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Shirt: Ralph Lauren  |  Skirt: Asos  |  Shoes: Ralph Lauren  |  Tights: Wolford  |  Belt: Ralph Lauren  |  Polish: Essie (Fishnet Stockings)

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Just when I believed that all the fantastic offers have already rolled out for Halloween or Black Friday, I see this:

It’s a beard extravaganza!
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Time to beard up!

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New York, new York

Hello! I live here! naturally I was thrilled to see the home I know and love pop up in your favorite destinations, let alone in the #1 spot! Please travel here, see the sites, eat the deliciousness, wander through the museums, do all the things.  Don’t neglect the Frick Collection or the new York historical Society.

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London, England

Pack your travel umbrellas friends, because London made the #2 spot! Honestly, I thought it’d be Paris, but I’m so thrilled to see that you’re exploring and loving London, a lot. With so much history, culture, and much more exciting restaurants by the day, I can’t wait to go back. Now, where’s the best afternoon tea, weekend market, and Instagram op? Spill!

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Paris, France

Ah, ma belle ville, j’adore. Whether I’m hustling from meeting to meeting or digging for vintage treasure, all activities are much more fun in Paris. even the simplest moments, walking down a street, purchasing a cup of coffee, or reading a book in a cafe seem to be swathed in romance and beauty. and that’s before we even get to the carbs…

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Rome, Italy

You had me at pasta. but I’ll stick around for the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, and the gelato while I’m at it. honestly just tell the cab to let me out anywhere in this ancient, astounding city, I’ll be fine. It’s one of my all-time favorite destinations.

5

Iceland

Since this is the only time you men suggested a country as a whole, I’m intrigued. This Nordic island country is best known for tourism through Reykjavik, its capital. It’s also known for tons of volcanoes, hot springs, and geysers—and puffins, don’t forget the puffins. They’re like smaller, better-dressed penguins. anybody who loves to spend many of their getaway outdoors, but needs something a bit much more active (and certainly colder) than the beach, ought to book a flight stat.

6

Tokyo, Japan

I want to travel here so badly I can’t stand it. The culture, the Izakayas, the shopping. Cliche, I know, but I’m one lost In Translation seeing away from impulse purchasing a 14-hour flight.

7

Santorini, Greece

Just hit “book flight,” honestly. What’s to think about? White, cubiform house-lined cliffs, breathtakingly blue waters, and all the Greek cuisine (arguably one of the best cuisines, come on—all the dips) to enjoy. Bring your best video camera and set a pointer for sunset, count on me.

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Hong Kong, China

An unmistakable skyline, and night markets you could wander for hours—sign me up! I feel like I could spend weeks here and still have museums and monuments left to visit—there’s seriously a lot todo. If you’re planning a trip, look to late October-December, that way you’ll avoid monsoon/typhoon season, which can destroy a trip, fast.

9

Mexico City, Mexico

I’m going to need details on these Mexico City trips, people. The city is huge (573 sq miles, what?) and I’ll want to maximize my time and preferably have a comprehensive map of the best restaurants, thanks. The Frida Kahlo museum certainly tops my to-dos, along with the Palacio Nacional to see Diego Rivera’s well-known mural The history of Mexico. actually all of the museums in Mexico City are on my list, please help me narrow things down thank you.

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Venice, Italy

I’m sorry, we can take boats instead of cars and that’s a normal thing and there’s pasta and red wine and the buildings are colorful and beautiful and all the bridges are good for ‘gramming?! WHEN DO WE LEAVE.

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Tuscany, Italy

Our third Italian destination which I’m not angry about in the least, Tuscany is the wine-lover’s adventure of dreams. visit the vineyards, taste from the vineyards, even stay at the vineyards. just make sure that whatsoever points on your trip, when you look up all you can see are rolling green hills of vines and preferably a spectacular sunset. That’s how you know you’re doing it right.

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Bali, Indonesia

I feel like every yoga class I’d take after this trip would be such a letdown. In general, we’re talking spectacular surround, remarkable (and affordable!) cuisine, and resorts that look like film sets. Cool, so when we going?

Karen has been trying to find this pattern for a while, without any luck. any of you have a copy mouldering away?

Here’s her note to me.

Attached is a picture of a vintage pattern that I am dying to have: vogue Paris original 1751. The designer is Grs. Today is the second time I’ve been outbid in the last 5 seconds on Ebay, and my heart is breaking around again. I think the dress is so chic, and I would love to wear it to an upcoming charity event. Can you help me? I need to put out a call for this pattern — I’m ready to get the pattern outright, or even pay to borrow it for a time. I can trace it out, make my own copy, then give it back. Or maybe you can recommend another venue where I can beg for patterns.

Anyone game? This looked exactly like the kind of pattern I would get at a yard sale, ooh over, and never make, but I inspected my stock and I don’t have it. If you have a copy in the same boat, email me and I’ll put you in touch with Karen!

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I know this pattern is waiting for me at home; I think it came in the mail just as I was leaving (from eBay seller Simmons Books). It’s oddly perfect; it has all of my fetishistic desires in a pattern: square neckline, short kimono sleeves, midriff band, full skirt — it’s so best I’m nearly terrified to make it, as what if all those things together somehow cancel each other out? like the time I made tea (I was about ten, I think) thinking “I like tea with milk, and I like tea with lemon, tea with lemon and milk need to be GREAT!” (It wasn’t.)

Luckily this little break has not been me (as usual) trying to do all the things I like, all at the same time. I just chose ONE thing I really like (watching my kid have fun) and did that. So what if it involved amusement parks (or as they’re called here in Florida, “attractions”)? and accompanying him on rides that made me deliberately unfocus my eyes, the better not to sag against the WHOLLY inadequate “safety” restraints in gibbering terror? and eating only things that had been fried (twice-fried, if possible)? despite the grease, and the terror, and the finding out after three hours in the sun that the SPF 40 I’d been slathering on everyone within arm’s reach had expired in 2005, this little trip [turned out to be] surprisingly fun. So what if I ended up spending the whole (interminable) three circuits of the Ferris wheel staring fixedly at the floor of the gondola and imploring a wriggling seven-year-old to keep his little butt ON the seat? It makes a good story, right? (I didn’t used to be terrified of heights, and I’m still not, at least not for me. I don’t care if *I* die from an overenthusiastic application of the law of gravity. Everyone’s gotta go somehow, right? but I really, really, really don’t want to enjoy someone else go that way. especially not any individual I spent a lot of time and effort personally MAKING in my WOMB.)

So despite having really took pleasure in myself here doing just one thing at a time, I’m ready to go home, resume my normal semicompetent multitasking, and see if this overdetermined pattern is as good as it looks. If not, I’ll go find a pattern that has just one of my top-five fave details and concentrate on making that one the best I can.

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Libby sent me this image, a pattern she gotten at Funkoma vintage just for the illustration. I would have done the same. What on earth is going on in this picture? nothing good. What was the illustrator thinking? “I understand what will make women want this dress! Let’s show them exactly how catty as well as backstabby they can be while using it!”

I would like to understand what YOU believe these women are stating to every other … leave your dialogue in the comments if you are so inspired.

This likewise reminds me of An concept that I’ve had for a while. Why isn’t any individual selling big poster-size prints of excellent pattern images? If you scan them at a high-enough dpi you can send the pictures to any type of number of on the internet photo-processing locations as well as get a poster-sized print (which costs about $20, I think). as well as wouldn’t you want a significant blowup of a excellent pattern as a sewing-room picture? (Heck, I’d put them around the house!) somebody must be doing this on Etsy, frankly, as well as if nobody IS doing this, I present this concept to any individual who wishes to begin this as their home-based business, complimentary of charge. Go ideal on ahead. I bet you might fee $35-40 for it, as well as a lot more if you framed ’em or had them put on foamcore backing.

(Of program considering that a lot of of these pictures are most likely still copyright there may be SOME problem however I believe that a great situation might be produced these being a derivative work. as well as the pattern business sure aren’t doing anything with their pictures …)

If you do begin doing this, let me understand as well as I’ll publish about this here.

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I was flipping through some of my old sewing books a while back, looking for something (I can’t even remember what) and was arrested by this image, which of course is the popular Walk-Away Dress:

If you can’t read the caption, it is:

Even a beginner can make a dress like this one successfully, from two old dresses. This pattern is smart, adaptable, and easy to make since it only has a few pieces.

The book was fashion sewing on a Budget, and I have to say it’s one of the a lot more helpful of the ancient titles that I’ve accumulated. I think because it takes a “learning by doing” approach, which is the learning style I’ve always favored. (You make a lot more mistakes, but you learn a lot more from them!)

The online copies I’ve linked to above, on Amazon, are fairly pricey but my copy is marked “$1-” on the flyleaf and I’m sure I’ve seen this lots of a time in thrift stores and used book sales. keep an eye out in those places, if you want it.

I still haven’t made the Walk-Away dress, myself. I keep reading other people’s reviews and can’t decide whether to try it, and, if so, in what fabric … and, of course, where to put the pockets!

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I have no idea where this image came from (and no idea where it’s going, either) but I have to say that the idea of having a long, flag-striped TRAIN is startling. The whole effect is “Daughters of the American revolution go to the Circus”.

Where on earth could this be worn? Pageants? Prom at one of the service academies? (Who wears a train to prom — oh, don’t tell me, I don’t want to know.) Is it a wedding gown? I got married on the fourth (Happy Anniversary, Mr. dress A Day!) and even I wouldn’t have worn this …

If you want one of these, you ought to be cautioned that wearing a flag dress in the wrong place at the wrong time can typically get you in trouble. There was the boneheaded teen who chose that her prom would be a spiffy place to wear her CONFEDERATE FLAG DRESS. Heritage, schmeritage, she just wanted to piss off a bunch of people. Also, I believe she shouted “Sequins today … seqins tomorrow … sequins forever!” while she was wearing it:

And then there was the Indian designer whose dress incorporating symbols from the Indian flag was confiscated, although she did get to keep her drink:

Not to mention the Chinese pop singer who wore a dress printed with the war-era Japanese naval flag. (That went over about as well as the Confederate flag dress.) Can’t find a picture of that one, sadly, although I have to say English-language Chinese film star gossip is way much more fun than the star or us weekly or whatever.

As well as this: “… a lecturer at Birmingham university by the name of sue Blackwell, described as a former Christian fundamentalist now turned socialist. (Her site was found to recommend a link to the site of a neo-Nazi activist.) At the AUT meeting, Blackwell wore a Palestinian-flag dress …” She was arguing for a boycott of Israeli universities by British scholars; no picture of that one, either. I can’t think of that it was successful as a dress, instead of as a rhetorical device.

So, where were we? Yes, flag dresses are really, really hard to pull off. even DVF had some trouble:

(I know there are better pics of that dress out there but I love DVF’s MySpace-style photo, so there.)

But Dame Shirley Bassey managed it, at the Rugby world Cup’s opening ceremony in the Millennium stadium in Cardiff (it helps to be in front of thousands of enthusiastic countrymen):

Do you have a favorite (or un-favorite) flag dress? send me a picture. this one best now is my fave:

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I don’t normally take the time to reply to negative comments that are left on this blog — why encourage people who are spoiling for a fight? I’m not bothered by their criticism, for the most part (and if it’s justified I do try to take it to heart, however unpleasant it may be to do so!). but a lot of of the time replying to negative comments falls under the heading “Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys it.”

However, there have been a few comments on a recent post which I feel I need to respond to, if only for clarification. A commenter, generally anonymous, but also signing one comment “7/10 split”, suggested that I am a “professional what? writer/ advertisers? whose goal is to sell things”, and also a “shill.”

For the record: I am not a “professional advertiser”. I am a writer, but of a very particular kind.

The same commenter (who may be this blogger) also suggested that I don’t sew the dresses that I post here. If you would like to see pictures of ME in the dresses I have attached (and I admit, I don’t typically post pictures of myself here because, all things considered, I had a better time in labor — and I didn’t have an epidural! — than I do having my picture taken) you can see them in five out of the first six pictures here.(The dresses shown in that link include a Duro, the pink jellybean dress, the blogiversary dress, the stunt Valentine’s Dress, and the yellow-bird dress.)

Whether you take pleasure in my articles or not, I would like to state unequivocally that I do NOT accept money to post about any particular dress, fabric, pattern, pair of shoes, etc. There is NO payola or kickback scheme in effect on this blog.

For book reviews, I am, as is common practice in publishing, typically supplied with complimentary copies of the book in question, to review or to give away.

The advertisers on the right-hand side are just that: advertisers. They have no influence on content, and I do *not* ask them for complimentary stuff.

I accept pictorial ads only from people who sell patterns, fabric, or vintage clothes, or are otherwise related to sewing. I need to approve the ad before it will run. My ad rates are very low; $25/month (with a minimum three-month commitment, because I’m lazy and don’t want to be bothered putting up and taking down ads all the time). I also participate in Google’s AdSense program, which are the boxed text ads you see on the page, and in the Amazon Associates program, which gives me a commission on books purchased by Amazon customers who clicked on links to books from this blog. (To give you an idea of the profits from those two sources; my last “payment” from Amazon was a $35 gift certificate which I used … to get a lot more sewing books. Google pays every two months or so; I think my last check from them was in the $125 range.)

I have set up “Dress a Day Inc” as a LLC company, so that, if I say something libelous and am sued, the company will be the target of any claim (and not my family). This indicates I file taxes on all the income from this blog — if there is any, after paying hosting fees to my Internet service provider.

As for the comments about the sweater in question, I am doing a little research on the subject; the commenter suggested that the sweater probably cost less than $1 to make, and that all the labor involved was sweatshop labor in Asia. I don’t think that’s right, given that the cost of a pound of even low-grade cotton is about .71 — that’s a pound of unspun cotton. From what I can tell, the spinning of one pound of raw cotton fiber produces 840 yards of yarn. That seems to be on the low end of the number of yards you’d need for a sweater — any knitters want to jump in here? — and the sweater I posted about was 14 gauge, which is a fairly fine knit). So, at least .71 in raw materials, plus the spinning cost, plus the fashioning cost, plus the cost of the buttons — I think it would be hard to get the raw goods cost of this garment under $1. even leaving aside that the garment is made in China (I called and asked) — there’s the cost of the coming up with the design, a job nearly certainly done by an American at American wages. (J.Crew employs about 7600 people.) The same commenter said that the sweater I linked to could be found in discount stores for under $20; if, in fact, that is the case — why haven’t I found it there? It’s not like I haven’t been looking! Do you aspect the salary of the designer into the cost of the sweater? If not, why not? Do you aspect in the jobs of the catalog writers (Americans), shop employees (American and for the stores in Japan, Japanese)? The distribution center employees (in Virginia and North Carolina)? The UPS person who will bring it to me? (Hi Luis!) The short answer, it seems to me, is that a narrow focus on manufacturing jobs is not helpful; if the company can’t manufacture goods at a affordable price, then all those other jobs I pointed outabove — they go away, too. despite conjecture about how much of the price of the sweater is pure profit, large retail chains have very small profit margins — one source puts it at 2%. another source (from 1998!) puts the apparel profit margin at 5.4% … and given the rising costs of commodities considering that 1998, I can’t think of that margin has gone up.

I apologize for such a long and tedious post, without even any pretty pictures to enliven it; I pledge not to make a routine of this kind of thing. However, I do treasure the depend on you place in me by checking out this blog, leaving comments, and contributing to a little oasis of dress-loving camaraderie online, and I didn’t want to give credence to accusations of shilling, payola, and “blogging under false pretenses” by letting them go by in silence.

(Comments of the kind “all her taste is in her mouth,” “this is soooooo awful lol”, and “i cant believe u wear this!” will still be ignored. De gustibus, etc.)

If you ever have any questions about me or this blog, well, my email address is on the right-hand side, towards the bottom. I do try to answer all the email I receive.

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