.....we here on the south coast of Beautiful British Columbia in the so-called 'Great White North' have absolutely nothing to complain about at all. Except, perhaps, the scarcity of bikinis this time of year. Those fur-lined ones never did seem to really catch on..... except during the 'slush cup' downhill events at Whistler at the end of the season there. What some of those kids almost wear for that simply has to be seen to be believed, I kid you not.
Hey, Ray! Wow! That's a really nice shot of what it looks like, in the northwest region, right now! Even looks pretty good...after that MORBID white stuff (did I tell 'em like I shoulda, Tommy?! ;-) that you shot, the other day!
ReplyDeleteSorry for your lacking of bikini-clad "babes" in your neck o' the woods, though, Ray. Too bad you didn't live in Florida; spring vacation seems to be a pretty HOT event, over yonder! ;0)
Hope those long johns are working out for you! :-D
At TC[Girl} (you sweet thing you!)
ReplyDelete"Hope those long johns are working out for you!"
They don't make anything like they used to. These new Stanfield's - a famous old-time name in underwear in this country - (they put the 'trap' in 'trap-door') seems to have forgotten how to make them. The cuffs on the legs are so small I could hardly get my feet through them, and the waistband measures 25 inches unstretched, but the tag says 'Medium" - fits 34 to 36. And all that aggravation costs $32.00 plus tax. Woof!
Ray said...
ReplyDelete"They don't make anything like they used to. These new Stanfield's - a famous old-time name in underwear in this country - (they put the 'trap' in 'trap-door') seems to have forgotten how to make them. The cuffs on the legs are so small I could hardly get my feet through them, and the waistband measures 25 inches unstretched, but the tag says 'Medium" - fits 34 to 36. And all that aggravation costs $32.00 plus tax. Woof!"
That's starting to sound like what many of us/we(? which one is it? I can never figure it out!) women are always complaining about: they make things the size of pinkies and can't get nuttin' but one leg into them! Perhaps they are made in Asia...where many women's clothes are also made! They have tiny men there as well, ya know!
You might have to go back and get another set. Any you can exchange? I usually keep the tags, just in case I discover something weird like that w/something that I have bought...even though I haven't bought long johns in years.
(Thanks for the sweet sentiments, Ray! It puts a skip in a gurl's step, ya know! :-D
Hope you have a great day!
@ TC[Girl] -
ReplyDelete"You might have to go back and get another set."
I wouldn't dare! I'd probably mouth off at the clerk and get thrown out of the mall on my boney butt.
My solution is to go to Fabricland and buy some new waistband elastic,
and then fire up the Pfaff Free-arm and put on a waistband the right size. And those cuffs are probably just going to get chopped off and forget them.
I wish I'd kept that 4-thread serger I used to have. It would be real handy for a job like that.
But buying a new one just for that seems a bit excessive, so I'll make do with the little Pfaff. It does do overcast seams, but not as well as a real serger can, of course.
Well...I do declare: I'm WAY IMPRESSED, Ray! Discovering new surprises about you, every day! :-D
ReplyDeleteWere I living up there, I'd offer to help you out...w/my serger! :-D Sorry I'm not just around the corner! :-(
Hope all works out! Stay warm!!
@ TC[Girl] -
ReplyDeleteThere's more to me than a pretty face, TC - and for that I'm really thankful, because the face is looking worse all the time.... too bad I can't send it out to have it shaved!
I got into sewing just after I retired, to help me take my mind off the crappy deal I got from the former employer, and the gals at a local sewing center got a big kick out of selling me a 4-thread serger and a used Bernina free-arm.
They figured I'd never do anything worth looking at on either one of them.
I played it stupid and quiet until I'd practiced on old rags for a few weeks and learned how to do the
right things on them. Then, one day, as I was going into the little post-office next to their sewing center, one stuck her head out the door to ask how I was doing.
I had bought some polar fleece from them a couple of weeks before that, and they were dying to find out what I'd done with it. So the next day as I went for the mail, I took along my new polar fleece jogging outfit, with the stirrups on the leg bottoms, and the stretchy cuffs and collar matching everything else, and I put it into a brown paper bag to carry it along. When I got parked in front of their sewing center next to the post-office, I grabbed the bag, and opened their door, and called out, "Here! Catch!" and tossed the bag with the jogging suit at the nearest grinning expert inside.
Then I went on into the post-office and got my mail.
Then, I went next door to see what the gals thought of my work on the jogging suit. They weren't looking like the cat that ate the canary that day, and one said to me, "Ray - we probably owe you an apology. We never dreamed you could teach yourself to sew, and certainly not as well as this. There's nothing we could teach you at our sewing classes now, unless you're interested in joining our special lingerie class."
Now it was my turn to smile, and I said "I'll join that class but only if you promise to model for me whatever I make at it - OK?"
They looked at each other, and then one said, "On second thought,
maybe you shouldn't start on lingerie just yet...."
As I headed for the door with my jogging suit in its bag again, I said, "Well, just call me if you change your mind."
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