Making Life more Beautiful
Last week I wrote about the sixties shift dress. This was stimulated by hearing that Mary Quant had become a Dame in the New Year Honours. Something else she is credited with designing and naming is the Mini-skirt, which she … Continued
Let’s start with the theory. Trousers look best on tall, slim leggy women. However this body shape looks great in just about anything. Trousers have the effect of outlining the bottom, stomach, thighs and legs. A skirt on the other … Continued
I have an absolutely super Personal Assistant, Sarah Martin, who comes from Melbourne, Australia. She is great at her job, a nice friendly person, and completely normal. So I was slightly surprised when I asked her what she had been … Continued
My trouser experiments continue. My daughter took a fancy to the trousers I have been making, and asked for a pattern so she could start to make her own trousers. Fitting notes I used the same Burda pattern I had … Continued
The recycled item This week I started on my recyling project. Do you remember the nasty, long, beggar-woman skirt? Hours later…..I tell you, those Indian textile workers sure know how to over-engineer a garment. This tiered skirt had five sections … Continued
This post, following a review of the style choices of one of Britain’s biggest politicians Eric Pickles, looks at one of its slimmest. Jim Murphy started out as a student politician and is now responsible for Labour in Scotland, where … Continued
In my wardrobe I have two reversible items. One is my Dutch skirt. I do want to copy this garment eventually but I am in search of a very long, chunky, open-ended zip. I have one that is 30″ long, … Continued
The origins of the 1960s shift dress lie in the 1920s when the short, usually sleeveless, shapeless and simplified dress allowed women to “shift” around, whether in terms of work, sports or dancing. This dress from about 1926 is attributed … Continued
Here are the before pictures. And here are the after photographs. The Christmas tree (it’s a living tree) is about to have its lights taken away as it is 12th Night. Finally I am ready to start my 2015 sewing challenge!
Today’s guest blog is written by Caroline Harmsworth who commented that she liked my recycling challenge post, a subject “close to her heart”. I have never met Caroline in real life but I asked her to tell us more about … Continued
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