 You guys welcome back to another first impression video. This is the video series where I take a look at an entire sewing pattern collection. Today we're going to be looking at the McCall's spring collection and not simplicity. And we are going to be looking at each and every one of the new patterns that they just released and just kind of chatting about, you know, my just initial thoughts on the design will look for little fit issues, fit things to kind of look out for when you go to make it yourself. We'll talk about fabric choice, both the ones they recommend and ones that I think would also be appropriate. And yeah, just have a great time chatting about all the patterns. So if this is your first one, buckle in. These are a lot of fun. So first up, we have the Mrs. and Women's dresses. What does that mean? Size wise, 10 to 18 and then 20 to 28 women's evening gown dresses for Mrs. and Women's sizes, 10 to 28 dresses have curved empire and princess seams, baby hem straps or racer back style and invisible zipper closure. View C is floor length of the train. Okay, probably in time for prom, maybe I'm thinking. But yeah, what a beautiful little design. The black one's a little bit hard to see, but you can look at View C and see that there are, but this is B. Oh, that's the back of B. Oh, that's really pretty. Okay, you have this curved empire seam. You have princess seams. And then I'm curious to know if this is cut on the bias. If it's not, I would because I think it will be that much more flattering. And then View A is more of like, they said racer back, but it kind of gives an inculter, very closed up and covered up in the front. And then B has this pretty crisscross in the back. I love how it's also making kind of like a sweetheart design in the back. That's really nice. Oh, there are seams, side seams, what were they called? Side back seams, I guess, in the skirt. So that might be a little bit harder to do on the bias. Am I right? Because here they are again. So they're probably getting around for, they're cheating the bias a little bit, I think bias just like, you know, really does wonders for any curves any woman has as little as they are, or as big as they are, they look great. So they're probably cheating that by kind of creating some shape with these seams here, I would think. That does mean, oh, it does mean what? That it's going to be a little bit more showy of lumps and bumps, that it might be a little bit more uncomfortable to wear out of a silky, slinky fabric. So keep that in mind. But the design is really pretty. And then I think this has a thicker strap. Oh, that's even more dramatic than I thought. Wow. I wonder if that's hard to sew, I've never sewn anything like that. It can't be that bad. Maybe where the zipper comes in might be a little bit tricky, but yeah, you can really get an idea of the drape in the back. Okay, let's see this. So fabrics, they're going with charmous, crepeback satin and crepe. So they really are leaning into the drapey fabrics. I will say crepeback satin is a little bit heavier weight, a little bit just thicker in general. So if you're concerned about like being able to see your belly button or something like that, use a thicker, a thicker, slinky fabric. And then there's lining. I think just the bodice is probably, no, I stand corrected, the whole freaking thing is lined. Dang. So you would think that that would help with the slinkiness too, where it would, you know, add like a little bit of a smoothing element. So maybe it won't be that bad then. Maybe it won't be that bad. Okay, so notions and invisible zipper and a hook and I, that's it. Then that hook and I is just for A, which is the racer back option. Oh, yeah, could you zip it up and then hook it in the back? Okay. Let's see. We also have finished measurements. So two and a half. So the measurements are different for A and then B and C. So A has two and a half inches of ease, B and C have half an inch of ease. That makes perfect sense. Very good. And then the waist has two inches for all three and the hip has five inches for all three. Yeah, that all makes perfect sense. That all makes perfect sense. So yeah, what a little stunner to start out with here. Oh, A also has this full on cut out. That's right because it said that only the B and C needed the zipper. This isn't have a zipper at all. So if you're like afraid of zippers for whatever reason or just don't like zippers, they're not comfortable, whatever it is, you can get this view and there's not a zipper. There's a little hook right there. Interesting. Very nice. I don't know. Look at these line drawings. It doesn't have to be like a fancy, fancy dress. It could be something a little more casual, especially if you made it out of a print, like a printed silky type of fabric, maybe skip the lining, maybe only line the bodice, you know, try and try and think about this one outside of the constraints of evening gown. Okay, now we have women's tops and skirts. This is 20 to 28 and then 30 to 38 crop top has short or long puff sleeves and high neckline with elastic at sleeves, waist and neck. Do you B includes a sash? Pull on asymmetric tiered skirt comes in two lengths. Okay, so I kind of don't like these together. It just feels like very covered up here. There's like no neck, no decolletel, no arm really. Then the skirt is also long, like to the floor long. So it just feels like she's just not getting anything helping out with her shape, especially because the top is so balloon like and then so was the skirt. The waist definition is nice, but you know, it's not, I don't know, it's not doing much for her. I don't think, but I wouldn't like these as separate. So if you put this with like a slimmer skirt or, you know, jeans or something a little bit more close fitting and then paired the skirt with like a, I don't know, like a bodysuit or some kind of like close fitting top, that would be better for me, in my opinion. So this is A without the sash, B has the sash. I'm also assuming this is so long. If not, how in the world is that supposed to stay? It wouldn't stay. Don't be fooled. And then C's skirt is shorter, right? Because it only has this one tier. And this is the same skirt, but because she's holding it up like that, you really cannot see the cool part about this asymmetry here, right? They're losing that in the photo. To me, it just looks like any old regular ruffle skirt that we've seen a thousand times, but it's not. They're only going to give us that photo, I bet. There's the back. Yeah. I don't see any, there's just a lot of gathering. You're going to, you're, oh boy, I keep doing that. I did that in the last video. I'll do better. I'm sorry. Lots and lots of gathering. I think this is done by Elastic. Elastic, this one here. And then all of these are gatherers. So, and so is this sleeve here. So get comfortable with gathering. Yeah. You can kind of see the asymmetry here. It's not nearly as dramatic as that drawing makes it seem, right? I wanted it to be like this, but it's a little more subtle. Yeah. Oh, this is separate. That's silly. Don't make this. It'll never stay on or sew it on. One of the two. One of the two. Don't leave it separate. Okay. Shally, cotton blends, gauze and lightweight linen. Yeah. All of those would work for sure. You can expand this a little bit into other light to mid-weight drapey to lightly structured, I want to say. Like gauze would be like a lightly structured fabric. You can extend that into some of those types of fabrics. Things they didn't include that would be great. It would be like seersucker, eyelet, if you wind it, Swiss dot, things like that. All right. So elastic, lots of elastic. More and more elastic. Okay. Lots of elastic. And then sizing. We went through that. Do we get it? Yes. We get finished. Bust is going to be lots of very roomy in the bust. That's almost 20 inches of ease in the bust. That's a lot. That is a lot. I really think you only need like 10. It doesn't need to be that. 20 is a lot. And then the hip for the skirt is four inches of ease. 20 is too much, guys. It's too much. So size down the whole bunch. A whole bunch. Cut that in half if you can. I would. Then you would have just a little bit more. Because if you're fuller-chested, but your waist is small, and you make something that's 20 inches of ease in the bust, it's just going to look like a giant like bubble on your body. So maybe that's what happened with her, too. It's just not quite slim enough. They didn't need to lean in to the puffiness of it all that much. Okay. Now we have, did we just like go back in time? Oh yeah. It's a vintage pattern. We don't normally see them so up, like so high up on the list. But yes, it is a 1980s online jacket with seeming has extended shoulder shoulder pads, notch collar, long sleeves where the wrong side of the fabric will show when sleeves are rolled up upper patch pocket, front welt pockets, top stitching and machine stitched hem. Jacket A has a drawstring in the back. Oh man. I don't know if we're like ready for full on 80s. Wide shoulders, narrow hips, like let's make our bodies into triangles. Let's look like linebackers. I mean, of course this photo does it justice. They're really making it do the most. But yeah, this is a princess scene, but this sleeve is Dolman. Yeah, that's, like I said, it looks fine there. I do appreciate the little drawstring in the back to give a little bit of shape, but this is wild. This triangle is just like, whoa. Oh, that's all we're going to get picture wise. Oh my gosh. Okay. Medium weight fabric such as baby cord, which is corduroy cotton, cotton blends, damas, gabardine flannel, lightweight denim, lightweight wool and wool blends, linen, polyester double knits, paw blend, seersucker and wool double knits, not suitable for diagonals, large checks, uneven stripes and uneven plots. Medium weight fabrics. Yeah. Wow. So what, what is that half inch thick covered shoulder pads and then one one inch button. So look at these measurements, the, the ease. So the bust has 15 inches of ease roughly. The waist has 22 inches of ease and then the hip, are they going to give us the hip? They don't give us the hip. They give us the lower edge, which is close to the hip and that has 13 inches of ease. What? So you can just tell like boom, boom, boom, it gets smaller as you go down, but it still has a ton of ease. I don't know that they're going to do very well with this one. I'm all for the throwbacks, but the throwbacks have to feel modern and they're nothing about this feels modern or even could, I can't even imagine it being modern. Like those jackets like that, that look like that. You can just get them at Goodwill right now because everybody from the 80s is giving that stuff away. Okay. So we're getting into the, oh, Melissa Watson has her own, her own name now. It's not Palmer Plesch. Palmer Plesch is her mother and Melissa has been working with her for her mother for as long as I've been sewing. To do the Palmer Plesch method patterns, which is like the, their method is tissue fitting. So now it's Melissa Watson for Palmer Plesch. Interesting. I wonder her mom's Patty Palmer. I wonder if Patty's retired. I wonder what happened. It might not even be anything dramatic. It's just, it's never been labeled like this before. So that's good for her. Jacket has large front pockets with flaps, front button closure, back yoke, too long and long two piece leaves with buttons, making it an outfit with the matching pants on the next pattern. Okay. Size wise, eight to 16 and 18 to 26. And it's going to say in here, learn to fit with the Palmer Plesch tissue fitting method. If you've never tried it, it is interesting, a little bit hard to do on yourself. But they're basically the way it works is their pattern tissue has a lot of extra lines on it. So if you needed to do a full bust adjustment, there would be lines on there already to help you make that adjustment on the pattern. You're supposed to pin up your seam allowances, put it on your body and then determine based on how the paper is wrinkling or whatever or pulling how to adjust. And then the lines on the pattern help you achieve that. So this just feels like a very kind of standard denim jacket type of design, but no collar, two front patch pockets, lots of top stitching. This might be like a waxed cotton type of thing, which is giving it a little bit more rugged vibes, but it could be more polished. I'm a little bit surprised that the shoulder is so long. Now my assumption, and we all know about assumptions, but my assumption was that when the Palmer Plesch team released a pattern, they made the sample garment for their sample model. They weren't just sending it over to McCalls and having them use whatever sample models, they, they for fit models, whatever it is that they had coming in that day. My assumption was that they use their own. So if that's the case, this is a little bit long on her. So I'm just a little bit surprised to see that just, I mean, just barely, like just barely, barely. I'm being really, really picky because they are no for fit, right? And then we're going to see more of these pants in the next pattern. So we'll wait for thoughts on that. But yeah, it's a cute, it's a cute design. It's not really for me, but it would be really fun to sew. I gotta say, I did make a denim jacket. I think it was a seam work pattern. And I do love it. And I wear it a lot. So I don't know about a colorless one though. I got it. I'm trying to imagine it without the matching pants. Maybe that would be, and maybe not buttoned up either. I don't know. Am I just like ruining the whole vibe? Because this is definitely a look, right? This is definitely somebody's entire being is based on this kind of, I don't know, like rocker-ish kind of look. I'm getting grungy maybe even. Yeah, there's the back. Yeah, it fits, it fits really, really well everywhere. Like I said, just, I mean, even this already looks a little bit better than the other one. I think they, did they tuck it in? Maybe not. See, I was just a little bit long. It's like falling off her shoulder a little bit. This is a sleeve head that's meant to be up on her shoulder a little bit more like this one. But again, just being super, super picky. Okay, so cotton blends, denim linen and twill lining fabric. Yeah, all of your mid to heavy weight really structured fabrics. Five buttons for the sleeves. I mean, it's for the, for the center front and then eight buttons for the sleeves. Fit-wise, the bust supposedly has eight inches of ease. The waist has 11. That doesn't seem right. That doesn't seem right at all. 11 would be like, I mean, maybe, maybe because it is like a boxy look. See how it's so straight up and down kind of. I mean, there's a little bit of a curve, but not much. Yeah, yeah, maybe let me look at it again. Yeah, I think what's happening is the structure of the jacket is just making it look more fitted than it is. But we don't know what's going on with, like we don't really know what her body looks like under here. She could just be super skinny under here and we, we don't know. So, yeah, I don't know. I probably would size down one personally just because eight and 11 does feel like a lot for me. I like things to fit a little bit better, especially in my upper torso because that is the smallest part of my body. So try and show that off. Now it's an interesting choice for them to not put the pants and the jacket in one pattern, especially when they are calling it a matching set. It feels a little maybe greedy, some would say, others would say, you know what? No, they're obviously allowed to do whatever they want in terms of how they want to, you know, package up and sell their patterns and they don't want any options. They don't want extra views. They want to give you one thing that you can fit really well and you don't have to worry about anything else. I get that. That makes sense too. But some people might be a little bit, like, miffed about the fact that you have to buy them separately in order to get the matching set. I see both sides. Okay, pants have life front zipper, back yoke pockets and belt loops. Sizing should be the same. Yes, it is. Okay, so kind of a low slung waist. It is a curved waistband and it almost feels like intentionally it starts at the waist and scoops down, right? Then we've got like a baggier type of look here. Baggy, but still fits well. That's important. Like it's intentionally baggy, I think. And then like a little bit of tapered leg and then a little, I guess, one inch pimm allowance there. But all your traditional jean details. There's the illustration of the back. Okay, here's the actual back. So we have some really cute pocket detail. Love that kind of western, maybe, but this is straight across. So that's good. That fits well. Maybe a little bit too much room here, too much length here, but she is also popping this leg. So it's hard to tell. Crotch curve looks good. There's also probably a little bit too much fabric in the inseam, but not by much. Not by much at all. We've seen a lot worse in terms of fit on pants for sure, but they're known for fit. So that's why I'm going to point those things out. Okay, same fabrics we talked about before. Let's look at I will note that the illustration makes the waist band look straight across. But you could see on hers it was definitely falling. So I don't know what to make of that. It's conflicting on what the intention is. Okay, so hip-wise we have seven inches of ease, roughly, and hip we have two and a quarter. Yeah, two and a quarter feels fair. Seven in the hip for how baggy this is. I don't know. I'm not seeing seven there. I'm seeing like four maybe. So it's interesting. I wonder if they give you so much ease on purpose because they're anticipating you wanting to tweak the fit? We don't really see ease numbers that are so far off like this as much anymore as we used to. Every pattern before used to be like what is happening. So yeah, I'm not sure if they're just giving you a little bit of extra room to make your own adjustments. The intention is not for you to be able to make it right out of the pattern envelope that it's going to be too big for this reason or that reason because it's easier to adjust or, you know, I don't know, something like that? Maybe? I don't know. I'm just speculating. But yeah, if you're going to make that and not try and putz around with fit a lot, then for sure, size down. I would. Okay, now we have, oh, this is the same model as the, this is the same girl that is in the Melissa Watson patterns. So that means that they aren't using, that's the same girl, right? Yeah, they are not using their own fit model anymore. So that makes sense as to why the shoulder seam was a little bit long and like the end seam was a little bit long, those kinds of issues that we saw. Okay. So this is Mrs. Dresses 6 to 14, 16 to 24, easy to sew knit bodice dresses with contrast skirts. We are not doing this again. Ankle length dresses have neckline variations elastic at waist and side pockets. Guys, this is so 2010s coated. It's not even funny. So it's a knit bodice and a woven skirt. Who remembers when we were doing that? Like that was so popular when I first started sewing. And I guess, I guess it makes sense. I don't know. I always thought it was weird. Then it didn't feel super comfortable. Then like, why not just make the whole thing out of a knit? You know, like, why, why do we have to mix it up? Because now you're having to shop for two different things that match. That feels difficult to do these days. I would say that if it's a knit top and like a charmeuse skirt or a shally skirt that like, like this is a print and then a solid on top, that feels more doable. But is that cute and modern? Or does that make you look like you're stuck in the 2010s? Um, it is beautiful, the maxi skirt especially, but I just wish it were all woven or all knit. Right? It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't do right. It looks funny. Yeah, it's not for me. The whole, the whole thing about it is not for me. Like this isn't even sitting at her natural waist. She has zero shape, even though she's in a, what's supposed to be fit to fitted ish bodice and then like a straight slash a line skirt or gathered skirt. She has no shape, no body. It's just, it's like she's the hanger, you know, like her shoulders are just the hanger and it's just hanging there. It's just like bleh. Yeah. All right. So bodices and stretch knit only and then contrast skirt and cotton blends, poplin and satin. Yikes. Yikes. Now you could make the skirt out of the same knit. Um, it wouldn't have to be as wide through the hip because the knit will stretch around your body there, but you could. My suggestion though would be just to find another pattern. This, this one's not it. And yeah, I don't know. Okay. So elastic and elastic and kind of a lot elastic. So I'm wondering is that, is the waistband done, it's done with elastic obviously because you can't gather it. That's even worse. That just feels really uncomfortable. Okay. Um, then we have one and a half, I'm sorry, one inch of ease in the bust. This is where they start to lose the shape and body. Oh my gosh. I'm sorry. My phone is ringing. That's not your phone. That's my phone. I'm so sorry. Um, what was I going to say? Uh, oh, this is where they start to lose the shape in the waist. The bust fits well. The waist with, what is that, six and a half inches of ease. That's where they go wrong. This should be way more fitted, like two inches of ease. And then the dress, the skirt is very voluminous. It almost doesn't even really matter. Okay. Next up we have, so far I'm just like unimpressed. Um, okay. So eight to 16 and 18 to 26 on this Mrs. shirt dress. Drop shoulder dresses has double yoke, top stitching, length and sleeve variations and optional sash. So a take on a kimono type deal with these really wide sleeves, really wide and long. Um, not my favorite look. Um, you also have this, it's a collar, but it's basically just like a flap that goes around your neck. There's no collar stand. And it also to me starts really high up the neck, but in front, I don't think there's any shape to this. If you don't add the sash, really deep hem, which I do like really deep hem here to the other versions. This one with no collar flap and no sleeve feels much more attractive to me, much more like something I would do. Even this one with the short sleeve is better. Um, oh, there is elastic in here. Never mind. So there is a waist scene of sorts with an elastic waist. And then you can put the sash over it if you want. Yeah. I think they made the wrong sample out of the wrong fabric. If they would have made this out of the sleeveless version, I think we'd all be raving. If they made this sleeve version out of something a little draper, this just is like box and box and box and so many boxes. You know what I mean? So yeah, that really doesn't help much either, does it? You do get a yoke. Like it is, it is a shirt dress for sure. Um, yeah, I think it's just the sleeve that's really throwing me. The rest of it's not that bad. Cottonblends Gauze Lawn Lightweight Linen. Yeah, I just, I get that they're leaning into the shirt dress, but that might be doing them a disservice. Like, I don't know, I just see this little sleeveless one. There is it. As like a little, I don't know, ditzy floral, like lightweight number. I don't see it out of stable fabric at all. This one, maybe. Yeah, I don't know. I'm wondering if it's just fabric choice. If they just missed the mark on making all of the, making the sample and the suggestions, um, stable fabrics. Lightweight, but stable. I almost wonder if they would have done like a, like a rayon, rayon cotton blend, rayon linen blend, something like that, if that would have been a little bit better. All right. So twill tape, eight inches of twill tape. So that must be for the neckline or the shoulders, maybe eight buttons, one package of bias tape, and then 10 buttons, depending on the view that you're making. And then again, tons of ease. So five and a half in the bust, two in the waist. Okay. That's better. And then the hip is negligible. So five in the bust with this kind of design does make a little bit of sense. I think that if you're in between sizes, size down, if you're on the mark on a size, just make that size. And I think it would, it will be fine. Yeah, there is a lot of room through here, but it's supposed to be like that, I think. And if the fabric were draper, then it doesn't stand away from your body so much. Okay. So here's the Mrs. version of that little set. Oh, gosh. They made the same view. I don't know. I don't want, I don't really love it that much more on her either. So it's not a body shape type of thing. Look at, I mean, this is like fully a lantern on top of her body. Like she just stepped into like one of those Japanese lampshades. It's too much. It's too much. 20 inches of ease is wild. So yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with the size of the model or anything else. It's just too much ease. Too much ease. The skirt in a print, because the last one was a, was the white solid, remember? You kind of lose this even more. I mean, it wasn't dramatic to begin with. And then it's fully lost in a print. So if it were me, and I really insisted on making this set, I would just ditch this, like all this work for it not to even be able to be seen. I would just do your regular skirt with a ruffle on the bottom. This is a nice idea, but it's just getting lost. It's right here for what it's worth, but you can't see it. And then this one also has this one going to, which I guess the white one had to, but yeah, look at that. No. And look at her little belt falling off. The belt is silly. That's just silly. Okay. All right. Well, that settles that then. Now we have this little, they're calling it a corset top. I think it's a, oh, oh, oh, the name of it, it's on the tip of my tongue that the, it's almost like a vest and a corset had a baby. Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue. Figure flattering and fitted corset style crop tops have front button closure, square neckline and top stitching details. VB has faux pockets. Waste coat. Waste coat. That's what it is, right? Waste coat. I think that's what it is. That's what I was thinking of anyway. So if that's not what this is, then I stay in corrected, but that's the word I was trying to remember. Okay. So we have square neckline, which I really like. Your corset seeming. So there's one seam here, one here and your side seam. This one has a little V's, which I don't mind the V's. This one has the scoop in the front with a flat pocket. It's a little bit too long through here. Can you see how it's gaping from her body? And then also possibly a little bit too small through here, too tight, which is an interesting juxtaposition of things. And then the crop top just cropped. Okay. I like the idea of this outfit. It is cute. I would wear it. Okay. Here's the back. Yeah. Doesn't it feel like, because see how this is also pulling away from her body? And this is probably too. They probably like, I don't know, removed some shadows or something, but I think this is pulling away from her body. So yeah, I think it's, it doesn't fit her very well. Hard to say if that's a universal thing or she just has really wide shoulders and back, but that's kind of what it feels like, a wide shoulder and back situation. Oh boy, I did it again. I was doing so good guys. I'm sorry. But other than that, I think it looks good. So my best advice and you guys are going to hate this. My advice for this one is to make a muslin. You don't need that much fabric. You only need to make the crop top version out of your muslin. Just to see what's, the arm size is not, something's wrong here. I think, I think it's her, but I also think not her. That's not the right verb. That's not the right frame. And you guys know what I mean. It's her body plus the pattern on her body type. Plus I also think the arm side is drafted really, really funny. Almost too curved in the back and then maybe too long. I don't know. There's the arm size not giving. Yeah, that doesn't seem right to me. Okay, so notions wise. Okay, just as I thought, there is no boning. So they're calling it a corset, but it's really a vest with corset seams. Corset would have boning. Okay, chambray, denim, linen and twill, lining fabrics. I wasn't expecting to see that. So I guess that there's a facing. So that's why all of that is done on the facing. So that's, that's how you finish the neckline and the arm size. That's nice. Three or five buttons, depending on the length. And golly, what a little stash buster. Five eighths to three quarters of a yard of fabric and that's it. Well, that's certainly intriguing. In that case, maybe, oh no, it's 45. Interfacing one and a half yards. So is the whole thing also interfaced? I don't know. A lot of that seems unnecessary. I don't think it needs to be lined, especially if you're not putting the boning in. I think you could just like do it like a denim jacket with faux flat belt seams. Yeah, but still, oh, that's for the little crop top A. When you get to B and C, the yardage goes to a whopping one and three quarters, one in, no, one in an eighth. So one yard wonder is this thing. I love that. I love that. I have some single yards laying around. That's worth it in and of itself just to use up the stash. All right. And then finished measurements, we have five inches in the bust. No, we don't. There's no way. And then three inches in the waist. That makes more sense. Five inches in the bust. There's no way. That's either inaccurate or that's either wrong or they made adjustments to this one that we just can't see, like pulling it tighter in the back. But that's not five inches of ease in the bust. There's no way. A lot of fit issues on this one. I haven't, I haven't had to call out so many fitting and ease issues in a long time. I really felt like they were getting it together. Okay. Men's knit top and shorts. All right. Three button placket and self collar polo design tops have a classic look and feel. Short elastic waistband piping trim contrast options. The material is stretchy to ensure that you can play in comfort. Wow. Fans of tennis, pickleball and golf should like this design. Okay. That's what they're doing. They're leaning into pickleball. It's the number one fastest growing sport, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Um, and so they say, why can't you make your own clothes to wear out to the pickleball court? I, I agree. I agree fully. Um, so we have a couple of options. We have a that has this little trimming detail right along here. Um, and then everything else is the same. We have B that has contrast here contrast on the top of the shoulder and contrast down here. And then we have the short, two options, either the simpler, just single piping detail or with the contrast panel. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm pretty sure they just went downstairs of their offices and just found the next guy walking down the street and we're like, yo, want to come take some pictures? Oh gosh. He's just giving like regular guy on the street. Normally their models are so like modally. This guy just seems normal, which is actually kind of nice. All right. There it is. Good job guys. Athletic knits, cotton knit, interlock, jersey. Yeah. That's it. Okay. Cute idea. Cute concept. What are the girls wearing to pickleball? Do the girls get one? Oh, they do. They do right here. We'll get there in a second. I love it. Okay. Men's shirt and shorts. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Oh God. The casting person, like, I don't know, got sick and miss a few days of work and was back to work and knew this photo she was happening today. She just found a guy on the subway. Please come with me. Please help me. Maybe it's her boyfriend. Maybe it's her brother. You know, he's just, he's just such a normal Joe Schmo kind of guy. Okay. So men's shirt and shorts. Matching shirt and shorts sets for men. Button front shirts have collar, some and come in short or long sleeves. BBS front pockets with flaps. Pull on shorts with the last size waist have drawstring and pockets. You see hash slide slits. Oh, okay. So it's the same shorts as the pickleball shorts. It seems just in a woven and then a pretty traditional button up shirt. If it looks good on him. Yeah. Not really seeing any issues there. Yeah. Okay. It's resort wear for guys. Yeah. Looks looks great. The length of the short is definitely a choice. I think that's a little bit more palatable for most men. I, I, and I think a lot of women prefer a little bit shorter of an inseam. If you're guys comfortable with that, you know, definitely shorten the shorts. But if not, that's fine too. Just not for shorts, like not down to the knees. Like we're not doing that. Please. Um, active wear woven's they're calling it, which would be like that wicking type of woven, you know, I'm talking about, you know it. Cotton blends lightweight nylon and swimwear woven's. I have a swimwear woven. I don't know what it's actually called, but I think they called it board short, board fabric surf fact, something like that, something along those lines. I think it might even be Liberty. It's very bougie. I don't know why I got it. It's been in my stash for a decade easily. Um, anyways, so buttons, buttons, elastic, all the normal stuff for this type of design. So okay. Cute. All right. So while your guy is looking fly on the pickleball court, this is what you wear. How stinking cute. I might pick up pickleball just to wear this. Um, three button placket collar optional contrast and purchased stretch piping or trim. Scorts with elastic waistband have purchased stretch piping or contrast at the bands. I just absolutely adore a scort in any fashion. And this one is like high fashion. Like I think you could wear that with a black rib knit body suit or something. And it would look amazing. It's a little low slung. I would rather not necessarily at the waist. I get that, but maybe one inch below the waist, not three inches. I mean, her hip bones like around here somewhere. So not my personal favorite place for a waistband, but same little design details with the fabrics. I love the slit that you can see the little short in there. So cute. Yes. Also. Yes. Now stretch piping. Is that a common thing to find? That feels like a specialty item. You can also make your own. You can also make flat piping, which has no cording in it. But yeah, the proportions here feel a little bit off, like really long torso and then little itty bitty skirt. So I just want it to be a little bit longer, just a little bit. Okay. Fabrics are going to be the same as the guys. We should have no vintage garment measurements. Okay. All right. There's just too many options. They had to put in all the fabric requirements. Yeah. Cute though. Cute and fun. Cute idea. Okay. So now we're getting into, now this is the kind of vintage that is my jam. So this is 1970s quick and easy tops, skirt and pants. Why do I feel like I had this at one time? Knit, tops, skirt, pants and shorts. This is a whole outfit, a whole capsule wardrobe. Tops have extended shoulder line. A has sleeve bands and drawstring and waist casing. Views, BCD and E have turned up sleeves. BCD and E have drawstring and lower casing. VRE and cowl have collar, cowl collar, have pockets and side seam openings. Skirt has elastic and waistline casing. Pansor is worthwhile. I can't keep reading this. Oh my gosh. It's the same thing over and over. Okay. Let's just look at it. I feel like I had this, but maybe not. So we've got, let's start with A. A is this little, remember it's a knit top. Okay. We've got doleman-ish. What's happening with this? Oh, it's a grown-on sleeve or a, sorry, drop shoulder with a sleeve band. That's what's happening. And then elastic or drawstring casing here. Then this is our little skirt, right? Don't we get a skirt? B is this top, same top, just a longer sleeve and instead, and no elastic, no drawstring. C is a, like a short sleeve version of that. D is, D is a scoop neck. E is the cowl, funnel cowl neck. And that's also D. But you do get some pants and skirts and stuff, which I don't feel like they're calling out. Maybe they added those. So a little knit skirt, a little knit pant, a little shorty short. There's the pants again. She's just naked. Is she naked? She's naked. She has no pants on. Okay. A is the pant. C is the shorty short and E is, I'm sorry, A is the skirt and E is the pant. What a great little pattern. Unbounded stretchable knit. I don't even know what that means. Such as cotton nits, knitted terry, terry, come on. Knitted velour, sweater nits, wool, or synthetic jersey. Yeah. I have a lot of those. I don't really know what to do with. Perfect. I love this little pattern. Um, elastic elastic and optional stretch lace, alphanumeric sizing up to only the equivalent of a four to an 18. So yikes. Not very size-inclusive. I'm like a mid-sized girly and I would barely fit into this. Bust has five inches of ease and the hip, oh well the hip does have somewhere between 12 and 13 inches of ease. So yeah, you could, if you were like a 2022, you could size down and still fit into this and have just a little bit less ease. But it wouldn't be like skin tight. I like it. Okay, now look how cute this little number is. Mrs. Dress or Top, 6 to 14 and 16 to 24. Vintage and McCall's 1970 dress or top sewing pattern pullover dress or top front is gathered into front bands, which fold back to form collar. Okay. Short sleeves with gathered cap turned up to form cups. The dress B has purchased belt. Okay. I mean, obsessed with the top with wear jeans. This is like so my style. The maxi dress is incredible. The little mini with no belts. I don't know. This one's really cute too. Oh, that's it. We don't even get the back of the envelope. That's it. This is literally the two pictures that we get. Wow. Okay. Well, it's cute. And I'm assuming you're going to be making this out of cotton blends, you know, linen, those mid-weight, lightly stable type of fabrics, gauze, the normal stuff we've been seeing this whole collection. Yeah, two pictures. That's it. Okay. So we skip the kiddos and now we'll go to this one here. Okay. Asymmetric wrap front skirts with pocket variations, have fly front zipper with button closure and adjustable strap. Use B and C have front pleats. Sizes 6 to 14 and 16 to 24. Oh, the way I really want to like this, but something is not right. I think it's too low-waisted again. The proportions on her are off. They're just not doing this girl very much justice at all. The design is cute. I love this little patch pocket version with the little buckle. This one is also very cute. It's giving, oh shoot, what was that movie with the Girl Scouts where the troop Beverly Hills? It's giving troop Beverly Hills like cargo skirt meets schoolgirl skirt, you know, it's like wilderness and luxury all in one. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, I wish it were higher up on her, right? That looks frumpy and I don't think it's supposed to be that. I think it's supposed to be cuter and it's just not that cute, right? Don't we want it to be up here? I think so. It also could be, see how the back is higher than the front? So maybe it's falling down in the front on her? I don't know. There just seems to be some issues here. Let's see what this, yeah, I think it would take a little bit of finessing. It is a skirt though, so you could just pull it up higher. Why didn't they, I guess it was too big for her. That's what it was. It's just too big on her. That's that's my final answer. Okay, cotton blinstin on poplin and twill, a zipper, a button, d-rings, buckle slider, and heavy duty snaps are your notions depending on which version you're making. Size wise, finished hip is all they're giving us? Okay, well I don't like to see the waist more than the hip. The hip has seven inches of ease. The waist should have two, somewhere around two at the area. No, and that would be like a one inch if you wanted to sit at your natural waist, two inches if you wanted to sit an inch below your natural waist. Yeah, I feel like people are going to start making that one and then others are going to see how cute it can be. So here's a missus skirt in three lengths. Flyfront skirts have seeming details, back yoke, pockets, and length variations. View C has high low hem. Eight to 16 and 18 to 26 on the size range. The styling is not it, especially for this fabric choice, like the big chunky belt. No, no, and then look at this little weird shoe. No, styling's not it, but let's try and look beyond that. We have seeming here and then what you can't see is this seam, this curve that goes all the way around the front to back. So it adds all of this volume to the side of your body, which I know sounds like why would I want to add saddlebags, but it's actually camouflaging. It's going to do the opposite than you think it will do. It's if you use the right fabric and it drinks the way that it's supposed to, this can be a really cute detail. It just adds a lot of volume to the sides and not so much front to back, which again, I know I'm saying that and you're all going no, no, that's not going to be cute on me, but you have to take my word for it. See how it's falling on her? It's just, no, it just is magic, okay? This one, this picture, this illustration doesn't help, but I promise you it's cute. I had a skirt like this that was kind of like businessy, so it was made out of some kind of like maybe like a stretch twill and it was really cute and that wasn't even all that drapey. If you get something drapey like the washer linens or the linen rayon blends or some kind of cotton blend, it could be really cute. See it just adds this, this drape is all it adds, but it doesn't add volume to your butt. They took the belt off, thank god, but it has the yoke. Yeah, I don't know, I don't love the high low version, but I think that the long one could be really fabulous and this one could be really kind of just cute. Cute, see? Chambray, Chino, Denim and Twill. Yeah, I think you can go a little bit lighter than this, not to like shally and stuff, but somewhere in between those two, more like the cotton blends, the linen blends, things like that. Okay, all you need is a zipper and a button and uh, these wise we're looking at in the waist, what? Five inches in the waist? No, what? No, that's so off. Oh wait, it's neck, no, that's minus. That's smaller than your body measurement, so this is not right. Maybe it's supposed to say 36, this is an error. There's no way this skirt's smaller than your body by six inches. That's, that's a problem. So we don't really know what we're working with there and it also makes me not trust the hip measurement either, even though the hip measurement is larger and it doesn't make sense for this pattern. If this were 36 and a quarter, then it would be still five inches of ease or is way too much. Again, two inches of ease is the most you want in a waist, especially one that's sitting up this high. So I don't know what's going on there. I hope it's not printed like that on the pattern itself or on the tissue paper. Okay, oh look a Barbie doll, they're leaning into that now. Okay, we've got some pajamas, extra small to two X, all in one, oversized tops of collar and front button closure have short or long sleeve option, pants and shorts have ribbon trim, purchased piping, trim and elastic waistband. The illustrations are way cuter than it actually turned out. I don't want to wear like a fitted pant to my ankle in a woven, that's for sure, but it's not that bad. It's giving, it's giving upry side. It's giving like, I'm fabulous, even in my pajamas, which, you know, is nice, but these look more like dresses. These look like they flare out more. They look like they're a little bit longer and that is appealing to me, which you can do, right? You can make that happen, lengthen this, widen it a little bit, pair it with a little short and have a cute little like short all set, right? I don't know. Maybe it's just, maybe I'm, that looks like stilts. There's the back. Yeah, I guess it is a little wide. It's just all being pushed to the back. The width is not being evenly distributed. That's cuter. I still don't like this at the bottom and I don't like how tight it is. Okay, shali, charmous, crepes and lawn. Yeah, wall would probably fall into that. Any of your like lightweight woven, even a little bit drapey is fine. A ton of notions, mostly buttons and piping and elastic, even honey doesn't like this one. That's sort of growling in the back. There's our sizing and finished garment measurements are not provided. We have definitely seen cuter pajamas in the past, but okay, so we've got some aprons and kitchen accessories, infant clothes. We've got this miss, is this, yeah, this was the last, this was the last release, which I remember liking so much. This one is not my favorite. It feels like we have gone back in time to when things were a little questionable over at the big, it was only the big four back then. Yeah, I didn't have a lot of nice things to say about this whole collection. Did you guys agree with me or am I just being like extra harsh today or what is going on? What did you guys think of this collection? Let me know in the comment section below, but that's going to do it for me today. I will see you all very soon. Bye.