Comments on A Dress A Day: New Magazine Alert

Actually, when you go shopping in Paris make sure ...

2007-09-25T16:41:00.000-05:00

Actually, when you go shopping in Paris make sure you hit Mont Martre, there's a whole fabric DISTRICT! Giant stores and warehouses full of fabric. It's fantastic.

Off the subject....since you've been doing this bl...

2006-05-11T09:00:00.000-05:00

Off the subject....since you've been doing this blog for a year now....will we be seeing the book soon?

this dress looks like the halter tops we used to m...

2006-05-11T08:24:00.000-05:00

this dress looks like the halter tops we used to make out of bandanas when I was a teenager... one of my first sewing projects! Anyway, the magazine sounds great, made for me, too... I signed up

Thanks for the link! It looks like it will be a p...

2006-05-11T07:59:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the link! It looks like it will be a pretty cool magazine.

I was in the grocery store this past weekend with ...

2006-05-11T01:47:00.000-05:00

I was in the grocery store this past weekend with a friend of mine when we spied this by the check-out and determined we both NEEDED this magazine! Loved it! One thing we both oberved though - looking through it required a great deal more concentration/focus than your average magazine.

I was thinking along the "sack o' potatoes" line t...

2006-05-11T01:12:00.000-05:00

I was thinking along the "sack o' potatoes" line too; but I've discovered that I can carry off more of this sort of baggy-shapeless thing than I would have thought IF I wear it with a nice, wide belt tied higher up on my torso than I would normally wear it---say, almost empire-waist. Then, it cinches my smallest part, and the "puff" hides my...uh...other [ahem] assets.

I'd like to try this pattern, but in a long tunic rather than a dress. Heaven knows I have enough misc. fabric pieces for ALL of us to make this dress. In triplicate...

Wow. This looks like a great magazine. I've always...

2006-05-10T23:54:00.000-05:00

Wow. This looks like a great magazine. I've always loved the style of Martha Stewart Magazine and this looks like it's gonna be a fun one to read. Your post on this totally sold me. Maybe it's the fact that it's late at night and I'm more prone to buying things at this time, but I couldn't hesitate... Btw, I love reading your blog.

Yeah, me too. Maybe it's because I'm a thickening...

2006-05-10T21:18:00.000-05:00

Yeah, me too. Maybe it's because I'm a thickening middle-aged lady, but I can't imagine that dress would do anything for me.

I want to check out this magazine. When I was in P...

2006-05-10T19:43:00.000-05:00

I want to check out this magazine.
When I was in Paris looking for this quilt coverlet thingy. I went to this kinda dept store with houseware but on floor above it. They had the most lovey, fabby,beautiful tres- chic fabric to die for and lots of it. I walked through it trying to figure out how to get out. I did not have time to look I was in such a hurry someone was waiting for me. I was lost.
I agree with anonymous the stripes are super cute but it truly does look like a sack of potatoes.

a free dress pattern is no thing to scoff at, but ...

2006-05-10T18:12:00.000-05:00

a free dress pattern is no thing to scoff at, but by GOD it's hideous! Even the nice stripey fabric can't make up for the fact that it's clearly a sack of potatoes with a shoestring round the top!

Am I silly or do the directions for that dress, se...

2006-05-10T17:08:00.000-05:00

Am I silly or do the directions for that dress, seem less than complete? Maybe it is the novice in me showing?

That Sari Gueron dress is gorgeous, but I worry ab...

2006-05-10T14:18:00.000-05:00

That Sari Gueron dress is gorgeous, but I worry about the high waist and the pleating. It seems like a bad combination for any woman who has the slightest belly--but it would be a great maternity dress. I'd love to see the dress with a slightly longer waist.

I picked this up at Borders and I'm tres, tres imp...

2006-05-10T12:35:00.000-05:00

I picked this up at Borders and I'm tres, tres impressed. I really love it!

For the sake of the suspicious-minded (like me) an...

2006-05-10T11:58:00.000-05:00

For the sake of the suspicious-minded (like me) and disorganized (like me), let me point out that this is a for-real trial issue - they send you a magazine, then a bill, and if you don't want the subscription you just send the bill back marked "cancel." None of this "within three weeks, send us a form in triplicate signed by your fifth-grade teacher, turn around three times clockwise and howl at the moon, or else we'll bill the credit card on file for the full amount" nonsense.

Martha Stewart has always been my advertising porn...

2006-05-10T11:21:00.000-05:00

Martha Stewart has always been my advertising porn. Their graphic designers are GENIUSES. So much so that I'd look at the catalog, with five skeins of embroidery floss and a hoop for $25.00, and nearly be tempted.

I signed up for the free issue, haven't received i...

2006-05-10T09:47:00.000-05:00

I signed up for the free issue, haven't received it yet, though. Now I am totally jealous.

BTW, are you and I separated at birth, or something, because I agree: that Sari Gueron dress is dreadful in putty and a deep teal/turquoise (one of my best colors) would be divine.