“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” Charles Eames, industrial designer In its first life, the dress went to a summer dance on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1963. Not long after, it traveled with the teen girl who delighted in it to Appalachia -- to a small city hugged by low,… Continue reading Respecting the dress
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Sweater sayonara
“If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. " Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Canadian author/knitter The clock is ticking on the closet season. Red corduroy shirt. Swoosh. Down the chute for a final laundering before it's put away. It won't be seen… Continue reading Sweater sayonara
Secrets from my children
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanack" She almost caught me. Just when I was looking longingly at a newspaper circular for elastic-waisted pants -- the mom jeans to end all mom jeans -- my youngest daughter strolled through the kitchen. I flipped the paper over… Continue reading Secrets from my children
Enough hoochie-mama
"What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language." Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer I have never thought about clothes more than since our daughters entered adolescence. It's a mine field out there. If designers aren't making something too short, too… Continue reading Enough hoochie-mama
Wrapped in light
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” American author Mark Twain If the dictates of fashion and inter-cultural politics ever allow women of no color to go about wearing full-body Indian saris, I'm in. Not only are they insanely pretty, they beat the yoga pants off the competition when… Continue reading Wrapped in light
