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A dream in times of COVID-19
Sep. 12th, 2020 07:10 pmToday I spent a peaceful couple of hours of lockdown sorting out my decades' old, giant stash of sewing patterns (which I mostly take to the dressmaker/tailor, and say "Make me that, please"). And decided that when we are allowed to travel for fun again SOME DAY, I am going to Bangkok with a tonne-load of material from my (also) giant stash of fabric, and spend a few hours with a tailor whom I have ordered from before, making stupendous 1940s style ladies' suits and dresses, just because I can.
Plus the Jim Thompson Factory Outlet is an excellent place to pick up both more silk and the clothes, cushion covers, silk-covered notebooks and other small gifty things etc etc at a decent discount. Thai silk is stiff, not soft like Chinese silk, so it suits sharply-tailored styles very well. Don't try to drape with it, unless you've doing something architectural, with stiff folds.
FYI, Vogue Patterns (which also includes Butterick, McCall's and Kwiksew) runs stupendous sales a couple of times a year, at which a pattern that usually costs US$34 goes for US$5.99 or even less. They also reissue some lovely vintage patterns, usually from the 1940s and 50s, though I was lucky enough long ago to snag one from 1929 and a couple from the 1930s.
http://www.voguepatterns.us/
Plus the Jim Thompson Factory Outlet is an excellent place to pick up both more silk and the clothes, cushion covers, silk-covered notebooks and other small gifty things etc etc at a decent discount. Thai silk is stiff, not soft like Chinese silk, so it suits sharply-tailored styles very well. Don't try to drape with it, unless you've doing something architectural, with stiff folds.
FYI, Vogue Patterns (which also includes Butterick, McCall's and Kwiksew) runs stupendous sales a couple of times a year, at which a pattern that usually costs US$34 goes for US$5.99 or even less. They also reissue some lovely vintage patterns, usually from the 1940s and 50s, though I was lucky enough long ago to snag one from 1929 and a couple from the 1930s.
http://www.voguepatterns.us/
