One thing about the news media is for sure – they can jump on a topic du jour faster than a speeding bullet train! Most of the time this is stuff that’s rather foolish like fads that are specific to certain colors that you must have or else […]
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….was a wealth of headlines made for sewists. Oh, those poor people who can’t/won’t/don’t sew!!!! They have such limited selections and it’s getting more limited! Over on Financial Times, there’s the headline: Zara Inditex Ramp Up Digital Assault. For those of you who are new here, Inditex […]
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I was really shocked to find out that Givenchy died only a few days ago. If you would have asked me yesterday, I would have known that he died decades ago being part of that indomitable force of designers who catapulted Paris back to the fashion capital after World […]
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The three basic needs of mankind are food, shelter, and clothing – clothing so that we can protect ourselves from the elements, whether that is very cold or very hot. In either case, clothing can protect us from harmful sun exposure and harmful cold exposure. But like […]
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….like Oscar de la Renta?….Valentino?…Carolina Herrera (this is her last season)? Really about the only ones left who design beautiful clothes that were so in vogue before the 90’s are Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren. Even Vera Wang who made her name with a classic beautiful style […]
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I love this picture – I always have. These are sisters who pioneered a homestead in Nebraska. Maybe this reaches back to my own family’s homesteading roots, but I love this photo and this mud house they built for themselves. Here’s the subtle message in this photo […]
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For many, this seems more of the rule rather than the exception. A lot of my students come to me so exasperated that they are ready to throw their sewing project failures, thread, equipment, and even their sewing machine in the trash and do something else. I […]
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So I’m perusing around the site and doing some housekeeping, and found this fabulous link I had saved. At the time I felt this way, but it’s probably more pertinent now. In this article, Armani accused Prada of going after the bucks and forgoing the classic style that […]
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Recently, I watched House of Z, which is fantastic. Yes, the fashions are out of this world and yes the eye candy is out of this world. But that’s not all that makes this film so fabulous. The story is so pertinent, and can even be applied to […]
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Been perusing through some familiar and not-so-familiar sites and came across this site, that says they dress for normal people who don’t have time to shop. Usually, that’s code for “Something that fits everyone from a tall bean stock to apple or pear with little or not […]
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