I like the trousers, but since I have a belly they would look horrible on me. They looked horrible on me when they were a thing in the late 90s and I was 110 lbs, for that matter.
8281 is a rehash of the 1980s dresses, just to as exaggerated and I already have a ton of these.
8285 is a camp shirt (which I have plenty of) and a tiered skirt (also got a few) but the whole thing was in a Burda mag 10 years ago...which I have. And Burda did it better.
8286 is the waist wrap shirt dress...and technically I should like it. It would be good for work (semi casual dressy) but there is something off with it. I hate that hem...I don't know what it is. I like it but don't at the same time.
8298 Grunge and accessories...UGH. I wore this all of 1992 AND 2010 just not together. Except I hate holes in my clothes, so I fixed the ratty old sweat shirt...as you do. I also thought my grandfather had terrible taste in shirts, so I would never have worn his shirt as a skirt...I preferred the beefier, manly plaids not the middle class banker dress shirts. I still have my actual Army bag from the Korean war with the big star on it I got at surplus in 1992, so no need to remake it even if I wanted to carry it again, and I can find real fingerless gloves to work in just fine...I need them for warmth not looks. (This pattern annoyed the hell out of me, can you tell?)
The only one I would buy is the vampire costume 8303. Little less dramatic slit, but I always need new dressing gowns which is what I would wear it for, and not dragging the floor.
Some of them I don't get needing a pattern for like 8297. I never thought of a bag to drag my canning jars for protection, but it makes sense. I don't think I need a pattern for it though.
Not a bad collection...I just am being salty.