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The Vintage Pattern Selector book: The Sewer’s Guide to Choosing and Using Retro Styles

Vintage pattern selector

Do the fashions of past decades inspire you to want to make your own clothes? A good starting point may be this book, The Vintage Pattern Selector: The Sewer's Guide to Choosing and Using Retro Styles

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Categories / Crafting and Textiles, Women's Fashion

Simplicity Retro – vintage dress patterns remade

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This is interesting. Like many people, we have, in the past, spent a lot of time browsing car boots and eBay for vintage dress patterns, ideally in unopened condition. You would guess Simplicity have realised this happens and jumped in with the Simplicity Retro range.

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