Austrian cast-on technique in Vogue spring/summer 2005

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:40:27 -0000, snipped-for-privacy@radix.net (Richard Eney) spewed forth :

No, really?

I wouldn't wear most of that stuff even when I was a skinny young thing. Now that I'm a respectable woman I wouldn't be caught dead in any of it ;)

Yes guys I also found that they had gone of the deep end with their patterns this time around. I will take a look at that cast on though, I have a problem with the curlies.... hem, anything that will help it from rolling up is great.

Els

Well, I might make one of the scarves.

Far too many of the designs could only be worn by someone not requiring a bra. Not my situation, I'm afraid.

I haven't sat down and worked out the cast on yet. Thanks for pointing it out though. Dora

Dora, When I was much younger, I remember wanting a topless bathing suit (Who else remembers them?) My darling father said, "Of course you can have one, but then you'll need two signs - one saying 'Front', and one saying 'Back'. " Did I mention that he loved me very much. In any case, I could *still* go braless, but I don't think I would wear those styles.

Katherine

Well ladies Join my complaint Not only macaronies wear clothes !!!! And here i thought that , the New Royal Bride , who isn`t a Skinny chick anymore !!! would Finnaly inspire those designers ,, that We mature ladies are here as well !!!! mirjam

Katherine ,,,,, Did you know that Weaving is very good for those wanting to go Bra-less ,,, Beating the warp ,, is really the best excercise possible !!! .... mirjam

I read in one of my magazines that the reason they use skinny models is that it costs less to make a smaller size garment than a plus sized one. I am not agreeing with their reasoning, but that is the excuse they give.

Kather> Well ladies Join my complaint

LOL I can see it now - a loom at the gym!

Kather> Katherine ,,,,, Did you know that Weaving is very good for those

Hah. And yet they often show the model wearing something that is hanging off their shoulders, dangling past their hands, and being held in back to keep the bagginess from showing so much, or the model holds her arms out like a clothesline to show off the huge square design.

If those are the small size garment, the model must have shrunk.

=Tamar

I just wonder what those garments would look like on us normal women!

Katherine

Some of the designs actually aren't bad, even without (I presume) most of us looking like recently ravished anemics in a southern neo-hippy bordello. A couple of the tops could be worn with office clothing and work quite well. The twin set by Nora Gaughin looks quite nice, but it is made of a cashmere-silk yarn. Who wears that in the middle of summer? Other than the braless issue, most of the rest would be just plain irritating to wear - the type of clothing you have to fuss with all the time to make it hang right, if it doesn't make you look like a house. Dora

As long as they get away with it, and as long as there are macaroni people around! (Thanks for the term, Mirjam!)

Kather> Ho ho ho. And they expect us to believe that hogwash. Talk about > lame.

Katherine ????? Hahahah , and we have to believe them ??? mirjam

You are Welcome Katherine ,, it jumped to my mind , on one of the rare occasions i was tempted to enter a shop and Try on something i liked , i was Giggling when i noticed the differences between Tighs , and breasts and Midriff , were Non Seeable ..It looked more like a Macaroni ,, ever since than i use that phrase ... mirjam

Well, I don't! I see too many young people (and older ones) who are definitely NOT mararonis.

Kather> Katherine ?????

ROTFL When my cousin used to come visit my dad used to tease her that she had "two fried eggs with the yolks broke".... she and I still laugh about it.

I was always a little jealous of smaller chested women considering that I've been big chested since I was 13 and could do myself some serious injury (can we say whiplash) just by running. *sigh* I actually considered having a breast reduction (covered by OHIP because it is for medical reasons) because of my bad backaches.

Gem

Another annoying thing is when they show ads for diets / exercises talking about how "we all need to lose weight" and guess who's in those ads... people who couldn't afford to lose an ounce. Thank goodness Curves For Women have started putting heavier women in their commercials, it is much more realistic.

Gem

Didn't we already have a discussion about the two of us being long lost relatives? That has convinced me, as my father used the same expression!

Hugs, Katherine