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Authentic vintage dressmaking patterns are not so easy to find these days, especially sewing patterns of clothing designs from over three-quarter of a century ago. These are not the kind of things you’ll find in shopping malls but you may be lucky to find a rare few in flea markets or at local street markets that open only one or two days a week. Such markets where you will likely find vintage dressmaking patterns include marketplaces and arcades like The Vintage Market and Portobello Market in London; Edith Machinist (Lower East Side) and The Market NYC (Greenwich Village) in New York and Long Beach Antique Market and Arts District Flea in California. But most people looking for genuine vintage clothing patterns, especially the unopened ones, probably don’t live anywhere near these locations. So, if you, like many of us really want patterns of the stylish 20th-century apparel designs but can’t find them around where you reside, your best option is at online stores that retail sewing c...

Some of the clothing styles that still stands the test of time in the fashion world are the Retro styles of the 60s. Not only will you find many vintage-inspired designs that are very ‘sixties’ today, but you’ll also find that many of today’s designers draw inspirations from famous fashion design legends like Mary Quant, Ossie Clark, Biba, and Yves St. Laurent. Granted that in the early parts of the 1960s, women’s fashion was still classic and a spill-over from the 50s fashion - generally the “prim and proper simplicity” typical of the clothing trends set by style pacesetter Jackie Onassis, it soon took a turn for simpler less classy pieces with shorter skirts, higher boots, and ‘playful’ attire like baby-doll dresses, rompers, and jumpsuits.   Retro Inspired Style There were also A-line mini dresses and frocks, polka dot outfits and bell-bottom pants. Skirts and dresses varied from the extremely short – the micro-mini, to ankle length (the maxi). It was a time that fashion design...

Which vintage fashion era would you belong in if you had a choice? Which one is your favourite decade of clothing styles that you’d love to recreate in the 21st century as vintage-inspired fashion? Fashion trends come and go and each and every one of us must have followed a number of trending styles in our lifetime. Even if you didn’t live through the fashion of a particular era, you will have discovered vintage styles through black and white classic films from the era, television shows, old fashion brochures and magazines, and through numerous books written about the history of fashion and style of the 20th century. I choose to talk about the fashion trends of the 20th century because I love the styles of the 1900s. From the early part of the century to the latter part of it (with much emphasis on the earlier decades – 1900s to 1960s), some of the most striking vintage apparel styles fall within that era. When we desire to recreate an era for a party or simply for a unique style of dr...