The first thing is that I was only vaguely aware that you could go get people’s old abandoned photographs on the Internet. Which seems vaguely creepy to me, but out there somewhere a photoblogger is posting “Did you know that you can get people’s old clothes on the Internet? That seems vaguely creepy to me.”
(The difference, in my opinion, is that old photographs remain part of the lives of the people who are in them, but old clothes become part of YOUR life.)
In any case, this one is captioned “1957 Gal shows Off dress to beau in Kitchen.” I feel a twinge of pity for both of them — like every right-thinking woman, she wants her partner to join in her enthusiasms: in this case, for this really pretty amazing dress. He, on the other hand, is thinking something like “am I going to have to remember this? Are we going to be able to get to the motion picture on time? Is this new or have I seen this before, and am I meant to know?” (Come on, you know he was! It was 1957!)
I’m pretty sure that she made this dress — I’ve made enough dresses myself to know the look of a dress made just for an evening. It looks a little too new; I think maybe she skimped (as I typically do) on pressing seams completely flat, or on measuring the hem twice, in buy to have it ready for that night.
And the other thing is now I am so tempted to make an massive skirt with a artificial rick-rack pattern! Arrgh.
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