in the late 90s. We had all of the catalogs from the 80s under the counter and my high school friend and I would flip through the wedding dress section and just howl. My mom ended up making my wedding dress and I found the absolute most basic Vogue pattern because I was so scarred. It was a lovely sleeveless Badgely Mischka A-line that she finished three days before my wedding 😂
Weirdos Unite! (and yeah, I stole that off of a guy named Chrome, who does Vancity Vanlife - but how could I not theft it... 'tis so good...)
Thank you for the goat scream. I used to daydream of retiring to a wee hobby farm, where I would make all the goat cheese I desire. Then I found out about the, uh, vocalizations...
It's official. I need Frog Couture in my life. Especially when the owner of the building comes in for his "yearly inspection" of our apartment...
As for the 70's food pillows - our adults were stoned. It's the only explanation...
As for the 80's 2150. Saddest Improve Group. Ever. Well. Anyone I know who tried acid in the 80's had Really bad trips - but that's what happens when you buy off of a Hells Angel...? Seriously, you could use this to re-launch The Ring series.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
Oh I ever had pillow PETS I forgot to put in here. Next time.
@Steve Zytveld Hi Cathy and accidentally Steve, just wanted to pop in here and say I'm a fan of your TH-cam commenting. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
@@sewmad1400 Good heavens. I have an audience for my nonsense? Huzzah?!
Nice to meet you over the internets...
1. My contribution: A while back, found the shape-of-the-pattern diagram from an unknown pattern. It was basically a rectangle with drawstrings and armholes. When I tried to track it down by doing an image search, most of what I came up with were post-apocalyptic cosplay outfits. Gracious: Kwik Sew 3624 from 2008.
2. Comments on one of your chosen styles: Tent dresses (1960s). For females only recently freed of girdles, stockings, and garter belts, these were comfy, fun and easy to wear. I mean, if the 1950s had the sack dress, why not a tent dress😉?
Brace yourselves...bubble hems have been seen on the runway in the last six months. Weird bubble hem everything is coming back....Also yeah Y2K super micro rise pants as well. SIGH.
Not gonna lie, Butterick 8658 reminds me of Metapod and Kakuna from Pokemon. Might be a fun cosplay idea? :P
Kind of disappointed you stopped before 2021 and the gem that is Vogue 1782. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a 1980s look or an 1890s look.
The bad 80s wedding dresses started with Princess Di. They were around into the 90s. I went shopping with a friend trying to find a flattering wedding dress was impossible. Everything had massive butt bows and massive sleeves. The gowns looked horrible if you were tall and slim. For everyone else it was a nightmare.
Butterick 4820 reminds me of the Maternity Bibs my mom made for me in 1989. I want to say they were McCalls 9414 bib shorts in Lemon Yellow. The bigger I got (due in August), the more I appreciated the roominess but my Army friends said I looked like the sun coming at them. Maybe mom should have made them in camo to match our uniforms.
Mccalls 2150, just when I thought nothing could be worse than the frog
I dont think the second 1920s one is a romper though... I think it may be meant to be a bathing suit? look up 1920s bathing suits and you will find some similar...
when i saw the frog costume did a little scream, paused the video and sat there with my hands over my face and tears in my eyes for longer than i'm willing to admit because it's SO cute and endearing to me, i love it so much
New York Catalogue video please!!
Also maybe a second one of these "weird patterns videos" there's a solid plethora (agreeably mostly 80s centered) this was fun! Do you think that the weirder patterns got the more uncommon they did in correlation?
As a bit of concrit could you maybe show the pattern image or text boxes (eg mccalls being down for the count due to the pandemic) for a second or two longer if they aren't a copyright issue if in doing so? They go by so fast! Thanks :)
I can’t tell if your top is part of dress or if it’s separate, but I absolutely love it on you. Love the pattern, the style and the fabric and you look wonderful.
So being someone that grew up in the 70s and 80s... those patterns explain so much... lol
You make a mistake in just flashing the photo and then speaking about it when we can scarcely know what you are talking about. I tried to catch and freeze the frame but it just became too irritating!
Thank you for a good laugh!!
Especially the 1980s had me almost falling out of my chair because of laughter. I had to literally pause the video to recover my composure.
keep laughting frantically during 25 min. Thanks
The first 1980 pattern looks like a 1840s work man's smock
M6703 - I had 8 shirts that were made like this and I was oddly sad when they went away. As someone with a bust of 52" and a waist of 36", the draping worked on large bust and smaller waist. It looked weird on most everyone else though.
Agreed! I have a big bust and small waist and that style really worked for me. For most people, though, it was better to move the gathers slightly higher to right between the boobs, or just under them.
Some of the vintage toy patterns are wild. I love collecting them.
Why would anyone want to wear a rompers at all? Doesn't anyone else go potty?
I mean... I don't really know. (hehehe)
My forehead got a couple new lines from my eyebrows going so high for a lot of these... I love pattern artwork 🖼 masterpieces, all of them!
Thank YOU for sharing those 00’s patterns. I realized when I was clearing off my computer I missed the BEST ONE
I made Simplicity 7332 back in the 90's and even wore it to work. I made the view that was basically a jumper. I was a big fan of Gunne Sax. I remember going to a boutique that carried only the Gunne Sax ready to wear line. We were all a little weird back then.
Are you suggesting that we are no longer weird?!
I went to a wedding where one of the guests wore the sleeveless version with the long long pants in a white cotton floral. It might sound sugary by modern standards, but she had long dark hair and looked so amazing in it that I felt badly dressed in my conservative teal Thai silk blouse over dark teal wool pencil skirt.
Serious 90s flashbacks with Butterick 5353...those portrait collars were definitely...a look....and I was one of the unfortunates the style vaguely flattered... 😬
I think of that pattern (1980s) as bubble tooshie look
Isn't it reminiscent of the fancy patterns from the 1800 for bustles but without additional draped fabric around it to bring it together?
Great video!! There are a lot of indie patterns similar to the simplicity 9262 .
Everything come back around lol 😆
It all does!!
I googled Simplicity 9262, and a dress design by Jessica McClintock came up. I'd like to thank you because I actually love it!
Is doing a video just about the weird patterns of the 1980's an idea? I would love to see the plethora of shocking craziness that was my youth 😆
I mean, you might be into something… 😀
You should have kept the pictures for longer
I grew up in the 80's and was a teenager in the 90's. One of my younger sisters had the romper with the gigantic square collar. 19:00 It was pink with huge flower patterns.
Yes, I am pretty sure one of my friends had multiple dresses with those collars over Gunne Sax florals! I know I had some jumpsuits back in that era, with the almost corset-like waist and the poofy gathered pants. They worked well for me at the time, as I had a fairly large bust and a tiny waist with a “generous” behind. So that silhouette - minus the ginormous collar - really worked for me. :)
I actually have that pattern butterick 5353.
As a child of the 80s.... my mom made me knickers. I do not understand why this became a fashion choice in the 80s but it tied in with learning about pilgrims at the same time.