OMG BURDA SEPTEMBER EARLY PREVIEW OMG OMG OMG WHATTA??!!!
fzbhlkmcvlk!! dfg;jaoic.c. Crazy prints hippie skirt petticoat sloppy hat blanket??!! dfgkjnazerw dfoibhjrg:
kjnxzoisdr908t45 ;xclv monkey fur caveman vest bedsheet Hammer pants my eyes on fire WHATTA??! jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj:
dfiumxcds g9b Grammy’s blazer + lace cardigan love child scarf as skirt hiking socks and goats holy whatta flkjmzofpdi:
lfdkjgnoi Burda dfgjklnxcl every stash fabric from the 90s sdfkj kkkikikikkiiiik:
WHATTA?!!!!
Okay. I think I got that out of my system. “Folklore Furor” indeed. The folklore of stashbusting, obviously.
Ahhh. Classic trenches. I feel better now.
Nice :) I’ll want to see the technical drawings to see if this is fitted the way I like my trenches to be, but doesn’t that look great?
I think this has huge potential on account of the interesting and elegant seaming. I think it takes a certain kind of chic that I do not possess to pull off the proto-sleeve thingies, so I’d probably opt out of those.
I do not love these, but after the Folklore debacle, I will not get upset with you if you do:
Note that the skirt in the latter photo appears to be the bottom half of the funky sleeve dress. I do like the skirt. I am GREATLY DISPLEASED about the reemergence of the dreaded WHITE TIGHTS. Whatta.
This worries me:
Why? Because of this:
That’s the dreaded ruffle overload blouse from a 1981 issue of Burda, and it looks like 2010 Burda is treading some dangerous waters again.
I am feeling pretty good about this cute coat, though I am a little wary because we’re only seeing the back of it for now:
I’m not sure what those metal discs are along the side seam. Anyone have any ideas?
Plus size wearers, once again you’re off the hook. You get lovely wearable classics with pretty details again.
Love the gathered neckline on that one, and the interesting-without-being-crazy sleeves. (What’s that kind of sleeve called again? It’s sort of like the opposite of a leg-of-mutton sleeve, but I forget the name.)
And you get a classic trench as well:
And for better or for worse, crafts are back in the preview! Including some cracked-out foraged wood scrap trophies. I know that button eyes are all quaint and old-fashioned, but they scare the bejeezus out of me:
And this little leather bow thing in case you actually need the instructions to make this:
Anyway, I apologize for my earlier bout of incoherence and insanity. Burda just throws me for a loop sometimes. A seriously crazy loop. Fingers crossed for some really awesome technical drawings. I need to go rest my eyes now.
The Selfish Seamstress 
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August 12, 2010 at 7:28 am
Rachelle
It looks like they had a bunch of multicultural interns, and had a project runway style contest in which the theme was “If we sent your great-grandmother on a massive acid trip, what would she wear?” Without the grim use of prints, some of that stuff would be quite pretty.
August 12, 2010 at 7:55 am
Lydia
You are so hilarious! I was laughing out loud at work while reading your commentary.
August 12, 2010 at 7:56 am
HollyS
I had hoped that some of these styles would never see the light of day again. All the girl in the harem pants needs is a giant clock on that massive gold chain. And maybe a grill. With diamonds. Or a Fab knuckle duster with her name on it. Heidi? Grimhilda? Don’t think it would have the same effect though. This is still not as good as the CLOWNS! Frickin’ clowns…I was at least hoping for contortionists or plumbers next.
I agree with you about the buttons thing. Have you seen Coraline? Super creepy. And who in their right mind would hang these misbegotten & mangled atrocities on their wall and think they are cute??? Unskilled Taxidermists? Faux-hunters?
August 12, 2010 at 3:12 pm
woolcat
Coraline was the first thing I thought of too! (although I was going to say have you *read* Coraline – haven’t got around to the movie yet)
August 12, 2010 at 3:15 pm
HollyS
I Love Neil Gaiman, but never got around to reading the books geared towards kids (except for The Graveyard book that I *listened* to while painting the house:)), but the kids had to see this one. It was pretty well done. We ended up watching it a few times.
August 12, 2010 at 7:56 am
Loren
Seems like they are screaming ‘LOOK HIPSTERS WE CAN DO WHAT URBAN OUTFITTERS DOES!’.
I suggest this because as a sudo-hipster I think a lot of those pieces are really interesting, I probably wouldn’t wear them all at the same time though…
August 12, 2010 at 8:00 am
Fran G
I just received my August BurdaStyle and wasn’t all that inspired… the August issue has always been a favorite, too. And what you have just shown (Sept.) makes me so glad that I decided to keep my back issues of BWOF. I’ll wait to see the line drawings..but why has Burda changed so? Not long ago, the internet was loaded with BWOF creations and the rep from GLP told me that the subscription requests were crazy over the top!Now, I read of several long time admirers dropping their subscription. So why the change I wonder?
August 12, 2010 at 11:18 am
brocadegoddess
I am one of those who dropped their subscription. I even sold off my 12/09 and 01/10 issues. I got the 07/10 issue, but that’s the latest since 11/09. I feel like BWOF and I have passed each other. In my early 20s at the start of ‘the millenium’ I felt a lot of the styles were much too old for me. Years 2005 through 2008 are my faves. Over the last couple of years they seem to have gotten way too young for me. It seems to me a combination of my getting older, and them trying to appeal to an increasingly younger demographic.
I’m a little sad, but will treasure the issues I have for a long, long time. Even my very first from 11/99!
August 12, 2010 at 7:51 pm
icansewthat
Oh geez…I’m still waiting for my August issue! Perhaps aside from design dislikes, subscribers just can’t deal with the customer service!
August 13, 2010 at 9:22 am
lakaribane
I have always been happy with the GLP customer service. One of them actually got me a replacement issue for a magazine that got lost in the mail for me about 3 mos later!!! I was very happy to see she remembered since I couldn’t find it online anymore. And they always reply promptly, in my experience.
As for the lateness of Aug 10, they put a note up on their website that the issues were going out on the 9th. Since Oct-Nov of last year, the issues were actually mailed EARLIER than most of 2009, IIRC.
August 12, 2010 at 8:37 am
alison
The (plus size pattern) sleeves with fullness at the wrist end are sometimes called “bishop sleeves”. When i saw the metal discs on the coat, I thought “Oh, what a curious way to recycle dull rotary cutter blades…”)
August 12, 2010 at 8:46 am
Kate
Hahahaaha!! This issue is worth it just for your critique.
August 12, 2010 at 8:53 am
Kerry
What I want to know is – what is up with the goat in the 3rd photo? I love animals, and goats are a ton of fun (I spent one year of my life periodically housesitting for a coworker who raised goats, and that of course involved milking them twice a day). But when I think of fashion – even bad fashion – I don’t think of goats.
August 12, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Susannah (the other one - from Australia)
I was a bit concerned about the goat. He/She looks a bit embarrassed about being featured in such a fashion disaster. And not even interested in trying to eat the clothes.
August 12, 2010 at 8:57 am
Z.
I thought exactly the same thing when I saw the preview today “What?!!! What?!!!! This is… AARGGGHHHH. Why?! And adjfkdjlfjsdk” (well ok, that’s not exactly the same, you thought: fzbhlkmcvlk!! dfg;jaoic.c). Unless the technical drawings of the coats are really great I won’t be buying this issue.
I saw the pants you are making in an earlier post and was inspired to start making my own. I’m almost ready to give up trying to buy them anyway, since shops don’t think it’s necessary to sell pants in my size. But I don’t know what size to make my pants in. I like pants that sit fairly low (at the hip, not the waist) but I don’t think measuring my actual hips will tell me what size to make them in since I don’t like my pants to sit THAT low (that would probably be inpossible anyway). I’m 84 centimeters at my widest point too, that’s right in the middle of size 32 and 34, so that’s not very helpful either.
What do you do when you make your pants? Do you make a muslin every time and try it on to see if it falls down or not? Or is there a better way?
August 12, 2010 at 9:04 am
Laura
What do you think about the clowns now?
August 12, 2010 at 9:07 am
Tanit-Isis
okay, that is an impressive load of Crazy, although it’s possible there’s some decent elements underneath the wild prints (hammer pants aside). I am totally tickled by the foraged-wood jackalopes, however.
My biggest issue with the (tiny) bit of modeling I did back in the day was not being able to pick my own clothes. Somehow you always end up with the ugliest dress in the bunch. Makes me wonder what those poor models were thinking… ;)
August 12, 2010 at 9:10 am
Megan
Metal disc thingies = pocket watches (I think).
August 12, 2010 at 9:12 am
CGCouture
The crafts are going to give me nightmares and probably my son too, since he saw them before I could scroll away! :eek:
August 12, 2010 at 9:44 am
Amanda S.
Haha, you always make me laugh. :)
August 12, 2010 at 9:46 am
Ruth
Clearly, metal disc thingies = criminal chic. They’re trying to bring to mind that lovely stolen coat with the anti-theft device still attached. It’s going to catch on like wildfire.
August 12, 2010 at 10:04 am
Angela
asdf;alsdfja;sdlfkj!?! is right! Haha…
August 12, 2010 at 10:07 am
Emmy
Those button eye are creepy as all get out. Yurgh. I like buttons too much to ever use them to make something that clearly wants me dead.
I can only assume that the bulk of the patterns are intended for young people who, on the basis of the youth I saw in town this afternoon, would love all that insanity and the plus-size is for slightly older and therefore sane and in possession of a mirror individuals. What you’re supposed to do if you’re older and still skinny and don’t fancy grading down is anyone’s guess.
August 12, 2010 at 10:08 am
Samina
Laura beat me to it in the comments: The clowns don’t look so bad any more, do they?
August 12, 2010 at 10:43 am
Bernadette W
Selfish, the sleeve in question above appears to be a hybrid of the Lantern and Bishop style sleeves, or,when in doubt, a “novelty” sleeve, per
http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/mpd-04.html#bishop
So Selfish of you to distract me once again from MY agenda, encouraging hysterical laughter and mindless Googleing, research and Blog posting in the middle of a work day.
August 12, 2010 at 11:23 am
brocadegoddess
You know, my bf (fiancee, when the ring he bought finally gets to my finger) has said he wanted elk antlers to hang on the wall. I don’t know that he was entirely serious, but I’m really considering making one of those scary button-eyed head-thingies for him to make him *cough* “happy”. Mwahaha.
August 12, 2010 at 11:34 am
Meredith P
Geez, I have enough trouble trying not to look “dated” without Burda helping me. WTF with the late 80s early 90s green suit with the WHITE tights? The suit itself is not bad but the color brings it down, and then the proportion/skirt length just says “yes, you did indeed wear me in your youth, Meredith-you are not on aforementioned acid trip”.
August 12, 2010 at 11:35 am
Meredith P
Oh, just to be clear–I’ve never worn white tights, ever. I am so pale as to be almost transparent, so pantyhose that matches my skin could be interpreted by some as “white”, but it’s just pale. :-)
August 12, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Venus de Hilo
Heeeheeeheeee… thanks for the chortles! I go back and forth on whether or not to spring for a Burda subscription; so far have decided no, and now see how right that decision is. BTW, I muslined a dress once with similar weird proto-sleeve shoulder-flange thingies, which seemed interesting and chic on the pattern envelope. Then I looked in the mirror and fell over laughing: I appeared to be auditioning for a part on Star Trek. Just say no to proto-sleeve flangified craziness. And all the rest of it.
August 12, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Sandi
That folklore stuff is just scary. The dress with the weird sleeves looks like one of the new McCall’s dresses which I didn’t care for either. Yep, won’t be buying this one…
August 12, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Nancy K
Sure looks like an acid trip to me. I can’t even name a decade it’s so bizarre. I know that they do Folkloric for Oktoberfest, but Aenne Burda is rolling over in her grave with this. Did they decide to use up all the scraps from years past? The kids stuff has very cute Oktoberfest influences, so I know that this is the issue, but who’s the woman who’s going to wear this?
I renewed my subscription because there are still things I like here. The very modern tailoring especially that coat is very me and that may well be on my list. The plain one, not the black and white.
August 12, 2010 at 1:29 pm
juebejue
i LOVE that purple dress, the one with horizontal pieces. I feel like i had seen it somewhere ,but it definitely looks designer-expensive. i wouldnt do that sleeves though!
i hate tracing patterns off burda patterns, maybe ill just buy this one from the website!
August 23, 2010 at 11:26 am
fitz
me too! weirdo sleeves and all, i’m also a fan. but my weakness is not so much python but purple.
August 12, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Len
Gah, I love the coats too, but I’m really attracted by that purple dress, but honestly, the length is just not great and the sleeves look awkward. I’d probably change it to a scandalous mini (but then I’m a big old hussy who likes to flash her legs) and reduce the sleeves somewhat? I think the sleeves could be made to look interesting, especially if the dress was in some crazy futuristic print… but maybe that’s just the crazy in me talkin’
August 12, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Shannon
This totally annoys me to see September, when I can’t even get the darn August issue because it hasn’t hit the west coast of the US yet. Or at least my town. waiting, is the hardest part…
August 13, 2010 at 7:02 am
Meredith P
It hasn’t hit the East Coast of the US either. I’m not sure GLP has even received it yet, although the web site said they were expecting it 8/9/10.
August 12, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Gail
Well that is one issue I don’t have to hanker after for three months waiting for it arrive on our shores. I’ve just received June, which I liked.
August 12, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Robin Denning
I admit I do like the Hammer pants. Don’t think I can do them justice, though. That’s a job for Peter.
August 12, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Angela
SS, I’m selfishly hoping you’ll tell me how I subscribe to Burda magazine! Their website (even the English version) is incomprehensible, and I can’t find it in my area (the perils of rural living!).
Love the blog! Keep sewing!
Angela
August 13, 2010 at 9:13 am
lakaribane
This is the page for the US distributor, GLP news, out of New Jersey:
http://www.glpnews.com/EN/Crafts/Burda1.html
it’s up $10 for the full year subscription, from $80 to $90 but on Amazon.com it’s still $80:
http://www.amazon.com/Burda-Moden/dp/B00007AVU1/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=magazines&qid=1281715893&sr=8-1
IIRC, on Patternreview, Melissa of Fehrtrade.com gave an address for the subscription she uses in the UK. Maybe check her blog?
August 12, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Angela
Thanks for bringing us the review – I love that blouse.
August 12, 2010 at 9:52 pm
allisonC
Oh god, I’m starting to not care if my September Burda takes even longer to arrive than August, assuming that it does turn up. Maybe it will all look much better in the line drawings…..
August 13, 2010 at 1:11 am
Tenshi
OMG indeed, and WTF on top of that. I mean, wtf were they thinking? I love folklore styles, I really do, but this is just… It makes me ask myself what kind of drugs they take.
But I have to admit I think I love the white blouse. Ruffles! I just hope that it is fitted or fit-able and does not have kimono sleeves.
August 13, 2010 at 4:50 am
nommh
Ah Selfish, I think your response is quite measured and totally adequate.
I’m among the many who like the sleeve-flange-dress, but minus the sleeves, of course.
I’d never subscribe to the Burda magazine, but then, for me it is a matter of stepping into the nearest newsagent to get one – or more often, not.
August 13, 2010 at 4:59 am
ChristineB
I really like that ruffled blouse (the 2010 one, not the 1981rufflepalooza one).
But…the rest…gaaaah…
August 13, 2010 at 6:01 am
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August 14, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Jeanne B.
Wow. I consider my style to be “Bohemian Hippie Cowgirl”, so paisleys and psychedelics appeal to me as do woodsy garb, but that “folklore” stuff is a hot mess. Hammer pants? NO. Do not bring those back. Even MC Hammer gave them up. I like the blouse with the Lantern/Bishop/Balloon sleeves (in a different color/pattern). Those dead things creep me out, too.
August 15, 2010 at 5:43 am
Sox
That ruffled blouse? HoRRoRS!! It brought flashbacks of my teenage years. I can only hope there will be a serious backlash from Burda fans. So serious that Burda issues and apology and banishes it from their site.. Shreek!!!
August 16, 2010 at 6:55 am
Jenny
Well I don’t know about the rest of you but I actually needed something to wear while walking my goat.
August 19, 2010 at 9:21 am
DeniseM
Holy goats!!! Another icky folkwear montage. I was having flashbacks, thought I was back in that house outside Boston waking up on the checkerboard linoleum kitchen floor. With a really bad feeling I’d done something naughty. And what’s with all the tall sizes? Are people really growing that fast? Re: that coat, I think I saw those rivets on an episode of Dr. Who. Perhaps they had leftover props to unload?
August 23, 2010 at 12:18 am
valgen
OMG I hope my Burda subscription ran out with the last issue so I’m not PAYING for this.
Also I have no idea what name is going to show up with this comment. I’m logged in under our business working on our WordPress blog instead of my personal sewing Blogger account and too lazy to log out and log in! Ugh, technology. Bigger ugh for Burda though. It is “vomitizing” which was a word of my youth.
August 24, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Tasia
Gotta love the contrast between the printed top/printed pant/printed jacket walking on the beach photo.. and then the classic trenches with neck-tied-scarfs. Hard to believe that’s from the same magazine!
August 27, 2010 at 7:35 am
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Demented Seamstress
Gypsies living in Grandma’s box of quilting fabric!?!? I love your commentary on the first bunch of photos.
But speaking of white stockings, what are you wearing in your bubble wrap tutu picture?