Weekend Homework

After months of drafting aimlessly I have finally managed to get enough patterns that I am prepared to make a choice. There is something about vast choice that drives me into action, maybe the feeling of accomplishment I get from actually making a decision...
So about that...
I couldn't be completely sure that I would be successful, what with the fact that although I think I have been very clever with these patterns, I don't trust myself to have done everything correctly. So instead of just choosing one pattern, I chose 4 from the 50s magazines and one from a new Burda Style magazine that I couldn't stop myself from buying the other day.
I figure that out of the four at least one will be worn/liked/fit.
I bought a great deal of material, some while in a state of catatonia, which leaves me feeling slightly uneasy, as the post war frugal housewife in me knows that I will force myself to wear whatever contorted concoctions I create. I am not so much worried for myself (I will simply smile with a hint of sarcastic depreciation when people snicker at my poor choice in material and dress), but I worry about the social advancement of my children when their mother turns up at Kindy or School dressed in clothes that suggest the wearer belongs in an institution.
Well, I must not love them enough because I am going to sew and wear the damn things anyway.
Very excited about the sewing part... just need to bolster up the energy supplies and force myself to clean off the table and get out the sewing paraphernalia.
I will attempt to remember to take photos as I go, especially of the tricky dress with weird pockets.

And here are the pictures of what these things are meant to look like (in order from right to left):
Duffel for a 3 year old (1955)
Einfaches Waschkleid (simple cotton dress- 1956)
Durchgehend geknopftes Kleid (continuously buttoned dress - 1958)
Jersey-Blusen fur des ubergang (Jersey-Blouse for the Junction??-1955)