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This is so…. well, outré

I'm so tired of this look and even worse, tired of seeing it over and over as it it will ...

Down the Time Black Hole of Fashion

Good fashion can take me away for hours even before I realize what's happened. A simple search, or worse a ...

Protected: Just Between Us – The V&A is a Real Treasure

From the first time I stepped into the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, I was a goner. The place ...

The Problem With Haute Couture Today

A subscriber to my weekly email asked (WHAT?...you don't subscribe? ...goodness, it's free and lots of info over there - ...

Why Sewing Is More Than Making Clothes

So Walt fell - twice - on the ice the first of the year. It was while walking he was ...

Sometimes Bigger Is Better

So I had this fabric, that I fell in love with, in the store.....yeah, you know how that goes. Well, ...

The Path of a Fashion Trend

Tracking a fashion trend isn't all that hard after seeing a few of them. Living from Mid-Century Modern through Twiggy ...

The Style of The Very Wealthy

It's worth the time to look at these styles, particularly today as there is a group that wants to look ...

WOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgcNy2EgE_Q This is the way fashion used to be - pretty, flattering and I can't wait to make some of ...

The Einsteinian Zone

So no, you haven't dropped into another universe of the space-time continuum. This really is a sewing blog, but this ...

The Thoughtful Trade

The other day I was doing the laundry and suddenly my machine wasn't spinning, thus wasn't washing. It was making ...

Body Sizes – Then and Now

We may think that the models on the runway are all bone-thin, and they are, but how close are they ...