Vintage

Hello and welcome back to another blog post. Last weekend my boyfriend and I went to Retro sur mer. “Retro sur mer” is a retro festival at the Belgian coast (Wenduine) with artists who play golden oldies, a whole dike full of vintage cars, a vintage market and much more!…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost from my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. We’re almost at the end of my series and today I’m going to talk about this 80s outfit that I’ve made. The eighties is the decade where my mom was a…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost from my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about this 1970s outfit that I’ve made. The Seventies is my favorite decade of the 20th century. Compared to the sixties where mini skirts were very…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost from my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about this 1960s dress that I’ve made. I really love the vibe of the sixties and the fashion of that decade. Skirts got shorter and groovier,…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost about my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about my 1950s dress that I’ve made. I was really looking forward for this decade, because I have collected a lot of 1950s (reproduction) patterns in…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost about my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about my 1940s outfit that I’ve made. Normally it had to be finished in April but the fabric didn’t arrive on time so because of that…

(ENGLISH VERSION BELOW) Ik ben begin dit jaar begonnen met een Youtube-serie genaamd “Naaien doorheen de 20e eeuw”, waarin ik maandelijks een outfit maak uit elk decennium van de 20e eeuw. Ik gebruik daarbij originele modellen uit die tijd en ik probeer ze zo goed mogelijk na te maken. Omdat…

Onlangs kocht ik enkele Simplicity patronen waaronder Simplicity 1459, een vintage patroon uit 1950. Ik hou van vintage mode, maar de mode uit de jaren 50 was niet altijd mijn favoriet, meestal vind ik 1950 jurken te meisjesachtig, zoals een prinses, maar bij dit patroon sprak de kraag me erg…