Rock & Roll Farm

Tuesday! Jun 17 2003 // 11:29 am //

vintage cable knits etc.

“I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.”
Mainbocher

I found this quotation floating above a dress at vintageous. I’m in love with pretty much everything on this site.

Chicago born Mainbocher designed the dress (called Blithe Spirit) for the Duchess of Winsdor’s wedding, and some of the uniforms for WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service - of which my grandmother was a woman accepted). Horst P. Horst, the fashion photographer, took a famous photo of one of Mainbocher’s corsets called, *ahem* Mainbocher Corset.

I stumbled across vintageous while trolling around for cable knit patterns. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that I’m crazy if I think I can make something like that after only one week of knitting. Well obviously you haven’t heard my new song. It’s called Born to Knit. You should stop by my house for a performance some time. Actually, if you stood on my front sidewalk for long enough, you’d probably hear me singing it. Anyway, I found this fabu pattern at vintageous.