Sorry I've been awol for so long -- lots going on! I hope to resume regular posting tomorrow, but until then, please enjoy/recoil in shock and horror from this fantastic fabric sent to me by...

Sarai of Colette Patterns sent me links to her new dress patterns, and I looooooove this one. Leaving aside the photo styling, which I find very appealing, it's also a lovely dress. The teeny collar! A midriff band! Instructions for piping the neck...

A whole bunch of Hepburn-era Givenchy is going up for auction tomorrow. (Do you know the story of Audrey's first wedding dress? It's a tearjerker.) Jenny at Chronically Uncool sent me a link to this article -- 1300 vintage dresses found in St. Louis!...

I have no idea whether Black Dress is looking at Blue Dress in disgust or thinly disguised longing. I think it could go either way, or possibly both. Black Dress: What *is* it about her? I can't sleep, I can't eat, I show up deliberately wearing the...

Can you hear this pattern's voiceover? I can. Listen: *I* am an individual. In fact, I am unremittingly individualist. I practise (see, look, I use a British spelling, despite being from Iowa) individualism. You might say I have individualismo. Or...

So over the Thanksgiving break I FINALLY made a BurdaStyle pattern ... this one above, Heidi. (The picture above is NOT the one I made, but one from Isobel M -- I'll get pictures of mine up soon, maybe even with me wearing them, ulp -- but I did want...