Tag: mini

• 1970’s Crimplene Flower Power Shift Dress

  

  What an amazing job by Sallyanne. With just one yard of vintage 1970s crimplene fabric and using one of her grandmothers 1960s patterns, she has made this iconic shift dress, fully lined with lace edging too. It is so satisfying to see the fabric I have unearthed being put to such good use.

  Vintage Fabric

  November 29, 2023

  1960’s / 1970’s, fabric types, Ideas for using vintage fabric, What people make with the fabric I sell.

  1960’s, 1970’s, crimplene, dress making, fabric, flower power, mini, shift dress, vintage fabric

• Trevira – the designer fabric of the early 1970’s & what can be made with it.

  Trevira, made by Texlene, replaced crimplene as the important fabric in the fashion industry for young designers of the early 1970’s. It was consider ‘the’  fabric of the time, used by well know  designers all over the world. It  was perfect for the mini shift dresses and a line coats of the time. From the Portuguese…

  Vintage Fabric

  December 16, 2012

  1960’s / 1970’s, Ideas for using vintage fabric

  1970’s, b h wragg, dress making, mini, texlene, trevira, vintage fabric