Someday I'll copy that suit (dress, skirt, blouse)...

[imoldfashioned]

I've got a folder on my computer where I keep pictures of vintage clothes I'd like to copy either because I didn't win the original, the original isn't my size or the original is in a film or in a museum somewhere. Do any of you do this too? Please post pictures of inspirations or your finished products (I'll contribute mine tomorrow).

 

[Shearer]

I do it! I've done it twice for eBay stuff... once with a dress I lost in a bidding war, and once with the dress below. It looks disconcertingly like a wedding dress, though it I believe it was listed as a cocktail gown. I think it would look nice in emerald green (or if pigs fly, in that ivory as a wedding gown )

 

[LadyDeWinter]

I do it! I've done it twice for eBay stuff... once with a dress I lost in a bidding war, and once with the dress below. It looks disconcertingly like a wedding dress, though it I believe it was listed as a cocktail gown. I think it would look nice in emerald green (or if pigs fly, in that ivory as a wedding gown )

Wow, Shearer, that dress is gorgeous, I love the colour. :eusa_clap

 

[Ada Veen]

it's absolutely beautiful!

 

[Snookie]

Not a direct copy, but this blouse from the Aviator was the inspiration for one I made (sorry it's so tiny, it's the best I could find):

For a long time I wanted to reproduce this type of jacket:

I've also got a thing for 30's pyjamas. Lots of pics of these:

This outfit is right up my alley:

This is the best. I saved this pic a while ago (I like the two-tone version), and then my friend (Lotus Leroux on here...) gave the pattern to me for my birthday! I wonder if she was the winner of the Ebay auction I stole it from...

 

[Rockapin-up]

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I'v always wanted to make this dress for my wedding (if I ever get married) or for just a black tie affair .

 

[Rockapin-up]

Snookie, I love that blouse you copied from the Aviator, it Looks really lovely.

 

[pigeon toe]

I'm obsessed with Amy Jeanne's livejournal posts, I save so many of the photos for fashion, hair and makeup inspiration. But the one I keep coming back to is this one of Beverly Tyler:

I wish there was a full length picture, I would love to see what the rest of the dress looks like. I'm sure it's lovely. I would just die to have something like that.

 

[CherryRed]

Snookie, I love that blouse you copied from the Aviator, it Looks really lovely.

I was just watching The Aviator again last week and was admiring that exact blouse and how it would be nice to make one.
What pattern did you use for it Snookie?

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I'm obsessed with Amy Jeanne's livejournal posts, I save so many of the photos for fashion, hair and makeup inspiration. But the one I keep coming back to is this one of Beverly Tyler:

Well aren't you sweet! I have another photo of Bev in my latest entry, which is dedicated to the Fabulous 40s!

 

[Miss Brill]

I've got a folder on my computer where I keep pictures of vintage clothes I'd like to copy either because I didn't win the original, the original isn't my size or the original is in a film or in a museum somewhere. Do any of you do this too? Please post pictures of inspirations or your finished products (I'll contribute mine tomorrow).

I've been doing something like that since I was a kid. I grew up watching old movies & would scribble notes on the outfits I liked & what movie it was in, assuming that I would eventually have a dressmaker who'd make them all for me. I still don't have a dressmaker & I still haven't learned to sew.

 

[imoldfashioned]

Such beautiful things everyone!

Here are a few images from my stash. If I made everything in my photo folder I'd be sewing for the rest of my life!

A "bow" theme--you can't see it too well but that dress has a bow on the shoulder to complete the package look

I always picture this in navy blue

It would probably take me a million years to create a pattern for this but I love this jacket (a Lilli Ann of course).

I've got the faux persian lamb for this, I just need to find that perfect "40's green" cloth

Great blouse, I'd make it in a different color though

Two very different coats to end--I love, love, love the black one.

 

[Blondie]

Such beautiful things everyone!

Here are a few images from my stash. If I made everything in my photo folder I'd be sewing for the rest of my life!

A "bow" theme--you can't see it too well but that dress has a bow on the shoulder to complete the package look

I always picture this in navy blue

It would probably take me a million years to create a pattern for this but I love this jacket (a Lilli Ann of course).

I've got the faux persian lamb for this, I just need to find that perfect "40's green" cloth

Great blouse, I'd make it in a different color though

Two very different coats to end--I love, love, love the black one.

That red & leopard coat is to DIE for,
and i LOVE LOVE LOVE that black blouse with the white bow !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Josephine]

I love, love, love the black one.

I love it too! Wow.

 

[imoldfashioned]

I'm pretty sure that leopard print coat has a hood too--my version would anyhow!

A few more images.

Looking through my "to be copied" folder I've realized I should change my moniker from "I'm Old Fashioned" to "I Like Bows". So many images of dresses with bows I've got!

Here's some without bows:

I love this dress except for the color, one of my favorites

 

[Lady Day]

*Holy Smoke*

LD

 

[Fancy Mouse]

Here's some without bows:

Wow, what a stunning dress!

 

[imoldfashioned]

Wow, what a stunning dress!

Isn't it pretty? I always picture it with a dark button on the white portion and on the bag though.

 

[Miss Sis]

Oh gosh, I'd love any number of Ginger Rogers dresses from her 30s movies, but ESPECIALLY this one:

I have loved this dress since I first saw Top Hat (still my favourite Fred and Ginger film), although I would have it in a different colour to the original pale blue, perhaps eau de nile green.

 

[imoldfashioned]

Oh gosh, I'd love any number of Ginger Rogers dresses from her 30s movies, but ESPECIALLY this one:

I have loved this dress since I first saw Top Hat (still my favourite Fred and Ginger film), although I would have it in a different colour to the original pale blue, perhaps eau de nile green.

That dress in green would be a dream! I wonder how you'd even begin to sew with feathers? Ginger had great wardrobes in her films with Fred Astaire particularly--there's like 3 dresses a film I'd copy in a heartbeat.