Posted on 11/19/2016 1:37:56 PM PST by RummyChick
..She has for one, shown serious dedication to that most fashion of affectations: the shoulder robe (the art of balancing your coat on your shoulders, which offers a more nuanced, high level approach to putting on an outerwear garment rather than the pedestrian act of simply putting your arms through the sleeves). Her efforts here are accomplished. On stage in Iowa, after introducing her husband as “the best master negotiator” she stepped back from the lectern, flicked that perfect blow-dry delicately over her shoulder, and all without her bright red coat budging an inch. That’s not just rigid tailoring and a sturdy shoulder-pad; that’s professional....
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My husband has a LF parka-type coat that I made him buy over 20 years ago. Too large for him now, but in excellent shape.
I agree, pants can look fine. Just not for me. I have one pair of black slacks for winter air travel, and one pair of tan slack for summer air travel, and some uniform pieces for camp or heavy yardwork.
It doesn’t look like anyone is wearing slacks these days, except for me and my mom. Everyone’s wearing exercise pants all the time.
For the prices I’ve seen, you COULD buy a machine, make your own, and have both ;-)
There's no longer ANY quality control; not even in rather expensive, designer labels.
Don’t make me slap you, Lysie...
I thought about sewing my own clothes but can’t find good fabric.
I’m not much of a garment maker but the stuff in the stores is so awful even my pitiful attempts might be passable now.
I agree with you about hairdos, too. Older ladies (over 30) should have a style, not just long hair hanging. My mother and I like a really short cut, but there are plenty of good styles for older women with long hair.
It made me cry.
I’ve had this one 20 years and no telling how long his aunt had it since she was pretty old when she died.
Beau...is that his name, or his job?
You can still find good fabric, but you usually find the best now in online stores, where you can’t really feel it and be sure of the color.
There just aren’t enough women sewing anymore to make quality fabric stores viable in brick-and-mortar form. The ones doing well seem to be quilting supply stores.
In DC, we had G Street Fabrics for years (which I recall as G Street Remnant), but it eventually moved out to Rockville, in Maryland. At least the last time I was there about 10 years ago, it was still a fabulous place; but there aren’t many like it left.
His job; he’s my, ‘beau.’ :) I don’t use his real name. ;)
Makes sense.
“We couldn’t wear pants to school until the early ‘seventies...”
The school officials figured pants covered more than the rolled-up micro-mini skirts. The teachers got tired of lining up the girls to measure their skirts with a ruler. They had to measure boys’ hair length, too, so the boys took to wearing short hair wigs over their shoulder-length locks.
LOL! I don’t remember the boys using wigs; but we were told that we couldn’t wear miniskirts OR Granny Dresses ;-)
I personally like the idea of uniforms for school kids. And for little ones, pants just make sense. I was always cold in the winter, wearing dresses and tights - before I reached the age where appearance was ‘Everything’ and I was willing to suffer anything to be fashionable ;-)
People say go to the garment district and buy fabric there.
I’m not a good enough sewer to spend a lot on fabric though.
I definitely have a problem buying fabric I’ve never laid eyes or hands on!
We don’t have any fabric stores at all left in our town since Hancock went out of business.
We live about 30 miles east of San Francisco so we’re not exactly BFE here.
You’d think we could support a fabric store but we can’t keep a bookstore afloat either.
I guess if people won’t read they can’t sew either because sewing involves reading of instructions.
I quilt and built up a fair stash just buying bags of fabric at the thrift store.
If I want to make clothes I’m going to have to drive a ways to find fabric.
That’s what the democrats call “cutting edge.”
It’s what I call ugly.
Odumbo has one, too!
Yes, it used to be that nearly every mall, and a lot of strip malls, had a fabric store. The only thing near me now is one of the smaller Joann’s.
Oh, preach it!
Every man looks better in a well cut suit and nice tie! Love, love, love.
Military men, ahhhhhh. They’re pretty much sexy guys. What man doesn’t look handsome in his dress uniform?
As for Melania, she sticks with classic, well tailored pieces, nothing trendy. Always beautifully put together. She will make us proud for the first time in a long while.
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