Simplicity - down memory lane

Cleaning up, I found this Simplicity sewing pattern catalog that belonged to my maternal grandmother, and that I have been keeping for ages. Someone gifted this to grandma and it dates back to the late '70s - early '80s. The binder was ruined so I cannot tell the exact year, and I couldn't find it online as well. However, it's an almost 1000 pages catalog, and leafing through it, it brought lots of memories; going through it and choosing what grandma would sew for us grand kids. 

 

Now,  the Simplicity patterns were not available here at that time, not that grandma really needed ones as she had a technical brain. What I mean by this is that she would only need to look at the outfit, take measurements and draw the pattern directly onto the fabric. And amazingly, it would turn out exactly as shown in the pictures. No prior pattern drafting, nothing. Grandma was a wizardess.

 

As I am decluttering, I finally decided to let go of the catalog, and just cut out a handful of pages to serve as inspiration or to use in my junk journaling. I wish to archive those memories here, and have a kind of a digital memory post. 

 

Must say that as a teenager I always liked the illustrations / drawings more rather than the real models' photos, and strangely, after so many years I still feel the same.