Mine are more sewing/diy than designer fashion- http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/, dress a day, various LJ groups, etc. Although I do also like icing, which is far more towards the non-diy aspect of things, and Jezebel and the manolo blogs, which isn't strictly fashion, but when it is it's stuff I can't afford.

I'm mostly not super into the fashion blogs because, well, I'm a size 18 which means I'd be looking at blogs full of stuff that doesn't fit me, and odds are won't even be done in a knock off in my size. And I don't like most of the plus sized fashion blogs because they tend to be as much politics as they are clothes. And, well, I'm skinny by most plus fashion blog standards.

ooooh! Dress a day is really inspirering! thanks! I wish I could sew.

Technically, according to copyright for patterns, if you get a pattern you like there's no problem with taking it to a seamstress and having them make it for you. The legal problem is if a seamstress buys one pattern, makes thirty dresses from it, and sells them. Making one dress for a customer from a pattern they provided or was purchased specifically for this and will not be resold or passed off as an original design is perfectly legal.

When I was younger I insisted on wearing only high waisted "cigarette pants" with the zipper on the side, I had found a pair from the 60s in a vintage shop that I damn near wore out so I cut them open and made a pattern from them that I had two different seamstresses make slacks for me from. This was in the early nineties when all pants seemed to be baggy, and I got the coolest patterned cloth - like brown tartan or houndstooth, that the seamstress could make my pants from. :) I got at least four pairs made and loved them to bits.

That was back when there were affordable seamstresses around (so a nice pair of slacks would end up being the same price as a nicer pair of slacks rather than twice that). I tried making a pair myself but failed miserably. AS it turns out the only thing I remember from sewing class was how to make a pattern, not how to sew.

(I held on to a leather coat from the seventies for the same reason but never made a pattern out of it. Oh, I miss that coats cut now.)

I love this makover! So glam!

'We don't follow fashion/who needs it when you got style..." - the Del-Lords

AS it turns out the only thing I remember from sewing class was how to make a pattern, not how to sew.

I bet you could pick up sewing again quickly. Pattern drafting is the hardest part. (and the existence of Simplicity, Burda, Vogue, etc are proof as to how few can draft for themselves.)

Really? Dad used to say "sewing is like math" and he was terribly good at it. I've inherited my mom's ability to make giant knots in anything as soon as I use the machine though. (I've even managed to get my sleeve caught and sewn to whatever I was working on, classic!)