So I am flipping through a friend’s copy of Vogue Sewing. I am reading a section that talks about how to deal with fitting problems or making a pattern fit your body right and I stumble across this nugget of wisdom:
“If you are ten or twenty pounds overweight, you could try to lose weight. Even a loss of five pounds could help to eliminate potential fitting problems.” (Source: Vogue Sewing, p.20)
So there you go folks. Having problems with the right fit? Simple. Just lose weight.
Thanks Vogue.
As a side note…can you imagine a knitting pattern saying…”if the waist shaping is a little tight around your tummy, sounds like it is time to get your lazy self back to the gym…oh, and you should stop eating those Girl Scout Cookies too.”
What sage advice, I wouldn’t never thought to do that, lol. I guess should also sew in advance in case we are going to wear our newly sewn garment in a couple of months. Unbelievable.
Who knew THAT was my problem – thank you Vogue Sewing!
The real problem with that is the weight never comes off of where you need it to come off of. ~do they have a suggestion for fixing that problem in the book?
But wouldn’t losing 20lbs make the rest of your wardrobe fit badly? Or maybe you wouldn’t care..?
I’m totally going to write something like that into my next knitting pattern. Armhole opening too small? Just take a sharp paring knife and quickly eliminate those nasty bingo wings.
Oh Vogue…you got moxie.
this is hilarious really…great advice but bad delivery, lol
ok, I just about fell off of my chair laughing.
In their defense though, it’s just so much easier to lose twenty pounds than it is to alter a pattern.
Oh, but I am lol.
And as a “mature” woman, if the style is just 20 (30??) years too young for me, I should just lose some years, right?
i snorted when i read that quote!
ahh vogue…you’ve done it again.
btw. i am also very fond of petuna’s advice above…i could do with losing some years so i can wear funkier totally inappropriate styles! in fact if i lose some years maybe i could have my teenage/early 20s body back too and that would solve a whole rhelm of problems
I can’t stop laughing at this! Can you imagine the kind of person to whom this seems like appropriate advice for a fitting section?
Is this real? And recent? I’m laughing so hard! It’s ridiculous.
Are you kidding? You really read that? LOL… The opposite might also work!
After reading your blog and writing my comment, I came home as I brought Vogue Sewing as a reference guide. I thought that in all fairness that you browsed in an older edition and I have a revised newer edition updated in 2006. I turned to page 20 and damn if it does not say that. I guess Homer Simpson must have been the editor three years ago. I love the part how being overweight causes redistribution of the weight so it does not fall in a plumb line over the kneecap and the arch of the foot.
Sounds very Vogue-ish to me…
[...] This is why I won’t be buying Vogue Sewing any time soon. [...]
Holy insanity! That’s effed-up!
thank you, captain obvious! goodness gracious, vogue!
miss you. love you.
Wow, I never thought of that, how clever and helpful of Vogue!
ok, that is awesome. I’ve wanted to say the same things when I’ve heard friend complained. Maybe I’ll have to carry that around in my wallet and pull it out when needed. Then the friend can hate Vogue for their honesty instead of me
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OMGosh. That’s all I can say.
omg!! Yeah reallllly helpful!
Stop eating GS cookies!! I don’t think I could. I still have 6 boxes of my own left and trying not to think of all my troops leftovers that are left…. can I interest you in some tagalongs?
That is hilarious! That’s like giving make up tips that say “If you’re really ugly you could just wear a paper bag over your head or alternatively have plastic surgery”. Yay for Vogue!
That’s so hilarious. It sounds like something written in the 1950’s!!!!
What a GREAT hint! As if we didn’t know our but/gut was too big!!! lol