Avoiding redoing my closet for the Spring, I decided
to turn it into fun, sort of a performance peice. Going to Rummage
sales is an athletic event for Carlos and myself as I am into
fabric textures and materials. By the lawnbagfulls is the most
fun, but I also enjoy the 25. cent per peice sales at a certain
Fire house this Saturday. My Mother was a talanted miliner and
seamstress, making most of me and my sister Pennys clothes, so
I had experience, sewing and designing fashions by watching my
Mother Elsie, on her sewing machine. In my teens I made my own
Capri pants, a shocking chartruese 2 peice bathing suit that
I wore to the St. George Hotel Swimming Pool where I was a regular
in Brookly Heights N.Y.C.
Clothes have to move for me, flow. For dancing, hiking,
climbing, or even running from a mugger or degenerate. Fabric
and textures that Im partial to are, cotton and silk velvets,
cut silk velvet, sheer cottons and silks, layering sheers, hand
knits of chashmere, mohair, angora,etc.
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