tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post3307422389859522026..comments2024-02-14T11:30:59.237-05:00Comments on Nancy K Sews: Burda Style, or Why Do We Have to See the Previews on the Russian Site?Nancy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02235347323004026695noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-59139276339154812032010-07-31T19:29:41.101-04:002010-07-31T19:29:41.101-04:00Like the patterns you show. Must look into this is...Like the patterns you show. Must look into this issue. SigridAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-26450856656150323602010-07-24T13:02:55.383-04:002010-07-24T13:02:55.383-04:00I agree with you on the plus-sized clothes. I noti...I agree with you on the plus-sized clothes. I noticed the Russian site has a preview of the Fall/Winter Burda Plus. I have a subscription because they usually have new designs not included in previous BWOF issues. The Fall 2010 issue is going to recycle some designs, though. I'm a bit disappointed about that. But some of the new plus designs look promising.Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-77176765976568577122010-07-24T11:51:22.472-04:002010-07-24T11:51:22.472-04:00I now stalk the French Burda site for the magazine...I now stalk the French Burda site for the magazine previews. I'm very disappointed in the new English Burda site. It doesn't give me any of what I visited the old site for. I like the skirt in the plus offerings, but I'm afraid it might call attention to my belly.Elarayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487492651398001387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-26398109429581975862010-07-24T10:04:35.797-04:002010-07-24T10:04:35.797-04:00I have to agree that many of the patterns are reta...I have to agree that many of the patterns are retakes on basic blocks. Which is probably why many sewers have become disillusioned with Burda lately. This is apparently true for most of the big pattern companies though too, or we wouldn't be seeing so many 'new' patterns that are only slightly different from last seasons. Vogue may buy the rights to designer clothing, but they draft them on their slopers for the patterns we buy. They post the original designer fashion, but the patterns don't have the same fit as the original. Which of course isn't possible for them. The thing I still like about Burda is the fit, so I guess I like how their basic sloper fits me. It's more economical for me to subscribe to the magazine than to buy single issues, which I used to do when I could go to Borders and get them!Nancy Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02235347323004026695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-78249661381351993162010-07-24T10:04:09.619-04:002010-07-24T10:04:09.619-04:00I guess Burda's Russian office is more efficie...I guess Burda's Russian office is more efficient than the other ones.<br /><br />I agree wholeheartedly with people who like grey better than black. My hair is very dark still (a cold dark brown with a few silver threads) and I like charcoal grey as a basic color. I have a charcoal ring around the other colors in my eyes and charcoal goes with everything IMO. <br /><br />I am very curious to see if anyone reviews those two pleated garments - the skirt and the pants. I thought the skirt looked very good in the flat photograph, but not on the model. <br /><br />IMO the only "new" pants shape that would look good on a plus size is a pair of very drapey and silky "genie" pants with normal crotch, a waist yoke and worn with high heels that are not too chunky. Something more fitted on top. Sort of luxe boho.Vibekenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-13826048259152910532010-07-24T08:34:42.151-04:002010-07-24T08:34:42.151-04:00Ah, I'm so sorry for all those who are disappo...Ah, I'm so sorry for all those who are disappointed with the new Burda site. But then, I'm German. Growing up Burda was one of the big two. The other was "Neue Mode" which is nowhere today. The really exotic stuff were Vogue and Butterick. Most places did not acutally carry the patterns, just the catalogues. If you wanted a pattern you had to fill in a little form with your address. You had to pay the list price! And wait 2-3 weeks till your pattern arrived.<br />I knew that Burda had big ideas when they went into Russia like a flash after the end of the cold war. I would not be surprised, if there were more Russian readers than either German or English ones.<br />I could not be more surprised when I saw the humble beginnings of burdastyle. That indy vibe, the free patterns... If I thought about it at all, I thought wow, they are trying to tackle the US-market and they're doing an impressive job.<br />Strangely enough, since the start of the burdastyle site I have occasionally bought a Burda magazine. Before that I would not have touched it with a bargepole. But I still think, that most of the issues have patterns that derive from a very economic number of basic blocks.<br />But Burda being a huge publishing holding, I'm not surprised, they changed their site. Although one still cannot see a reason, why they should make a secret of their technical drawings outside of Russia.nommhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06742663611694888098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-68473249505557806212010-07-24T03:06:28.378-04:002010-07-24T03:06:28.378-04:00I like gray too and I'm only 24. It goes with...I like gray too and I'm only 24. It goes with everything and isn't as harsh against my pasty white skin (or as the Koreans say, AMAZING BEAUTIFUL WHITE SKIN). <br /><br />Agree that the last plus size look is far too sloppy. Forget body type, the last thing you want to come off as is sloppy in the office. Okay, second to last. The first is probably slutty. :-pAlexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14578743779311742562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297064581728205842.post-15753762717384069622010-07-23T18:42:22.856-04:002010-07-23T18:42:22.856-04:00I've also become a fan of grey as I age. It...I've also become a fan of grey as I age. It's the new black for me.Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00622769905155059570noreply@blogger.com