New Patterns: 2011 December 1

One more. This one is worth it just for the source and the model's hair, even if it weren't a great dress:

Farmer, Farm, Stock and Home magazine 2346 (mid-1940's): Shirt dress or housecoat with back pleat, shoulder yoke, six-gore skirt with set-in-seam pockets, and full-length front button closure.

Oh, and epic bangs.

The artist had aspirations, too. Those girls look like characters, not just mannequins.

This is the kind of dress that will look great on me but, alas, I cannot do the hair. I would die from hairspray fumes before I could get it to hold that much shape. I have certified Sixties hippie hair--thin, stick-straight, and baby-fine. The ninety-pound weakling of hair.

Sigh.

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