As a special bonus project for patrons at Aficionado tier, I'm pleased to introduce this peplum expansion for the Café Culture dress.

I'm delighted to introduce the Café Culture Dress, an elegant day or cocktail dress with mid-late 1940s styling. This is a beginner-friendly pattern, with a relaxed fit and no sleeves to set in.

The Sophisticate tea dress features ruched shoulder yokes which meet at a V-neckline above a sweetheart shaped lower bodice. The skirt side front panels are gathered into hip yokes and fall in soft folds, echoing the ruching in the bodice.

Although the later 1920s had seen the middy relegated to activewear, sailor styles enjoyed a resurgence in the 1930s. The Telegraph Herald in 1934 declared nautical style "quite the newest Paris favorite [...] most attractive and so decidedly new".

As a special bonus for patrons at Aficionado tier, I'm pleased to introduce the Sailor Collar expansion, compatible with both the Rendezvous jacket and Démoiselle dress (taking the number of possible combinations up to 40!)

Love is in the air! My second Valentine's themed release is a beret inspired by the imagery of vintage Valentine’s cards: A bluebird delivers a love letter to a Valentine mailbox, with the scene surrounded by a wreath of spring blossoms.

The Rendezvous Jacket is a V-necked, zip-front hooded jacket inspired by an original vintage example from the late 30s.

Our story starts somewhere in the mid 19th century, when the four-year-old Prince Albert Edward (the future Edward VII) was dressed in a miniature sailor uniform for a trip aboard the royal yacht. The sailor suit became a perennial favourite for children's wear, and by the 1870s the nautical motif had made the transition into ladies' clothing.