 Hi, you guys welcome back to another first impression video today. We're going to be looking at simplicity's early spring collection. If this is your first time watching one of these videos, this is a series that I do where I take a look at a pattern company's entire collection, whether that's an indie pattern designers entire catalog, or when the big five releases new seasonal releases, I'll review all of them that were released at once. So it's a really fun way to look at the patterns and maybe notice some things that you didn't before, but we'll talk about some fit issues. If I see any things to look out for whenever you're worrying about fitting the garment for yourself, we'll talk about fabrication. We'll look at the suggested fabrics, but also throw out some other ideas that come to mind as I am looking at the pattern and just kind of check out the overall design and get a vibe for what is coming down the pipeline in terms of home sewing, fashion design, all that kind of stuff. So let's jump right in. We are going to start with a Mimi G. Kate, Mrs. Kate by Mimi G. Alpha numeric sizing. It looks like all the sizes are all in one envelope. So extra small to two XL. We'll look at exactly what that means when we get to the back of the envelope, but it is described as cropped trench cape with pointed collar includes cargo pockets with inverted pleats and flaps. Cape includes a storm flap buttons. And button and front button tabs for convertible sleeves. Oh, I know what they mean by that. Okay, what do we think about the bullets? That's interesting and new and different. Does that make it easier for you guys to read? I mean, I guess a little bit. I mean, certainly bullet points always help a little bit, right? I don't know if the if the verbiage, like the actual words they use are any more clear, but okay, there's there's two things to look out for here. Okay, looking at the photos. So pointed collar with like a collar stand. So this is up on your neck like a trench would be. This is the storm flap. There's a pocket here, which you can also see here. And then there are convertible sleeves. You know how you roll them up and then you button them somewhere, but I'm not seeing that here. So that's what I thought they meant, but maybe I'm wrong. And then there's also this like really kind of cool asymmetrical thing happening. There she is again. Yeah, it's like it ends at your high hip, but then has like some drapey things coming down. I think that that creates a really beautiful flattering silhouette for all body types. Mimi's definitely a pair. I'm a pair. So I look at her like, oh, that's me. And yeah, it seems like for something that's so kind of oversized and you know, it's not making her look bigger. That's for sure. Oh, that's all we're going to get in photos. Okay. Well, maybe the line drawings will help. Actually, let's go there first. Okay. Interesting. Wow. All right. So man, we're going to need some instructions on how to wear this thing. So there's the storm flap. Is this just not functional because you just put this all over your head or do you need to undo this because the neckline is so close fitting? And then this is the button tab that attaches to these buttons to make it a convertible sleeve. But what does that mean exactly? Does that mean sometimes your arm goes through here? If you button it, it makes it like closed around your arm. And if you don't button it, then it's just loose. Is that what's happening? Because this matches up with this, right? That's logical. Hmm. We also didn't get any photos of the back. And so this is the back flap that it has. Yeah, my best guess is that you put it on over your head. Maybe you have to unbutton some of these to get into it. I'm not sure. And then you can either button this and it's like buttoned underneath your arm so that when you raise your arm, lower your arm, move around. I don't know what the benefit of that would be. But there you have sometimes the capes will have like a baby side seam just to keep it like around your body. This doesn't have that. This is fully like you just drape it on over your shoulders. Okay, so back to the back envelope. We are looking at broad cloth. These are suggested fabrics, broad cloth, cotton blends, denim, lightweight wool types, linen blends, gabardine, stretch woven, tweed and twill. I'm pretty sure what she's wearing is like one of those like kind of sporty fabrics like a wicking polyester type of thing. Yeah, hers looks a little more slick than any of these suggestions. Broadcloth, cotton blends. Yeah, it's hard for me now to picture it in anything other than what she's wearing it as because that's just so logical, you know, but you got to think about it. The intention behind this, the inspiration behind this is a trench coat. So anything you'd make. Yeah, for sure, like a cotton sateen, that might be what she's wearing because it has that sheen to it. Hers just seems a little bit more lightweight. Yeah, linen blends, gabardine, stretch woven, tweed, twill. Yeah, I don't know because it's so trench coat, right, with the flaps and everything. I'm having a hard time seeing it in anything other than what you would see a normal trench coat in, which would be denim, but mostly like that khaki color, you know, olive for sure, black, absolutely. Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing it as anything other than that. I can't imagine it like in a plaid or something or stripe. It's got to be a solid in my mind. I don't know. I'll be here to see what people come up with in terms of fabric choices for this one. Okay, we've just got, for notions, just some buttons to go around. It looks like 13 of them. That's kind of a lot. And then I said already that the sizing goes, it's all in one and it goes from extra small to 2X. That means it's a, I mean, it's very roomy garment, but 29 and a half inch of us up to 48. And then the hip is kind of negligible because it doesn't really hit your low hip. Plus, that's like the fullest part of it. So I would go off your high bust measurement. That way the shoulder and everything and the neckline, that's really what you care about fitting is that neck band and then the shoulders draping from there, excuse me, which is taken from your high bust measurement. So that's what I would go off of. Okay, great. Finish garment measurements are negligible, but they are in the, they aren't included on the back. I guess they're probably on the pattern pieces, but the length might be important. So I guess that's helpful too because you don't want it to be too long. That would be very overwhelming. So if you're a petite person and normally take length adjustments, like you shorten things a lot, maybe measure. You would be measuring from like, well, in theory, I don't know, you're supposed to measure like you get a necklace on from like where that necklace hits your back neck down to like the bottom of this, whatever they say the measurement is, but this one, I don't know if they're including that high collar or not. If so, that would be like your hairline. Yeah. All right. Next, we have the other Mimi pattern, super cute little set top and skirts in two lengths and it's Mrs. and women sizing. So that's a 10 to 18 and then a 20 women's to a 28 women's the women's sizing, even though wait, what am I saying? The women's sizing is done off of a different block. This is a different bust size than this one. So if you normally wear a 20 or 22 in Mrs. it's not necessarily the same as a 20 W or 22 W. They are different. So choose accordingly. It might be better for you to make like if you have a smaller bust, it might be better for you to stick with the Mrs. sizing and then make size adjustments to make it larger this way, then it would be to start with the larger bust cup and try and figure all of that out, especially because this seems to be kind of a corset type of vibe. Yes, that's what it says right here cropped course at top with bust cups has underwire for support. Oh, nice skirt has slightly lowered waist. Oh, I see. Okay, we'll talk about that in a second and is offered in two length variations top and skirt both have side zippers top has separate pattern pieces for BC and D cups for Mrs. and then CD and double D cups for women. So that's a little bit like what I was talking about. If you're a B cup, but you're a size 18 or 20 or I'm sorry, 20 or 22, it would be better for you to make the Mrs. 18 and figure out how to size up, you know, like make your seam allowances smaller, whatever you need to do to size up. If you're a C or D, you can do either and if you're a double D, again, it's going to be easier to make the women's sizes and then size down if you need to. I hope all that makes sense with the sizing, but just know that women that Mrs. and women's are not like the numbers aren't the same. They're not all created equal in that regard. Okay, so we have got like bus cops. She did say that there was underwire, which I'm honestly having a hard time seeing because that's supposed to be for support. So you would think it would be lifting her and you wouldn't have this fold. Maybe the underwire that she uses just a little thin. I don't know. And then you have this, you know, I guess this is all one. So it's not like a band or anything, but you know, it extends down to your natural waist and then the skirt. This is what they meant by it being lowered a little. If the skirt sat at the natural waist, these two things would touch, but she wanted them to have a little bit of space. You could tell that they were two separate things. If you don't want that, you have plenty of options. One, you can attach these together to make a dress. You just put one waistline at the other waistline and you sew them together. You can either leave the waistband or remove it and just attach the skirt to this thing. Or you can raise the skirt up and just make it essentially just be making it smaller around to fit higher up on your body ish. But the skirt also has the panels that match up with the panels in the bodice. This little suede version. See how much more structure this skirt has also the top. So that's why it's not folding over as much as this one is. There's just a lot more structure to the fabric and that's what's holding her up. I'm not entirely sure that the that the underwire is underwiring here. If you've ever made undergarments before raw specifically, I would pay attention to what she recommends for notions and how she's doing this and see if that lines up with your normal. Bra making stuff. I've never made a bra before not like a proper one with like underwire and padding. So yeah, check into that especially if you are like like the underwire part was very very appealing to you and you want that to work like you think it's going to work in your brain. For sure. Double check that and then this is like a little mini version super cute still. What kind of shoes does she have here? Oh yeah, just a little heel still. Equally cute with like a little sneaker. I think. Yeah, this is a sweet sweet little silhouette. Yep, just all the same sort of pictures. Here's the back. Okay. So the back of the bodice looks really good. Nice and fitted. I would say also that if you didn't want to do the zipper here and you just wanted something to pull on it would be really easy to like double the width of this panel and then do shirring so you could just pull it on really easily. Also a bit of a pointed cup here to pointed for her. So just you know course you'll be fitting this because it is such a fitted garment but you know that's something to look out for and then on the skirt her usual. I think I just pretty common for Mimi to have some kind of buckling happening here with the fabric and that happens a lot with us fuller bummed fuller butted women because the waistband is being pushed down and then the low hip is being pushed up. So it would just it's how you guys are all going to say it's a sway back adjustment. It's not necessarily a sway back adjustment. It's a length adjustment. She's just shorter here than the pattern is allowing for. You do take the same it's the same alteration but it's not necessary like a sway back is like a physical like this ability like that's that's a really serious thing. It doesn't just mean your back is really curved. It's usually if your back is curved like this it's just also shorter but it's like nowadays I guess in sewing sway back and this length adjustment are kind of considered the same thing even though in my mind they're not but there we go. I know you can see those heels too. Okay good. Let me see. Okay that's it. All right. So suggested fabrics go clay would be adorable. Cotton's denim linens rayon satin view a the bodice also in brocades the mask and tapeta. Why can't you make B and C out of those two that doesn't make any sense. Um it is lined I assumed only the bodice would be lined but let me see how much lining fabric do you need. No I don't think the bodice wait hold on how much is that safe by the yeah I don't think the bodice is lined. I think it's the waistband. I don't know I would look into that and maybe figure out how to line the bodice. I don't know why I'm just that's where maybe not maybe not. I don't know I can't tell. Okay so one separating zipper. Oh okay so the bodice zipper fully comes apart which might be hard for some people to actually zip it you know what I mean. So if that's the case and you're just like not a super flexible person consider the shirring option that's really easy convertible conversion to make pair of bra underwires for BCD or oh so BCD or double D wait that's all of them there wasn't an A cup I didn't know if she left that out or she included it if anybody knows her and wants to like you know shoot her a message and then leave it in the comments and let me know and then for the skirt and the invisible zipper okay so 10 to 18 is misses excuse me 20 to 28 is women's body measurements that's a 32 excuse me 32 and a half inch bust up to 50 inches the waist is obviously very important here to 25 inches to 44 the hip not so much because it is a fuller skirt so just make the skirt based on your waist and then the bodice you really need to consider both of these but ease wise we look like we've got three inches in the bust that feels like a lot I would probably drop it down to two or for your in-between sizes go to the smaller one and then as you go up in bust cup you get an extra inch huh yeah that's confusing I don't think that's exactly how it works I don't think if you're a 32 and a half inch double D or sorry 32 and a half inch D that you would need five inches of ease the ease shouldn't change right and then the waist for the skirts they don't give the waist for the for the top so I guess they're counting on you to make that based off your bust measurement but 26 yeah an inch of ease in the waist that makes sense for the skirt so I would mimic that in the waist of the top and then for the hip like I said that doesn't really matter so yeah some some funky things to consider there but that's with any garment that's going to be like super fitted you know like not just fitted circumference wise but also considering your like the fullness of your bust as well okay so now we have a in-house designer Mrs. dress with link variations simplicity cannot quit this little design there's been so many versions of this lately fitted color block dress has bodice with princess seams and bust starts dress comes in three links and can be maybe with or without sleeves dress a has a neck band which I kind of actually love and all of yous have sightseeing pockets which I actually don't love and I'll tell you why so a little mock neck I love that and I also kind of love how if you leave that off is very high neck oh and there is actually a full bodice here okay okay this is the best version of this type of dress that I've seen from them this is the most well designed it doesn't look like there's a lot happening here but there really is so you've got the princess seams with the darts you've got an actual waist seam and then the little swoopies happen where why didn't they make this version this is beautiful obviously with chambray and the different shades of denim would be super super cute and then they're just again color blocking with different options three options two options this is I can't tell if this is lighter I want to say yes so three different options there so yeah okay so a couple of things I'm noticing with the fit is that the sleeve on the sleeve less version is too the shoulder width is too wide it should be stopping right here and there's not a sleeve band it's just turned under so I would just cut cut cut cut cut cut cut and give yourself more of an angle it's just a lot more flattering to have it cut away from the shoulder and for the shoulder width the shoulder seem to end at that little intersection where your shoulder socket joins your I don't know shoulder bone anatomy not one of my strong suits okay so in seam pockets here's the problem I'm sure that these are teardrop shaped and they just flap around and I don't like a floppy pocket I like it to be anchored into something so you do have some options you could create a pocket that's this shape right and then on this side it would come this is a little this is a little bit of a long distance to go here you could do it this way and then do like a little chain stitch that attaches it to here just something to anchor it to the front so that it doesn't try and flop around to the back and when you you know what I mean like I just I don't know maybe it's like a sensory thing I just cannot do floppy pockets okay those are all the same photos again same photo again okay here's the back invisible zipper up the back including the neckband wow they really had some issues with this fabric that makes me think that this might be a little bit too small so maybe add like a like a quarter of an inch to it and see if that helps make that easier to attach you do want it to be contoured to the body you know but I don't know if that's that's just too hard to execute I mean if it's hard for their like super professional seamstresses to do it I don't know how we're supposed to accomplish that at home but you can see almost like right here is where this shoulder should end and it should scoop through here so it's too long by like gosh two inches maybe more but you also have the princess seams here this is your waist seam only goes halfway here some really interesting pieces to cut this is probably going to be a fabric hog she does have her hip pop so I'm not too worried about this kind of pulling away like that and then other than that it looks really pretty it is a really beautiful eye catching design I think if you made this you know more it really anywhere church otherwise you would get a lot of compliments and attention for all the right reasons it is really beautiful so just the fabrics are shally charmeuse crepe double georgette lightweight cotton blends rayon and silky type so yeah they're going for really lightweight and drapey the most structure is this cotton blend but I would also tell you that and I've said this I think I say this in every one of these videos but these fabric suggestions are also considering the time of year that the pattern is being released so this is early spring so they're trying to give you more springy type of fabrics you could definitely still make this out of a Ponty a sateen you know any of those midweight types of fabrics you could still do that a twill you know even a rayon twill would be really beautiful you could still use those so long as it has the drape that you need for all of this and in fact I would say the lightest that you go like for the shally for the you know hundred percent rayons these curves all be on the bias like that are going to make those fabrics the most challenging so consider that whenever you're picking your fabric if you're new to sewing with curves maybe don't go with the most lightweight drapey option try to find something a little bit more structured okay single fold bias tape that's what they used I think for the for the sleeve the arm opening and that's a and that's C and B I don't really understand that but yeah I think that's for the arms arm holes and then invisible zipper and then you know the slightly longer one for B and C why a 24 you shouldn't need a longer zipper for that doesn't make any sense to me so I I don't know I would just buy the shorter one can you all think of what what am I missing here oh because the neckline okay yeah yeah yeah okay facts you do need a longer zipper to cover the neckband da okay great alright so then we have the sizing oh I didn't look at the thing but it might be 4 to 12 and then 14 to 20 or 4 to 12 and then 12 to 20 that way you get 5 an each that's a 29 and a half inch bust up to 42 inch bust and we also do not have finished garment measurements on the back here but it is pretty fitted through the bust and waist maybe 3 inches at most I would think for ease and then yeah picking your fabrics and all that is going to it's a it's a math problem in and of itself let's see this yeah so the 12 does overlap so 4 to 12 and then 12 to 20 I like the 12 to 20 okay next we have a dress relaxed fit shirt dress with an elastic waist and sightseeing pockets includes an optional pointed collar and placket that can be made in a contrasting fabric dress has a forward drop shoulder forward drop shoulder okay with full pleated sleeves and elastic closures in two sleeves link variations dress also comes into link options as well as a cut out at the back waist okay so okay interesting what do we think of this number I think that this is going to be one of those where the fabric choice is going to make this hard for people to see it as something that they would wear I think when you have this mini design details right you've got the contrasting band with the collar with the big sleeve with the elastic with the cut out all of and it being maxi link to or midi link at least having that in a print is very very difficult to pull off it's just a lot happening so I would challenge you to picture this in a solid no contrast so solid all around and then see if you can see yourself in it also this fabric is kind of structured I'm pretty sure it's a it's a cotton maybe even a shirting picture it's something a little bit draper picture linen picture a rayon blend and see if that helps you visualize it when you make it out of a lighter weight fabric it is going to fall in on the body more and that would be one less design element it being so full if you want to lean into the fullness by all means but I do think help I do think seeing it in a solid will help you figure out if this is something you would actually wear I'm a little bit disappointed in this elastic situation first of all it feels low but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because she's got her hands in her pockets and she could be pulling it down herself which is what I know this is accounted for that but is this also being pulled down when I look at it here this part here is what extends to be this this feels like it's in the close to the right place it might be a little bit low but not nearly as low as this one looks so I would double check that for sure and it does seem to be like you know falling to the back a little bit I don't know can we leave this collar off it would be a million times cuter without the color this is the one with just the color stand but I don't know I would just leave this whole thing off and make a v-neck that's it from far away I don't know yeah the color is still not doing it for me even that I don't know maybe because they did it in the contrast I don't know like just put your hand over the screen and just cover up that color part if you left the button-placket but remove that maybe but it looks like it has hope that's the forward drop shoulder okay okay yeah all in one do we like that better without the contrast at all certainly helps I think that kind of looks like a neck tie which could be cool I don't know what if we color would be just color blocked like this was green and this was I don't know why or something then would you look like a clergy person I don't know I don't know that's that's giving me a hard like it's making my brain work overtime I also wanted to see is this is the front I want to see the line drawings hold on one second of the front is it supposed to be lousy because if so then you would want the extra length from the high point shoulder to the elastic band because then the band would be fitted to your waist and then it would create this blousy effect it doesn't seem to be super blousy so that really doesn't make up for how long it looked on the fit model yeah I don't it has potential it definitely definitely has potential I don't want to write it off completely but it needs it needs one or two fewer things happening whether that's the contrast the print the fullness something alright so kind blends gingham linen blends poplin and shirtings so all of those kind of stable woven stable but lightweight woven fabrics yeah I agree okay I wouldn't go much lighter weight than like a cotton ray on blend or a linen ray on blend I wouldn't go much lighter weight than that I think it needs the structure for the sleeve and honestly for the skirt to be a little bit more full to balance out what's happening up here you don't want the skirt to fall in on you too much because then that just makes you look really top heavy okay so five buttons some elastic and single fold bias tape for B and C so that's for the cutout or yeah the back cutout okay six to 14 and then 14 to 22 that's probably my favorite of all the size ranges that they do it just is the most inclusive while still being misses it's the most inclusive of the misses options so that's a 30 and a half inch bust up to 44 inches the ease here is going to be significant yeah 11 inches in the bust and even more than that in the waist but I guess they didn't factor that with the elastic so the waist is negligible and then they didn't give you the hip so you're basing this off of your bus you could easily easily size down two or three sizes if you don't like it being super full but it's a very very loose fitting garment alright next we have the women's version of the color blocked dress that we already looked at or Gina so we've already looked at this let's just look at the pictures and kind of get a vibe for the fit in the women's version that they made the colorless version here so you can get an idea of what that looks like and they also made the sleeve version I really appreciate that I love when they make the top total opposite version so we can get a no matter what size range you're making you can get a visualization of like what it looks like without the color or with the sleep and I want to point out that with the sleeve the longer shoulder length isn't that big of a problem because this sleeve does not have a huge sleeve cap on it meaning it comes up and over the shoulder it's more meant to be kind of like a drop shoulder it's fine but when you go to make the sleeveless version you should really have two different bodices one with like a shorter shoulder length and one with a longer one where this they go with the sleeveless and sleeved dresses respectively there the fit the length looks really good normally with plus size patterns the length is funky because you guys are like just more petite through here and that's not accounted for but this looks spot on and they gave her the little little tea length I love this beautiful. All right, let's see if we get something from the back sorry if you all just looked at your phones you could hear that I just turned it off okay. Yeah, so we've seen all of these all of these that's a fun version. Okay, here's the back. Okay, yeah, it's just too big for her in the waist but it didn't feel that way in the front so interesting. I wonder if it's no that can't I was gonna say I wonder if it's because this has the waist seam in this one doesn't I don't think that really has anything to do with it but that would be an easy easy alteration you're just basically scooping this out. Yeah, and again well how is she standing? This leg looks to be kicked out so she's got her weight on this one. Yeah, that could be adding to it a little bit. It's just a little bit too big through here that's all you either take it out of the princess seam like pinch it out here. And it also seems to really only be happening in the bodice and not necessarily in the skirt. But yeah, you could pinch it out here and then on this side do it from the side seam or do it from both side seams it's really up to you not the end of the world. Not the end of the world. This sleeve, this stuff that's happening here I think it's because the sleeve is too long on the underarm seam. It needs to be well you know what it is actually it's not length it's circumference if this were a little bit more full which again comes from that sleeve cap just not being very full. So if you made this a little bit squattier a little bit flatter on your pattern piece you give yourself some more room here for your bicep that's also what this is happening to but again not the end of the world nobody else is going to notice this but maybe me like I might be the only one in the world who would be that Nick picky but and I wouldn't be like if you made this yourself I would never ever ever point out your bit issues I would just tell you it looks amazing unless you asked me in that case I would tell you for sure but I'm not running around to everybody and being like you know Oh God how annoying would I be okay so shali charmeuse crepe double georgia lightweight cotton blends the same thing I said about the other one you can do those but you can do something a little bit more as well and then the finish government measurements are not included on this one so I can't give you that for the women's version okay now we've got a women's top raised waist top with shall caller have partial button front to link options and sleeve variations top C has raised pleat on the sleeve okay so what they mean by a raised waist is basically kind of like an empire waste I don't know that have to be right under the bus is that why we're not calling it that and then it has this little placket and this little shall caller kind of sweet can be a little dowdy I will say but it looks good in this solid and then you've got your princess seems same slave problem see how all of this is pointing up here and then this is pointing down here and this is pointing up to here it's all pointing to this area right here so it's just not wide enough through there for her same thing with like this and this all of this is pointing up up up up right to this area right here the rest of it you know loose fitting so it's fine there it is in like a little chambray I guess that looks very not young this one has the was this little button situation happening and then a little pleat in the back to wait here's the sleep so when you when you button the sleep it creates this pleat or that pleat is permanently in there I think this permanently in there so these are non functioning I think so I don't think they work but then you have this little back pleat and then I want to point out the again more pulling toward this area here same thing happening here right it's all pointing to this area being too small okay so lightweight drapey shit well actually not so much chambray linen those are not drapey and then rayon silky types are drapey soft cottons tinsel which is like a name brand of rayon and then 22 to 28 and then 20 no 22 to 28 and then 30 to 38 42 inch bust up to a 60 inch bust with three and a half inches of ease that seems appropriate okay now we have this is the Mrs. Version let me skip to that really quickly so I can show you her sleeve not a not a wrinkle not a wrinkle in sight just inherently plus size women have bigger biceps duh so that's how you know what's happening there and that's it this is it in the linen it is really nice in a crisper fabric are there any more features are hurt in it yeah this is because there's too much wit in the back for her so it's too big actually but you can see how much more I mean I think this is her arm right here so she has a good two inches of ease in the bicep so that's what you need to have for the women's version also yeah it also looks really long on her this should be ending here I think so each one of them has their own set of issues it's just that's why we go through the trouble of you know looking at the measurements and picking our size and making alterations and all of that but you can create you can look at these these sample makes and the sample models and get a pretty good idea of trouble of problems you're going to run into by looking at how they fit them all right we've got some Mrs. Jeans low waisted jeans with pockets have to closure options front fly zipper or button fly closure view be has contrast outer panels the yoke and waistband top stitching is optional I wouldn't be surprised if these were small sizes no 8 it starts at 8 I thought this was going to be a 4 to 12 situation but they just seem so young right 8 to 16 and then 18 to 26 all right so did it say it didn't say anything about rise this is hitting her I mean kind of low rise but this the the rise of the pant is kind of long which makes me think that these are just too big for her in the waist like I just want to hike these up on her and then if you did that you'd have to make the waistband smaller this also doesn't look a curved waistband so I'm thinking that they meant for it to be low but then they should have this shouldn't be as long you would need to shorten her rise in order to accomplish a low rise can't no hands and pockets thank you for that but she is popping into this one hip so it is a little bit hard to see how these slash pockets are are sitting but I mean they look as good as they would anywhere else ready to wear otherwise and then you've got this like it's almost like fitted fitted fitted then like stove pipe into a baby flare you know it keeps getting a little bit wider and then it kicks out here at the bottom and that I think is confirmed here too it's not so much of a gradual flare as it is straight and then out yeah this is a really beautiful seam line and I love how it just keeps curving around the body I'm excited to see what the back looks like yeah very thoughtful in terms of just putting all of this together in one visual like your eyeball just really likes that line okay here's the back on her back rise looks okay so it's just the front rise that seems a little bit off but it is a low rise I mean here's her natural waist CS the smallest part of her so that's like one to easily three inches below the natural waist I don't know if that's what they were going for and in the pocket seems so small here's the here's the pocket right seems a little itty bitty pocket but this all this looks good this all looks normal not getting super strong wedgy vibes straight lines all throughout here yeah so the line drawings on the back yeah that is mimicked yeah I think these are going to look really good on a lot of people you just got to fix the rise other than that you should be good to go well assuming that you're assuming a lot of pant fitting stuff but the rise I think is going to be a universal problem and then the rest of it would just be getting the pants to fit your body okay chambray chino cotton blends denim linen blends poplin twill and then you'll need a little bit of lining for the waistband I think just the way to me oh in the pocket bags I'm surprised I don't see satin here I'm surprised I don't see like gabardine or yeah there's a lot more options that live in this midweight stable world linen blends I think you would need a linen blended with cotton like linen blended with rayon that would be weird yeah and cotton twill cotton poplin so none of the rayon blends these would all be cotton or even polyester blends but yeah a really cool printed denim would be fun you could do lots of cool stuff okay so jeans buttons depending on the number of the quantity depending on the fly that you make and then a zipper that's it 8 to 16 18 to 26 that gives our so normally it would say waist and then however oh wait sit one inch below the waist that's not true not on her anyways you guys could see clear as day that that wasn't what was happening so yeah either the rise of the back is too short if it's truly intended to sit one inch below the waist the rise of the back is way too short and that's what's pulling them down and that's what's giving her that little buckle right at her crotch line so I would leave the front rise as it is and increase the back rise depending on what you need alright so waist I don't even know where to begin in terms of fitting this waist they're not even giving us the finish measurement on the waist okay good so the hip is zero ease zero ease so I don't know about that I mean if these were like stretch twill stretch satin stretch little blah stretch denim that would make sense but they're not all like that so give yourself a little bit of wiggle room in the hip just so that you can like sit down you know without ripping anything okay now we have we looked at that already this okay yeah so if you've missed it the nineties are here right we're at this whole idea and concept of this do you remember back in the day when we had the parachute pants and all the hymns had that little toggle with the elastic and the waistbands had that too and then you would have like some kind of detail like on the side like it may be a pocket that had that as it's like the top of the pocket that is what this is I didn't love it back then I don't really love it now but here we are so this is a cargo skirt with drawstring waistband have sightseeing pockets with flaps and snap button closures B and C have patch pockets and back men's so the little toggley thing big baggy cargo pockets and maxi length it's definitely a trend right this is not this is trendy which a lot of people want to see in the big five they want the trends they don't want the stuff that's just like the basics that look like everything else they want the cool stuff so that's what this is so kudos to them for including something like this I will say the mini skirt is quite cute with the little flat pocket you kind of miss that a little bit here because she's got her hand in it but the mini version I think I could rock out maybe because it doesn't have the big cargo pockets it feels a little bit more approachable but the rest of these are just the length variations so many maybe right below the knee and then maxi and that's what the model is wearing here's the back you know if you want to hook yourself to something here we go like maybe you're going to be suspended in the air later you never know so you'll need to get strapped in or maybe you want to hook your keys to this because you have a problem losing your keys again the pocket feels so narrow give me a wide pocket why is like I want a wider pocket for sure this feels a little high right maybe it's just me but it feels like if she bent over you would you would see some stuff and then again the really big I do like this pocket maybe on a jacket for me I don't know about it being slapped onto my thighs okay fabric wise denim denim would be really cute nylons is what she's wearing poplin rayon depends on the weave satin for sure tinsel and twill yeah if it's a rayon twill weave that's nice if it's a rayon shally no but I think denim nylon and twill are your most commonly used fabrics and then you need a lot of notions d-rings cording grommets port stopper so this is where you're going to spend all your money this becomes very expensive here so try to save some up here I may be just doing like a denim or if you can find nylon for let maybe you're like refashioning an old tint or tarp or something I don't know that's terrible idea but anyways this gets really expensive so alright so then we've got a let's go to the hip I think is the most fitted so 32 and a half up to 48 and lots of ease in the hip so for three and a half inches of ease that's actually not that much but that seems appropriate so I feel good about that alright next we've got norris's unisex sweatshirt in two lengths comfy casual sweatshirt goes well with everything pull over oversized raglan sweatshirt with rib trimmings includes two length variations and comes in sizes extra small to 2x all in one yeah raglan sleeve sweatshirt that's it two lengths that's a lot I wonder if that's like dress length this is really long on her arms I get it supposed to be oversized but that just looks like she just stole somebody's really really too big sweatshirt it looks okay up through here but yeah this leave is this leave would throw me I kind of wish she would have styled it as a dress because I want to see how long is be stretch knits like double knit fleece Ponty sweatshirt fleece tearing it new rib knit trim and it's very oversized like 17 inches of ease so great next oh gosh I thought we were getting into costumes what is this unisex jacket quilted shoulder detailed jacket has contrasting collar band snap button closure and contrasting pockets with zipper closures back of jacket has a large zipper pocket BV has contrast fabric in front and back yolks oh oh this is quilted and then this is all normal okay so whenever I come across a pattern like this and it's like whack-a-doodle styling I just close my eyes and I picture it in all denim just put it all in denim either the same color new contrast colors put it all in denim and see if some of the details start to kind of fade away and then it feels a little bit more wearable I have no idea where I'd wear an orange white pink yellow trimmed anything but I'm not into bright colors so if this were all denim stuff maybe like I'm looking at this and picturing it all in denim I don't know I don't know I don't hate it maybe just I don't like it for me the back looks good I like the back so maybe the front just has too much what's going on on the front like maybe the pockets are too much and this is too much if you took all that away then would it just be boring I don't know but I don't mind the back the back's kind of cool I don't know maybe this is like one of those like remember the 80s like windbreaker type of things is that what we're trying to do here cotton blends denim fleece ponte scuba stretch woven what I don't know guys this feels like too much and not enough all at the same time it's like too much but not enough of the right stuff maybe I know people are going to make really cool versions of this though so I'm really trying I'm really trying anytime I take like long like pregnant pauses like that that's because like I'm my wheels are turning like I'm trying very hard okay then you've got all your contrast fabrics some batting fusible yeah zipper bias tape zipper snaps snaps oh boy okay let's see if this helps in a grayscale kind of a similar exercise as thinking of it all in denim were they trying to go for like a version of a quilt coat is that what they were trying to do I feel like it doesn't have enough of an identity into any one category it's like 80s trend plus quilt coat trend plus athleisure trend and it's not enough of either one of those categories to really belong in any of them so therefore it's just in its own category which I know that some people appreciate that okay so then we've got stuffies stuffies a bag that you can hang from a tree and apron and pants okay then we've got another apron a doll or bunny doll clothes not the baby harness the doll baby harness oh no a medical sling okay well you can make some really cute versions of that if you needed one plus also an oven mitts oh like for your cast that's kind of cute little girls dresses little girls jacket maybe stuff and then this stuff okay so now we've got a whole slew of women stuff just stuff back here and they know we've seen this one before okay so we will go through okay we'll look at this for sure women's and jacket and knit leggings so this is actually super cool corset style hooded jacket love that that's very on trend optional boning two sleeve band options jacket also offers two closure variations either hook and I zipper or zipper closure and then then leggings are kind of like a throwaway but the jacket is super cool so see how it's got the seam here and then all this like optionally boned bodice that's very very very cool right now yeah love this I like how well hers flare out these don't look like they do that unless there's an opening there that you just can't see yeah you can make this out of a ton of different fabrics don't just leave it in a leisure land you could also make it out of like corduroy's you can make it out of ribnets you can make it out of like all kinds of stuff yeah there is a little seam here so cute I like that actually yeah there's the back the hood being lined I kind of hate that it just feels like very thick when they do that or is it you can see the seam so maybe it's it has to be lined that there's no way that the inside of this camo fabric is that but they just left it wrong side out I don't know yeah super cool I love this so double knits fleece jersey stretch velvet sweatshirt and then the so that's for the jacket you don't have to use stretch stuff you can use non-stretch too because it's so loose fitting you would just want to make sure that the waist is you know your waist plus like maybe an inch of ease and then the leggings have to be stretched to pull on so boning is optional separating zipper hook and I elastic and two seven inch zipper oh the leggings have zippers I would just leave that off that feels like it would make them pull down super heavy yeah so the sizing on this is 10 to 18 only that is it's a roomy bust so let's go to the waist 25 to 32 inch waist that's not a lot not a lot the hip goes to 42 inches then again this says body measurements so this is a misprint right oh oh and then women's to okay okay okay so misses sizes 10 to 18 women's 20 to 38 yeah okay so that's all of them so then the waist goes actually up to 54 and a half great love that yeah three size ranges size categories awesome okay next up we have vintage not quite we've got this little dress this is knit dress how comfy one shoulder dress has gathered side cut out detail gathered shoulder which can be made with or without a sleeve and the length variations view a has an a symmetrical him why is this hiding way down here in La La Land below all the stuffed animals this is super cute take me on a cruise sent me to like the French Riviera yes and I don't normally love a asymmetrical shoulder situation you guys know this I just don't think it's very flattering but this one seems to come up pretty high and would cover what I like to call a chicken cutlet you know that little piece of like I don't know fat that's right here that's my chicken cutlet and I don't like for that to be exposed so normally these these cause that for whatever reason to poke out more than it normally it's just more obvious I guess it's always there but it's a little more obvious this seems like it would hide that a little bit and you can tell to that there's elastic in this so it's you know being contoured to the body as it is here the one shoulder does make it dressier to me like what I wear this to target I don't think so so that means it's relegated for like a date night or and I know we don't still go on fancy fancy dates even my girls nights are not like I don't go clubbing or anything like that so it'd be like just for vacation so maybe maybe maybe you could figure out a way to add a strap and I think that would make it a little bit more casual like she's ready for a night on the town she's like let's go cute and then this one does start to feel a little toga-esque just be mindful of that when you're picking your fabric like did not use like a white cotton because then that would be like oh I just got out of bed and I just grabbed my sheet and wrapped it around me cute though okay so stretch knits only bamboo knit interlock jersey modal rayon knit rib knit would be nice stretch velvet just a lot of elastic twill tape and bias tape yeah all that makes perfect sense 8 to 16 and then 18 to 26 on the size range they're doing a lot better with the sizes don't you guys agree and then negative ease or zero ease thank you very much thank you very much so the bus has negative 30 negative half inch of ease the waist has zero inches of ease so that's how you know it's going to be fitted to your body and not start to feel tense like so I really appreciate that you can even go more negative ease in the bodice I think like if you went more negative it would just be well I go back to her front view so now we got from her wow okay it would be even closer fitted through here so if you're using like a rib knit for example that has a lot of stretch to it you can go down even more to make sure that that rib is really being contoured to your body versus like a cotton jersey which doesn't have as much stretch you would want to stick with just the half inch negative ease that's cute I can see myself getting that one these last two have got me more excited than anything else so far okay now we're going to go through the vintage dresses I am still doing the vintage to modern thing the holidays just kind of got on the way of that but I am still doing that I have a really cute idea for this month that actually uses a pattern from the last like the winter releases so that's probably how it will be I will be calling back to the release prior but this is a 1960 Jiffy's dress sewing pattern the colorless dress with low round neckline has back zipper if you wanted to have back front and back waistline darts you want to sleeveless with a slit in the left side seam ankle length of you two and three have short set in sleeves view three is worn with a ribbon sash okay so this is a jiffy pattern I love these because look this is all it is three pattern pieces or just some doors to but you have the low round neckline they mentioned you have this little I guess French dart in the front not French fish eye in the front and then you can tie it off or not you can have it sleeved or not there's also a little dark here and then the longer version has this really simple classic looking dress and the backs all have fish eye darts they have neckline darts and an invisible wax zipper well probably not in vintage in invisible probably a regular zipper all of your midweight wovens even some heavier weight wovens yeah view one also an eyelash metallics what is that you two and three and double knits lightweight bowls blends yeah really just about anything you can make these dresses out of so a 22 inch zipper yeah not invisible although you could use invisible if you wanted and then seam binding six to fourteen sixteen to twenty four three inches of ease in the bust seven in the waist one in the hip yikes that's not true I lied four in the hip that's much better okay cute simple okay now we've got this reversible coat another jiffy pattern worn reversible or not don't know it's like what a weird way to say that has collar and optional top stitching trim below elbow link kimono sleeve with optional turnback cuffs have not detail purchase tie belt maybe worn at waistline purchase that means it's not included so yeah lots of pretty seeming here coming from the shoulders that's the thing about jiffy it may just be two pattern pieces three pattern pieces but they make the most of them right look how cute little cup is turned back with that little notch so sweet and that's your optional belt are we going to get the back okay so we get a line drawing of the back it's just the same shoulder seam and then the center back that's it but there is a sleep a separate sleeve so there should be a line through here somewhere broad cloth cotton blends the mask cotton home spun corduroy double knits flea blah blah blah mohair mohair wow okay really lots lots of options okay sizing wise we have a 31 inch bus but it has gosh 14 inches of ease so the bust waist and hip are all the same it's literally a straight line down so the hip would be the closest fitting for me anyways and that still has 12 inches of ease 11 and a half or 12 inches of ease so very roomy little coat with all that considered I don't know I might make it based off of my high bust whatever size that ends up being it may seem very small but remember we've got so much ease and you really want the neckline and shoulder to fit the best and then the rest drapes away from you we're not even away it just drapes down you right last one is this skirt and jacket be one of this simple to make fitted jacket is styled with three-quarter sleeves cut in one with the bodice so that's a grown on sleeve tabs of the neck and sleeve cuff button sleeve cuffs button to the jacket you to jacket features a small collar and cuffs the easily made full skirt is styled with soft plates and zipper closing at center back contrast ribbon scarf trims for view one jacket oh gosh so much to say okay oh look at the tabs that hold the bow wow okay cute and then same thing these little tabs here for the sleeve or you can do this little turnback number either way they're fitted because they have the waist starts and the bust starts and then you have this skirt fitted at the waist and then big big pleats although this probably has a petticoat under it or that's how they would have worn it back then so depending on the fabric you use it may or may not be this full what a vibe this is though wow yeah cool yeah I can get a real good idea of the shape of the jacket here yeah again lots and lots and lots of fabric options it is lined somewhere maybe the jackets lined yeah lined jacket that's cool shoulder pads nine buttons your ribbon scarf so you do purchase that ribbon scarf and then you tie it through yourself that's kind of actually pretty cool pair of rounded shoulder pads oh we went through that buttons okay great so big size range here really focusing on extending the size range of the vintage patterns I love that that gives us a let's go with the waist 23 inch to 39 inch waist no finished garment measurements included on the back of the onboard I should say they are somewhere just not for anywhere we can see right now all right and with that that brings us to these were all last year's early spring patterns I think yeah for sure okay wow lots of new patterns from simplicity overall I had positive things to say about most of them certainly don't need most of them but there's some cute stuff in here um yeah if I were yeah for sure I did this is a good collection good solid strong collection I think that each pattern will do equally well it doesn't feel like one is necessarily a standout they're all pretty much equally as accessible as the next so that's that's good and solid for me that means somebody will find something that they love let me know what you guys think of this collection what you'll be buying if anything jumped out at you if you know you had an idea for something you wanted to share leave all that in the comments and yeah that'll do it for me I'll see you all very soon bye