I feel like I used to know what half sizes were all about, but I can't dredge it up.
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Wikipedia makes it look like it's a variation on petite. [link]
my mom was sewing in the 70s -so I sent her an email .
but look at these
I am familiar with way to many of these
Wikipedia makes it look like it's a variation on petite.
Ah! Looks like it's women's petite.
That third one down in Beth's link, the "Young Contemporary Fashion" -- was this soon after Fiddler on the Roof opened? Because I can see no other way that could be "contemporary."
from my mom
12 1/2, 14 1/2, 161/2 up to 22 1/2 or 24 1/2. I think they were sizes beyond the normal misses 8-16. they were the one that are now called women's
but it wasn't a size she did
3rd one down - may I bring up Little house on the prairie? That was a big fashion influence
Right! I'd forgotten that Little House was that period, too. Though the scarf tied under the chin still seems more Anatevka than Walnut Grove to me.
I remember that pattern, but I don't ever remember any one actually wearing the scarf
I just found out that my mother is ordering a Turducken for the seder.
There is a company selling a kosher-for-passover Turducken. This is all kinds of wrong.