Where are they now I wonder, the clothes we once wore, the red jersey dress and the yellow one, the green culottes, 100% crimpolene!, the Phentex slippers (100% olefin polypropylene!), and those ‘wet look’ knee high boots Moira Something had, boots surely made of congealed raw petroleum… materials that last forever, fragments of which are somewhere and one day, thousands of years down the road, will be excavated by puzzled archeologists searching for the latest fad.

Tomorrow’s yarn today!
I thought I was adding a link to some groovy patterns available on Etsy. They’re mint.
I love the covers of old patterns. I used to sew all my own clothes (in crimpolene, ha!) and remember thinking everyone on the front of Butterick looked SO together. And then the things I would actually make were SO weird by comparison. Another post bubbling up as we speak…