A review on Vintage Vogue V2858

Vintage Vogue V2858 is a re-print of a pattern from 1944 and can be made in two versions. A short dress or as an evening gown with a front slit. It is now out of print.

I have a friend who has a fabric store, which means that I often buy fabrics when all I intended was to say hello. Not that I'm complaining, but my wallet and storage space may have other opinions. On one of these visits I spotted a rayon fabric that just cried out to me that it needed to become the short version of V2858. It could be nothing else. Then I came home and looked at the pattern and realized that my fabric has the exact colours as the short dress. Felt a little spooky...

Cover Girl

Movies are always a good source for inspirations. So yesterday I watched one of my favourites; Cover Girl from 1944. It is a musical with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and the story is pretty light-weight. A talented dancer, Rusty, would like to get famous quickly, which puts her at odds with her handsome, but rather priggish boyfriend, who thinks there are no short-cuts to fame, but only hard work. Rusty, however, comes to attention to a media mogul who was once in love with her grandmother and he decides that she is to get everything. Of course, that means she has to forego true love, but in the very last minute (marriage) she is reminded of that and reunited with her priggish boyfriend.