tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post3382545338268040323..comments2024-03-14T16:03:32.434-04:00Comments on Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing: Sewing Scenes: Pretty in PinkGertiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314542159287533507noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-23422127319019337422013-05-15T18:13:40.881-04:002013-05-15T18:13:40.881-04:00Annie Potts' character is supposed to be 15 ye...Annie Potts' character is supposed to be 15 years older than Andie, that would mean she attended her prom on late 60's, not the 50's. 50's dress?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-57580289549856390762011-08-20T19:33:14.956-04:002011-08-20T19:33:14.956-04:00Andies' pink dress did not appeal to me but th...Andies' pink dress did not appeal to me but the premise of the movie sure did. This young lady that came from such a troubled family found comfort, an identity & direction from her sewing & fashion interest. Very inspirational.Lindalouisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01862531295220289413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-77984873677158996672010-10-29T15:00:16.946-04:002010-10-29T15:00:16.946-04:00always thought that dress was awful!
Hey! how '...always thought that dress was awful!<br />Hey! how 'bout Andrew McCarthy with the "and Andrew McCarthy" credit. I mean, really? When you're cast with folks like Harry Dean Stanton you warrant a "and" credit. man. the power of youth in Hollywood. Bet Andrew wishes he could have had that Big Love gig. LOL.Jennifer in Kansashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11479787106697836528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-90633442854556770262010-10-14T08:57:53.874-04:002010-10-14T08:57:53.874-04:00Ugly in Pink ... she's a redhead for gawd'...Ugly in Pink ... she's a redhead for gawd's sake. Hated the dress. Wondered why she changed it too!NessaKnitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08108527200793028314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-33438615701652867462010-10-13T10:36:21.021-04:002010-10-13T10:36:21.021-04:00Haha! It really was the ugliest dress of all time....Haha! It really was the ugliest dress of all time. I love it though, I actually recreated it for my Halloween costume a few years ago.<br /><br />I had the book too! The ending is actually different from the movie, from what I remember. She doesn't end up wih Blaine, it's not totally clear - but i think she leaves with Ducky.<br /><br />Also the soundtrack was (is) AMAZING!katienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-82207679890471519602010-10-12T03:36:07.139-04:002010-10-12T03:36:07.139-04:00Just found your blog and this
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This movie ...Just found your blog and this <br />entry. <br />This movie brings back so many memories. <br />I lived in London as an Aupair and this was the first movie to see in a London cinema. <br />I remember, waiting, in which great dress the old dress should be transformed and in the end I did not really like the new dress at all. <br />But I loved Andrew McCarthy ;-)<br /><br /><br />I`ll immediately order the DVD at Amazon, it´s on my wishlist since quite a while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-38866363795161424562010-10-11T23:45:56.763-04:002010-10-11T23:45:56.763-04:00I know I'm a little late in the game for this,...I know I'm a little late in the game for this, but this is one of my all time favorite movies! I even own it. Surprisingly, though I really like the original vintage dress, I actually like the final version too. Being a redhead, I've always been told that you can't wear pink so I loved the fact that she wears it in the finale of the movie. I also love the fact that her lovely shoulders are so well offset by the dress. Personally I think that was what the designer was designing around. I don't know, it was so 80's and so "modern." I do think that possibly some shaping in the bust and waist would have rendered the dress a little more catching. Still a favorite for me.Sunnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380215145775412897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-58399423322288433252010-10-10T14:05:03.060-04:002010-10-10T14:05:03.060-04:00I watched the movie for the first time in the earl...I watched the movie for the first time in the early 90s when I was maybe 13 and I remember being apalled - I certainly much preferred the original dress at the time.Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247551155021625654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-999831262188039072010-10-09T00:20:11.066-04:002010-10-09T00:20:11.066-04:00here's a link to making the dress scene it'...here's a link to making the dress scene it's a lousy clip though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S57UUz_pTKgRachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02110918433528320273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-75774468590434283712010-10-08T16:07:37.901-04:002010-10-08T16:07:37.901-04:00Oh I LOVED this film and how cool they all were! I...Oh I LOVED this film and how cool they all were! I hadn't really thought about the sewing aspect and the effect it was to have on what I chose to do, I just liked the gung ho way she went about it. <br />I watched it over and over on VHS, still have it somewhere. I wanted to be her so badly...Nic xHalfpenny Homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173503606423335764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-32068432563181778802010-10-08T15:59:31.738-04:002010-10-08T15:59:31.738-04:00gertie - long time reader! love these sewing scen...gertie - long time reader! love these sewing scene posts. as i've become a seamster i get REALLY excited when a movie features any sort of fabric store or sewing scene. see: big love, the virgin suicides, and the greats you've posted. personally, i hate the dress and think it's a sort of desperate attempt to get the "popular" kids to like her. i also think it would have been more in character for her to just wear the dress annie gives her, or even just improve on the one my boyfriend harry dean stanton gives her. but, ultimately, i think in an attempt to stick it to her rich ex and prove to the popular set that she was just as good as they are, she makes this very contemporary for the time gross thing that, as an adult, i GUARANTEE she feels really stupid over. <br /><br />and you know she ends up marrying ducky, like, ten years later after they both lost touch and re-met and lost touch again. youthful pride.Jenny Longshothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274386341513449347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-1033698350268131622010-10-08T13:38:42.503-04:002010-10-08T13:38:42.503-04:00You inspired me to write my own. Check out The Pr...You inspired me to write my own. Check out The Princess And The Frog if you haven't already. Tiana's mom is a seamstress. She makes princess dresses. First scene in the movie. <br />http://stitchesbyjeni.blogspot.com/2010/10/sewing-scene-inspired-by-gertie.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069274912736533369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-84496867095162055502010-10-08T08:12:06.322-04:002010-10-08T08:12:06.322-04:00Pretty in Pink has got a lot to answer for in my l...Pretty in Pink has got a lot to answer for in my life. :) I'm another Brit wowing over the phone in her room and the way everyone in that movie seemed to have so much freedom.<br /><br />You've hit it on the head talking about self-actualisation through sewing, I never saw it that way before, and now I know why I've been sewing my ass off for twenty years. Funny how it's all about historical costume for me... I guess that ugly prom dress really put me off modern day fashion. lol<br /><br />And please, someone, tell me where I can find the ending where she chooses Duckie?? Because Andrew McCarthy was very, very cute by my 14-year-old standards, but Duckie had a heart and soul to die for!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06220523799739450282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-81680526838950115302010-10-08T00:15:24.015-04:002010-10-08T00:15:24.015-04:00I saw this movie in junior high the week it came o...I saw this movie in junior high the week it came out. Her outfits in the rest of the movie were super cute, so I was majorly disappointed with the remodeled dress. My friends and I laughed out loud when she put it on. We couldn't understand why she would take that gorgeous frock and turn it into a shapeless blob. Or why Annie Potts would LET her. It was very zen of her.<br />P.S. I miss my white buckled Duckie shoes.Miss Amelinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15073384914868842133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-44650226933263352332010-10-07T23:00:00.762-04:002010-10-07T23:00:00.762-04:00Hated the dress the moment I saw it!Hated the dress the moment I saw it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069274912736533369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-1458786214259477012010-10-07T22:57:01.175-04:002010-10-07T22:57:01.175-04:00Also, if you want to go back to Disney, you could ...Also, if you want to go back to Disney, you could always use "Enchanted" for your next movie sewing scene! Even though her patternmaking method makes me cringe. ;)Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09913795373618902575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-68784490898237349452010-10-07T22:55:13.318-04:002010-10-07T22:55:13.318-04:00I also didn't see that movie until I was in co...I also didn't see that movie until I was in college, at least. And while I like the fact that she sewed her own dress, I think the result is pretty awful. Of course, I also think that clothes from the 80s should all pretty much be burned because it was the worst decade in fashion EVER. (And I also don't like pink. So there.)Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09913795373618902575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-32822717141030965242010-10-07T22:00:39.816-04:002010-10-07T22:00:39.816-04:00I am the "right age" and I loved that mo...I am the "right age" and I loved that movie. I already made my own prom dresses, too, and I was a rarity. I find those old dresses awful now but they were nothing like that ill fitting sack. Something no one else seems to mention is that I don't think they really cut up a vintage dress. The original skirt was not as long as the one piece of fabric that makes the front of the sack dress. I remember thinking that at the time, too. And she seemed not to use any of the dress from her dad that was also much better than the final creation. (Maybe the lace on the yoke?) I think they made the vintage style dress and Andie's dress from the same bolt but we were not supposed to figure it out. Also, I understand most movie productions make multiples of identical costumes. There is no one "original". And as for all you Ducky lovers, I always lusted after Andrew McCarthy.I first fell for him in Class (1983). I still like him! Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) was my other favorite romance from back then. And, everyone out there, did you find cool pinks flattering on red-haired Molly Ringwald? FYI, she had brown hair on The Facts of Life. Gosh, I'm old!dawnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-78643678123773946452010-10-07T20:01:25.406-04:002010-10-07T20:01:25.406-04:00Love the sewing scenes in film series. I watched P...Love the sewing scenes in film series. I watched Pretty in Pink again recently (my husband had never seen ONE John Hughes film! -- that's what I get for marrying someone younger than I, not that one needs an excuse to watch John Hughes...anyway) and my take of the sewing the prom dress sequence and how she constructed it and how it turned out is that it was conceived by someone who didn't have a lot of experience with home sewing. Like, it was how a 30 year old man (or however old John Hughes was at the time) imagined a teenage sewist would go about designing and making a prom dress. Also that the dress was only meant to be stunning from the shoulders up because that's where the camera was on her most of the time. <br /><br />I hope you and others can think of more great sewing in movies. I'm coming up blank. (Although there is this one old black and white movie, I have no idea what it's called or anything, where the heroine kills an intruder by throwing a pair of scissors from a sewing kit at him and then he falls on them. But I'm pretty sure that's not the vibe you're going for.)elizabethenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-66329512687066021272010-10-07T18:55:12.538-04:002010-10-07T18:55:12.538-04:00I watched this movie heaps and although I may have...I watched this movie heaps and although I may have thought the dress odd (I certainly do now) I was more involved tumbling around in the emotions of the movie at the tender age of 15, its a classic.Minnietheminkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11107466485091649724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-14979517568611230742010-10-07T17:01:06.679-04:002010-10-07T17:01:06.679-04:00Maybe part of the shock-value of the dress was it&...Maybe part of the shock-value of the dress was it's daring omission of bust support? Hello! So strange. Perhaps her dress was making a statement of contradictions and non-conformity... pink and feminine... yet edgy, amorphous, eschewing traditional focal points on the female figure like, oh, a waistline. <br /><br />But this is one of my favorite movies, and I love that she sewed something herself (even if it is horrendous). It probably had a huge influence on my decision to have my mom sew all of my prom dresses.Xenia Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880128865699100105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-63342490292519572442010-10-07T16:26:40.525-04:002010-10-07T16:26:40.525-04:00I was a college freshman in 1986, and the thing I ...I was a college freshman in 1986, and the thing I remember about the movie was that it made it look cool to sew your own clothes--which was something I did that hardly anyone I knew did, too. I honestly don't remember the dress at all.momto2wasdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07946036639603120977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-86749354723528548262010-10-07T15:30:34.013-04:002010-10-07T15:30:34.013-04:00I'm totally Team Duckie! He really shaped what...I'm totally Team Duckie! He really shaped what I look for in a man. LOL! If there is an alternative ending out there where she makes the "right" choice and goes after The Duck- I must see it! I still get frustrated every time I watch it that she picks Blaine. <br /><br />I remember being really being excited during the part where she is working on the prom dress....and then thinking "WTF?" when it's done. HAHAHA!Mothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14634311214621295744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-64352351888900604692010-10-07T15:22:34.022-04:002010-10-07T15:22:34.022-04:00Ooooooooh! I loved that movie. It is definitely ...Ooooooooh! I loved that movie. It is definitely part of my teen years. I thought Andrew McCarthy was SO cute. I loved the vintage and the sewing. Though, even at that time, I was sad for the original dress! Oh and the DuckMan! I can't give an objective review on this one!Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03265763475632104771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-90603010659679847722010-10-07T15:04:03.229-04:002010-10-07T15:04:03.229-04:00I'm in agreement with many of the other poster...I'm in agreement with many of the other posters about this dress. I remember watching this movie when it first came out and loving the fact that she was creative and sewed but this dress goes beyond that...down right "Fugly" in my book. As Kim above, said..."a pink potato sack". I think that is being generous...lol.mimi ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03308969238826902872noreply@blogger.com