Ang at Dorothea’s closet vintage has this lovable kitten-print dress up available …
It’s got a little hurt going on — it was part of a theater group’s costume collection, so there are some repair work that wouldn’t be visible from the opera circle but that would be if you wore it in “real life.”
I used to have a problem with purchasing “hurt” dresses, especially at thrift stores. I would fall in love with them and want to fix them and make them all better, but what typically happened is that they fell into a laundry basket and gradually turned into vintage compost, because I hate mending.
So I will purchase hurts now only on a few conditions — if I want to use the buttons for something else, for example, or if the fabric is so fantastic that I have grand plans of scanning it and recreating it (perhaps with the help of our friends at Spoonflower). This dress doesn’t have any buttons, but I do think someone might want to purchase it just for the fabric. So cute!
While I’m thinking big, I wish we had some kind of international print registry, where producers would list their designs with various licenses. I know (or think I know) that there are big trade shows where you can see prints, and that some prints are licensed exclusively to one designer, or to one designer who does childrenswear and another who does swimwear, or whatever, but wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could get, online, a noting of all huge artichoke prints (for example), available to download and have printed yourself for a small fee? I would gladly pay $10 (on top of whatever it cost me to print the fabric) for the best to print some yardage of some prints from years ago, and it’s not like the producers are making any $$ off those prints now!
Maybe I ought to go speak with Kathleen about this idea.
Anyway, if you love cats, dresses, and don’t mind a few small mends here and there, this is the dress for you. (Click on the image above to visit bigger pictures on Ang’s site, then hit the “back” button on that page to get the noting information.)
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