LOL! Satin stitching is something I find very easy. I had a small business with a friend many years ago. We decorated clothing with appliques, paint, glitter and rhinestones....hey! it was the 80's!!!
Three times one year, I watched Mothers postpone shopping for their weddings clothes. Finally, I scheduled an appointment with each of them and Took them shopping. No excuses, not hostages. We did it. We had to. It was absolutely gruesome. Everything bigger than a size 8 was muddy rose. C'mon, Kathyl. Let's go. Polly
"KJ" I think I may go to a tanning parlor, get my hair cornrowed and then buy one
I'm right behind you Polly! Go you on.....I'll catch up later...........
OTOH you gotta watch out buying too early. My ex-sil commented how pretty my dress was at her daughter's wedding. (it was beautiful but probably a muddy rose in a 10) Anyway she had also mentioned it would have been a great 'mother of the bride dress'. That was kind of an odd comment until I heard the rest of the story. She bought a dress really early and when she tried it on 2 days before the wedding she had out grown it! She had a panicky shopping trip that netted her a not so great dress. I bet everybody else's dress looked good to her that day! So if you buy early for that kind of thing be sure it is still fitting near the event. I imagine a shopping trip with Polly would be very fun. I want to go too. LOL Taria
Polly Esther wrote:
Please take her shopping without me, Taria. I'm much too old to carry an assault weapon. Reckon a taser would prompt her? Polly
Coughing fit.......... I could just see me flopping on the floor after being tazered and my friends trying to dress me that way. "Here, you hold this arm up while I slip this jacket on. Now, roll her over....." Sounds like a sit-com episode. Actually most of Polly's comments would make a great sit-com.
I'm with you Polly! Shoot me before I have to drag someone dress shopping again. I had to take my sister this past spring for her daughters wedding.
Day one was a total bust and frankly I had to put my foot down on day two. We _had_ to find the dress that day and I did have to threaten to take her stupid cell phone away. Honestly, can people not function anymore without a constant prattle of inane phone conversation? I know that they can't shop while doing it. Then I had to drag her forcibly away from the junior department in every darn store. My sister is a very cute a petite woman. She is not, however 16 years old, and an adult will never never never find a suitable mother of the bride dress where teenagers shop.
In the end I nearly had to bribe her to buy the most beautiful outfit. She felt it was "too expensive" sigh. Then she said "oh, I have this mall gift card that someone gave me" In the end, she had so many darn gift cards (and birthday cash) floating at the bottom of her purse that she ended up spending $70 on her outfit. Then she loved it.
She looked wonderful - not old lady and not teenager - and the other mother was frumpy (which made my sister feel even that much better) She has a great going out to nice places outfit since the wedding colors were black and white, and she's taking the outfit to NY for some fancy business dinner with her husband.
But, oh the pain of getting there. I hate shopping anyway but this was worse than prom dress shopping.
marcella
If only I "could" shop in the junior department!
I went to the Unitarian-Universalist church in the 1970s -- dashikis were just about the mandatory outfit, along with Birkenstocks! LOL I even found a picture of me, my mother, and my grandmother from that era. Mom and I had on dashikis; grandma was dressed in a formal pantsuit and was trying very hard not to look mortified being next to us.
When my Mom died, I found three of her old dashikis, and enough cloth to make two more full length ones. The completed ones when to a friend, but some day the cloth will become a quilt.
Howdy!
So you have a spare? Wanna' trade for something?
R/Sandy- just try> LOL! 169...I found another finished one! heehehe. Well, you might
LOL!! If only that was the worst of my clutter!
Howdy!
Ah, c'm> Nope. None of THAT until you assure us that you have something to wear.
Dresses? I thought they were a kind of baggy shirt. It was always men that wore them, as I remember.
I don't think I ever had one but it was the sort of thing I *might* have worn in the 1970s.
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LOL, oh my, Kathyl, I love that picture! Polly "KJ" Coughing fit.......... I could just see me flopping on the floor after
The "dress" versions were just longer.
My, there are some beautiful clothes on these pages. Thanks for posting this. Gen
You would probably have to run the batteries down on the taser, exhaust your supply of pepper spray, and wind up knocking me unconcious to get me into a dress shop, much less a mall. I loath shopping for flip flops much less a decent dress.
Which is why I am making my dress for DD2's wedding. I've just about finished my sketches. I also have DD sworn to let me in on what her future MIL (who's behavior has to date been shockingly awful) will be wearing.
NightMist
Joke of the day from our paper a couple days ago (put your beverages down :) Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement -- not even her parents' nasty divorce. Her mother had found the perfect dress to wear and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever.
A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new young wife had bought the same dress. Jennifer asked her to exchange it, but she refused. Jennifer told her mother, who graciously said, "Never mind, sweetheart, I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day."
A few days later, then went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asker mother, "Aren't you going to return the other dress? You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it."
Her mother just smiled and replied, "Of course I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding."
Julia > Nope. None of THAT until you assure us that you have something to wear.
I KNOW I've heard that before....but I'd forgotten the punch line! It's great!!!!! It's just a perfect scenario!
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