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Butterick summer patterns

Tamnymore

Butterick summer patterns
« on: May 05, 2021, 17:52:27 PM »
Paging @UttaRetch:D
Find them here

I'm afraid they look pretty dull to me. No Katherine Tilton offering. I'll be waiting to see what Vogue has to offer for the summer.
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Renegade Sewist

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2021, 18:06:42 PM »
I looked.  :scream:

I don't know that I'll ever buy another pattern.
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Ploshkin

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2021, 18:24:39 PM »
Hmmm.
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BrendaP

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2021, 18:55:41 PM »
Look on the bright side at how much we'll all save on patterns :boohoo:
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Tamnymore

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2021, 19:03:00 PM »
Alas, that doesn't seem to work @BrendaP ! I'll just indulge in more expensive Vogue patterns.   :laughing:
'One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.' Oscar Wilde

realale

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2021, 07:19:49 AM »
There's a big discussion on this on patternreview as apparently several of those patterns aren't 'new' but reissues of Palmer Pletch patterns from McCalls. McCalls are going for a younger demograph and so are shifting some patterns over to Butterick.
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UttaRetch

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2021, 07:40:46 AM »
@Tamnymore: I followed the discussion on PR about these patterns and didn't bother to post them here since 14 out of the 19 "new" patterns are old McCall's. 

Tamnymore

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2021, 07:59:27 AM »
Yes I saw some posts on McCall's FB site about the 'old' patterns in the Butterick summer release. Wouldn't have thought they would win over many customers with such an approach!
'One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.' Oscar Wilde

Bodgeitandscarper

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2021, 09:02:31 AM »
"Old" McCalls from the sixites?  A lot of them look like things my mother would have worn back then, so I won't be buying them.

Tamnymore

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2021, 10:01:49 AM »
If McCalls/Butterick were more explicit about what they were trying to do they would be much more effective in bringing their pattern buying customers along with them rather than p*ss*ng them off with what looks like a deliberately sneaky move. I've read the discussion on pattern review now and there are certainly some clever pattern sleuths there. And I've realised I have one of those patterns when it was McCalls.

It does make some sense to focus ranges on different demographics but I would have thought that alongside younger women who perhaps don't have kids (yet) although likely to be working, quite a few of their customers are older with more time to sew and sometimes more disposable income so they can surely keep us all happy!
'One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.' Oscar Wilde

Gernella

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2021, 10:07:47 AM »
There's a big discussion on this on patternreview as apparently several of those patterns aren't 'new' but reissues of Palmer Pletch patterns from McCalls. McCalls are going for a younger demograph and so are shifting some patterns over to Butterick.

Thank you @realale I was looking at B6850, which I have and did think to myself, I could have sworn that was a Palmer Pleitch.  I quite fancied it but then decided I didn't like the neck it would have to change and maybe it might make my hips look big.
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UttaRetch

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2021, 11:50:01 AM »
I immediately recognised three patterns that were formerly McCalls, in particular



from which I made two things.  It is now



The McCall's went to the charity along with a lot of other patterns.

Surest1tch

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2021, 18:09:33 PM »
A bit boring, well a lot boring really, I do quite like the beige trousers though but I've got a slightly better one from vogue which is probably why I like it but it's years old  :|

whofilets

Re: Butterick summer patterns
« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2021, 02:37:24 AM »
Oh YAWN. when I saw these i thought they seemed like good everyday core patterns and clothes but what sets them apart? Now I read they are just reissues of other patterns... No wonder.
Also some of the tops look so shapeless. It's not that I don't like wearing drapery loose tops but... Just don't know what I'd really be paying for.
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