My mother sent me this site today
http://www.threadbared.com/
someone has taken patterns from the 40's-80's and written little commentaries about the pictures.
What makes this so funny to me is that my mother made all my clothes from birth to age 12 (1968-1980) and some even later than that.
She collected patterns from anyone and everywhere so some of these I remember seeing in her sewing room even though she didnt make them.
I have to confess I had the dress from the 80's section in many different materials (loved her commentary about the prom date) and also the Calico "laura ingalls" dress.
I hope there is at least one person here that gets as big a kick out of this as I did, it will make posting it worth it, cause I laughed until I about fell off the bed when I was looking at it.