I promise this is the last, but this example is so glaring I can’t pass it up. Lest you think plus-sized women can’t be fitted well in pants, here are some classic examples of how pants are supposed to fit: She’s walking so the wrinkles on her […]
Read more →I sorta stirred the pot with that last pant post, and thought I would stir it some more to get things really ginned up!!!! Like Bugs Bunny says: You ole troublemaker you!!!! But here’s my point. When I do a search online for women’s pants this is […]
Read more →I was messing around over on Goop (which is really interesting – wish she had a sewing part, but she’s got a fashion part and that’s good!), and found this interesting article. The name is a little silly, this was her name as a kid, but the […]
Read more →These can be a blessing or a curse. I’m short, so for me long skirts are really hard to do – not that it requires any massive technical skill, it requires a good and practiced eye. But there’s help out there and here’s a lot of examples […]
Read more →I promise I’m not piling on – I promise, and that’s why I’m not showing the face here of this very famous fashion person. But…… that said, you wonder why we have bad ideas or concepts or modeling of how clothes are supposed to fit, and you […]
Read more →I love doing a lot of fashion particularly when it’s on real people on the real streets, and not some show thing that is just done for the jaded eye of fashion editors! Some of it’s meh, but some of it is wonderful – but it’s all […]
Read more →Over on Ann Steeve’s blog, she talked about this a little, but this is the best chart I’ve ever seen. This is from B&J which is a fabulous, fabulous store in the Garment District I discovered B & J before Mood and for a long time didn’t […]
Read more →I truly am so lucky to have not only the nicest clients in the world but the pretties. Here’s one of my beautiful brides on her special day and what a fabulously gorgeous ambassador of my art!!!! Thanks, Laci, and here’s to a lifetime of joy! […]
Read more →I got to thinking about this as I was writing about fashion on some of my Facebook page links, and the question occurred to me that possibly not everyone is as concerned about fashion, particularly if you are a sewist and you don’t have to do the […]
Read more →This new version of the BurdaStyle magazine is out. I think you all know me well enough that I’m pretty opinionated here and if something is awful, I may not come right out and say it, but I will steer you in another direction as I’m not […]
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