Thrift Shopping Remorse ~ Vintage Sewing Patterns

Thrift shoppers remorse, I have had this problem many, many times, have you ever experience it?

While you are shopping for thrifty treasures you find an item that is perhaps priced a little to high for your liking or budget, or you just don't need another one for your collection, but after you leave the store the treasure is stuck in your mind, and you get thrift shoppers remorse. 

Well, that is exactly what happened with me the other day. I had an early morning errand, and on my way home there was a Goodwill. Not many cars were in the parking lot, so I checked my clock to find that it was a few minutes past nine. Of course, I turned into the lot and scurried into the store. 

I found a Pier One wrought iron plant stand with a wooden top for my daughter that was only $3.99. I guess the proverb "The early bird gets the worm" is true.

I decided to take a second walk around the store when the three tier metal rack in front of the cash wrap caught my eye. Sitting inside of the three tiers where sewing patterns, I would estimate that there were over one hundred fifty patterns with illustrations on the patterns that were vintage. 

I stood for over fifteen minutes looking and removing the patterns with illustrations that caught my eye. With at least forty patterns tossed in my cart, I headed for the table that all the husbands of thrift shoppers wait while their wives shop. Fortunately no one was at the table. 

I don't know how to sew, so I was purchasing these patterns for the illustration because I love ephemera. I narrowed the patterns down to 13, changing out different patterns several times. How I hated leaving those marvelous vintage patterns behind. 

These are the patterns that caught my eye and came home with me.

Fashionable maternity wear in 1934
Ladies and Misses Smock

1943 maternity dress/pinafore 

Skirt and blouse from 1942

Couldn't find an exact date for this one

1947 dress

Design from 1948

This 1948 dress has a detachable peplum.
I wouldn't need the extra pieces around
my tummy and rear end.

 This is what young ladies wore in 1948

1953 showed off fuller skirts

 1953 summer fashion is much like
what we wear in 2013

I'm glad I was just a baby in 1957, I wouldn't
have been able to pull off that waist line.

Teens were wearing this dress in the 1960's

With his 1940's pattern you could make
a camisole and a slip.

I went back the next morning to the GW to look through the patterns again, and the three tiered rack had different merchandise in it. I couldn't believe that so many would be purchased in less than 24 hours. I asked a clerk where they moved the patterns, and she told me some lady purchased all of them the night before.

There were a few patterns that I regretted not getting when I had the chance. I have finally learned that if I genuinely like the item I should just get it. No more buyers remorse for me. 

Cheerfully,

Paulette