tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post1440359851308850103..comments2008-11-25T18:01:30.893-06:00Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736176758196612844noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-5418674357156361942008-11-25T18:01:00.000-06:002008-11-25T18:01:00.000-06:00Wups, sorry, New Look 6736 not Burda!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-87966381080596329232008-11-25T17:57:00.000-06:002008-11-25T17:57:00.000-06:00I went hunting for a Burda pattern similar to this just because I wanted to make a matching coat/dress outfit. I first saw it on Audrey Hepburn, but the image I can never get out of my head is Barbara Streisand suddenly turning around to face some guy in some movie, and her coat elegantly flares open, to reveal the lining is identical to the adorable flowered dress she is wearing. I want that look.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-24190959622100058662008-11-18T16:06:00.000-06:002008-11-18T16:06:00.000-06:00is it boring just to say that you crack me, as usual. i like imagining the woman's state of mind who drew that arrow, like, "must not be seduced by the state of rapture! must focus of practical dress!" erin, you slay me.Sarah McCollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09655137183746112080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-39104970615791567242008-11-18T13:16:00.000-06:002008-11-18T13:16:00.000-06:00Oh La Belladonna, now that's just painful... because... I was actually thinking of doing a range that is secretly (secret because my tutors are all male and deeply anti-bridal) modern-day bridalwear (my degree is bespoke tailoring, so it's within the parameters as far as I'm concerned if it's made of wool). Having been obsessed with bridalwear for the past 10 years or so, I'm really, really bored of the long white dress, but there are very few other options, especially for winter weddings. So how about some tailored coats and dresses with a bit of colour and drama thrown in? It could work!<BR/><BR/>That's really sad about the Hefty bags. I Googled bridal coat/winter wedding not long ago and the choices are dismal. I'm sure someone's missing a trick here! It seems such an easy add-on to me (there's a word the fashion retailers use for it but I can't remember what it is) - winter bride, in bridal shop, offered a range of coats or wraps... guaranteed sale nine times out of 10 I'd think.Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05750525586998315717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-80681971039800122162008-11-18T11:58:00.000-06:002008-11-18T11:58:00.000-06:00<B>sold a moke</B> - what's your era preference? I've seen coat-and-dress combos for many different periods; perhaps we can find one for yours!<BR/><BR/><B>Kate,</B> I think your coat/dress collection is a FABULOUS idea, if it fits within the parameters of your requirements - people need them, and a lot of us hate what's available. And if you do a wedding dress/coat as the finale piece, it could be a smash!<BR/><BR/>Secret Wish: I would love to produce a line of wedding and evening wraps! How's that for practical? I've seen shivering brides and bridesmaids, though, and I know one bride who wore trashbags -yes, Heftys - because she had no coat that fit over her wedding dress.La BellaDonnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-53006853523522266902008-11-18T10:51:00.000-06:002008-11-18T10:51:00.000-06:00I, too, think that Butterick reissued this one; sadly, I don't have it. I love your weightless and massless idea for coats. I love coats!!! I have fond memories of my mom making my sister and I new Easter dresses with matching lightweight wool coats in green and yellow. And I used to have a green leather jacket (operating words--"used to have") way back a million years ago when I was a teenager and too young to appreciate it, I'm sure. Hope you find one, let us know.AuntieShelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08940871399593437705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-55294848128057237402008-11-18T10:26:00.000-06:002008-11-18T10:26:00.000-06:00Now, see, I was *considering* doing a whole collection of coats and dresses for my final project at college, then I decided it was a silly idea, and now you've got all these people saying they love coat/dress combos and I'm all confused again!Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05750525586998315717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-3483248345292189262008-11-17T07:10:00.000-06:002008-11-17T07:10:00.000-06:00Here is a link to the reissue for sale:<BR/>http://betsyvintage.com/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=146&amp;sort=20a&amp;page=2Myrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16163175961766563965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-54123573959890989492008-11-16T18:52:00.000-06:002008-11-16T18:52:00.000-06:00I was going to tell you about the Butterick re-issue in the 90s, but your Alert Readers beat me to it! Hope you find one. The cover is grand.KCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-6915126471180085102008-11-16T15:42:00.000-06:002008-11-16T15:42:00.000-06:00Made in silk fabrics this would be a good transition ensemble for autumn/spring. It would also pack down to almost nothing.<BR/><BR/>You could do the Chanel thing and make the dress and coat lining a print and the outer fabric of the coat a solid.andrea.at.the.blue.doorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08532947489421472003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-24166159543054378512008-11-16T15:05:00.001-06:002008-11-16T15:05:00.001-06:00I love it, but if I need a coat I don't like to go out in a dress/skirt with the wind going up there and freezing my rear off. :PRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06904044713623219217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-88705286792845831612008-11-16T15:05:00.000-06:002008-11-16T15:05:00.000-06:00I love it, but if I need a coat I don't like to go out in a dress/skirt with the wind going up there and freezing my rear off. :PRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06904044713623219217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-73506729152934699042008-11-16T10:55:00.000-06:002008-11-16T10:55:00.000-06:00For Anon who likes marylin dresses - and anyone who doesn't have time to sew!!<BR/>http://www.bigbeautifulbarbarabrown.com/<BR/><BR/>and check out the marylin section!<BR/><BR/>(no, I don't work for them and am still saving up to buy from them!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-30454185312952591942008-11-16T04:21:00.000-06:002008-11-16T04:21:00.000-06:00Well, if I find that green leather jacket you describe...sorry, but i'm keeping it!<BR/><BR/>I also would love this pattern - I'm starting to get rather picky about what goes with which outfit. Which is awful when you don't have the time to sew everything you see in your head.froghttp://www.froginthepond.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-87742591354033203222008-11-16T04:01:00.000-06:002008-11-16T04:01:00.000-06:00In the late 80's I wore a green suede swing coat. I loved it!! And it went with everything.<BR/>Years of wear and I turned it into a King Henry cloak for a Theatre production. Gad-Zooks I miss that coat! Andreaandapandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03479361903514845958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-26611231096003632732008-11-15T19:46:00.000-06:002008-11-15T19:46:00.000-06:00No, it's the hat that has her mind in a whirl! So glorious especially on a breezy day. Why not make your dream coat. Lots of easy coat patterns out there. Love green. I have two green coats.<BR/>K Q:-)Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983223015773238369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-88841868653008817372008-11-15T18:10:00.000-06:002008-11-15T18:10:00.000-06:00There is a pretty green leather jacket, with pleats below the waist at coldwatercreek.com, item #EH2-6920. No, I am not associated with this company. I just received their catalog immediately after reading your blog.Beth from Upstate NYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-49710063934853834392008-11-15T13:22:00.000-06:002008-11-15T13:22:00.000-06:00Found it! Butterick 6632, and dated 1956. Same picture and everything.jennyhttp://www.jennyduarte.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-1838531548676660042008-11-15T13:12:00.000-06:002008-11-15T13:12:00.000-06:00Butterick did in fact reissue this pattern; I have it in my stash somewhere. I'll look it up today and post the pattern number.jennyhttp://www.jennyduarte.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-59880446653604989152008-11-15T08:38:00.000-06:002008-11-15T08:38:00.000-06:00There is a dress in the plus-size section of this November's Burda WOF that has a very similar shoulder design to this vintage pattern. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the instructions, but it will look great in stretch velvet, all those tucks and pleats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-27240704326815296312008-11-15T08:35:00.000-06:002008-11-15T08:35:00.000-06:00I made this coat! Mine is a mid-weight dark red and black vintagey Hawaiian barkcloth (bought in Kauai) with a dark green lining. I LOVE THIS COAT.Mrs. Gracklenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-28383146573198408062008-11-15T03:26:00.000-06:002008-11-15T03:26:00.000-06:00I wear a green leather coat, and you're right; it goes with *everything*.<BR/><BR/>I found it a year ago in camden where at least three shops were selling the same one (and various other styles), so by now people should have tired of their own.. have you checked ebay uk?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-78792501486954179072008-11-14T23:02:00.000-06:002008-11-14T23:02:00.000-06:00Oh, a green coat! For years I thought my dream coat was a midnight blue swing coat with princess sleeves and a Peter Pan collar... and I found it one day, in an enormous billboard ad inside a store that had just sold the last one.<BR/><BR/>I was devastated. I wore my old black duffle all through winter, the stripy lining eventually disintegrating and an orphan-esque hole appearing at my elbow.<BR/><BR/> Until! <BR/><BR/>One night I was aimlessly browsing through ebay listings, and found the magical coat - not <I>my</I> dream coat, but someone else's. Pickle-green mohair with a big turned-over collar, self-matched, enormous buttons, straight to the knee and the perfect size. The icing on the cake was the little tuft of cherry fox sewn onto the collar, and the chocolate silk lining, not falling apart at all.<BR/><BR/>Somebody had loved that coat. Now it's all I wear - as good for translucent skin and bottle-dyed auburn curls as midnight blue, and so much hairier. I love mohair. I bought it towards the end of a Melbourne winter, and though the temperature is pushing 30 now I still throw it over a wiggle dress, silk ballet flats and bobby socks in the evening and pretend I'm not sweltering just the teeniest bit.<BR/><BR/>So yeah. The perfect coat you find may not be the one you envisaged, but if you keep an open mind you may find a perfectly suited second skin fresh out of somebody else's imagination.<BR/><BR/>Also, green is <I>marvellous</I>.<BR/><BR/>The end.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14029799456905683767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-60063962994183000142008-11-14T22:11:00.000-06:002008-11-14T22:11:00.000-06:00The ensemble idea has always intrigued me, but the idea of not one but MANY new coats every year seems completely untenable. Perhaps it was only one coordinated coat for your Sunday best or your "going to the city" outfit?<BR/><BR/>The diagram of the back indicates that when the wind stops that coat would hang like a sack. Its completely unshaped.<BR/><BR/>Artistic license is a wonderful thing. :D3KillerBshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972256857498433293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12773096.post-37359888761220312222008-11-14T22:07:00.000-06:002008-11-14T22:07:00.000-06:00And you know, for us curvy girls, a dress and coat ensemble is THE recommended look to flatter us the most! <BR/>*swwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooons* over this pattern and must go have a nice cuppa, a Bex, and a good lie down....<BR/><BR/> (Aussies will get that one!)Caityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09287472856864621222noreply@blogger.com