McCalls Vintage 7155 You can go home again

I am so sorry I don't have the original I used to own. I don't even have a photo of me in it.

One of the many times I have bought a vintage dress that was homemade, and then fallen on the pattern like a viper. Not exactly out of character for me, either.

This was the bombity bomb. The 'toss it on and run to work' dress. The "hey, cute vintage dress!" at I forget how many jobs.

Mine was dark brown corded over black in a very narrow textured stripe. Altered to put the zipper in the back seam (splitting the collar was fun!) Wore like iron. Wore it out. Busted out the elbows. Twenty plus years on an old homemade dress.

So I miss it. I need a new one. Had to trace and size up this size 10 (my hip is 44 going on more). Also my head is larger.

Once again, Roisin (aka That Dolly Clackett human) is to blame for my reckless purchase of the latest in the Alexander Henry Sewing series; Sewing Woes. AKA Sewing Sorrows.

There are two scales of this, and I bought them by accident. Oh, no, Hart's you cannot have them back. Just be warned and call if you're confused and it matters.

Who cannot identify with this?

Prewash and never worry....

Survived the drier!

Also measure twice, cut once.

My big butt needs more in the hip. Maybe I want to put that center seam back in.....

Ooh. That's going to be 22". My head is 23", if I take my glasses off when I get dressed. Sometimes I forget.

I have Paint. Let's play a game...

There's the print. Let's make a sketchy overlay.

Which one do I like better? 

We're not even discussing 'is this the right dress for this print'? Maybe not. 

Previous editions have ignored the trial and worked fine:

It could use a belt. It's another vintage McCalls pattern from the 50s.

I know, I do own an iron, but just imagine this without wrinkles.

I really slammed this out a couple of summers ago, during a heat wave; it's all cramming pieces onto fabric to get the punchline about 'home sewing is easy' front and center, while avoiding the selvage and finishing it with bias tape. 

Jim is a Rat Patch pocket really does iron out flat.

It wears well, and the overall grid design doesn't  work against the dress silhouette. It's just a big print with a 20" vertical repeat. 

And it's a gas to wear.

And hey, Gap, not cool

https://youtu.be/2E53d5-EvHc

Go see the original

https://vimeo.com/13079214

https://youtu.be/xF5MhpvKzuw