There were six Mam'selle outfits made especially for Patch and they are amongst the hardest of all the Sindy outfits to find.
A sweet little shortie nightie and matching pants for Patch. The Pedigree catalogue shows them in a pink rosebud pattern but we have only seen them in blue. The sleeveless nightie was made of a blue rose-sprigged seersucker cotton and it fastened at the back with a flat white painted popper. It was trimmed with white cotton lace at the neck and around the hem and it had a blue satin grosgrain ribbon at the neck. The matching elasticated pants were trimmed with the same lace around the leg holes. We did wonder if this outfit came shoes, as you can see from the boxed outfit below it would appear it did not, however we are not sure about this box as it appears to be an earlier version than those normally found with the Mam'selle Patch outfits.
A bright pillar box red thick flannel long-sleeved coat with a contrasting collar and half-waist trim made of black velvet. It fastened at the front with three flat black painted metal poppers and it was pleated at the back. The matching red parson's hat was made of plastic and covered with a red flock. It had a black velvet hatband with short streamers. Patch also had a fluffy white dog with black felt ears on a yellow cord lead to take for a walk.
The black tights shown in this photo are from 'Easy Life' and shoes did not come with this outfit.
A pretty party frock with a lemon velvet bodice and frilly skirt made of four tiers of white nylon lace on a white cotton underskirt. The neck is trimmed with a white cotton binding and the short sleeves are edged with the same lace as the skirt. Around her waist there is a sewn-on lemon satin grosgrain ribbon belt long enough to tie at the back to form a pretty bow and with decorative white and green satin embroidery flowers at the front. The back of the dress was a low V trimmed with the same white cotton binding as the neck. This outfit came with an birthday party invitation and birthday cake (shown above) together with four yellow transparent plastic cups, four burnt orange transparent plastic saucers and a wrapped birthday present containing a baby doll (see inset photo). We have seen a boxed version of this outfit and it did not contain any shoes.
There is a very interesting accessories variation to this outfit where the colour of the cups and saucers have been reversed, so the cups are instead orange and the saucers yellow.
Patch's Mam'selle trousers and jumper outfit was really cute. Yellow trousers and a long-sleeved, multicoloured turtle-neck jumper made for cheerful casual wear. The jumper was made of fine machine knit fluffy wool (perhaps mohair?) and consisted of four rows of square colour blocks repeated. These rows were: red & pale lemon, black & sage green, maroon & gold, and royal blue & white. It fastened at the back of the neck with a flat white painted metal popper. Her straight-legged trousers were made of canary yellow cotton sailcloth and they had a fly front which fastened with a flat yellow painted metal popper. We do not know if any shoes came with this outfit.
Even this very rare outfit has a variation, the jumper can be found with the rows of colour blocks running on the vertical or on the horizontal depending on how the fabric was cut-out and stitched.
Exceptionally rare and beautiful, this dress was another two-piece effect design of an all-in-one pinafore and jumper. The 'pinafore' was a block floral patterned cotton with a very dark green (almost black) background with yellow, orange, red and mustard coloured 'blob' flowers. The 'jumper' was a mustard coloured knitted cotton (the same as Sindy's 'Gad Abouts') with ribbed cuffs and a turtle neck. It fastened at the back of the neck with a flat yellow painted popper. We do not know if it originally came with shoes.
