 All right, I'm back with another first impression review video. Like I said in the last one, the big four ended up releasing three new collections all in one day in conjunction with their new website reveal, which I will be talking about also in another video. But I just posted McCall's first impression. Now we're gonna look at Butterick's first impression. This is what I'm guessing is everybody's spring collection. The last one we saw from a lot of these folks was early spring. So I'm assuming these are just their regular spring releases. So let's take a look. First up, we have a wrap skirt in two lengths. This one says wrap skirt has ties on the left front, concealed button tab on the right side, narrow hems and length variations. I'm getting very much like beach cover up here, but they're making it like where you wear it, not at the beach. Like these girls have high heels on. So yeah, you can't really see much from here. I'm guessing what's happening is there's like an actual like full skirt under here and there's just an extra panel maybe. We didn't get much in the description, did we? Oh, here's the back. We do have a couple darts. Okay, that's promising. And I was trying to see if I could see in the hem if there's multiple fronts, but I couldn't see that. Oh no, it's legitimately a wrap skirt. Wow, okay, yeah. So you wrap it around yourself. This little tab hooks onto a button and then these two things like tie to each other. They're recommending linen blends, rayon shawly, lightweight denim, crepe. Yeah, I totally agree with all of those. I also think, what else could you get away with? Yeah, I mean, I think that pretty much covers it. I do think since it is like a true wrap, you can lean into that as a pull cover up and use some like mesh, eyelet, lace, you know, those kind of like see-through types of fabrics and have like a really well-made swim cover up. Why not? All you need is one half inch button. This is alphanumeric sizing. So it's going from extra small to two XL, which is numerically size four through 26. So that gives us a waist measurement of somewhere around 22 to 41 and a half. Finished garment-wise, that takes us, there's about two and a half inches of ease. So it'll take you up to a 42 and a half inch waist. Hip has about four inches of ease in it. So butteric is not normally known for being the most size-inclusive, but isn't this the brand? No, that's a new look. So we'll have to see if they've adopted the same sort of rules. I don't know what you want to call them as McCalls and Nomi for sure, and simplicity. I think those three are the most size-inclusive right now. And then I would probably say butteric comes next. And then, gosh, I guess, I guess new look and then vogue. I don't know, that might be debatable as to which one of those is the least-inclusive. All right, their next pattern is a women's top pull-over semi-fitted through bust has a faux wrap v-neckline with an elastic waist, narrow hems, length and sleeve variations, and purchased bias facings. Okay, this is not something really new. We've seen this design before. It's a raglan sleeve elastic waist top. You could obviously lengthen this to make it a dress, but here we have two sleeve options. You could definitely play around with these and do different kinds of sleeves as well. Not something super fashion-forward or trendy. I will say peplum tops are coming back, which, okay, I'm here for that, but I don't know if I should, I don't know if I wanna go back to making this particular style again. Like, it's not special enough, but that could just be me and kind of where I'm at in my sewing journey. I'm kind of feeling like I'm only making things that I know I'm gonna love, not necessarily making things just to cover my body. If that makes sense, like in the past, it was always just like, oh yeah, I would buy that from the store, so why don't I make it? And now it's a little bit more like quality over quantity? I don't know. Well, that thought is still developing, so don't hold me to it, okay? They are suggesting rayon chalet, lawn, crepe de chine and gauze. Yeah, I also think you could do, you know, other rayon fabrics. You could do some lightweight cotton blends, like a cotton rayon, for example. Certainly all the polyesters and the silky types and all of that would be really great for this too. All right, so this one is a women's pattern. Okay, so it's size 20 up to 38. So the answer to my question is yes, but Eric is on it with the size inclusivity. Oh, and it's, oh, elastic thread for smocking. So it is a smocked waist, truly. It's not elastic casings. Yay for them because they've been calling, smocking and shirring those words, and then it's just been elastic casings. I don't know that I've, maybe one other time they've actually correctly called smocking and shirring what it really is. So good for them. Okay, so yeah, hard to say with this pattern because it is so loose fitting everywhere, but the bust is a 42 to 60 body measurement, and then you have five and a half inches of ease. And then the waist, pre-taking it all in, there's a ton of ease there, and then also a ton at the waist or at the hip. So very forgiving fit-wise, always, always start with your bust measurement. And then for this, make sure that it fits really well at the shoulder. Let me see if I can look at hers because you don't want it falling off. This would have the tendency to do that because it's open in the front, basically, with this wrap situation. So you just want to make sure that the length through here is good. Hers looks okay, yeah. I don't feel like she feels like she needs to be pulling it up any if I'm just like putting myself in her shoes. Okay, so that women's top, great. Um, now we have this same pattern as a PDF. And I notated too in the McCall's review that it's interesting to me that the PDF patterns and the paper patterns are the exact same price. I don't understand why you wouldn't buy the one with the stuff all printed out for you unless you didn't want to pay shipping, but are you really, I don't know, that seems weird to me. Then here's the PDF version of this one. I think that's how it's gonna be throughout. Are they gonna, or just those two get PDFs? And the McCall's one, they only had one PDF pattern. So I don't know. The time will tell with that. I think that's still definitely kind of in the works for them, so we'll see. But this is a Palmer Plesh shirt. If you've never sewn a Palmer Plesh pattern before, there are lines on the pattern pieces that show you how to make specific adjustments. So you're gonna be doing tissue fitting. That's the method that they, I don't know if they invented it, but it's definitely the one that they hang their hat on. And then you'll be able to follow the lines that are drawn on the pattern pieces to check different places for fit, and then they'll show you how to make those alterations. So fitted shirts have collar, yoke, back plate, stitched shim, and sleeve variation. View A has a long sleeve shirt with flat pockets and an inverted pleat. View B has short sleeves with a longer back. View C is sleeveless with patched pocket side slits and a longer back. What I've noticed about Palmer Plesh is they do tend to be more basic, right? I don't think they're trying to give you something super trendy here because what you're inevitably focusing on is not necessarily the design, but the fit. So you will get a great fitting button front shirt. I will say though, I'm already noticing here, there's an issue and I think it's stemming from this bicep because if you look at hers, she has the same thing. So there might be some issue going on with the width of the bicep. I wouldn't normally say anything if it weren't happening on both of them. So that's just interesting thing to note. But yeah, you'll do a lot of really great finishing techniques and it will fit you better than any other shirt if you really do take the time to do all of the things. I highly doubt they called in these models though and tissue fit them and did all of that stuff. They're still, at the end of the day, just fit models. But yeah, so you'll get three. I mean, they all look very different to me. You know, so but very traditional, very standardized button front shirt pattern. Here's the back, broadcloth, cotton blend, searsucker, guinem, and light guinem. Gingham and lightweight guinem. You'll need buttons for the button front. This one goes from eight to 24. That gives you a bust measurement of 31 and a half up to 46. It looks like there are six inches of ease in the bust which is pretty generous. So yeah, very well-fitting top pattern. If that's something you really wanna focus on this year, this is a good one to try. Lots of great design details, as you can see with the darting and the collar and the front shoulder and the yoke and all of that gathers in the back. Okay, next we have another Palmer flesh. Okay, yeah, this is a top. Semi-fitted tops have princess seams, back button closure and hem and neckline variations. Tops A and B are short sleeves. Top C and D are sleeveless. So I guess really what you're gonna be learning here is how to fit a princess-seamed bodice with or without sleeves. And then they give you these hem variations with the slits or the scallops. Few different necklines too. We've got a V-neck, more of a rounded neck, square and notched. So lots of options. The fit here is much better. You can see even though she's got her hand up a little bit, that little bubble isn't happening. Might be a little bit big through here. But like I said, again, I'm 99% sure these are just fit models and these patterns were not made for their bodies, I don't think. I wanna see the back. Oh, okay, buttons all the way down the back, interesting. Yeah, okay, good. Lion's Rhymes look normal. Okay, cotton and cotton blends, rayon, PK, shantong, crepe machine, georgette, tinsel, tissue fail, lightweight linen blends like lots and lots of options in terms of fabrication. I mean, that pretty much covers it. Five buttons for the back and then sizes eight to 24 again. It looks like they're giving A, B, C, D bust, but that's all the cups. So it's not like, I don't think you get separate pattern pieces for cup sizes, but I do definitely think they teach you how to do a full bust adjustment without a doubt. So again, pretty roomy, four or five inches of ease in this one too. And you would have like, if you got both of those shirts, you'd have a button front block that fit really well and you would have a princess seam block that fit really well. And then from there, you couldn't really just make your own designs, right? Okay, here is a Mrs. Dress and Sash followed by the women's version. So pullover dress has elastic waist bust darts, faux wrap skirt with side front and side back seams, neckline and hem flounces with baby hems, neck facing, thread carriers and matching sash. View A is sleeveless and has self-bias armhole facings. View B has long fish up sleeves with button cuffs and pleat opening. So it looked kind of like a standard button down sleeve. So I have made dresses like this one as well. I love a flounce, I love a pull-on dress. I would have immediately gotten this a few years ago, but again, it kind of feels like been there done that, you know what I'm saying? Like matter of fact, the most recent dress I did for the sew-along had this flounce and I'm going through all my clothes right now for me made may, trying them all on. And I've come across many of them that have this flounce and I'm feeling like I'm getting most of them away or selling them because they feel a little bit dated to me. But here we are looking at the same thing again. So yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I know for sure, I don't have, I'm not wearing that anymore. Maybe when I had my office job I was, maybe like for church or, I guess it for like a wedding guest or like a brunch type of thing, but yeah, it's just not my style anymore. Not that it's not cute, it is, I don't know. I just feel like we've been down this road and it isn't like a trend that's cycled back, it's too recent for that. It's only been like three or four years. So it almost, it almost kind of feels like they just had this like in their draft folder for a while. They were like, now's the time. They're recommending Charmous, crepe de chien, rayon chalet and lawn, four to 20 on the size range on this one, but again, we do have a women's version. And it looks like the bust has a finished measurement of 35 inches, so that gives us five and a half inches of ease in the bust, that's a lot. So pretty roomy, yeah, the waist is really doing all the work here with the elastic, but you can see a lot of that ease in the back here. Let's look at the women's version. Okay, they made up the sleeveless version for her. Yeah, I mean, it is really pretty, but I don't know that I'm really going for dressing pretty right now in my life, you know? Like pretty is not the priority. 20 to 38 on the sizing here, that takes us from a 42 inch bust to a 60 inch bust. And again, four inches of ease in the bust area for this one. All right, next we have a printed version and a PDF version of this Mrs. Dress. A-line wrap dress has fitted bodice, collar, neck facings, waist ties, side seam pockets and length variations. View A has long sleeves with wide buttoned cuffs. View B has short sleeves with sleeve bands. A-line wrap dress with fitted bodice, okay. We had a wrap dress in the McCall's collection, but it did not have a collar. Long bust starts here, this fits her really well. The waist is sitting at the waist, the bust start ends where it should. You have this long sleeve with the buttons, the button cuff or you have this short puff sleeve. They both have gathers at the shoulder with this little band and this one's a little bit longer than the blue one. Yeah, again, very pretty, right? Like pretty like work wear though. Let's see, linen blends, crepe jersey, crepe machine and cotton blends for sure. I feel like they had some kind of like, oh, they probably used crepe on the blue one for sure. Six buttons for the sleeve on A and this is size eight to 26. So that's a body measurement. Let's do the waist of 24 to 41. Finished measurement wise, there are two inches of ease in the waist but obviously since it is a wrap, I think that you can fudge that a little bit, an inch here or there. There's three inches in the bust and then five in the hip. That would be considered like a semi-fitted dress. I like the collar dress situation. I just don't know that I would reach for it very much. Like when I leave the house, I'm going to teach sewing classes. I'm going to run errands. Like even for date night, our date nights are even kind of more casual, you know? Okay, so now we have another top slash tunic. Don't, is it just me? All of these feel like very dated. Like we did tunics. We did half-placket tunics. Very loose fitting. Top or tunic has drop shoulders, long sleeves, neck band, front button closure and length and hemline variations. View A has a front placket. View B has a front band and shaped high low hem. I mean, fair enough, like, okay, it's cute but it's like I've had this in my pattern stash and already given it away or sold it or whatever. You know what I mean? Like I've been through this and came out the other side and didn't want to go back enough. So I went ahead and just sold the pattern. So I'm not going to buy a new one. The back is cuter than the front. I do like that gathered detail back there. Linen blend, crepe, chalet, chambray, cotton shirting. I feel like they use some kind of gauze on the white one that they made up. Four or eight buttons depending on the version you're making. And this goes from size, this goes from size eight to 26. It's just very roomy. So you have, gosh, 15 inches of ease in the bust. So yeah. It's just, I'm not spending a lot of time on each of these because they're not all that exciting. Just kind of are what they are right now. Okay, here's the PDF version of that. No, this is a different one. Okay, so that's that one. This is this one, okay. So this is just like that dress we looked at, no? With shirring, hold on. Wrap front, is it not this? Yes, it has to be. Okay, okay, okay. So that's the women's version of this. Okay, we'll look at the version they made for her. The sleeve is pretty. I do feel like this shoulder fits her a little bit differently. It's much higher on her shoulder than the women's version. And that can just be because I find that plus size women typically the top of their shoulders is narrower than straight size women. What are we calling that these days? I don't know, like lower size ranged women. So there's just a lot less of the hanger. If you want to think of your shoulders like a hanger, there's just a lot less length there for you to hang the garment on. But yeah, that's much higher. That's like up on her neck, whereas the plus size version wasn't. And I also feel like this was a lot more scoopy. So again, when you're doing the plus size version of anything, if you're plus size and you're making your own clothes, the shoulder, shoulder, shoulder, shoulder, shoulder, like start there. And I think you will find once you get those adjustments, then the circumference stuff kind of all starts to fall into place too. But getting the shoulder length right, making sure it hits you high enough, getting the slope of your shoulder right too, all of that. Okay. I was like, I knew I've seen that before, that top. Okay, so now that's the PDF version. And it looks like the PDF version is just the one size. Let me see if they have it all here. Yeah, weird, right? Like PDF, you should be able to put them all in there. And maybe that would justify the price of it being so much, but nope. Okay, so next up we have this. This is the first time I'm seeing something that feels remotely like recently designed. And it's still not great. Don't get me wrong, but at least I feel like this was designed in the last year. Loose fitting tops have dropped shoulders, side slits, long sleeves with button cuffs and pleat opening. View A has a collar, collar band, patch pocket and front ties. You also get the pants, but they don't talk about the pants at all in this little thing in the description. So top A and top B does, okay. So B has buttons and A is kind of like a wrap. I like the wrap version. Does anyone else think it's weird that it's wrapping right underneath her bust? Like maybe down here somewhere a couple of inches lower or is it being pulled up that way? The line drawings will tell us what the intention was. Drop shoulder, interesting hemline. The back fits really well. And no, they want it way up there underneath the bust line. Interesting. Well, you can move that to wherever you want. They're recommending rayon blends, crepe, cotton blends, poplin and satin. Satin's an interesting choice. We still haven't seen the pants. No one's talking about the pants. From what I can tell, there's just a couple of darts in the front and back, a side zipper. So it's like faced. For A, which is the tie top, you need four buttons for the sleeves. For B, which is the button front, you need eight buttons. For C, which is the pants, you need one invisible zipper, one hook and eye. And then grow grain ribbon. So I think it's faced with the ribbon and then you zip it up. So kind of actually like a well-designed pant. It's too bad nobody's mentioned it at all. I assumed it was gonna be like pull-on, like elastic. And that's why they weren't mentioning it, but yeah, I think this is kind of cool. This is cool and interesting. Like I could see somebody making this, like I wouldn't style it this way at all, but I could see this being nice. Imagine it in like white linen or white gauze and you're like near the beach. And maybe you widen the leg, opening a little bit, make it more of like a wide leg pant and then you've got some sandals. I do think there's hope for this one. Okay, next. I'm really hating having to scroll down like this every single time. All right, next we've got what I know and love as a wardrobe, right? This is like an entire capsule collection all in one pattern. So this one includes a jacket, skirt, and pants. Semi-fitted, partially lined jacket has a notched collar, shoulder pads, princess seams, welt pockets, two-piece sleeve with button trim, bias A-line skirt, bias, okay, it's a bias cut skirt. A-line has elastic waist and narrow hem and then fully pants have side front pockets and side seam zipper. All right, let's get into these. So flat front pant, very classic. This is very much like a Banana Republic, very much like an Anne Taylor, but you just make it at home. So if you've got a job or a lifestyle that lends itself to wearing suits or like business attire, just get this one pattern, you know? And just make a blue one, a black one, a gray one and you're set. You just change out your little top and you're good to go. But the pants, yeah, super nice-looking pants. This is, I said, a bias cut skirt, so it's gonna fit your curves beautifully. I've yet to see a bias cut on any body, on any shape that doesn't make you look just like bomb. Like you just, it's just so flattering on every single figure. And then, yeah, more of the jacket, more of the pants and skirt, and then they just got some purchased tank tops. Yeah, just, you know, really nicely tailored, I think. For a buttery pattern, this isn't even Vogue. It is partially lined, okay? So remember that, the inside of your coat is not gonna be fully lined, which probably means there's like, oh, I don't even know, maybe the sleeve is lined and then like, I don't know how, what they decide what is lined and what isn't. I don't know how they decide that. No vent in the back, which is also an interesting choice, because when you sit down, that's gonna pull. But it does look really good on her. It fits her really well. Beautiful little skirt. Yeah. Okay, suggested fabrics, wool suiting, crepe, gabardine, linen blends. I love that they separated out skirt B to get its own suggested fabric selection, so you're not getting confused between what goes with what. For the skirt, rayon blends, crateback satin and shally, really anything lightweight and drapey is gonna be beautiful. And then double fold bias tape, this is all for the jacket. So shoulder pads, buttons, and then the skirt is elastic and the pants get a little zipper. So I'm imagining that there's some Hong Kong finishing maybe, but there's only one package. Hmm, I don't know. Can you get away with one package maybe? Eight to 26 on the size range. And then it looks like the jacket has, you know, four or five inches of ease, that makes perfect sense. The waist of B is elastic. What's the hip of B? Yeah, the hip is 38, 30. So five inches of ease, four or five inches of ease in the hip on that skirt. That's nice and comfortable. And then three or so on the pant. So a little less for the pant. That makes perfect sense to me. I mean, I don't need a suit, but if I did, I mean, I'd give that one a shot, why not? Okay, is that seriously it? We're in the kids clothes now. And the kids clothes are undoubtedly really, really stinking cute, but I don't review kids clothes because I don't really know what to say about them. Like I'm not going to talk about how it fits like a little girl. So it's not much to say, but they are really cute, all four of them. Very sweet and darling. I wish there was an adult version of this. I would wear it in a heartbeat. All right, well, I mean, kind of sad. Isn't Butterick one of the ones to where we haven't gone anything since winter? Oh man. Yeah, that's really too bad. Too bad. I've gotten really nothing to say. It's all very forgettable to me. I'm interested to hear what you think if you are an office person, did any of this light your fire more than me? Is it just like a difference in lifestyle and maybe I'm not the Butterick target customer anymore? Let me know in the comment section. Otherwise, I'll be back real soon with the No Me Spring Collection pattern review. And if you haven't seen it yet, the McCall's review is already posted. So I'll see you over there after this one. Bye you guys.