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The Path of a Fashion Trend

By Claire Kennedy / April 13, 2023 /

Tracking a fashion trend isn’t all that hard after seeing a few of them. Living from Mid-Century Modern through Twiggy Mod, Hippie Bohemian, Leisure Suit bellbottoms, and Opulent Eighties to Grunge, you get to see how they look after a while. They usually start out with a highly dramatic change…like this: And although this may…

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The Met Gala

By Claire Kennedy / May 3, 2022 /

The Met Gala is the creation of Anna Wintour, chief editor of Vogue US, and she manages to outdo herself every year. This has become one of the major if not major fund-raiser for the Met. It is certainly one of the most famous events that help keep the Met on the minds of people.…

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Why Sewing Is More Than Making Clothes

By Claire Kennedy / February 6, 2021 /

So Walt fell – twice – on the ice the first of the year. It was while walking he was walking the dog, in the dark morning, on ice. Yeah, I’ve threatened not to speak to him for a year if he does this again. Not sure that’s a motivating threat, but let’s just say…

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Sometimes Bigger Is Better

By Claire Kennedy / January 18, 2021 /

So I had this fabric, that I fell in love with, in the store…..yeah, you know how that goes. Well, got it home and I still love it, but it’s really dinky and thin and see-thru-ish even though it looks like a lush thick gushy fabric that you could make something in winter that would…

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An Important Notice

By Claire Kennedy / October 26, 2020 /

As many of you know who take my weekly email, we are having woeful problems on this site. My wonderful IT guy who was so helpful and such a lovely person keeled over the first of September. It was a shock for all of us. What was worse, is that he didn’t really have any…

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