Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: Always Have a Ball Gown at the Ready in Celebration of Your Enemy's Demise

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Toddler’s Ts are from H&M, if that helps investigations.

We are escaping the heat of London today for the coast, and I’m wearing a Nobody’s Child dress which is lovely and cool but I have had to resew all of the buttons on, which is a little frustrating. The fabric is lovely, quality of finish less so.

The journos have been lurking again (not really, it was prime gossip dressed up as news material) Why Politicians Can't Resist Striking a Pose in Vogue, interesting to read who refused.

Volte assuming your toddler is not that forward that they buy their own clothes, is it you or your partner that bought them or were they gifts?

Resewing buttons on something new is frustrating but I recently learned how to sew on a button properly and subsequently I wanted to rip of all my ugly machine stitched ones on all my clothes and redo them all by hand because they looks so much better. Thankfully I never got round to it...

How do you sew a button on properly? (Have we had this conversation before? It rings a bell but I can't remember what was said.)

I could attempt to explain but videos are so much better. But essentially you create a little shank underneath and it stands all erect and proud

If only my needlework teacher had explained it like that, I might have taken more interest. Thank you!

Saw this linked in another thread and thought it might be fun / hide-behind-the-cushion-peek-through-the-fingers reading for red

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11110759/Kate-Wills-reveals-secret-getting-five-star-fashion-shoestring.html

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Oh, I am in charge of the toddler’s clothing. So the switching between v traditional sailor suit to various band t-shirts with converse is all my doing.

I am desperate to get my sewing machine out. I have an unfinished summer dress which I will definitely finish too late to actually wear. And I want to make some v simple dresses in a no - crease fabric which I can shove in my running bag for work. Alas, time is always against me.

Thank you shangpie, fun article!
Yes I was hiding a bit from peeking eyes, who might think I read that newspaper 😜
Maybe that is what I need to do next time! I am a bit tired of the crumpled kaftan look…

I was initially very enthused by the idea of the rental apps even if I did think it was often expensive for items that you could often find in the sale/outlets for not much more money as the rental costs, also a lot of the curation was very insta and flashy. And then I read an article that the constant sending back and forth and dry cleaning meant it wasn't environmentally friendly at all, buying a fast fashion item and trashing it was apparently less bad than renting

That article is a bit odd but I can't put my finger on it. She looks great but I don't know, maybe it sounds too much like cosplay? Maybe I just lack the I'm a different person on vacation gene 🤷

I do like the idea of renting clothes in your destination hotel. Surely me not bringing more items in my luggage saves the environment and leaves me lots of empty space to fill and there would be less shipping back and forth. I'd mostly like it for bags, there usually isn't much space for that and I don't like always having just one bag as an option.

Ha, I love it Volte I'm now imagining YMCA made up of toddlers. Enjoy it while you can, soon enough they'll have opinions and will want to wear the same hideous thing well meaningly bought by some relative over and over again.

I have studied the butting sewing tutorials in detail: I remember shanks on the buttons on my wool coats from my childhood, but the haute couture method - for any button - and the way the rounds making the shank equated the number of times the need went through the button just blew my mind.

I thought that was just how anyone/everyone sewed buttons on. My glove-making grandma clearly taught us better than we knew.

I’ll have to watch those button videos while on holiday bo. I’ve always known you do a shank but I’ve also never looked up how people do them so just do them my own way, which seems obvious but there might be more to it! Now, if I could also get on top of sewing a button hole I could finish my citronille romper for baby for summer…

Can I have some feedback on skirts please? I’m packing for holidays- I’ll have one of these or a much floatier one, I’m just trying to decide if 27/28 degrees warrants very floaty instead of one of these. These are both a linen blend I think. At 6m post baby I still have quite a tummy, and find it hard to feel any kind of ‘style’.(the top is bathers, an outnet purchase. We are staying in a resort so there will be a lot of bathers outfits)

That’s me in the skirt, seriously this name change business … someone shoot me!

Yes, please stick to the time name because I keep speed reading the other one as deep anal roses

I like the first skirt, the patterned one makes you look a bit more squat which you're not at all, it's down to not being midi or maxi, I think and where it goes out wide at the hips.

If it's 27/28 humid heat I'd go with the wafty option, probably, if it's a wraparound one that would be even better poolside. Granted I may be a bit 'traumatised' by humid heat, it was 32 dry heat the other week and I was all patting myself on the back how well I was tolerating it thinking I had finally adapted. I even wore silk trousers and a silk top with no issues. Then the temps dropped to 27/28 but humidity went up massively and I was a mess again.

Got distracted by skirts, to my fellow sewers, I came across the Japanese mending technique, Kaketsugi, it is hypnotising to watch but also makes you feel like a complete fraud thinking you have any skill with a needle whatsoever... You've been warned:

Echoing Bo‘s suggestion on skirt and keeping the time name.
Hope the baby can sleep while you chill by the pool Times , I remember being able to do that occasionally.

I also wore silk the other day here on holidays with 30 degrees and aced it, but yesterday it was all humid 25 degrees and totally lost my cool looking a crumpled mess.

I think Sanna Marin has beaten me at being super cool in sequins.

Wow Bo that invisible mending video is sublime. Absolutely amazing.

To the intrepid silk wearers: thank you for the warning about silk turning into a limp and crumpled mess in humidity (not in a good way, like linen). I recently bought a beautiful v simple silk dress and a lighbulb went off in my head: of course! The answer to overpacking and too heavy suitcases is to buy/make superfine silk dresses. You have saved me from my latest goose chase…

Kaketsugi: I think I am constitutionally incapable of such work. I get a painful knot in my stomach just looking at it. Basically, I have no patience.

Time - I agree with bo on your skirts, with the only caveat that black is not very good to wear in the sun? It doesn't reflect sun rays like white or brighter colours; in black I feel like I am being fried. It depends on where you are going though maybe

Thanks microbius, 27/28 won’t hit any heat alarms for me 😁. Luckily, as I have realised that my potential packing pile has black tops, black linen dress, black cupro dress…. It’s a running joke about my town (Melbourne) that we all wear black and it’s not inaccurate 😂 i can’t find an oversized linen shirt I wore all summer that is a peach colour, so will have to find something else to be my colour. The shirt is from posse which I think bo put me onto. Re humidity it’s still basically ‘winter’ so won’t be too bad- I’m headed to port Douglas, a coastal town in Queensland, Australia.

I treated myself to a beautiful silk dress in COS for a big birthday. I managed to get deodorant on the front whilst putting it on and had to wear something else. It's come out in the wash but is now unwearable because of the static. I'm going to have to wear a slip for the first time in 35 years !

The science of black and white clothing isn't that simplistic. It's so complex I've forgotten most of it but black isn't necessarily bad, it's actually the preferred colour in some situations (the Bedouins wear black). Iirc it splits down into lighter colours for thin fabrics that sit tightly on the body and dark colours for fabrics that sit away from the body where it absorbs the heat but it doesn't pass through further (I vaguely recall something about air pressure and a chimney effect?). It's not that practical though, I doubt everyone wants to switch over to white bathing suits and thin white tightly fitting clothes that shows everything, so black comes out pretty good overall.

Is the Posse brand nice time, I see it occasionally pop up on Vestiaire. I hate it when something goes missing, especially when there aren't that many places to hide 🧐

X post with two blondes, static is why I wash my silk stuff by hand (I think it happens from all the friction with other items in the machine during a cycle). You can de-staticfy (if that's a word) it by spritzing it with some water and then leaving it to air dry on a hanger.

Thanks Bo, I'll try that. I machine washed it with a silk shirt that seems to be OK

Hello ladies,
Maybe you will remember me as an occasional poster (last time for a Zeus + Dione request).

Hoping I can pick your brains now. I'm going for a week to New York end of October (never been before) and looking for (stylish and practical) suggestions of what to take. Anticipate lots of sight-seeing (and walking), some nice dinners out.
Would love to take a leather jacket but unfortunately am still struggling to find one given me broad shoulders and small waist being difficult to accommodate in a jacket.

Thank you