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chocolatepotYou should be very proud of me, I just prevented myself from buying a set of 11 magazines (five from 1920 and 1929, the rest from the 1930s) that was at $9.95 with zero bids and $9.50 s/h. I put my foot down. NO. Not on my watch.
But I wanted two of them ...
Mom thinks I shouldn't use the checked peach shirting because close-to-flesh-tones don't look good on me. She didn't want to tell me before because her mother used to tell her that basically everything wasn't her color (which is probably why she prefers to wear black, white, and grey nowadays). But I'm glad to know.
Dad is hassling me once again about "not having a job". Because since it's temporary I'm only an intern. Also, if I got a part-time retail job I would get paid more than minimum wage, because "nobody pays minimum wage". Even though I pointed out that I've never been paid more then 25c above minimum wage at a retail/food service job. Yup, you'd think I would know, but I guess I must be misinformed!
Can anyone tell me what "crowding the fabric" at the top of a bone in a dress bodice means? I'm trying to type up the instructions in an article on dressmaking and I'm not sure what they're saying to do. Or "spring the bone quite a little". Is that like, creasing it a bit? I can give more context, I just thought these might be ordinary sewing terms I don't know.
But I wanted two of them ...
Mom thinks I shouldn't use the checked peach shirting because close-to-flesh-tones don't look good on me. She didn't want to tell me before because her mother used to tell her that basically everything wasn't her color (which is probably why she prefers to wear black, white, and grey nowadays). But I'm glad to know.
Dad is hassling me once again about "not having a job". Because since it's temporary I'm only an intern. Also, if I got a part-time retail job I would get paid more than minimum wage, because "nobody pays minimum wage". Even though I pointed out that I've never been paid more then 25c above minimum wage at a retail/food service job. Yup, you'd think I would know, but I guess I must be misinformed!
Can anyone tell me what "crowding the fabric" at the top of a bone in a dress bodice means? I'm trying to type up the instructions in an article on dressmaking and I'm not sure what they're saying to do. Or "spring the bone quite a little". Is that like, creasing it a bit? I can give more context, I just thought these might be ordinary sewing terms I don't know.
