but soon to be!
I recently found a book called The Illustrated Hassle-free Make Your Own
Clothes Book by Rosonberg and Weiner published by Bantam.
I ordered it sight-unseen, so it's not exactly what I thought it was going
to be, but it's proven to be an interesting glimpse into the recent past of
clothing/costuming. It was published in 1971 and the introduction is full of
hippie phrasing like "my old man" "groovy" "fairly heavy cat" "funkiness"
"up-tightness" and even the f-bomb.
I read the introduction aloud to my mother (who was a 31 year old
tailor/seamstress in 1971 but definitely in the Channel and Pearls camp
rather than the counter-culture group) and we both thought it was hilarious.
We both noted that in just a few more decades most people won't be able to
correctly interpret such phrases as "he was a fairly heavy cat" lol! My
mother also reminded me of several older-than-me friends of the family I had
admired growing up who were into making mu'umu'u from flowered bed sheets,
and using wildly contrasting fabric to insert large wedges into the pant's
legs of their jeans. (I was, of course, forbidden to do any such thing!)
Will there someday be reinactment groups for the late 60s to 70s? :-) This
book may prove to be a valuable reference!
Denise B
Iowa
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