Author: mrhck

En route to Nicole Miller DRESS: Nicole Miller  |  SHOES: Stuart Weitzman (similar here & here)  |  HAT: c/o Reiss  |  BAG: Sophie Hulme  |  COAT and BELT: Vintage   Tadashi Shoji   Vivienne Tam*   BAG: Loeffler Randall  |  BRACELET: c/o Julie Vos   Anna Sui   BCBG*   Backstage at Lincoln Center   St. Patrick’s   Elie Tahari   LEATHER PANTS: Alice & Olivia (similar here)  |  COAT: c/o Reiss (super on sale!)  |  SHIRT: c/o Ann Taylor  |  BAG: c/o Reiss  |  HAT: BCBG  |  SCARF: knit by me   Pamella Roland   Plaza   Ready To Fish   Sally La…

I love the Garnet hill catalog, page after page of calm, well-rested women in bright sunny rooms, all of them either on their way to or from yoga class or their creative jobs doing creative things (also in bright sunny rooms). There are never any messy, inconvenient men in GarnetHillLand, and the children are kept segregated in their cheery, brightly-colored creche, raised by the unsleeping and sympathetic robots. Ah, a preview of the future! Sigh. So what if from time to time their shoes look a little hr Giger for my taste? and if perhaps there is a little too…

Amelia had promised her mother that she’d retire her “bitch, please” face, but, upon hearing that Helen actually believed that Robert would be proposing that afternoon (in a hot-air balloon, no less!), no other expression would do. “Not because the terrific deviled-egg crisis of the summer of ’49 have so numerous people been so wrong about so much,” Amelia thought. Robert might be proposing something in a hot-air balloon this afternoon, but it wouldn’t be marriage, and it wouldn’t be to Helen. If only Amelia could get the blueprints in time! Pattern at MOMSPatterns …    Share this: Twitter Facebook…

inspect out this pattern at born as well Late Vintage; It’s rather like the pattern I utilized for this gown (the jellybean dress) only with buttons. (If I had discovered this pattern first, I most likely would have utilized it. huge *pink* buttons, yum!) as well as it’s a B41. (Marge at born as well late seems to have a good stock of size 20 as well as up vintage patterns best now …) I’m truly liking those six-gore skirts, because it’s relatively simple to add pockets to them. I have truly identified that, unless I grow some type of…

Flashing gang signs really wasn’t helping. In homage to Paul Ford. (Thanks to Lauren for the image!) Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading… Related Rant-tastic subject #143: “What to wear on Airplanes”June 25, 2007 International wear A dress Day 2009 — Today!October 29, 2009With 83 comments Fear of the worry of FailureMay 1, 2008

Here’s the second Heidi I made (fuzzy pic, sorry): The material is by Joel Dewberry, I’m quite sure I gotten it from eQuilter, although I don’t see it there now. I most likely hovered with my finger over the “buy” button for five or six sees up until I figured out what to make with it … luckily, Heidi only takes 2 lawns of 56″ large material (another reason to like it!) so it wasn’t a significant commitment when I did choose to get it. I lined the bodice on this with some $1/yard material I gotten ages ago. whenever…

last week Zappos.com offered me a $100 gift certificate to try their new clothing shopping “experience”, and, after thinking about for a while (Pro: I like shopping online in general, and the Zappos interface in particular; Con: will it damage my Walter-Cronkite-like credibility to take free stuff to write about a shopping site?) I decided that sure, I’d give it a shot. Honestly, after about an hour of browsing, I almost wrote back and said “thanks but no thanks” — let’s just say my taste in clothing and what was available on Zappos didn’t have a lot of overlap. (Which…

So as y’all may already know, I have a new book coming out next week. It’s called The Hundred Dresses, as well as it’s all about gown archetypes. (It’s illustrated by the outstanding Donna Mehalko.) The book was influenced by the Eleanor Estes classic, likewise called The Hundred Dresses — as well as most likely the #1 concern I’ve gotten about my “Hundred” is whether it’s about gowns I’ve stitched myself. “Oh, no,” I said, “It’s about traditional dresses, like the Flapper as well as the Airship Hostess! Anyway, I’m sure I don’t have a hundred gowns …” And then I…

Well, my resolution to NOT buy any patterns for a while was sorely tested by this one — tested to the point of bidding on it. However, the universe saved me from myself, and some person who had not resolved not to buy more patterns (as far as I know) got it. Isn’t it dreamy, though [sigh]? The seller, Lisa’s Pieces, has tons of other terrific patterns, in a range of sizes … I’m traveling now, and besides reveling in the warm temperatures (I’m in California), this has also been a terrific trip for positive sewing Reinforcement. PSR is when…

Black Dress: Betcha five bucks I can take down the one on the left before he completes his drink.Green Dress: decent or indecent proposal?Black Dress: Indecent. You get much better fashion jewelry from the indecent ones.Green Dress: You’re on! Didn’t you notice the dog collar? He’s a priest.Black Dress: Honey, that’s what makes this fun. Thanks to Jen at MOMSPatterns.com for today’s pattern … as well as she’s running a sale: 15% off! utilize the code ‘vavoom’. (Free shipping to us & Canada with 5 patterns purchased. Jen has 1000s to select from …) Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this:…