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Anonymous wrote:No amount of money can buy a defined waist these days.

AMEN

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Anonymous wrote:My 60-something year old aunt has started sewing dresses for herself. The woman makes 300k and is sewing her own work dresses like it's 1892 because everything in the stores is such garbage.

I want to read about your aunt. Can you start a thread dedicated to her adventures in dress making?

This! She's sounds great. Can she teach us to sew?

Back on topic, I wandered into Talbots the other day and it was PACKED. I mean, women everywhere. And I realized that it's bc they have decent basics and lots of women are willing to pay their prices to not have zippered cold shoulder tops.

I am 32 and regularly buy pieces from Talbots. I see other young women at work and church wearing Talbots too.

Back to my aunt, who also occasionally shops at Talbots, but is sewing regularly for herself. She's not actually new to sewing, she's been sewing for decades. It's her "winter hobby" while gardening is her "summer hobby." She came from a well-to-do family in a small village the Middle East, and she and her sisters actually bought fabric and chose patterns and a tailor would sew their clothes. The tailor was a gifted artisan but took his sweet time and my aunt got fed up and learned to sew for herself using Burda patterns. Since fabric was cheap and readily available and she was used to figuring out what patterns would look good on her, this was a pretty practical choice. Over time she got more skilled until she was sewing lined pants and blazers; whatever she wanted and had the time to make. She went to medical school fully expecting that once she got married she would stay at home, like all the women she had ever known, but when she got engaged her fiance announced that he wanted to emigrate, so they should take their tests in the United States before they got married. This was a red flag for my aunt since the last thing she wanted to do was work as a doctor, she didn't really excel in medical school and also she faints at the sight of blood. My aunt traveled to Chicago, where my oldest aunt was living, and outperformed her fiance on their tests. He was controlling and jealous that she did better than him and really got on her nerves, so she broke up with him. Alone, in a strange country with no money, and because of a set of circumstances I don't exactly remember, she was stuck in Chicago so she decided to work as a seamstress since there was literally nothing else she knew how to do. She got a job in a fur store with a bunch of Polish ladies who suspected something was up with her, but she never told anyone that she was actually a physician. Then she had another horrible decade until she finally got a decent job as a physician. And now she does whatever she wants with her time and she never got married. She sticks to easy dress patterns but is happy that she can make dresses for herself at the length she wants in the fabric she wants and with SLEEVES. I think she is probably asexual, as men have consistently shown interest in her and she does not reciprocate ever. She does not have a cleaning lady and she cooks all her meals and gives most of her salary to charity.

And that is how you start sewing for yourself because the clothes in the stores are crappy.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a mix of shitty quality and laughable cuts, and you can't decouple the two. For example, I had a FITTED, 3/4 sleeves stretch cotton blend sweater from the GAP that I wore for all four years of college in the early 2000's. It got washed and dried in dormitory appliances, never handled delicately, and it looked great with both jeans and nice trousers. Fast forward to today - that sweater from the GAP is now likely to be a TENT with slits up the sides and look most appropriate for slobbing around the house in. And after one cycle of wash and dry, will be a pilled ball of wrinkly ragged mess.

Preach

Exactly!

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, let's look at the pricier stuff. Here's what Rebecca Taylor is offering in dresses this season:

http://www.rebeccataylor.com/clothing/categories/dresses-and-jumpsuits/

Anything here anyone's wearing to the office?

this is pretty. http://www.rebeccataylor.com/lyra-floral-hammered-silk-dress/617985D592.html?dwvar_617985D592_color=BLKCOM&cgid=dresses-and-jumpsuits#start=1

This? http://www.rebeccataylor.com/capucine-floral-hammered-silk-shirtdress/517965D471.html?dwvar_517965D471_color=BLKCOM&cgid=dresses-and-jumpsuits#start=1

Although it doesn't look very flattering.

this? http://www.rebeccataylor.com/petal-sleeve-silk-and-tweed-dress/517633D559.html?dwvar_517633D559_color=BLKCOM&cgid=dresses-and-jumpsuits#start=1

Maybe this, if it were about 4 inches longer. http://www.rebeccataylor.com/cap-sleeve-stretch-texture-dress/517345D568.html?dwvar_517345D568_color=BLACK&cgid=dresses-and-jumpsuits#start=1

I don't see anything else appropriate for the office.

Here is one that I could maybe wear to work

http://www.rebeccataylor.com/static-print-shirtdress/517978D359.html?dwvar_517978D359_color=DANACO&cgid=dresses-and-jumpsuits#start=1

That was hideous!

Agreed! The first two are just sad. SAD. Little House on the Prarie...like, in the bad years, when Mary went blind and Pa wasn't finding much work.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the bubbleheaded millennials on here defending their ugly clothes because they are too soft minded and lacking in creativity to reject anything the media sells them. Sorry, the rest of us are not "fraus" for calling this shit ugly. It IS ugly, just like bell bottoms were ugly. Some things just are.

I get the impression that the multiple posts labeling anyone who dares to agree with the OP an old, out of touch, frumpy "frau" were written by one (very prolific) poster.

These posts reek of the same kind of desperation. I can't quite decide, however, whether a person who emits this particular brand of pathetic desperation is more likely to be a) a mentally unwell individual who is in desperate need of anger management therapy, treatment for BPD, &/or an intervention, b) a disgruntled (& perhaps recently fired) fashion designer who is in desperate need of a new career, or c) just an incredibly obnoxious & immature woman who never outgrew her middle school mean girl mentality & is in desperate need of several swift kicks to her (trendily attired) ass.

PREACH

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Anonymous wrote:Also agree it's all awful.

Anyone know what women in Europe are wearing? I can't imagine thei buying this shit.

I'm from Paris. They're not wearing the bared shoulders look, that's for sure!
Generally smoother figures, less colors, cleaner cut styles. It helps that the populations are less overweight - makes clothes look better.

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Anonymous wrote:Matching...?