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Silver Sensation

This type of fabric was developed so that garments can be made that look like crochet, without actually being crocheted.  It’s called “cut-and-sew knits.”  Don’t ask how I know this.  All I know this this particular cut-and-sew crochet fabric was … Continue reading

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Feeling Cute in My 3-Piece Suit

Let’s face it.  The 70’s are like shooting fish in a bucket.

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Looking Dreamy in Creamy

It tends to frustrate me while shopping for Pepe finds, to pull a hideous garment off a shelf, hand it to Alexis to model, and find that it instantly looks fantastic on her perfect bod despite the heinousness of the … Continue reading

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Return of the Sisterwife

I don’t have to say much about this dress.  So I won’t.  Except to say that I did actually wear something similar when I was about 11.  But I was 11 and it was the early 80’s.  This dress is … Continue reading

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Ode to a Sweatervest

Ode to a Sweatervest O sweatervest that hast no voice, confide to me a voice, O harvest of the closet — O boundless knitted sack, O lavish appliqued scarecrow design — O infinite teeming autumnal embroidery, A song to narrate … Continue reading

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Shorts Suit Special

There was this time just after the 80’s when the we felt a rustling of change in the stratosphere.  When Pearl Jam and Nirvana were starting to steal the airwaves from Debbie Gibson and New Kids on the Block.  The … Continue reading

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Enmeshed

Mommy make it stop!  Please make it not be a shit-brown background with gigantic muted blue and tan roses and swirly swashes of orange and puke green.  Please make the atrocious pattern not be printed on stretch mesh.  And please … Continue reading

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Scissor Shredded Sister

There are a lot of things I don’t understand about this world.  I dont understand how people can be cruel to children.  I don’t understand why people think God wants them to wage war.  I don’t understand why the ads … Continue reading

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Hairy Jacket

Alexis is smiling so sweetly while she models this hairy leopard print blouse/jacket.  Little was she to know that seconds later this garment prickled to life and devoured her, limb by limb, in a symphony of carnage the likes of … Continue reading

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50’s style 80’s

Is it a coat?  Is it a dress?  I don’t care, just stuff them shoulders, slap a big ole poodle over the top and call it a day!

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