This was a perfume smell on steroids. I don't have a cat so I just regarded the kitty litter like a special sand. I can't remember if dry cleaning gets the odor out. The good place charges $35/HS so I wanted to see if I could succeed on my own.
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Yes. They are disease vectors with antlers. I know someone who came down with Rocky Mountain Spotted fever from gardening in his Virginia back yard! He had to go to the hospital. I think he even got packed with ice. Every time I go into a woodsy grassy area, I think about ticks. He said that ticks drop down on people from trees but I read that is a myth. I have read that one should wear a hat to cover their head in the woods, so I dunno what's true.
@momasaurus, I was looking at the H RTW this summer. There were patterns inset into, say, the front of a shift or top. They were probably printed on, actually. But it's possible to inset a square into a garment front in a "reverse applique" technique. I just think it would have to be interfaced to have a "hand" comparable with the rest of the garment. A good tailor could probably do it.
There is a dress or top style that I see as a coming style: flared sleeves. 70s-influenced. I made a blouse with flared, pointed sleeves and lined the them with the patterned silk I used for the skirt. There are sewing patterns for flared sleeves with lower arm slits which expose a contrast lining even more.
Isn't it scarier to see cougars roaming around your backyard compared to a deer...
I guess it's a case of choosing your poison. The point of the editorial was that excess deer lead to excess ticks and that leads to lyme disease and rocky mountain spotted fever. For what it's worth I think big cats other than lions tend to be solitary hunters. (Only one will be chasing you or me). There is no really good solution to excess deer but there are definite consequences to having them. There is supposed to be an ecological balance so that predators keep pesky animals in check but this balance has disappeared. I bet anyone who lives in the Northeastern U.S. knows someone who has lyme disease.Isn't it scarier to see cougars roaming around your backyard compared to a deer...
The deer do seem to leave iris alone. (I hope my local deer are not reading this and laughing!) I have used some of the deterrent sprays, but honestly I think the deer regard that as salad dressing.
Ooooh - flared sleeves with exposed lining sounds very cool and medieval (right up my alley!!). Reverse applique insets also. Now I need to find an imaginative tailor or design student.
Pets can get Lyme disease too. I had to take my dog to the vet a while back for a leg injury, and one of the first things he asked me was if we had been in the woods. Turns out limping can be a sign of Lyme in dogs. My puppy was truly injured (and just had his ACL replaced), but it was a good reminder to use a flea/tick preventative every month.
We have service that we pay to spray an egg based spray that has garlic and other smelly things. It's disgusting for a day or two but it works. The former owners lost the entire garden to deer once. The hippy dippy gardener had me switch to a different company for a brief time and we almost lost it again. Since we went back to American Deer things are much better. If they are in your area I highly recommend them.
It's hot again here. In the 90s. So no fall jackets or scarves for me yet. Waiting not so patiently.
I want to share this article I just read. It says what I already know, but boy does it aggravate me to read it. It is by the former chief creative officer for Liz Claiborne Inc. and judge on Project Runway. He talks about how the average American woman is between a size 16 and a size 18. There are 100 million plus size women in American who want to spend money on clothes and designers refuse to make clothes for women larger than a 12. They don't want clothes out there on people who would ruin their look. I was a 14 most of my life until I put on enough weight to go to a 16. There is no point in shopping until I get back to a 14. Mrs O -- we should start a clothing line that caters to the neglected 100 million.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...erm=.ba1bab2a1917&wpisrc=nl_most-draw8&wpmm=1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...erm=.ba1bab2a1917&wpisrc=nl_most-draw8&wpmm=1
Yup, weight-ism lives. People think they are disguising it when they cite "health" as the reason for discriminating against non-sample size women, but science has shown that this excuse really doesn't hold water. Skinny doesn't equal healthy, period.
I am encouraged that more and more women of normal size are refusing to apologize for existing, and are demanding that society provide them with the services/merchandise to which they have a right. It's not a coincidence, by the way, that larger WOMEN are disproportionately more shamed than larger MEN. Stoopid society.
Off my soap box now.
I am encouraged that more and more women of normal size are refusing to apologize for existing, and are demanding that society provide them with the services/merchandise to which they have a right. It's not a coincidence, by the way, that larger WOMEN are disproportionately more shamed than larger MEN. Stoopid society.
Off my soap box now.
That was an interesting article @Cordeliere Tim Gunn is becoming much more outspoken recently and I like it. I am an avid Project Runway watcher and I love him. He acts as a mentor to the designers, not a judge or the girl that designed hideous Prom Plus Size clothes would not have won!
At my heaviest I was squeezing into 14s so I was probably a 16, I'm back to a 10/8 and am aiming for my old 6 as i have some fabulous dresses and coats I'd love to wear again but if I don't make it I am happy with how much more fit and healthy I am-I've been an extremely unhealthy and mushy 2/4 so health is not a good argument. I totally admit that part of my motivation is to wear the clothes I love from some of these designers that don't accommodate most of the population. As someone who has always loved clothes and fashion, it was painful to not be able to wear things I admired so much. That's why I had so many shoes and bags, they always fit. Now I have fewer of everything and at least have an easy time getting dressed. I'm also enjoying the changes I'm making to my overall health and fitness beyond just wearing skinny pants. And even at a 6 most designer stuff is not cut for someone with curves. I have to say I did not enjoy Karl's quote in that article. Most of the world is curvy! And not that I'm looking but I've seen Chanel vintage for sale up to a 50/52 so thats a pretty wide range from a 34/36.
I don't know if it's entirely accurate though that if you provided better plus sized fashions, it would be a success. So many brands have tried and struggled. Certainly there is a customer for it but there is a bit of truth in various sizes being hard to cut for. My 16 would surely look different than Cordy's 16 since I'm so much shorter
I worked for a few retailers that had Plus collections, the most successful just added sizes in their regular styles. They didn't waver in pattern or cut from an XS to 3X but they were a specialty retailer and had their own stores to place the merchandise in. I can't see NM or Barney's adding in Stella up to a 20 and at designer prices, you want to try things on. Very interesting discussion though. Hopefully someone will figure it out and make a mint while making women feel great about themselves!
At my heaviest I was squeezing into 14s so I was probably a 16, I'm back to a 10/8 and am aiming for my old 6 as i have some fabulous dresses and coats I'd love to wear again but if I don't make it I am happy with how much more fit and healthy I am-I've been an extremely unhealthy and mushy 2/4 so health is not a good argument. I totally admit that part of my motivation is to wear the clothes I love from some of these designers that don't accommodate most of the population. As someone who has always loved clothes and fashion, it was painful to not be able to wear things I admired so much. That's why I had so many shoes and bags, they always fit. Now I have fewer of everything and at least have an easy time getting dressed. I'm also enjoying the changes I'm making to my overall health and fitness beyond just wearing skinny pants. And even at a 6 most designer stuff is not cut for someone with curves. I have to say I did not enjoy Karl's quote in that article. Most of the world is curvy! And not that I'm looking but I've seen Chanel vintage for sale up to a 50/52 so thats a pretty wide range from a 34/36.
I don't know if it's entirely accurate though that if you provided better plus sized fashions, it would be a success. So many brands have tried and struggled. Certainly there is a customer for it but there is a bit of truth in various sizes being hard to cut for. My 16 would surely look different than Cordy's 16 since I'm so much shorter
I worked for a few retailers that had Plus collections, the most successful just added sizes in their regular styles. They didn't waver in pattern or cut from an XS to 3X but they were a specialty retailer and had their own stores to place the merchandise in. I can't see NM or Barney's adding in Stella up to a 20 and at designer prices, you want to try things on. Very interesting discussion though. Hopefully someone will figure it out and make a mint while making women feel great about themselves!
Hi pierina,So nice to see you! Great to hear there were no dye runs! Would you mind noted water temp and detergent you used? Gaining courage...
Hmm, can't recall the soap but probably a cashmere wash, in cool but not freezing cold water.
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Talking about people having different shapes in the same size. Sometimes I see women with non-standard shapes and their clothes fit perfectly. I wonder how they do it. Like a woman with a broad beam and a very tiny waist wearing a pair of pants that fit perfectly. I fantasize that there is an alternative shopping universe somewhere that I don't know about.