Posts Tagged ‘1980s’
Style Arc Hedy dress
Remember the 80s? Big baggy tunic tops worn over leggings, a triangular silhouette, lots of lycra. This is the Style Arc Hedy dress, and it would fit right in there. For me it was love at first sight. Absolutely the best thing about this dress is that it has pockets cleverly integrated into the design. […]
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Tags: 1980s, dress, Dressmaking, Sewing, silver, stylearc
Space opera
Here’s the first fruit of the overlocker. It’s model 128 from the October 2010 Burda. And here’s Burda’s version. I notice that the image file from the BurdaStyle website is named something along the lines of ‘Burda Star Wars’ so the science fiction effect is obviously intentional! Personally I think it’s more 1980s cyberpunk than […]
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Tags: 1980s, Burda, Dressmaking, Sewing
80s flashback
I finished the tartan dress. The background to this is that few years ago (long before I started sewing) I saw a Yohji Yamamoto dress in Selfridges that I really liked but couldn’t possibly afford. I can barely remember a lot of the details now, but this is my take on the features that did […]
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Tags: 1980s, Dressmaking, Sewing, tartan
