My mother was nothing if not frugal. She kept everything. And if it wasn't right just then, it would someday have a use.
She also did a lot of gardening. And painting. And you need work clothes for gardening and painting. So a pair of pants that couldn't be worn to the ballet, or to work, or to the supermarket became gardening or painting pants. And if they didn't fit, they got altered, cut down to size.
Most of the time, the alteration was just a quick and dirty v-shaped dart at the center back. But I found a pair of jeans with a genius alteration - an external, integral, elastic belt, the belt made from the elastic of a pair of men's underwear.
It's a little like an external fixator for the jeans. I think they belong in a museum.
18 June 2009
Museum Quality Thrift
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Oh, museum quality for sure. Right next to Fonzie's jacket and Dorothy's slippers, I'd say. :) Your mom missed her calling.
Genius. :)
Wow--what initiative and creativity.
it takes a lot for me to toss a piece of clothing. It's practically disintegrated by the time it' hits the garbage pail in my house
Funny your mother doing that with the underwear elastic. I do a similar thing with hair elastics [the long ones] and shoestrings. Works great with jeans that have belt loops and those leather labels that are like a thick belt loop.
This is a wonderful post.
See you Tuesday.
T.
Oh, I could not agree more! And I see where a certain someone gets her fashion bravura!
a PANTS museum! Hire Alejna and I to do the advertising!
Wow. I'm completely amazed, impressed, and sort of grossed out all at the same time! :-)
that is too funny!
Smart!
that woman is my hero.
What? People get smaller? Wtf?
Genius!
Perfect! After mon mari's surgery he's lost so much weight he can't keep his pants up! This is the solution.
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