Author: Sarah Sheehan
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Free Pattern: Incroyables Tailcoat
Happy quatorze juillet! For Bastille Day, here’s a pattern for an Incroyables tailcoat. The tailcoat, which dates to Revolutionary France, was part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 2016 Reigning Men exhibit, currently on view at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. Incroyables and Merveilleuses were the dandies and fashionistas of the revolutionary period. Today, Directoire…
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McCall’s x Canada Dry, 1971
Happy Canada Day! In celebration, here’s a Canada Dry pattern from McCall’s. Established in Toronto in 1904, by the ’70s Canada Dry was owned by Norton Simon, which was also McCall’s parent company. Canada Dry’s new low-calorie, sugar-free sodas showed a woman in a black leotard to match the branding for McCall’s Pounds-Thinner pattern line.…
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