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[professorpski]

Completely Original, or Humoring the Young in 1972

This booklet from 1972 teaches the basics of knitting and then offers a set of easy patterns which claimed to allow you to creating “something useful, exciting, and completely original.” Of course, your creations were not completely original as the author, Virginia Hillway Buxton had written the patterns. True, your choice of yarn and color might create something unique, but you were working from her directions entirely.

Knitting books from earlier eras often explained that a knitter could take any stitch pattern, calculate how to use it to make a unique version of the garment patterns offered up. Which mean the maker chose was yarn and color, and stitch pattern. This would make for 1 more important original element than anyone was suggesting in 1972, so why all this talk about originality then? And some of the more technical books from the early 20th century taught the principles of creating a knitting pattern. Now that would be completely original.

Although knitting patterns were becoming on the whole simpler in the 1960s and 1970s--increasing use of worsted and bulky yarns, of basic stitch patterns, and basic garment designs--marketers appealed to the younger and newer knitters (like their counterparts among dressmakers) as special individuals creating in whole new ways. For example, one sewing book was entitled Make it Your Way as if women hadn’t been doing that for decades. They had, but no one seemed to feel the need to re-assure them of that. Making the Baby Boomers feel special about their creations  must have paid off for marketers as a way to sell them more stuff, or it wouldn’t have happened so often.   

[stormyjane7]

Looks simple enough. But here is my next altering project! I have a shirt just like this that’s been hanging around and I got the biggest 💡moment. Anyone want to take a stab at what I’m doing with this??? #cosplay #wip #wipcosplay #sewing #alteringclothes #seamstress #costume #wanttotakeaguess https://www.instagram.com/p/BnM5Bz1AfYP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tyuc1byznhi8

[firstactress]

The real me, sewing by a dim light in a quiet night . . . . . #sewing #sewingproject #alteringclothes #clothes #kingspeech #kingspeechwall #polkadotdress #greendress #summerdress #blond #fitmodeling

[solplparty]

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[lolalamashermosa]

Changing the pace a little bit today and showing you what else my mind is occupied with. #serger #sew #sewing #alteringclothes #sergersareawesome

[avalemode]

Altered another pair of pants.... I look like I'm a race car driver... #sewing #joggers #alteringclothes #lookinglikeafakeracecardriver

[discraceful-littleface]

#alteringclothes is the best! ^.^ #mycutmybaby #tartanlover #sewingfun #craftygoth

[professorpski]

And I was thinking about the black frock of mine with the pleated skirt. I haven't worn it since the winter, but I think if you took the gold belt off and put on a black one, and just put some of that black lace that is in the cardboard box... round the neck, I could wear it quite nicely.

This is Mrs. Brandon planning the re-modeling dress for the funeral of a relative in the 1939 novel, The Brandons, by Angela Thirkell, an English novelist. Although Mrs. Brandon is a well-off young widow, she was not above having a dress that she already owned reworked by a servant in order to make it appropriate for a particular occasion. All black was then considered appropriate for a funeral of a relative. Wardrobes were smaller and each dress far more detailed than ours today, so that re-modeling a dress made economic sense even for people with money

The lace would be a luxurious yet appropriate touch. The fact that the lace was kept without having a present purpose is telling; hand-made lace was so expensive that it was removed from dresses that were discarded in order to be applied to new garments. Of course, the making of lace by machine was invented in the late 19th century, which made lace much cheaper, and it is possible that a nice piece of machine lace would be treasured. Because Mrs. Brandon is so wealthy--she honestly doesn’t want to inherit anything from her dying relative--the odds seem good that it was hand made lace. 

For Thirkell’s novels, go to Virago books: https://store.virago.co.uk/collections/author-angela-thirkell-pid-57706

[stormyjane7]

So my brain wouldn’t shut up enough to go to sleep after work I had to go try on a dress I got today from #goodwill. I love the fabric and it has POCKETS. Anyways I’m going to shorten the skirt and add lace to it. Wanted a more summer feel than it is currently giving. #dress #fashion #alteringclothes #clothes #thrift #thrifting #sewing #sew #seamstress https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQyFr3gpAS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iyq8kajsi2ui

[discraceful-littleface]

Spending the day sorting my wardrobe and altering clothes ^.^ #disabledbutadiva #alteringclothes #craftygoth #homemadechic