If 2018 is known for one thing, I think it's jumpsuits
Cause everyone did one
Or two.
To be fair, this is a reissue of the Simplicity men's. It's been out of print and EXPENSIVE, so I'm grateful. It's a genuinely good and useful pattern.
But there's more.
Possibly too much more.
Friday Patterns
Burda has a lot of jumpsuits and overalls, but this one is different.
True Bias's Yari
Named Patterns has both Amy
and Ronja.
I bought Ronja
Sew House Seven's Burnside
And Heather at Closet Case now has three
Sallie was from a couple years ago, but two new this year:
The Amy
and the Jenny
Before that, she sewed
Tilly has the Mila
I've sewn this one for the son. It's ...well, kwik and looks like the photo.
http://www.unsungsewingpatterns.net/2018/06/mccall-3298-mens-overalls.html
https://blog.pattern-vault.com/2014/07/25/vintage-jumpsuit-patterns/
I cannot find the Calvin Klein overall pattern photos. I will put that in here when I do. They are super cute and heavy on making them look like a pair of JC Penney's overalls
I would like to ask you, if you've made a jumpsuit, what were your issues with it in the restroom.
I'm tired of enjoying my clothes until I have to enter a toilet stall or bathroom, and worry about dumping straps in the bowl and the contents of my pockets everywhere.
Comments below.
Waaaaay below.
Because too many photos here:
JUMPSUIT MANIA
Strap in, kids.
And of course, click on them to make them bigger.
Or not.
Decades has a few (not including rompers)
The Beach pajamas
and the Sweetheart
McQueen for Givenchy
Galliano for Givenchy the season before
I own this one
This pattern is pretty unique. The collar and the raglan sleeves are handsome.
I just bought one.
It would not be a post about vintage patterns without a Daisy Kingdom name drop.
Or Pauloa. I am collecting them apparently.
Nancy Zieman did two
Jiffy has many many jumpsuits
This should have been the Mamma Mia costume
Okay, it's a romper.
This is 1971 in a nutshell
My beloved Pounds Thinner AND Easy Please. In a knit!
Front zippered
I made this one
and this one.
I still want this one. It is almost exactly like the next one, though.
Styling is everything.
And this one too. WilliSmith in my wardrobe NOW
I have an older edition of this pattern.
There's a children's version
This is the secret sauce that makes this work.
And to sum up, the ones you didn't know you needed, but you do.
Back in the old days, we had to draft our own fun.
Although now you can pick one up a little more straightforwardly
https://www.simplicity.com/simplicity-storefront-catalog/patterns/costumes/simplicity-pattern-100301-misses-star-trek-suit/
Definitely wore pantdresses (street length), as well as the Palazzo (full length) beginning in the mid-1960s through the mid 1970s. I think I abandoned the street length around 1967. They were a royal pain, but we were allowed to wear those and culottes to school (with approved skirt/dress length and fullness, of course). They had a minimum length; guess who wore a wool maxi skirt one cold day and opened a new can of worms? ;-) Public schools had very strict, but non-uniform dress codes back in the day. No pants or shorts for girls or jeans for anyone. Guys could wear cords, plain t-shirts with a pocket. I don't think it occurred to any of the guys to wear shorts to school. 8-o
ReplyDeleteThat Vionnet-inspired pattern is gorgeous. The Daisy Kingdom pattern--not so much. lol
Taja
I love the look of jumpsuits. I would love to wear jumpsuits, if I didn't have to ever pee or if I was able to catheterize myself, but then again where would I carry the bag containing the pee? Never mind.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like every 15-20 years or so, jumpsuits become fashionable again. Which is just about how long it takes for people to remember having to become contortionists in a toilet cubicle, and that lovely feeling of the torso being just a tiny bit too short for comfort. Which is why you never see women of 50+ wearing one. We remember.
I can relate! I wore gaucho jumpsuits in the 1970s and then had a favourite tuxedo-style one in the 1990s that I loved and wore to formal parties. I love the raglan sleeve one you just bought, but I doubt I will ever wear anothee jumpsuit (for the pee problem). I just remember being really cold in the bathroom as I disrobed to use the facilities.:)
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