While I've never subscribed, I have devoured Threads magazine articles in my local public library. It would be great to have this DVD collection!

If I had it, I might find in the articles the information I need (and the motivation ?) to finish some of those UFOs!! Sue

Hello again.

A question for Villa for 2: Any chance you could pass that 1940s article onto the rest of us somehow? I'm thinking a copy scanned into a pdf, although that might not work for a number of reasons.

Or maybe just a photocopy sent to the Threads editors so they can post it or update the techniques and write an article about it?

I too love these old vintage clothes and often find them really cheap at various sales, if only for one simple reason: There are few buyers because women of the past (especially prior to modern food distribution), were much slimmer and we modern women are...ahem... well... not so much these days.

I am not overweight but sometimes I look at a vintage garment and think, "I couldn't even get my thigh into that waistline!" My mother, who was 5'8", weighed 118 pounds when she married in her early 30s at the end of WWII. She had no eating disorder - she just walked 10 miles to and from work each day (often on bitterly cold or very hot days) and ate the food that was available at the time.

An article on how to increase the size of these garments might be very useful to us all. This kind of information is hard to come by these days.

Great idea! I just want to add one thing: As with all thrift store/garage sale/rummage sale finds, if the garment is wool, take it to the dry cleaners first or hand wash if possible. If you don't plan to work on it right way, put it in a plastic bag and seal it tightly until you get it cleaned.

These garments of unknown orgin can have moth eggs in them which can contaminate your other woolens. Plus, cleaning will reveal moth damage that didn't show up beforehand.

If it turned out to be badly moth damaged, you would save your time. In case it just had a little moth damage and you decided to finge it anyway, you could use the fringe threads you pulled to reweave the holes.

Yes, I would like to know more too. Does using the wool batting make the jacket really warm, perhaps too warm for those of us in a less wintery climate?

And how does one finish the seams?

These jackets are lovely but would they make one look, ahem... dare I say it, fat... ok... fatter?

Does one bother with interfacing?

So many questions! I must clear the 4 year backlog in my sewing room and get to work!