I was idly trying to find info about a book I used to own, one I'd inherited from
my mother or grandmother (probably the latter, going by its age) and was annoyed
not the be able to find the main Girlsown webpage. Is the list defunct or just
hiding?
Also, has anyone run into a series, set in the 1920s or so,
involving a club of roughly high-school aged girls named (if I recall) Harriet,
Hazel, Jane, Tommy (aka Grace) and Margery (whom Tommy referred to as 'Buster', or
ratehr 'Buthter', as Tommy lisped). They had a "guardian", Miss Elton, and tootled
around in Jane's car. In the volume I had, a neighboring boys club presented them
with a complete tennis outfit and entered them in a tournament only to find that
none of the girls knew how to play. Of course, they promptly learned to play, in
time to win the tournament. Sound familiar?
Books I can handle.
Clothes I'm not so sure about. It's obvious that I wasn't born to be a
fashionista, even aside from the fact that the labels in my wardrobe tend to run
far more to Moving Comfort, Nike and Athleta, the Gap and LL Bean than to Armani,
Betsey Johnson, or BCBG. On Sunday, I bought a T-shirt from Nordstrom, among other
things. It's got a sort of splotchy design on it and some vaguely French words.
(Here it is -- scroll
down to the short-sleeved "Pres Paris" to see the exact shirt.) Sunday night I
washed my new clothes and some old ones, including a burgundy crushed-velvet skirt
I later found was marked Dry Clean only. Oops. I could swear I've washed it
before, and it's more like a stretchy velour than a traditional stiff velvet and
has ono lining, so it doesn't look like a dry-clean-only sort of garment.
Which is why I was surprised to find a big pink splotch on my new T-shirt. At this
point I'm hoping it either is a prt of the design or will look like it's supposed
to be, but just in case, I wash it again. The splotch is still
there.
Now, go look at that picture again. I'll wait. Big pink
splotch in center, see?
Conclusion: designers who put deliberate
splotches that look like laundry accidents on their clothing should be classes
with musicians who include sound effects that sound like sirens approaching when
you're listening in the car. The two have much the same dismaying effect.
On the other hand, I may never worry about bleeding dye again. "This
red spot? Oh that's just part of the design."