Ever wondered what to do with your Mum's old curtains?
Well, here's an idea. Send them to the BBC, and with any luck they'll make them into a frock for one of their news presenters.
Nice, eh?
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Probably the height of fashion and Lady M will be wearing something similar when she nexts visits England.
ReplyDeleteProbably cost a packet too.....for those old curtains
I'm not sure about that, we both burst out laughing when we saw her. It's usually the girl in yellow who wears the really odd stuff, but this time she must have won the toss.
DeleteOur Yorkshire regional team wear some very odd 'frocks', not only the material but the lenght and tightness are frightening. Mind you, my Mum made me some great summer dresses out of a metre (or was it a yard) of curtain material and bias binding when I was 15 or so.
ReplyDeleteI can just about remember my mother wearing some very 'sofa-ish' materials back in the 1950's. But in those days it was the height of fashion; not so today, methinks.
DeleteI must apologize about the occasional 'Chloe' comment; it must be the New Moon. I do delete them as soon as I see them. For some bizarre reason she's started calling me George, I wonder if she's confusing me with George Clooney?
ReplyDeleteOo, I love a bit of colour in the wardrobe! Her dress looks more like a novelty tablecloth fabric. I'm thinking Hawaiian bark cloth. I have a skirt made out of vintage sofa upholstery fabric. After many years of washing, it's only now losing it's industrial finish and is starting to soften up. I know first-hand now why a billowy curtain made a better garment.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone sat on you, thinking you were a sofa?
DeleteWell, it worked for Scarlett O'Hara, and the Von Trapp kids...
ReplyDeleteThe Von Trapp family would never have made the front page of Vogue magazine.
DeleteThat's how Laura Ashley made her fortune.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, but her Mum's curtains were slightly more acceptable, and the frilly bits were accidently used as collars.
DeleteShe specialised in floral tents for the fuller figure usually.
DeleteIt looks like a roll of lino, or oil cloth as it to be called, from the 50s.
ReplyDeleteI think they made it several sizes too big as well.
DeleteMine's a Grundig. I mean the TV. They just showed an 8-eyed spider that lives at a height of 6,500 mtrs
Deletein the Himalayas. It can see a 360 degree panorama. Too many clothes horses on the box these days. I wonder what she'll wear tomorrow?
Nothing new in life. My mother always maintained that the outfit worn by the Queen at Princess Margaret's wedding was our old drawingroom curtains that she'd run up the night before in the spirit of make do and mend.
ReplyDeleteAnd was she right. Sounds likely to me!
DeleteActually, her pajamas.
ReplyDeleteThey DO look like pyjamas, maybe she simply forgot to change.
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