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<\/a>Uncanny, right? The hair, the shoes, the outfit. My Mom clipped this from the newspaper and sent it to me a few weeks ago. You’d think we had modeled our little S doll and her clothes directly from the photo!<\/p>\n
So I confess; I’m actually 125, and although you may have just discovered our patterns, we’ve been publishing them for almost 90 years now. <\/p>\n
We just tweak them a bit, every 88 years or so, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apparently, unbeknownst to me, Oliver + S has been publishing patterns for a really long time. I mean, look at this: Uncanny, right? The hair, the shoes, the outfit. 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