Unless, it’s food, I am not a DIY gal. The only time I tried sewing was when I enrolled at F.I.T. for fun. I was a pharmacy manager at a hospital and in dire need of distraction having broken up with BF Number 9. If I had spared myself the sturm und drang of dating in nyc, I would have found a cure for cancer.
So, I put myself in front of a sewing machine at the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2004. It was such a tedious thing — the threading of an old timey Singer machine drove me nuts. I would have preferred to write another thesis.
I finally got a denim skirt almost done. But hobby interruptus. Work came first. Was our hospital getting ready for JCAHO? I can’t remember. I just let the professor know I needed to revisit the final - aka, finishing the denim skirt to graduate. It was a hobby/enrichment course for me.
I never went back to the final. The denim skirt was wearable if one appreciated the unfinished works of Alexander McQueen. God, that exhibit was frightening. All the time I was in the Met (Savage Beauty 2011) I was thinking of his shortened life span and his own words hinting of mental illness (megalomania being one of the ICD’s) splayed all over. I told fashionista friend I’d be waiting outside after I’d seen enough. Of course what happened in Scotland was terrible and it’s ironic that the Royals in England wear a lot of McQueen. But I had to flee the exhibit and calm down in Central Park.
So here we are in 2020. The Roaring New 20’s seemed promising, but now, we are kind of in a Prohibition of sorts. They say there’s bootlegging of PPE on the news. Aside from the facts of what to do for the day, I cannot take in too much of all the sensationalized journalism. I have my N-95’s for work. But while I was on the phone with a Nashville native, I was telling her how I’d love to have a 100% cotton mask for everyday use when I am home — for some sort of outdoor/social-distanced exercise and throw out the trash/go to the grocery lifestyle.
Well, she had her friend from Kentucky send me a Sew You Care sampling of everyday cotton masks. The founder is Jessy Gillespie from Bossier City. I would never have known about this company had it not been for connecting with a good friend from Tennessee.
Women get things done because we love to talk on the phone: I called Dorie in Nashville to see how she was doing. She called Paige in Kentucky. Paige mailed me some everyday hausfrau 100% cotton masks. Needless to say, I was enthralled.
And how pretty! They’re also reversible if you don’t care for one side’s pattern.
my favorite is the top one - it’s like Hermes Orange. god, if i’m gonna go down, i prefer to go with a smidge of style.
Okay, that is all for now.
Be safe. Be kind.