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Category Archives: 2010s
The Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing
My most vivid memory of India is a visit to the Anokhi Museum outside of Jaipur. Anokhi is a company and foundation dedicated to preserving hand block printing techniques. The museum, a rebuilt former mansion, is filled with beautiful examples … Continue reading
Colors in India
You don’t see much black in India. Women’s clothes vibrate with beautiful colors. The combinations and pattern mixes can be surprising and inspiring. You get the idea from this photo of an older and a younger woman taken from the … Continue reading
Nina McElmore—Putting Punch in the Power Suit
Pantsuits make news. Recently my sister sent me the link to this exuberant video of New York artists wearing all kinds of pantsuits in a flash mob dance for Hillary in Union Square. On the same Washington Post page as … Continue reading
Olive Kitteridge’s Homemade Dress
I found Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Olive Kitteridge quite by accident at my local library’s used bookstore. It examines a difficult woman growing old, starting at a tough spot in her marriage on through to widowhood. Olive is … Continue reading
A Sewing Vacation at sewBoise
My sister and I are sewing and textile enthusiasts. Since we also like to travel together, we use our trips to increase our fabric collections and gain new sewing skills. About a year and half ago at a class taught … Continue reading
Are You a Natural Fiber Snob?
Recently I’ve been logging the contents of my fabric stash into a new i-phone app called Cora. It takes some time because you need to measure each piece and fill out a list of questions. I now know that of … Continue reading
Book Review: The Woman I Wanted to Be by Diane von Furstenberg
Back in the days when I wore dresses, I didn’t find the wrap dress very practical. When I wore it, the style was given to constant wardrobe malfunctions both on the top and the bottom. Since Diane von Furstenberg’s career … Continue reading
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A Look Inside my Closet
I don’t participate in the social media phenomenon called “Me Made May,” where sewers from around the world show off their homemade clothes. Since I sew most of what I wear, I figure there’s nothing special about May for me. … Continue reading
Oscar de la Renta and the Older Woman
The Oscar de la Renta fashion exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco has one unusual element: perhaps half of the clothes on display came from the collections of contemporary women. A good portion of these were red … Continue reading
The Sheath versus the Shirtwaist in the 1960s
Unless fashion doesn’t interest you at all, you must have noticed that the shirtwaist dress—now often called a shirt dress—is back in style. I have an irrational dislike for this beloved classic of American design, which has always seemed dowdy … Continue reading