In a message dated 7/5/2009 5:30:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bear_ja...@msn.com writes:
A Villager shirtwaist was a dress, usually cotton, with a full skirt. Villager was the brand - they had a whole line of rather preppy style clothes that were more expensive than other clothes and only were made up to a size 11. Whoops--sorry for the blank post. Yes, Villager was a brand. A shirtwaist, at least in 1960s terminology, is a dress with a fitted bodice--bust and waist darts--and buttons down the center front--attached to a skirt. It could be full in the 1950s or early 1960s, but by the late '60s was often A-line. The fabric was often a cotton with a floral sort of serpentine print. To make the style work with a full skirt, there was a slit placket opening at center front, or, sometimes, an underarm zipper. I never had an authentic Villager dress, but merely homemade styles (that I made myself.) I still have the pattern I used, Simplity 8296 from 1969. The A-line view had the underarm zipper. I think I used another pattern for the full-skirted view, which had a slit placket but no underarm zipper. Dresses could have short sleeves with a turned up cuff, or long sleeves with a button cuff, and a convertible collar. Ann Wass **************Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
