The Vintage Fashion Challenge is an Instagram event hosted by
@iliveinmylab, @makethislook, and @tinyangrycrafts.
I'll be investigating individual patches on the Crazy Quilt and telling their stories, both on IG (short form verbiage) and here, longer posts with links.
Here's my intro video that I posted incorrectly on IG:
For Day 2 (which I combined with Day 1 on the IG post) I actually donned an entire vintage outfit!
Here is one of the pages I was waving around in the video from my Otis Fashion Textile Class Binder:
I'm going over some of the original pencil in ink, as my instructor suggested in 1985.
I'm going over some of the original pencil in ink, as my instructor suggested in 1985.
Stories
1) The African knockoff print
I still have the top I made out of this! It was hanging behind me in the above video. Lou decided it was a lovely cat napping station after I left it on the bed. (Sorry, no documentation).
I think I bought this yardage at my favorite fabric shop in Poughkeepsie, NY in the '70s.The top was sewn in 1973.
2) The Vintage Floral
This one I bought at Pilgrim Mills in Providence, RI. There used to be a lot of fabric mills in the Providence area and Pilgrim was an outlet for mill ends. Sewn in 1981, it started as a retro boatneck fit-and-flair dress.
I recently found an old slide with me wearing the dress, but since I'm already so late in posting this, I'll come back and add it later!
Other notes:
Did a full rendering of this print in gouache, plus a colorway for an Otis class. Another thing to hunt for.
I refurbished this into a skirt (currently lives on Mending Mountain).
On the quilt, not sure if any patches have lasted.
This one, in the upper left corner, I covered - look how faded it got!
3) The Couch Fabric
This covered a love seat that my parents gave me when I moved to Manhattan in 1977.
It was my paternal grandmother's, I still have it (in storage in the garage).
Again, a photo search for another day!
