On Oct 20, 2005, at 23:15, suzy wrote:
wish i had a 30" waist!!
I just measured mine, and it's 29.5" - a whole 3" up from what it had been 30+ yrs ago, when I got here in 1973... 23+ yrs old, a 26" waist, and ready to be measured for a wedding dress... :)
People weren't meant to marry when they're in their mid-life crisis years; that's what I keep telling my son (now 28.5 and still thinking he's "fancy free"). Especially not if they want "all the trimmings" like lace dresses and veils :)
Actually... When I was redoing my MIL's highschool graduation dress as my step-daughter's wedding dress (1987?), the _waist_ wasn't the biggest problem; it was easy enough to let out at the waist, since the dress was gathered both at the top and at the skirt. The _real bitch_ was the shoulders... :)
In 1914, a well-bred young lady of Norfolk, VA, knew how to embroider and how to make fillet or Irish lace, but she didn't; she could buy all of it by the yard. My MIL still liked lace well enough to have it "all over" her graduation dress. But she spent all her teen years being "humble", and "sports" was something that her brothers indulged in...
So, her highschool graduation dress barely fit _me_, and I was never "sports oriented" ("school is to learn; sports is an afterschool activity. Even if your father says otherwise" My Mother never had enough self-esteem to assert her views, but she was never shy about expressing them, either <g>). When my step-daughter first tried her Granmaw's dress on, the shoulder seams of the sleeves were so far off, I didn't think it would be possible to bring the dress up to a 70+ yr standard...
Granmaw didn't play grass hockey, or any other sports; it "wasn't done" when she was a teen. But her grand-daugther did... Which expanded her (gd's) shoulders to the extent that made my MIL shudder... :)
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