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Curvy Sewing Collective also has reviews of plus-size patterns from many companies, as well as resources for sewers, including recommended books, information about sizing systems, and more. There, find an extensive list of pattern companies that produce curvy patterns with links to their websites and information about their size ranges. For example, extended sizes often are included in patterns sold by Simplicity and BurdaStyle McCall’s has the Custom Cup Size line and Vogue offers Today’s Fit by Sandra Betzina.Ĭheck out the Curvy Sewing Collective website for more information about plus-size patterns. The commercial pattern companies have gotten onboard, too, and now usually offer pattern lines that fit women of all sizes.

Nowadays, there are independent pattern companies devoted to creating patterns for plus-size sewers, such as Cashmerette, Colette, and Skinny Bitch Curvy Chick (for petite plus-size women). Anyone outside the “average” had to make extensive changes, often redrafting an entire pattern to achieve a good fit. has photos and details of the theme.In the past, there was no such thing as plus-size patterns: Commercial patterns were available only a limited size range, which alienated curvy sewers. Why oh why is there no video or DVD so I can watch it again? It never even plays on cable and it was really excellent, an English Dynasty cum Sex-and-the-City.

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She went to be Sable Colby in the Dynasty series in America where she was just as glamorous but never remotely as dangerous as in the wilds of the Northern rag trade. The series ends with Connie getting back on the plane (with her own boyfriend) for Greece to rest and recuperate, with the promise of her returning without him, relaxed and dangerous again - but she never did. A sub-plot concerns pyramid selling ('Good afternoon mugs - well you are, aren't you, or you'd already be out there making money for yourselves' - and still she sells them the franchise, aided by an off the shoulder white dress and lashings of sex appeal).

The only person who can out-think her is her stepfather Hector.

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She steals her sister's sexy black fashion lecturer boyfriend ('He does a great horizontal samba'), learns how to work the town hall planning system, romances the local Mr Big and sends her father's bit on the side in her place when he asks her to pay in kind, and generally causes havoc. Connie comes back from several years of sunning herself in Greece, blags a ride from a flash businessman at the airport, uses him for a meal and some new clothes, then - with the handsome businessman still breathlessly in tow, his marriage crashing around his ears - she heads back north to take her business back from her less glamorous sister, her mother ('I always wear black - I hate the colour but people remember me as the bitch in black') and her stepfather. From the first swoosh of lace skirt and bare legs backed by a rocking theme tune - 'I'm dressed in lace, and it's twelve below zero, I'm blue in the face but I'm out with my hero, so,I'm putting on the show' - this rag trade family drama had it all - sex, fashion, glamour, grit, double-dealing and style.

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