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Pattern Behavior
Pattern Behavior: The Seamy Side of Fashion | Natalie Kossar
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For those who like their humor droll, deadpan, and hysterically funny, Pattern Behavior features more than 100 vintage McCall's patterns--with captions that will leave you in stitches. Feeling nostalgic for your grandmother's old sewing patterns? Stitch some humor into your distant childhood with Pattern Behavior, featuring vintage covers from the McCall Pattern Company's archives. Based on the popular Tumblr blog, this droll comic collection brings the McCall's models back to life--in a way you haven't seen before! Combining retro fashion and modern wit, Pattern Behavior shines a light on the outdated social ideals of yesteryear--all with a big dose of humor.
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Soubhiville
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I AMPHABULOUS. And so are you 🤣😁🐸

CBee Oh my goodness LOOOOVE 4y
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Soubhiville
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This book is hilarious. I remember exactly what the author talks about in the intro: waiting for what seemed like HOURS for my mom to pick out patterns and fabric at the craft stores. Then when I got a bit older, I used some patterns and sewed some clothes myself. So these riffs on the pattern illustrations really struck a funny chord for me.

This was my #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

Lesanne Omg I remember those days very well! 4y
Librariana My mom used to sew clothes for my sister and I when we were growing up. I vividly remember the browsing catalog, the illustrations, and the little pattern envelopes... the delicate paper the patterns were drawn on. Good memories 😊 And this page you shared made me laugh! 4y
TheAromaofBooks Oh yes, I can remember those days at JoAnn Fabrics as well!! 😂 4y
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lynneamch So clever and great memories! It was a fun gift for my mom and for anyone who might remember those patterns. 4y
tpixie This book sounds great for my sister who used to see all the time! 4y
ValerieAndBooks OMG I need to read this! I come from a long line of sewing people. Used to sew a some of my clothes up until several years ago when I took up quilting. 4y
Eyelit Can I borrow this some time? 4y
Soubhiville @Eyelit absolutely! 4y
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MaleficentBookDragon
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Yay #bookmail!
I love this book so much.

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MaleficentBookDragon
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This book is FANTASTIC. I almost peed myself laughing. I borrowed it from the library, but I think I need to own this.

Laura317 I‘ll have to get this! There used the be patterns in the newspaper when I was a child - it came with paperdolls. I want to say it was Betsy McCall? 6y
Crazeedi @Laura317 yes betsy McCall, I waited every month to cut out the paper doll and dresses!! 5y
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bookish_wookish
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#humpdaypost

1. Im a sucker for some Cape Cod Potato Chips
2. #blameitonlitsy this is just one of many 😊
3. Yes, to bullshit
4. I prefer the term organized chaos
5. I have no clue 😑 The ole memory aint what it used to be

laurieluna Number 3 😂👌 7y
MinDea 🤣🤣🤣🤣 7y
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SilversReviews YUM on those crackers. 7y
LadyChristy Cape Cod Kettle Chips have ruined other potato chips for me, and that‘s perfectly fine...😂 7y
bookish_wookish I feel the same....though UTZ potato chips are pretty good @LadyChristy 7y
kspenmoll Love those chips! 7y
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Sace
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Up before my husband and reading a #blameitonlitsy from ThriftBooks. Hope my laughing doesn't wake him up!

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Look what just came in the mail!! Litsy made me buy it....for myself.....for Christmas 😬 Im excited for this one! I remember these patrerns from my Mom buying them and my Grandma sewing them!

OrangeMooseReads This book had me laughing out loud to the point of tears. 7y
SilversReviews I LOVE the cover..very clever. 7y
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This was a very quick read from my Christmas present stack. I chuckled most of the way through it & wondered why I didn‘t come up with this idea myself—we used to spend hours at the fabric store when I was little. I guess I was more focused on fancy, impractical dresses instead of the drawings. (Pardon the weird shadows and bright blue chair. It‘s swim practice time for my older kid, and it‘s too cold & snowy to sit in the car while I wait.)

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Brooke_H
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This book is hilarious. I‘m dying. 😂🤣😂

lynneamch Have to get this one! Thanks. 7y
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Sace
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Thanks for another fun #humpdaypost @MinDea!
🔹More books please! Especially the one pictured/tagged. Too bad I'm in a diet. 😔
🔹Plain
🔹The Chronicles of Narnia or Jude Devereaux's Velvet series (any Jude Devereaux really...it's pretty much all connected.)
🔹an anthropologist like my dad, then starting in 9th grade a Spanish teacher.
🔹18 or any multiple of it.

Cathythoughts Number 1. 😳😂😂 7y
Sace @Cathythoughts and like all diets, the minute I start everyone starts posting all kinds of temptations! 7y
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OrangeMooseReads
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Last one

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OrangeMooseReads
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One more

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OrangeMooseReads
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Another

ApoptyGina69 This is a MUST HAVE!! 👍 7y
LeahBergen 😂😂😂 7y
Soubhiville 🤣😂 I‘d totally wear those dresses. 7y
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OrangeMooseReads
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Laughed until I had tears. Classic sewing pattern covers with captions. There are some questionable captions and some R rated ones, but over all hilarious. I‘m sure my grandmother had, possibly still has, some of these patterns. Target has this book for $9.80 at the moment by the way.

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OrangeMooseReads
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Now time to get to a little more #litsypartofone before bed
@Ambrosnazzy

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OrangeMooseReads
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This hopped into my cart at Target along with way too many bags of half off candy.
WARNING: I plan to post far too many pictures from this as it is hilarious.

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Schlinkles
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This book is absolutely hilarious. Had me giggling nonstop today at work.