NEW Simplicity *Late* SUMMER Patterns | Which Ones Are Actually Worth Sewing?

Hi you guys. I am sitting down to take a look at Simplicity's late summer collection and I want to bring you along with me. If you've never seen one of these first impression videos before, we're going to take a look look at each and every one of the patterns in the new collection. We're going to talk about fabrication, sizing, any fit problems that I happen to notice that would be kind of universal, and kind of just discuss the overall design of the patterns. So, grab a beverage of your choice and let's get to it. The first one is the Mrs. Square neck tiered maxi dress by Mimi G. Sizing is 6 to 16 and 16 to 26. Now that is all but one of their sizes. It's everything but a size four. So in terms of misses, this is about as inclusive as it can get. It is a refined feminine maxi dress. features a square neckline. Close fitting lined bodice with a softly raised waist. Low cut back shaped seams create a flattering silhouette while an invisible back zipper ensures a clean finish. Softly tiered skirt adds graceful movement and volume. She used a crepe. Um other fabric options would be shalley sharmmuse cotton blends, cotton lawn, double georgette gauze, lightweight linen blends. So, when we talk about the fabric suggestions uh for each of these patterns, this one and all the ones coming up, yes, you can definitely just type in these words into your fabric website of choice. But I think the smarter thing and the biggest thing for you guys to learn if you're trying to learn about fabrication is to understand what all of these things have in common and use that as your source for fabric. So crepe, shalley, chararmmuse, georgette, all are lightweight, drapey fabrics. Some have more of like a silky type vibe to them, but they're all going to be very lightweight and very drapey. And then things like cotton blends, lightweight linen blends, and even gauze are going to have some more structure to them and then be lightweight within their own category. Like cotton blends can only be so lightweight because of how much the cotton and the whatever uh it's blended with also weighs. So, it's like a cotton polyester that's going to be a lighter weight fabric than 100% cotton. Does that make sense? So, when you're going to shop for your fabrics, you can now just look for lightweight woven. You can look for ones that say the word drapey. And you're not pigeonholed into choosing one of these fabrics. The lighter weight, the more drapey the fabric is. actually not to do with weight at all, but the drapier the fabric is, the harder it is for a beginner to use. So, keep that in mind as well. If you're new to sewing, making this out of a drapey fabric will be challenging. It's just really shifty and hard to cut, hard to manage, hard to pin, and keep it in place, all that good stuff. All right, so we do have a square neck. I wish they wouldn't use black. Like, don't we know by now that that is not super helpful for us to see any style lines at all? Um, there's definitely a waistband here. They called it a soft waist, softly raised. I'm not even sure what that means. Maybe like the waistband, the bottom of the waistband is what sits at your waistline. That makes sense. And then we've got one tier, two tiers, and it is a maxi length. There it is. Again, the back does dip down, but I think you could still wear a bra with that. If not, that's too low for your bra. Raise it up if that's a concern of yours. This is lined, so you would be able to sew cups into the front of it if you're looking for just modesty, but no support or lift or anything like that. Here's the invisible back zipper. It looks like we've got some darting happening. They said something about Do they say princess seams? I don't know. But we've got this seam here as well. And then here we go. All right, let's take a look at the line drawings really quick, just cuz that black was really hard to see. So, we have bust darts in the front and then almost like I guess princess seams in the back and then this waist lower waist dart um in the back of the skirt as well. It's a really simple, straightforward design. You might even have something that looks like from here to here looks like this. Um, and all you would need to do is square out the neckline and add tears. So, you know, this isn't one of those patterns that's like, oh my god, you have to have the pattern in order to know how to make it. This isn't that. You could definitely hack something into this if that's your jam. If you like hacking things, some people like the process of it, some people don't. So, um, okay. All the notions that you're going to need for this is just the invisible zipper. So, this is actually quite an affordable pattern. Crepe and drapey fabrics don't tend to be super expensive. Your lining fabric is probably going to be some sort of 100% polyester. And I'm pretty sure the lining is just the bodice. Yeah, it's just the bodice anyways. Um, so you don't even need that much of it. And then your zipper costs what, $45. Um, you do need uh oh, four yards of that fabric, but I I'm 99% sure you can find a really great drapey fabric for under $10 a yard. Um, so not that expensive for how much dress you get. And also looking at this now and considering the suggested fabrics, whenever they suggest a fabric, they're suggesting it for the season that the pattern is being released in. So, this is a late summer, which is why they're um giving us summery fabrics like the lightweight drapey ones, but also some maybe like early fall fabrics like the gauze and the lightweight linen blends. That said, I do think you could make this out of a wintry fabric, let's call it like a holiday type fabric. You could make it out of like a lightweight drapey velvet would be really pretty. You could make it brocade would be too structured, I think. Or you could make it, but you'd have to reduce the amount of volume in the ruffles. Not that hard to do, but you would have to make some adjustments to do that. Um, but like some kind of sparkly fabric like a cotton with some kind of metallic embroidery or something. I don't know. So you could make it definitely into the holidays and make a really special looking holiday um dress as well. Okay, so finished garment measurements. We're looking at the ease now. So we're looking at how this would typically fit you if you were to make your size based on your body measurements alone. And it looks like there is 1 in of ease in the bust. That's perfect. That's what we want to see. If you're in between sizes, air on the side of as close to 1 to 1 and 1/2 in of ease as you can. The waist is the next one they're going to give us. That has 3 in of ease. So, that is kind of fairly loose through the waist. Um, you might like that if you're if you deal with a lot of bloating. Hello. And deal with a lot of like stomach issues. You know, having that extra ease is definitely helpful. If you're someone that really wants it to look snatched, then you can go down to two inches of ease. Maybe I wouldn't go less than that unless you're really wanting to hold it in all night. You know what I'm saying? Um, and then we don't get a waist uh finished measurement because it is kind of negligible. I mean, it's hard to tell on her where her full hip is. If we're looking at it this way, it's probably right here, I'm guessing. So, maybe this is a point of contention for you. Shouldn't be too hard to measure on your own, but they're not going to provide it for us. Okay, next up we've got we're skipping crafts and we're going to go to this Mrs. Halter Sweetheart top with custom cup sizing. Oh my gosh, I haven't seen a custom cup pattern in it feels like years, maybe one year, but still 8 to 16 and 18 to 26 on the sizing. We're so we're missing four and six on this. Um in terms of the entire Mrs. collection fitted hip length halter style top with low sweetheart neckline has cut and arm holes, non-functional button flaps. Closure options include front hidden snaps with oversized decorative buttons or functional front buttons with button holes. Oh my gosh, that's so wordy. The buttonf front top can be made in one or two fabrics, meaning like a contrast like this one. Separate pattern pieces are included for AB cups, C cups, and D cups. Stretch cotton satine in black. Oh, we're going to get another black one. Jeez. Um and then other fabrics would be crepe, damaskque, dupion, lightweight twill, linens, midweight cotton, satine, satin, stretch woven fabrics. All right. So, this is going to feel a little bit contradictory to those that are just learning about fabrication, but Mimi's dress was made in crepe. And crepe is and can be a lightweight, drapey fabric, but it also cannot be. This is why fabrication is so hard. Um, think about a crepeback satin. That is going to be a much more weightier fabric and much less drapey than 100% crepe. I'm pretty sure that's what they meant by this. Same thing with this satin here. Satin can have a little bit of weight to it. Think about like a prom dress. Um, but this crepe here, I get it feels confusing. The rest of these do have structure and a little bit of weight on them. Even if it says lightweight twill, twill as a category is naturally weightier because of how it's woven. Denim is twill. So, think about all those fabrics that are like you can see the diagonals in it. That is age twill. So, a lightweight version of that equals a midweight version of another fabric. I mean, I understand it sounds like cuckoo crazy, like I'm just talking in circles, but once you get it, you get it, guys. Okay. Um, so all the rest of these are going to be that midweight fabric with some structure to it. I love the idea of a stretch woven because it does seem super fitted. So, you're going to get that fit with just a little bit of ability to move. You're going to get a little bit of movement in it still. So, that would be my choice if I were sewing this. But, it's giving 90s, right? I mean, these huge buttons, um, this sweetheart neckline with the halter. I do believe halter tops are universally flattering. That might be just a me thing. If you're self-conscious about, you know, the width of your shoulders, I get that. But I do think it looks good on most people. Um, huge buttons, these flat pockets, the contrast is just like another version. Yeah, but not really. It's the same pattern pieces. And in fact, I don't even know the difference between A and B. Is it just the covered buttons and no buttons on the pockets? So really, all three of these are the same thing. Um, they're just made with different notions and different fabrics. So, it seems like you're getting more than you really are with this cute little upper east side. Very vogueish, right? This looks more like a Vogue pattern than anything Simplicity's done in a while. Um, but okay. So, that's how they're styling it for this. And we're probably not going to get other styles. The fit on her looks really good. They did use that stretch twill. What did they use? Satine. Um, so it is giving a little bit. You shouldn't see too many tugs and pulls. And it is black, so also that's hard to see, but I mean it looks really good on her. Yeah, that's all we're going to get. I don't know. It seems like it seems like it's hard to make this not dressy. Um, I'm sure there are ways to do it. I'm having a hard time visualizing anything. Well, I mean, you see these here. So, maybe if you made it in like a print like this one, or I guess this is what a stretch twill could look like with jeans. Um, I actually don't hate the idea of a monochromatic look. Maybe not white or black. That tends to make it a little bit more dressy. Um, but yeah, I mean I would wear it to Target, which is, if you're new here, my kind of like standard for does this fit into my lifestyle? But I would feel very overdressed, very fancy going to Target in this. Um, which isn't always a bad thing. It's fine. Who knows where I'm on my way to? Maybe like a meeting with millionaires. Okay, so we need six one and a half inch buttons. buttons are expensive. If you're going to use six of them for the version that has all of them, easily 10 $15 for those buttons. Um, and then you also need four large snaps in addition to that. So, this is how project cost tends to add up. The fabric choices are also not the super cheapest ones. You might be able to find some around 15 12 $15 a yard, but then you're buying decorative buttons and snaps and this could add up. It's just like a vest type thing, but um yeah, it's going to add up quick. So, you have to love it in order to commit to making this. Um okay, finished garment measurements. We're getting a lot of ease in the bust, actually. 4 in. And then in the waist, we're getting two and a half. So that feels that feels really big. I don't see two and a half on her. Do you guys? Um yeah, definitely not two and a half. So, I don't know if I would size down completely, but if you're in between, definitely size down. I'd be aiming for 2 in at most at the waist, maybe the same at the bust. 4 in at the bust is a lot. And it and it goes up and up and up depending on if you're getting bigger cup sizes. I've never had to use the cup sizes. Do you guys that are like for the D cup people out there who use the cup sizes from the big five, do you guys find that that the drafting outside of the cup size is still really good? Does it tend to fit everywhere else better in addition to your full bust? All right, next up we have a wrap front squirt with tie belts. Sizes 8 to 16, 18 to 26. This skirt features a flattering wrap front design with built-in comfort. Sits one inch below the natural waist. Fitted through the hips for a clean tailored look. Finished with a concealed front zipper. Right. Okay. Side seam pockets. View A has matching tie belt. Views A and B have belt loops. View C has side ties. So B has the loops but without the belt. Oh, I guess for a purchase belt. Okay. They used a denim, a khaki denim aka twill. And they are suggesting denim linen blends midweight woven satine and twill. So again all of these are those midweight pretty structured woven also known as bottom weights. You might see things called bottom weights, and all of those would be good as well. All right, let's jump into it. I know my hair might look like hers, but it's not. I want her hair. Very beautiful. Anyhoozles, squirrel. Okay, so here's the skirt. Front wrap, tie belt. Under here is what I'm assuming is a polyester zipper. You've got your side seam pockets. Not my favorite on shorts or fitted bottoms in general because the pockets tend to pucker. And if all of the photos of her have that hand in her pocket, then I have trust issues. Okay. But I'm going to assume that her p that pocket is going to pucker. Um, can you alter the pattern to make sure it doesn't pucker on you? Yes. Um, but straight out of the envelope, I wouldn't trust it. Let's see if they provide us with photos without her hand in her pocket. Yes, denim. There's That's just like another like beige type Twin denim. I love that they did the exposed um top stitching though. That is really pretty. And I do like the tie. I think better than the belt. The belt feels a little dated. The tie is cute. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. Simplicity website editors. Thank you so much. Thank you so so so much. All right. So, no puckering. Granted, she doesn't have like as large of a waist to hip ratio as I know I do, but at least you know that it's drafted well so that it's not going to pucker on everyone. I'd have to make adjustments, but not everyone would. Let's see what the back looks like. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, not the worst I've seen. Oh, shout out to Long Beach. Not the worst I've seen. First of all, let's admire the sidseam pocket because I did shame it earlier and I take that back. This is a beautiful sidseam pocket. Lays great. Again, this is definitely not the worst I've seen. If my shorts turned out like this, I would be like, hallelujah, you know, thanking the sewing gods. Um, that said though, it's also not perfect. Okay, I do love that there are these princess seams. So, if you have a fuller bum, it's much easier, like a bubble butt, not so much wide side to side as it is front to back, you can easily use your 5/8 inch seam allowance and let it out at the fullest part of your bum, and you're going to get a better fit. Super easy. It's an easy, easy alteration. My concern is kind of in here a little bit, like all of this extra fabric. Again, that's probably specific to her. It actually makes me think that it might be a drafted for a little bit curvier of a fit, which is good for me. Um, but maybe not good for everyone else. So, pants, shorts, they are going to be those things that we are always going to have to adjust in some way. Again, I would be thrilled if my shorts turned out like this. But if you're looking for perfection, if you're one of those like super obsessive fit people, you're going to there's a lot of extra fabric right here. Um that can probably just be pinched out through the top of the crotch curve, but through here, this all looks really good. Like the crot the bottom of the crotch curve looks really good. I can't see the front because it's covered up by that by the skirt. But they're cute. They're cute. All right. So, we've already spent money on our denim. Um, can denim be expensive? Yes. Depending on the quality of the denim, the weight of the denim, you could be spending on average 15 bucks maybe. Um, but it is pretty common, so maybe it goes on sale some. You might have better luck finding like a satine or a twill. Um, pricing those out. But we also have a 9-in zipper. Okay. And then the heavy duty top stitch thread if you want to do the contrast stitching. And then for A and B. So, uh, the ones that have the belt loops, one button and hook and eye. H. Oh, that's because you have the hook and eye under here. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Well, look at me choosing the cheaper of the options to prefer anyways, the little with the little tie. Um, so yeah, all of this definitely adds up, especially if you don't own these things already. Like I already have lots of zippers, lots of top stitch thread, and probably an extra hook and eye sitting around somewhere. So, you know, if you buy it once, like the hook and eyes come in packages of like there's a bunch of them in there. So, buy it once and then you have it. Same thing with top stitching thread. like you're not going to use all of it on one project usually. So you might just have it in your stash. But if you're buying all this brand new, yeah, you're going to spend upwards of $30 comparatively to what it would be in the store, a bargain. But it's still going to be pricey considering it's just shorts. You know, it's only this tall. Okay, so fitwise, they're giving us the hip, um, which has 4 in of ease in it. At the full hip, again, I wish there were 4 in of ease. I'm not seeing where they're getting 4 in of ease. That looks more like two to me. Um, so I don't mind more of an of a wider hip fitting short. If the waistband fits, I will fit a short to my hip first and then bring in the waist. 4 in is is the max. 4 inches is the max. I wouldn't go any bigger than that. Um, you could size down because each size is just one inch more. One and a half through 10 and 12 and then after that it's two inches more. Oh my gosh. Okay. You could size down one whole size and you'd lose for the most part in all these other sizes 2 in. So that would bring you down to a 2 in ease at the hip. But take your own measurements, figure out the ease on your own body. If you don't know how to do this, I do have a worksheet that talks you through it. It has a companion YouTube video that shows you how to calculate all of this for yourself. I will link it up here for you guys, and I'll also put it in the description box. It's called the fast fit worksheet. Um, so if you want help figuring out this for your own specific body measurements, we can we can do that together. Um, so yeah, a little bit oversized. The waist band though, it does sit one inch below the waist. So, we can go up to 2 in of ease in the waist. Um, one inch if it's at your natural waist. And then if it's one inch below, you're going to add another inch on average depending on the curve of your body there. So on and so forth. Okay, what is next? Okay, next we have again another very '9s bias cut pull-on skirt. Now, this is not new. Okay, we've seen this a thousand1 times. Okay, there are lots and lots and lots of patterns out there that do a bias cut skirt with this little itty bitty elastic. Okay, so do you have to spend $16 on this? No. Do you have to spend even the $5 it's going to be whenever it goes on sale? No, only if you absolutely love big five patterns or you know simplicity patterns fit you really well or you just don't have a very vast sewing pattern collection. Would I advise you to get this? There are cheaper versions for sure. This is not rocket science to make this. All right. I do love I'm also going to say I do love a bias cut on everyone. So before you're like I can't wear fitted slinky skirts like this. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. and you will look like a million bucks in it. The way that the bias cut of the fabric hugs the things it should and hides the things it shouldn't that shouldn't show. It's magical. All right, sizing 4 to 16 and 12 to 24. So, we're missing the bigger size in the misses here. Pull on bias cut skirt. Easy to sew since 2 in below the waist. Featuring an elastic waist and a baby hem designed to drape smoothly through the hips with a subtle flare at the hem. available in many below the knee or below midcfe lengths. Okay, that might be one of the things that se separates it from the others that are out there. Not super hard to hack the length of something though. That's like hacking 101. But if you just like to have it all done for you, this actually might that those different lengths might separate it from some of the other bias cut pull-on skirts you see out there. Okay, so they used a polyester crepe. They're also recommending shalley crepeback satin and crepe to sheen lightweight or I'm sorry, drapey fabrics and the weight is varying depending on which one you're picking. Shalley is super lightweight. Crepeback satin has more weight to it and crepe machine does as well. So depending on the look that you're going for, something that has more weight to it is also going to like uh hide lumps and bumps better. Um just because it has a thickness to it, I guess. But again, even if you made it in the thinnest of thin fabrics, it's still going to look super super good on you. So, when you're going fabric shopping, look for drapey fabrics and look for something that within its own category is still light to like the lightest end of midweight. You would not want to do a denim or a twill or anything like that out of this. It just wouldn't work right. Um, it does have to have that drape to it. So, drapey is number one priority for this. There shouldn't be too much to look at in terms of fit-wise. I doubt they'll even show us the waistband. Um, like lift the shirt up. You guys got me eating my words. Does this mean y'all are listening? Is somebody out there that works for the website for Simplicity watching my videos? Are we going to get stretch percentages on knit fabrics, on knit projects? Y'all are blowing my mind. First a hands without pockets picture and now a skirt showing the waistband picture. You guys are showing off. You guys are showing off. Wow. Okay. I'm shocked and thrilled. Love it. Again, it's not like there's a ton to see here, but I'm happy somebody's thinking through like what we need to see in order to buy these patterns. For example, going back to the skirt, I would have loved to see her pull that little skirt back so we could see the crotch of the front. Not the end of the world in terms of like whether or not we're going to buy that pattern or not, but it would help me as a sewist see what the beginner fit starts as to help me understand how much fitting I'm going to have to do to get it to fit me. If this were a waistband that was like a dedicated waistband, maybe had a fly and all that good stuff, um, I would want to see this as well to see if it like puckers in the back or anything like that. We just have an elastic, so this isn't going to show us much, but somebody at least is thinking through what we need to see from the website. So, round of applause. Round of applause. Oh, we even get a back view of the um waistband as well. a little bit. Her shirt's kind of in the way, but I'll take it. I'll take it. Um, this I think is kind of common with the elastic that you have there. There is going to be like a little bit of bubbling. Uh, could you eliminate that? Yes. I'm just not sure it's worth it. It might just be that this is a little too long because it's bias. It would go this way. The length now goes this way because it's cut diagonally. So yeah, it just might be an issue of like a small sway back adjustment. It's like super small, but I wouldn't even worry with that. Like this is fine. This is totally totally fine for what it is. Okay, so all you need is 1 and 38 a yard of 3/8 inch elastic. That's not much elastic. I know I have that in my stash from all just random projects. Um, so affordable, you're going to need a little bit more. Am I right? Yeah. So whereas this skirt, if it was cut straight on the grain, would be a one yard wonder, you're going to need more because it's cut on diagonal. So up to two yards, but those polyester fabrics again can be like $5 a yard depending on where you shop for them. And then we're getting our finished hip measurement, which is coming to uh 32 3 and 12 in. I think that makes sense for a little like a-ine skirt like this. Not a-ine, but you know, a little looser fitted skirt like this. That makes sense. Um if you're in between sizes, size down. Skip the apron. Oh, I'm afraid. Okay. Simplicity misses and women's. I'm sorry. Women'sized women people who sew women's sizes. Women's size. Is that right? Women's sized people. I don't know why they make the weirdest looking patterns for you guys. Or at least the weirdest looking sample. Looking at the illustrations, it's not that bad. But this sample is boohoo bananas. Uh princess seam balloon sleeve top with petite lines. Oh, wow. They just threw it all in there. Okay, so you've got your Mrs. sizing, your women's sizing, which is 10 to 20, and then almost all of the women's sizes. So, 22 to 38. Um, we're missing 2 4 68 on the misses and 22 through 28 on the upper side of the misses. Size 20 in misses is not the same as a 20 in women's. I think for a top, the bust cups are going to be different. Um, so just keep that in mind if you're not one of these MS sizes. Don't try and get the women's size and bring it down. That's not going to that won't work the same. Um, so they did misses sizes, women's sizes, and then they also included lines for petites. So if you want to shorten the bodice, they'll show you where to do that on the pattern pieces. So they just threw all all of you guys are there. What's interesting though is that petite people, a good amount of them also tend to be the smaller end of the size range, which they eliminated. So that's interesting. This almost feels like I don't know, like a last minute last ditch effort to I don't know. I don't know. I don't love the combined sizes anyways. And so I'm already going into this with like a weird mindset about it, but throwing in petite seems not very well thought through. Like just put it on there and then they just went on with their lives. Um fitted top is fully lined. What? Oh no. with a round neckline, shoulder pads, bodice shaped princess seams, long balloon sleeves that add controlled volume, features a concealed hook and eye closure for view A and button front for view B. They used a maccato polyester. So, maccato silk is usually like that's where that comes from. Like dupion silk um is where dupion comes from, but they do have polyester versions of them. This looks straight up like plastic. Doesn't it look like a like one of those tablecloths, the outdoor tablecloths that you just use for a picnic and then you ball up and throw away? That's what I'm getting. Um, in the color ivory. They're also recommending brocade, which is another very stiff, structured, shiny fabric. cotton blends, linen blends, actual maccato silk, shantung, which is another kind of like like special occasion type fabric. I don't know why we eliminated drapey fabrics. I don't know why we eliminated Well, they did put linen blends. I'd live in this area and I wouldn't go anywhere else unless you have like an idea for this as an outfit to wear to a special occasion. This just on the streets seems like a little much for me. Uh I don't love it. I don't love it. And I don't again getting a little bit Vogue, right? The Vogue customer I think would like this more. I also don't understand why it's fully lined. None of those fabrics need Well, I mean, stuff like the brocade on the inside is itchy, but again, just don't just don't suggest those fabrics. And then it doesn't have to be lined. It feels like it's going to feel really heavy, really like crunchy. I'm not getting it. I'm not I don't see it. I don't see the vision. I'm sure they're going to post something their social media that's like, "Look at this $4,000 top that you can make from the Simplicity pattern 3272 and I'm going to be like, "Oh, okay. Well, it was, you know, based off a designer look." Even still, though, listen, based on a designer look or not, I don't have to like it. Just because it's a designer doesn't mean it's my taste or yours. So, you do you guys. Okay. So, we do have the princess seams. This is the hook and eye version. Very modern looking. You have the balloon sleeve. Okay. That has the elastic in the bottom. Yeah, I was thinking that this might be a seam, but I really don't think it is. That would be even more weird. Um, you have the jewel neckline, which is fine. It also feels really long in the shoulder, which is not uncommon for the big five. Um, I would be reducing this. I mean, I don't even know where her shoulder ends, but it's giving linebacker, right? It's giving like I have on shoulder pads. And maybe there are shoulder pads in there. We'll see whenever we get to the notions list. But even still, it shouldn't unless it says like, what would it even say? oversized. Um, then it shouldn't be hanging off your shoulder that much. Um, and then this through here feels like I don't know. It's the fabric I'm sure is not doing this any favors, but it just looks really I don't know crispy. And then there's that and that and that. Yeah, even the far away view isn't giving. Oh no. Oh no. Okay, thank you so much for this photo. Right. It's not normally something you guys would give, but there is a seam here that opens up to create the balloon sleeve. So, I was correct in assuming there's a shoulder seam. Yeah. Again, I don't I don't think I would mind it in a drapier fabric. That said though, you would really lose this detail. This would be hidden um if it were in a drapey fabric for sure. Maybe just not this one. I don't know. Could we done a shirting? Maybe. Hear me out. Maybe a shirting. Okay. Where it's not so shiny but still somewhat dressy. Yeah. if you have somewhere to go in this. This feels like it should be part of the holiday collection, not just like end of summer. But yeah, they really put this girl to work. Oh, that's worse. Okay. Yeah, it's not great, guys. It's not great at all. Um, I think uh you guys always commend me for being nice when it would be hard to do. And that that's this. It's hard to I don't even know if I should go through all the reasons that this is bad. But we've got some really weird fitting things happening. And I I can't even tell if it's because she's holding her arms out like she's about to catch a baseball or or or a beach ball or something, but I mean this is doesn't need to happen. There is that fitted, you know, seam there, but it's too small. Um might be because this is so long. This just needs to be pulled up onto her shoulder and then all of that would go away. It's just hard to tell with me not actually being there picking at it. And because the background is white, it almost you don't even notice these parts of her of the wall behind her. It just it's giving I don't know. It's just not helping. It's not doing it any favors. That's for sure. Yeah. Okay. So, just like I thought, there are shoulder pads. They still shouldn't extend that far past your shoulder. They should not go past like the like the ball of your shoulder. And hers feel like they're way out there. Um, nine hooks and eyes. Um and then or six buttons. Yeah. And then finished garment measurements are going to be on the envelope because so there's so many sizes here. Okay. Mrs. and Miss Petite sleeveless top and tapered pants set. Now I'm not shocked to see this because I know capries have been in the peripheral for a minute. All the little fashion girlies have been wearing them. I have yet to see someone with an hourglass figure that looks that doesn't look like they're on a cruise or shop at God, I can't even put to words. You know the person I'm picturing, the curvy woman in the elastic waist. Uh what are they called? Drought. No. Uh oh, what are they called when the water water rising? What is that term? I can't remember. But they're they're hit right below the kneecap. You know what I mean? And they're loose fitting. and they're wearing with a loose- fitting top. Like that's what I envision when I picture myself making capries. Um, I don't genuinely love pants that are that fitted. Anyways, cute on the girly pops. Okay, cute on the 30 year olds, right? On the fashion girls, love it. For me, not so much. Uh, now I will be waiting with baited breath to see some of my favorite curvy creators make this. Um, especially those that tend to lean toward big five. But for but for now, this is going to be a hard no for me just because I can't envision myself loving myself in something like this even if it were made custom for me. They do have the long pants version, but again, I've never really been into a pencil pant either. The sizes are 6 to 16 and 16 to 26. And you are going to get the petite lines on the top and the pants. So, if you tend to be um short- waisted or short rise or like you're short, you have shorter legs than your torso, whatever, you'd be able to figure that out with these petite lines. Okay. Close-fitting sleeveless top features a jewel neckline, front patch pockets, a front slit detail. Close-fitting tapered pants feature a narrow waistband. Front and back seaming and side slits. Views A and C include soft bow detailing. Oh, self bow. I was like, what's a soft bow? Self bow detailing. All styles have an invisible back zipper with hook and eye closure. They used a poly crepe in navy. Maybe this collection could also just be a study in creep where you can see how some are drapey and some are not. I get that it's confusing and contradictory to you guys, but at least you're seeing these fabrics made up and you know when you're going into crepe land to look for structured or drapey, lightweight, midweight, and the differences and what that means in terms of crepe itself. So, give this a good study. Going back to Mimi's dress versus this, so on and so forth. Other recommendations are chino lightweight denim, linen blends, and stretch woven. I love a stretch twill for this. Um, I again, it just gives you that little bit of extra room to move, especially in the hip area because it is so close fitting. Okay. So, again, this is like another one of those little vests just like the one we saw with the big buttons. Um, but this one doesn't open up. It's just like a top. Lindsay from 15 years ago would have bought this simply because it had bows on it. I'm so obsessed with bows. But I love the idea of it being closed in the front, right? It looks like a vest, but it's not. And then you have the big patch pockets. I don't I've never minded a bow. You might think that's silly. Um, but it would be just clean, modern if you left the bows off, too. And then you have your capri and the bows on the side. I mean, it's cute. The way that they styled it and everything is exactly how I would have. Um, I just don't love this style on me. The arm side looks pretty good. If it ends there, like I think it does, that's good. She's not filling this out, but that's not the pattern's fault. Um, and then let's see some detail shots. Not going to complain about that. Cute. Okay, so we're also getting some fitting help through the back. Interesting. Okay, so you have your invisible zipper. Who knows where that ends? Here, maybe. Yeah. So, you have your 22 in zipper and then you also have this little tab situation um to help pull in the waist. Let's see that again. Okay. Okay. Yeah, cuz I mean even though it has the princess seams, it's not really snatching her in like it could with princess seams, but it's cuz it has this detail to kind of give it shoot sorry to kind of give it a little bit more of a relaxed look. Um, we are not going to get to see the top of the pants at all. Yes. Okay. So, it's too small in the calves, which is why you're getting this. Okay, if they let this out by like an inch, this would hang more naturally. And I'm not even sure she has like the world's largest calves. Like, they look pretty small to me. Um, but it's just one more fit issue for you to consider with this pant because it is so close fitting all the way down. Um, from what I can see, I mean, we do have this drag line, this one as well, so there could be some issues above here. just really hard to tell. You do again have those back princess seams though, so if you need to make bubble butt adjustments, it is a little bit easier to do um because you have that extra extra seam there. Okay, so 22in zipper, hook and eye, and a best buckle. And then for the pants, uh sevenin zipper, hook and eye. And then we do get bust has 2 and 1/2 in. The waist should have a good amount. Three. Yeah, three, four. Something like that would be fine because you have that um I keep want to call it a toggle. You know what I mean? The little adjustable back. And then the hip of the pants. The hip of the pants. Oh, sorry. The waist of the pants. you get one inch of ease. I think it said it s at the natural waist. The hip of the pants, you're getting 2 in. So, very close fitting on the pant side. Um, and then of course as you go down, I mean, they're not giving us like a calf measurement like you'd need that. You'd probably need uh thigh measurement, maybe even knee depending. Um, so just you got to take all the measurements going all the way down with a pant pattern like that. Um, next we have Mimi G's other pattern. She normally does two per release. This is a three-piece top, pants, and bralette set. Okay, cute. Alpha numeric sizing, so extra small through 2XL. that does include all of their sizes 4 to 26 or whatever just all in like some sizes are combined which is fine because this is a very loose fitting situation. Even the waist that is fitted you you tie it to make it um fit your waist. Maybe maybe the bralette you'd have issues with um combining sizes, but it shouldn't be that big of a deal. I'm imagining it's even a knit fabric. This versatile three-piece set blends tailored details with easy comfort. The collared button front top features full sleeves, curved hem, full sleeves, curved hem, front patch pocket accented with contrast trim, coordinating pull-on pants. Feature side seam pockets, drawing waist threaded through button holes, elasticized casing, so you have the elastic and the drawstring. Um, and a wide leg opening for relaxed movement. Completing the set is a bralette. Double layered in knit fabric with elastic support for everyday wear. So, it's almost like a lined bralette. You can put cups in it. Um, you have like the double fabric for I guess modesty. Um, so it's not so thin and chintzy. They used a rayon blend stripe and then for the bralette they used activew wear knit in blush pink. So, activewear knit just has a lot less stretch to it. Um, think of it like a sports bra is basically what she used that fabric. Um, for the pajamas themselves, cotton blends, crepe sheen, flannel, gauze, gingham, popppllin. Yeah. All your shirtings. Did they say cotton blends? Yeah, you could even do a linen if you wanted. um all of those lighter weight structured to not structured depending on how you want your top to fit. They or your top and pants to fit. They used a rayon blend so hers is really drapey. Um that's why like we'll look at it closer, but the sleeve is like falling over itself and all of that. Um just way way way more drapey. I guess technically more relaxed. Um, if you think about like satin pajamas, that would be really drapey, but you think about cotton pajamas, whether it's popplin or otherwise, that's a little bit more structured, right? Um, and then for the bralette, activewear knits, interlock jersey, rib knit, um, I think your choice on that is be based on how much support you want. Active wear is going to have the most. Um, interlock jersey rib could all kind of fit in the same category, I think, in terms of support. Um, but yeah. Okay. So, again though, this is not a revolutionary design. Like, we've got a lot of drop shoulder pajama situations out there. This is just if you don't have one already, if you love Mini G, if you love Simplicity, if you love the Big Five, um that's when I would venture into this. But yeah, it is cute, right? The fabric's adorable. The just the pictures alone are going to sell this pattern because it is so adorable. Like if this were for sale in retail, everyone be snatching it up at Target. Um but yeah, it's a cute little look. I love that all three pieces are together. That might be unique to this pattern. I don't know a lot of them that come with a bralette, so that's fun. Okay, I can't really see much from all these pictures. Oh, there's the curved hem. Okay, that's helpful. Really deep curved hem. Comfy. I wonder if that means you could also like pretty easily make it into a dress, like a sleep dress. It does have this yolk with gathers below, so it's very loose fitting. I don't know if it's intended to be this long. We'll look at the line drawings, but um I feel like a lot of her sleeve lengths, she likes them long. So, she has the cuff hitting at her knuckles. Um whereas most people would have it like at the top of the wrist and then also not have this billowing over as well. But it does aid to like the slouchy kind of look. Okay. So, when we look at the line drawings of the top, yeah, it's not necessarily meant to cascade over your arm like that. So, if you like that, great. If not, also great. Um, okay. So, this is again where it starts to add up. Is rayon shalley or a rayon blend a super expensive fabric? No. But you'll need 11 1/2-in buttons, 9 in of 1 in twill tape or ribbon. That's for the pocket thing. So, think about that. Do I really need to buy a whole thing of ribbon for that? I don't know. Um 1 and 1/4 yards of 3/4 in elastic, 1 and 5/8 yards of half inch twill tape or ribbon for the drawstring, I'm guessing. and then one and a quarter yards of three quarter inch elastic for the underneath of the bralette. So, they use the same the pants and the bralette use the same size um same width elastic. So, that's kind of helpful if you're going to buy one roll, you can use it up. Um but yeah, if you're buying all that from scratch, 20 bucks, 20 bucks maybe. And then none of the finished garment measurement sizes really matter. I would just make sure you're not swimming in it. Um, so the bust of C of the bralette has zero inches of ease. So that makes it fit it. It's exactly the shape of your body. So you do need that extra stretch in the fabric, especially recovery. Um, you can go down if you want even more support and you have that the knit that is meant to support it. A rib knit is too loose loose of a weave of a of a knit to really give you a ton of support. But that activeear one, you could even go down and get like even more of like a situation. Um, so they're not giving us bust or waist of anything. The hip of the pant they're giving us and they're saying that that is 32 6 and 12 inches. So roomy hip. Roomy hip. Um, how would I decide what size to make? Oh, lord. Um, some say go based on your upper bust. I don't know. It depends on how oversized do you like things. Super oversized, then maybe make your true size. If not, maybe down go down one. There's definitely room to go down two if you wanted um an even closer fit. But beyond that, you might start to lose the whole idea of this. Anyways, okay. Skipping baby, we're going to this simplicity flared apron dress. Okay, we have alpha numeric extra small to 1X. Easy sew pullover flared apron dresses in midi or calf lengths feature front princess seams, deep arm holes, scooped backs with gathered back panels for easy fullness. The apron dresses can be made with front inseam pockets or side sel panel pleated pockets as well as contrast shoulder straps and pocket band trim. Um they used an Oxford I don't know I've never seen Japanese pinpoint nor do I know what this 80 over two means. Never even heard of that. Um, and then they used a boutique for this view. And then VC C they used in cotton chamé. But I got to imagine guys, I mean, shall chamé, cotton types, lightweight twill, linen types, tensel woven, washed silk rayon blends. I'm also seeing like um structured knit fabrics. Like you could pretty much make this from anything under the sun. It would just like the drapier ones would fall in on you more like boutique is doing. Even that is a little bit structured, but it is lightweight and the more structured ones would stand away from your body more kind of like this one's doing. I want to see I needed long drawings. There was too many words. Okay, this is actually way cuter than they're giving it credit for. This to me is a sundress. I'm not wearing a t-shirt or pants under it ever. Um, this is like a beach cover up. This is I don't know why they're choosing to style it in such a just escaped from the underground. You know what I mean? This might give you the best idea of what it would look like. I mean, I guess the arm size a little bit narrow, like borderline side boob exposing for something that you would just wear out every day. But that's not an difficult adjustment to bring this up and more like this and fill it in. I kind of love the little scrunchy back. Um, I'm not entirely sure if I would do the pockets on either version, but this is at least interesting. It like the pocket is built into this side panel. Can y'all tell that? So, I mean, that's that's cute. Maybe like I see like a little like a teacher like a kindergarten teacher wearing that or like you know, it's modest, but that's okay. Some people need modesty for religious reasons or whatever or prefer it. I get that. Um, it does feel like a tent. I understand that. But I I don't I think this is a sleeper pattern. This is one of the ones that people are going to completely just immediately discount, but you shouldn't. Yeah, there's Yeah, like I said, it is it's an apron, right? It does come down really low, but I think you could easily just regrade the back. Imagine the back starts, you know, down at her middle back and you just grade it up to cover more or bring the open this up some. I don't know. There's a way for it to be done. But yeah, I mean with actual pants on, jeans I think, and a t-shirt under. Yeah, it's going to look a little um homemaker. That's not even the right word. It's like a I don't know what the word is. Little House on the Prairie type of homemaker is what I'm going for. Like 1800s. Like it looks very 1800s. Um but this one going to the market. I need to see a side view of that. Um, oh wait, I stand corrected. This isn't I thought it went down like this. I'm not even factoring in the strap. So, yeah, you just bring up your arm side and you can fill that in easily. And I like the scoop back. Yeah, they're not going to show us this pocket, but the pocket is the side panel. I did another pattern like that. Was it in a like pinnor type thing where the pocket became the panel? Really, really cool. Um, don't sleep on this one, guys. Give it a little get reinvision it, okay? Take away all the little things that they styled it with and imagine it at a beach. Lightweight, drapey, fun, floral fabric. You know what I'm saying? Cutesy. Even this would give like a if you made this in a fabric that was like a little bit structured so it stood out from itself a little bit. Maybe like a Okay, let's go bonkers and give it a brocade. Okay, which is the structured of most structured fabrics usually has some like metallic thread um woven in mini size and then with a heel that would be so cute. You could even do like you could close this up and not have the scoot back if you wanted to wear a bra with it. Or you could probably um do a built-in bra on the inside. I have a video for that. How to add a shelf bra into inside of a dress. I'll link it up here for you guys. Okay, maybe I'm giving this a hard sell, but I think this little guy could be great. I really, really do. And I can't think or visualize or see a ton of other patterns like this indie wise, indie or Etsy. I don't I don't see I can't think of this doesn't feel like a familiar design to me, especially the one with the panel pocket. Okay. Um, so they suggest uh shalley chamé. Did we go over this already? Cotton types, lightweight twill, linen types, tinsel woven. Yeah, we did go over that. Um, I would live in shalley world. Uh, lightweight types. What do they call them at Jo-Ann? Um, silky types, polyester even. Um, if you're a natural gal, do like a I don't know, like something really I'm seeing drapey or exaggerated, right? I'm seeing drapey or like, you know, really, really, really structured. Um, yeah. I don't know. I I just I'm getting a little soft spot for this for this pattern. I have a feeling it's going to be overlooked, and it shouldn't be. Okay. So, what do we have here? Um, fabric requirements. Is that what this is? Yeah. Dang. That's a lot of fabric. That's a lot of fabric. Almost three and a half yards. But yeah, I mean, it's full. It's There's a lot of volume there. Um, I think it's cute though. I think it's worth all that fabric. Um, and then you can do the strap either contrast or not. Um, and then we're not going to get any finished measurements because it is so loose. I don't know. I just feel like it's an easy beginner sew. And and don't look at this. Okay, this is bad bad. I don't know what they were thinking. Um, I don't know what they were thinking, but I don't know. maybe every season, every collection, there tends to be one pattern that I think is like the underdog. And I always tell myself, I'm gonna make that underdog pattern and show people how cute it can actually be. Um, so maybe I'll do that with this one. Lord help me. I need a sale though because I cannot justify $17, $16 plus shipping. Um but anyways that is it for simplicity late summer. Um there are some also kind of cute crafts for beginners. You know I teach sewing classes here locally. Um so this people would like um cutie little girls dresses, plushies, babies. This little set's great as a gift if you want to start making gifts for the holidays. Again, not revolutionary. Again, we've seen an apron and these things a million times. You might even be able to find these uh as a free pattern somewhere. But the idea of making them all coordinate is cute. Um and then the ducks. Yeah, the ducks are having another moment. They did ducks last year this time, so we've got more ducks. If you're into the duck trend, here's some really cute duck things. Otherwise, garment sewing wise, decent collection, very simplicity because they're simple, but also kind of elevated for simplicity. Like I said, a lot of them seemed like they would be Vogue patterns. Um, but yeah, I'm not totally disappointed. Again, the only one that I would be adding to my collection though, if anything, would be this one. I don't have anything like that. Um, and I think it fits my style, whereas I don't have anything like capri pants either, but I'm never going to wear capri pants. But let me know what you guys think in the comment section below. That's going to do it for me today. See y'all soon. Bye.