eBay score. Unbelievably, nobody else bid against me and I got the pattern and dress together for less than $25, shipping included. I will be searching 1930's reproductions to make a wearable close-copy of the dress.
(Sorry; these are the listing pictures from eBay and they're very low-resolution. I'll take better ones when it arrives.)
The dress. It's not a knock-out pattern but it's still up my alley, and I might have bid on it even if it hadn't had the original dress with it. Not for the $19.99 opening bid, but I would have had it been cheaper.
The dress fabric is light blue with a white and dark-blue simplified sprig print:
The dress's scalloped neckline has dark blue narrow bias binding basted on:
It looks as though the original seamstress got pretty far along before she set it aside:
This Aunt Grace Garden Party print is smaller scale but is a similar idea. If it's too small for a dress for me, maybe I could make a version for Jeannie.
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