From a clothes horse perspective a little less up top definitely looks better. For some other aspects I'm ok with my er god given proportions.
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Absolutely as you should be Genie! Also I think PBP is correct, you have a way to go age wise. You are at that glorious stage where you can get away with just about anything!
Hi cordie! Firstly I have to say, I laughed out loud at the end of your post since the whole time I was reading it I was wonder why it was red and boldI felt like I was in trouble from the teacher!
A direct answer: No, not all 90's are aging. Grace said it best, throwing them on in a careless but confident manner is great at any age. Lovely color near the face can be better than foundation and lipstick. A quick peruse through the scarf of the day thread proves that many members here look fantastic in their 90's at any age. I do think that there is this nebulous time in a woman's life when you are older but not old, and younger but not young. Ines de la Fressange explains it in her book much better than I ever can, how this is a time when perhaps matching tweed suits, scarf rings and crocodile Kellys shouldn't be worn
Examples of outfits that do not work easily with H silk are the deconstructed looks I love so much from the previously mentioned Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester and more artistic prints from Dries Van Noten. Dip dyes are easier with these outfits and dark colors. Folding into a long bias and tying into a chocker with one long tail is a look that works well with some of these outfits, or a very loose triangle. My favorites are Mythiques Phoenix, Sieste au Paradis, Metamorphosis Le Robinson Chic and Astrologie dip dye. They get used quite often along with the solid bee jacquard losanges. A recently acquired Iris will get thrown into this well used pile soon I hope.
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I hope I'm making sense and answering your question. I'm on pain meds from oral surgery and trying to stay awake for Game of Thrones tonight.
Here are scarves I adore but literally never wear. I can't imagine parting with them though, they make me incredibly happy, they are so beautiful. One day when I am very old and want to keep my neck under wraps, they will have a chanceYou can see they are brighter and "prettier", (except for the two black ones, not sure why I don't wear those).
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Anyway, I hope this was helpful. Scarf journeys and collections are so personal, I think it's hard to come up with rules. It's all so emotional and intuitive.
This is a brilliant post, Dharma, full of very practical advice (I love that you suggest Dip Dyes to go with Rick Owens, so smart).
It is very true that the right color next to the face can work small miracles, I noticed this after buying a few silks. I started to understand that the ones that went home with me were the ones that brightened up my complexion instantly. My SA is particularly good at knowing which these will be & often shows me CWs that I hadn't previously considered.
I'm wishing you a swift recovery!
It's the same with me. I have a Sears Kenmore all metal machine bought new in 1971. People have told me that's a good thing b/c the plastic machines wear out -- I never knew this. I'm also thinking of getting an embroidery machine when I retire. Thanks for the encouragement to pursue embroidered garments, dharma!
Evidently sewing experts like Kenneth King (writes for Threads magazine) like to have a mix of really old and new machines. I think Kenneth has one of those old black Singer machines that operate via treadle. Just for fun.
I have a early 70's bright ORANGE Husqvarna. It weighs a ton, though. More than a fully loaded 35B!
I agree. I have a gold Kelly and it looks great next to silks with orange. I would think the undertones in Barenia would also be complemented.
Hi cordie! Firstly I have to say, I laughed out loud at the end of your post since the whole time I was reading it I was wonder why it was red and bold
A direct answer: No, not all 90's are aging. Grace said it best, throwing them on in a careless but confident manner is great at any age. Lovely color near the face can be better than foundation and lipstick. A quick peruse through the scarf of the day thread proves that many members here look fantastic in their 90's at any age. I do think that there is this nebulous time in a woman's life when you are older but not old, and younger but not young. Ines de la Fressange explains it in her book much better than I ever can, how this is a time when perhaps matching tweed suits, scarf rings and crocodile Kellys shouldn't be worn
Examples of outfits that do not work easily with H silk are the deconstructed looks I love so much from the previously mentioned Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester and more artistic prints from Dries Van Noten. Dip dyes are easier with these outfits and dark colors. Folding into a long bias and tying into a chocker with one long tail is a look that works well with some of these outfits, or a very loose triangle. My favorites are Mythiques Phoenix, Sieste au Paradis, Metamorphosis Le Robinson Chic and Astrologie dip dye. They get used quite often along with the solid bee jacquard losanges. A recently acquired Iris will get thrown into this well used pile soon I hope.
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I hope I'm making sense and answering your question. I'm on pain meds from oral surgery and trying to stay awake for Game of Thrones tonight.
Here are scarves I adore but literally never wear. I can't imagine parting with them though, they make me incredibly happy, they are so beautiful. One day when I am very old and want to keep my neck under wraps, they will have a chance
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Anyway, I hope this was helpful. Scarf journeys and collections are so personal, I think it's hard to come up with rules. It's all so emotional and intuitive.
What a wonderful post, Dharma. I really enjoyed reading your thoughts.
Hi, I need to babble. I apologize for wall-o-text, but there's a picture at the end!
So... I took the train up to Copenhagen this weekend. Saturday I thought I'd stop at H as I'm really not fond of the local store. The web site showed me 2 stores downtown, which seemed surprising, but I wandered my way toward the nearest.
Here is where I note that I am completely oblivious. I chatted with a nice SA for, what, an hour? before she told me that the store had opened THAT DAY. I had been wondering why she obviously knew the products but kept having to ask where specific things were...
So I'd picked out a perfume set, a Calvi (in not-neutral! because my store only has brown), a Space Shopping 45, and a Behapi (in not-neutral! because my store only has brown), and she asked, "Are you interested in bags, a mumble-mumble, mumble-mumble..."
And I was surprised, because my store has never shown the slightest interest in showing me a bag. And I had been thinking just to ask what color and size the Halzan on the shelf was, just to improve my H knowledge! It turned out to be a a Rouge Casaque 31 in Clemence, and I tried it on, and she burbled about how wonderful it was, which it was, and I agreed to buy it, and then their system wasn't accepting AmEx, which was secretly a relief because I hadn't really budgeted for a 4000 Euro bag. But I am still sad because I've been drooling over this bag for months.
And then. And then, ten hours later as I was getting ready for bed, my brain replayed that "mumble mumble" and I realized she had said, "mumble Kelly mumble". SHE OFFERED ME A KELLY and my stupid brain fixated on questions about a Halzan. Please talk me down from beating my head against my desk. Or point and laugh, that's a valid option too.
Also, the new Copenhagen H at 4 Højbro Plads has Kellys, apparently.
In conclusion, here are golden horse balloons that they were handing out. I ambushed a couple of German tourist girls on Sunday to let me take a picture of their balloons. (I thought they'd stay in the picture as well, but they just dropped their bags on the ground and scooted out of the way.)
So... I took the train up to Copenhagen this weekend. Saturday I thought I'd stop at H as I'm really not fond of the local store. The web site showed me 2 stores downtown, which seemed surprising, but I wandered my way toward the nearest.
Here is where I note that I am completely oblivious. I chatted with a nice SA for, what, an hour? before she told me that the store had opened THAT DAY. I had been wondering why she obviously knew the products but kept having to ask where specific things were...
So I'd picked out a perfume set, a Calvi (in not-neutral! because my store only has brown), a Space Shopping 45, and a Behapi (in not-neutral! because my store only has brown), and she asked, "Are you interested in bags, a mumble-mumble, mumble-mumble..."
And I was surprised, because my store has never shown the slightest interest in showing me a bag. And I had been thinking just to ask what color and size the Halzan on the shelf was, just to improve my H knowledge! It turned out to be a a Rouge Casaque 31 in Clemence, and I tried it on, and she burbled about how wonderful it was, which it was, and I agreed to buy it, and then their system wasn't accepting AmEx, which was secretly a relief because I hadn't really budgeted for a 4000 Euro bag. But I am still sad because I've been drooling over this bag for months.
And then. And then, ten hours later as I was getting ready for bed, my brain replayed that "mumble mumble" and I realized she had said, "mumble Kelly mumble". SHE OFFERED ME A KELLY and my stupid brain fixated on questions about a Halzan. Please talk me down from beating my head against my desk. Or point and laugh, that's a valid option too.
Also, the new Copenhagen H at 4 Højbro Plads has Kellys, apparently.
In conclusion, here are golden horse balloons that they were handing out. I ambushed a couple of German tourist girls on Sunday to let me take a picture of their balloons. (I thought they'd stay in the picture as well, but they just dropped their bags on the ground and scooted out of the way.)
Sounds like my Mom's viking Husqvarna. I'll bet it still works perfectly, right? Hers has these little round cogs that you snap into the body of the machine to change the stitches. It was revolutionary at the time, lol. I played with those things so much as a kid.
Oh my, this is the best store visit story ever. The balloons are fabulous!! I hope you find your Halzan one day!
What a story! Maybe you can come back and ask for the kelly?
By the way, thanks for suggestion on the Historian. Finished the book last week and I enjoyed it. Makes me want to go to Romania
Wow! What a store opening. Love the balloons. If the timing wasn't right for you it was good that you passed on the halzan and the Kelly. It's very difficult to do but the right thing.
Thanks! I realized that I like it enough that I will start saving for it. It's possible that H won't have it any more by then - I suspect they'll come up with something equally lovely.
What a story! Maybe you can come back and ask for the kelly?
By the way, thanks for suggestion on the Historian. Finished the book last week and I enjoyed it. Makes me want to go to Romania
I... am kind of tempted. But in reality, and to undercut my own story, I did hear her when she said Kelly (and a couple bags I knew I wasn't interested in), but my brain went, "she didn't really, did she? and if she did I can't afford one anyway*, and I can't waste her time that way, and, and, and... Halzan! I just want to know the color so I can obsess from afar! and no one would offer a Kelly to someone off the street anyway."
And then later my brain pointed out that if the store were ever to offer Kellys to people off the street, it would be on Grand Opening day, and I had just picked out $1000 of stuff so I was not a totally unreasonable target. So I had another glass of wine and told my brain to shut up.
Um, and that book sounds great, but search tells me pirula gave that recommendation.
*My father just went in to residential Alzheimer's care at $5000/mo. Long-term care insurance will kick in shortly, thank goodness.
Thanks for the reassurance.
The timing really isn't right and I'm not direly in need of a bag.And I have the SA's name and number, so I think I will end up going back to her in a few months. It was actually when I asked for her card that she said her cards hadn't arrived yet and pointed out that it was the store's first day. I was like, "oh, right, balloons!" So at least she likes me, even if I'm a bit slow.
