Talking FABRIC.
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Last week seemed to be the week for me to find lots of really nice dress fabric. (Apparently the local Goodwill stores don't want to fool around with measuring material out at the cash registers anymore so they've taken to putting odd lots of fabric into clear plastic bags. If you're careful, you ( Read more... )
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What wonderful hauls you got in those grab bags!
*sigh* How lovely it would be if the Goodwill nearest to me carried fabric in usable yardage! What's available, though, is generally just tired old draperies, pilled and/or stained, and sometimes bedspreads. Nothing in natural fibers, which is a huge disappointment for me.
I think tap shorts are very comfortable-looking lingerie and if you found a beautiful rayon challis to make them out of, well, they'd be so feminine and sexy (would your mother narrow her eyes at that idea, too?---mine would) and glamorous, well, you'd just never want to take them off except to put on straight-away the next pair of the dozen or so you'd made for yourself. ---You are going to make yourself a dozen or so, of course, yes?
*giggle* I can't think of "bloomers" without thinking of "Margie," at least I believe that's the film: hers were nothing like tap shorts. Neither are "boy briefs," if you were thinking of those, which guys these days are calling boxer-briefs.
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BTW--the fit on even this trial pair of "boy briefs" is excellent! I won't be throwing it away despite that silly gusset going east-west whenever I go north-south. Boy briefs is actually a far better name for what I've come up with than bloomers, so that's what I'll call them from here on.
I bought more sheets today and in more colors: Purple, aqua, pale gray, pale blue, orange sherbet, white with a charcoal gray stripe, etc. It's been a long time since I bought so many at once but with the Goodwill, you get it when you find it or you can count on it not being there when you come back. These sheets were all nearly new. I think somebody got rid of a "room mate" and then went on to get rid of room mate's sheets as well.
Whenever I asked the sales lady to help me look over the sheets, the first pair we stretched out between us was sporting a very risque set of undies. I looked at her and she looked at me and we both burst out laughing!
She grabbed the undies and threw them over to the unsorted pile of donated clothing, and we went on ( ... )
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