Jacket Fabric!?

We can probably rule out wearing it to the same shopping trips-theaters-sports events as well. ;-)

Beverly

My thought as well, but I'll wait to make a final decision until the fabric arrives, and undergoes machine washing and drying.

I'm not planning on lining this particular jacket, so I think underlining the fabric with a fusible may work best. I like the knit rayon fusible interfacing a lot, it bonded perfectly using fairly low heat, and stayed bonded after a test washing on some silk. I'll have to see how it reacts to poly.

Beverly

I hope I'll be able to find some lightweight silk to make a blouse, picking up one of the colors in the paisley. I'm planning on wearing it with black twill slacks.

Beverly

Oh, yeah! I find flannel nightgowns ideal for shopping trips these days. No worries about closing time in the malls, either. Home theatre is getting to be the way to go, too. Talked to my cousin yesterday and she said she and her husband took their grandson to a movie matinee, and it cost them $40. They can buy second-hand CDs for under $5 at a nearby store. A little Orville Redenbacher in the microwave, and there you go! As for sports....well, I never did get that. The old man makes up for me, though. He even watches golf.

Eeeeuuuwwww, flannel???!!! Doesn't your monitor object?

I am shocked...SHOCKED! at the price of movie theater admission and concessions. Who can afford that?

I love hockey and willingly watch baseball. Football? Golf? Bowling? Not so much.

Beverly

Lanz flannel nightgowns? What's to object to? The added bonus is that I can run out to the backyard and feed the feral cats and birds before I get dressed. If the neighbors feel compelled to watch, they don't see anything worth getting out the binoculars.

They are pretty enough, I just sleep so hot I cannot bear the thought.

Occasionally a neighbor catches a glimpse of me collecting the morning newspaper in my velour robe. No need for them to know what's underneath. ;-)

Beverly

I know where you are with the shopping, but for me 'theatre' means a trip to the London to somewhere like The Young Vic to see Pete Postlethwait do a marvelous King Lear, or to the Patrick Stewart and David Tennant version of Hamlet (Patrick was great, but David in hospital having back surgery, which was a shame) with The Royal Shakespeare Company. Film is cinema, and different! ;)

On this side of the pond, 'film' is "the movies", as in "let's go to the movies". Unless you're talking "art films". And very few "dress up" even for the symphony and the opera. :-(

Beverly

London is 13 hours by air from here, and I no longer do 30 minutes by air voluntarily. But I do understand the attraction.

And a shame it is, too. We always try to look at least halfway "respectable"for these things, i.e. dress for me, coat and tie for him.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I still 'dress up' for airline and train travel. And for nice restaurants....... ;-}

Beverly

Less than an hour on the train, and *so* worth it!

Nice restaurants, yes, Glynebourne, yes, but The Young Vic? Nah, student venue, that! Bench seats and mop & bucket for the blood between acts - all in the round!

Pete Postlethwait was brilliant, mind. Worth the torture!

What constitutes dress up? For me it's very nice pants, a pretty blouse and a jacket, sometimes it's a skirt. Always flat heel shoes because I'd break my neck in anything else. I also wear jewelry. Usually necklace and earrings. Talking about earrings, I started making my own. They are easy to do and very much what I want and not what some store has for me to buy. Juno

It's easier to define what's NOT dressed up:

flip-flops ragged cutoffs Birkenstocks 'camis' with bra straps showing bottoms (on men or women) with "love-handles" showing rips and tears, deliberate or not screen printed Ts with vulgar sayings or beer ads

Dressed up for me also includes nice slacks and flat shoes, a tucked in blouse with a jacket, or a well designed tunic. Also, having a little makeup on, my hair well groomed, and my nails clean and polished. Earrings essential, necklace optional.

It involves being "put together" in such a way that my mother would have been proud to be seen with me. No white gloves or hat though. ;-) Yeah, I turn 70 next month and Mom died 38 years ago, but what-would-have-been-her-good-opinion still matters... a lot.

This jacket I'm planning is for the BD celebration with my aunt, twin sister and brother. We were all (including my DH) born a day either side of May 13, and we've celebrated together for years. This year my aunt will be 80! I was born on her 10th BD. We're all going to a very nice restaurant, and I'm planning a celebratory cake for dessert.

Beverly

I used to make jewelry, but have quit since I don't go places to use most of what I have now. I am never without earrings, though. Emily

I was with you until you got here. I must have my Birks. Not just Birks, it turns out, but the "high arch support" and possibly the new soft footbed, which I have not yet tried. Anything else and I wake up with a hip that feels like it has met with a 2x4 and was on the losing side. Not to mention having the same hip shoot pain when I put my weight on it -- not always, but often enough to keep me anxious. Then there's the knee - or what I refer to as the Ag-on-knee - which swells up and gets hot and HURTS. So I'll be wearing Birks. Not necessarily sandals, since there are many styles, but none have high heels. I don't know why they work, but I notice doctors are now prescribing them for hip pain.

You had to rub it in, didn't you? :^P