using curtain Cloth for summer skirts
mir...@actcom.co.il
mirjam
Olwyn Mary
I have done this for many years. I particularly remember, more than 25
years ago, sailing out to the Opera one summer evening in a floor length
skirt made from a $2 remnant of drapery fabric. Very posh, I was, in
that skirt, high heeled city sandals and no stockings or slip - the
fabric was firm enough not to need either support or sight blocker and
the theatre was not air-conditioned.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
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cycjec
mir...@actcom.co.il wrote:
> I am sewing summer skirts , a lot of times from Curtain cloth ,
> mirjam
If you like it, why not?
I used to remark bitterly of many of the clothes I wore
as a child "it looks like curtain material."
Very likely it was. Mom bought fabric in lots, unseen,
specifying only the weight.
Erin
> I am sewing summer skirts , a lot of times from Curtain cloth ,
> mirjam
One of my favorite skirts when I was growing-up (1970s) was made by my
Grandmama from chintz. It had a beautiful floral pattern that worked
well as a dirndl skirt. She also made a little shawl out of
coordinating chintz that she trimmed with white lace. When I wore this
outfit with a white peasant blouse, it looked like folk costume!
Erin
Kate XXXXXX
I use curtain fabric a lot for costumes. Less for other clothing these
days, but it can still be fun.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
Doreen Hendrix
LOL Once for an office Christmas party (in my very-much-younger and
single days), I made a long, halter-style dress of red crushed velvet
that came from a sale table. Someone told me later that one of our
pious co-workers had made a snide remark about it looking like
'upholstery material'. I just considered the source...remembering that
the guys had seemed to like it just fine.
Doreen in Alabama
mir...@actcom.co.il
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Aha Doreen ,,, haven`t you read the book or seen the film "GONE WITH
THE WIND"?
:>:>:>:>:>
Creative people can make nice things with whatever they find... and
"Those remarks are mostly done by those who won`t do the creative
effort.... After some years it stopped bothering me ,,, sometimes i
offer those people to make something for them ,,, I dress with clothes
that fit me and my needs, and that is that ,,,
And i can even vouch that it hepled me to get my Museum exhibition ,
the curator wrote in an article that she noted my `different`
clothes ,,,,, Thus go on use what ever you like ,,,
mirjam
mir...@actcom.co.il
> that skirt, high heeled city sandals and no stockings or slip - the
> fabric was firm enough not to need either support or sight blocker and
> the theatre was not air-conditioned.
>
> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
> ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**
Ohh Olwyn Mary , how fantastic !!!! i love this story !!!
mirjam
mir...@actcom.co.il
> I use curtain fabric a lot for costumes. Less for other clothing these
> days, but it can still be fun.
>
> --
> Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
> Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
Kate i went to your site ,,, you are a Lady with Great Humour
yourself ,,, i will have to revisit your site ,, too much to see in
one visit !!!
mirjam
mir...@actcom.co.il
I think we all [esp over a ceratin age!!!] had clothes made of
Whatever our mothers could buy .or remake. My daughter`s first
nighty was made from my Pink Cotton Army pj,,,,
she never complained , my son`s first pj i made from old shirts of my
husband . [they already had buttons :>:>:>:]
mirjam
mir...@actcom.co.il
Wow Erin , i loved this description ,,, do you have a photo ???
Don`t you think that this is Just How the `old traditional FOLK
costumes were born ???
mirjam
mirjam
Kate XXXXXX
> Kate i went to your site ,,, you are a Lady with Great Humour
> yourself ,,, i will have to revisit your site ,, too much to see in
> one visit !!!
> mirjam
Thank you. Glad you had fun. My Three Dancing Princes were dressed in
the finest curtain fabrics in the world - they cost £1.25 a meter! :D
Oh, and in the wedding stuff... The blue page boy suits and the two
floral dresses? Curtain fabric! Mind you, that was less of a bargain,
as the glorious blue wool was a Scottish one woven for making curtains
for drafty castles and Scottish Baronial style mansions, and the floral
was a hand brinted silk woven and printed here in England, at £52 and
£54 per meter respectively. Shame I don't have better pix of those, but
they were taken before I got the child sized dress dummy.
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
> I am sewing summer skirts , a lot of times from Curtain cloth ,
When I started sewing in earnest (this was AFTER I had taken home ec for
three years), my mom generously offered me the use of anything in her
fabric stash -- which was home dec fabrics, because she was a home dec
sewist as opposed to an apparel sewist.
I still love using drapery fabric for clothing, but I have learned not
to tell employees of Calico Corners what I am planning on using their
fabric for.
Pogonip
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>
> Aha Doreen ,,, haven`t you read the book or seen the film "GONE WITH
> THE WIND"?
> :>:>:>:>:>
If you haven't seen Carol Burnett in the role, you can see it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k6bOpJ5elW8
--
Joanne
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http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
Erin
> Wow Erin , i loved this description ,,, do you have a photo ???
> Don`t you think that this is Just How the `old traditional FOLK
> costumes were born ???
I'm afraid I have very few pictures of me as a child. I, too, would
love to have pictures of the beautiful outfits my Grandmama made me.
Erin
mir...@actcom.co.il
I once went into the Curtain Shop with one of my skirts that came from
their stock ,The shop keeper + 2 of his workers , [all males] , Looked
smiled and than one said to me , I love the way you use our cloth ...
mirjam
mir...@actcom.co.il
Do you Still have some remnants of those clothes ???? than you could
make an applique from it ,,, if not could you ? would you find a
painter Describe the dress to him/her and maybe a drawing could be
made for you ,,, I lately saw such a drawing ,, and it really was
heart touching .
mirjam
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
>> Aha Doreen ,,, haven`t you read the book or seen the film "GONE WITH
>> THE WIND"?
>> :>:>:>:>:>
>
> If you haven't seen Carol Burnett in the role, you can see it here:
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=k6bOpJ5elW8
Ladies, this is a MUST SEE!!!!!! I found it a few months ago, and I
was so glad, because I remember seeing it the first time.
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
>>
>> I still love using drapery fabric for clothing, but I have learned not
>> to tell employees of Calico Corners what I am planning on using their
>> fabric for.
>
> I once went into the Curtain Shop with one of my skirts that came from
> their stock ,The shop keeper + 2 of his workers , [all males] , Looked
> smiled and than one said to me , I love the way you use our cloth ...
Yes, and I wish Calico Corners employees were that way, too, but they
aren't.
cycjec
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply <sam...@trashsonic.net> wrote:
> mir...@actcom.co.il wrote:
>> I once went into the Curtain Shop with one of my skirts that came from
>> their stock [and heard] I love the way you use our cloth ...
> Yes, and I wish Calico Corners employees were that way, too, but they
> aren't.
??? I don't understand that. Isn't a sale a sale?
Kate XXXXXX
Yup. I use whatever I buy for whatever purpose I think it'll do for...
Well, you know what I mean! :D
Saris for curtains and bed hangings, curtain fabric for clothing and
bags, whatever looks good in the role for stage stuff...
mir...@actcom.co.il
covers ,,,, mirjam
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
Well, I always thought so, but according to what people said here when I
reported that, it seems to be prevalent throughout the chain.
Juno
That's because they have no sense of humor. They fell they are just to
above being "ordinary clothes."
Juno
Emily Bengston
On 7/19/08 10:38 PM, in article
5c75185e-94ac-4798...@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com,
"mir...@actcom.co.il" <mir...@actcom.co.il> wrote:
I don't shop at Calico Corners any longer because of some snide remarks made
by a manager of their largest store here in Houston; she absolutely refused
to sell me the fabric I wanted after I said it was perfect for DGDs vests to
wear the first day of school. I went to another store and bought it that
day, but that was my last visit to any of their stores.
Emily
Erin
> Erin
> Do you Still have some remnants of those clothes ????
I have a small, triangular scarf that Grandmama made to go with a 3-
tiered skirt she sewed for me about 1976-77.
> Describe the dress to him/her and maybe a drawing could be
> made for you ,,, I lately saw such a drawing ,, and it really was
> heart touching .
> mirjam
That's a really lovely idea!
Erin
(who is holding another Subversiv syslöjd (subversive sewing) workshop
at the local cultural festival this Sat. Hopefully, the next
generation of sewists will get inspired!)
Erin
> I don't shop at Calico Corners any longer because of some snide remarks made by a manager of their largest store here in Houston; she absolutely refused to sell me the fabric I wanted
Huh?!!! Darn strange way to run a business! :-( And this is exactly
the type of attitude that quashes creativity!!! GGggggrrrr! (yeah, I'm
gettin' worked up here).
Erin
Juno
Remind me of the time I went into a store to buy gloves. Very nice, very
expensive leather gloves. I wasn't dressed very well that day. In fact I
looked like I had just finished cleaning house, which was the truth.
The saleslady to a look at me and said something like, Dear, do you
think you can really afford them. My answer was, said with a very
straight face, I wasn't sure, but since my husband was the owner of the
store I'd ask him to get them for me with his discount. Turned around
and walked out.
Juno
Pogonip
It's unbelievable that this sort of thing happens. I grew up in
Ligonier, Pa., just outside of which is a place called Rolling Rock
Farms. The families there are Mellons and Frickes, etc., who drive
around in old beatup station wagons, and they tend to wear old Levis and
torn plaid shirts, or so it was when I was growing up. Then I lived in
NH and took census, supervised by a woman who worked census to get money
to pay her taxes -- she lived on the family farm, which was not a
working farm, but one with horses and rescued dogs. They had sold the
bank to a banking corporation... Then here in Reno, there were people
like the Redfields -- he would go around in Levis and a torn shirt,
carrying a grocery bag with loaves of bread sticking out of the top -
he'd go to an escrow company, take the bread out, and start taking out
stacks of cash to buy property. He died, his widow Nell set up a
foundation and has endowed just about everything and anything you can
think of in this area.
The richest people I've ever known - and that's been a few - didn't
dress the part except for special occasions. Which taught me to never
judge people on appearances.
BEI Design
> The richest people I've ever known - and that's been a
> few - didn't dress the part except for special occasions.
> Which taught me to never judge people on appearances.
Truer words were never spoken.
Beverly
Pogonip
Which is not to suggest that wealth carries with it any kind of
superiority other than a higher credit limit. ;-)
Olwyn Mary
in Ohio, when they were fairly new, and their remnants were just that -
inexpensive shorter pieces. I had bought one in a gold brocade which
was labelled as two yards. Put it away for a few months, knowing it
would come in handy. Then, there was a winter conference coming up for
which I needed a dinner dress. Snowing outside all week, and two
preschool children, so no shopping possible. Remembered that fabric.
Got to work, opened it out and found that, Glory Halleluja, it was
actually 3.5 yards.
I turned it into a winter dinner dress. A long, straight skirt with
walking pleats at the back, and a hip-length vest. I spent HOURS,
crawling around the floor measuring, in order to match the pattern
perfectly at the side seams on both the skirt and the vest, plus
vertically where the vest met the skirt. I wore it with a
then-fashionable body shirt, very tight fitting, in a dark brown, which
beautifully set off the gold brocade, and at the same time kept me warm
in a drafty banqueting hall.
All for less than $10.
Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
> BEI Design wrote:
>> Pogonip wrote:
>>> The richest people I've ever known - and that's been a
>>> few - didn't dress the part except for special occasions.
>>> Which taught me to never judge people on appearances.
>>
>> Truer words were never spoken.
>
> superiority other than a higher credit limit. ;-)
When I was in therapy, the guy I was seeing said that when people don't
feel loved for who they are, they will go through all sorts of crazy
things trying to be loved/respected/whatever for what they have, what
they know, who they know, and/or all sorts of other inferior substitutes.
Pogonip
Yup! And even rich people can have inferiority complexes. Sometimes I
think they are more likely to, especially if it's inherited wealth.
Those are also the kids who were raised by nannies and boarding schools.