Sewing Bee is back

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Wednesday 24th May at 9pm 🥳

The BBC loves people falling apart and crying. IF they are genuinely crying then I wish they'd be allowed to have their tears and for that bit to be edited out. It's all got a bit hackneyed. You can mash a pot of tea while the camera pans round the faces and keeps us in suspense and then we have the tears and group hug.

Anyone know how to pronounce Fauve?

I’m thinking F ow v ?

Yes. I’m of the same generation as her and I found her rather silly.

I've just watched the coronation tailors programme. Amazing! Loved it. I'd never really given any thought to the fact that all those uniforms had to be made and that they were made by hand like that.

I rhyme Fauve with the politician Gove. I can't remember how they said it on the show.

Like the colour mauve I think.

I did laugh when Esme took delight in saying gusset to Gillie when she was being very coy about describing the knickers she’d made using a French seam. It was pretty obvious that Esme at that stage wasn’t a fan.

That's how I would say it. I assume it's French.

https://babynames.com/name/fauve#:~:text=The%20name%20Fauve%20is%20primarily,who%20used%20exceptionally%20vibrant%20colors.

Yes they said Fove.

Like wild...

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g Thanks for recommending the Coronation tailors programme - fascinating!

Ok, I have just caught up and it was a great episode. Esme loves a gusset and Tony wears two pairs of glasses, one in front of the other, at the sewing machine. Mental. Love it.

Transformation challenge winner was a joke. He kept half a frickin shirt intact and added unfinished ribbon. wtf. Matthews made to measure had an air stewardess vibe, plus random unnecessary harnesses again. Is this related to a climbing hobby or is fetish-wear being brazenly normalised in public prime time family spaces? Weird.

I thought the cut out thing must be really hard as most were ill fitting.

is fetish-wear being brazenly normalised in public prime time family spaces? Weird.

I don't know about that but there were plenty of straps and harness contraptions about in the late 70s when Esme was running Swanky Modes. Probably not in prime time family spaces those were the preserve of Rolf Harris, Jimmy Savile et al. I don't think a few straps are going to do anyone any harm although I'd prefer a nice dress myself.

As long as he doesn't wear that style for work , he works in a primary school I think. He did post on insta that he watched the episode with his year 6 class as they are on a residential right now , I did think that was slightly inappropriate considering the fact that his winning shirt was described as bondage gear by Patrick.

I thought Tony B was the teacher. Matthew does the harnesses. I could be wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1VmxpzPWrvZZRtrvpG3vnyV/tony-w

Matthew is a ta I think.

Yes he is a dancer and a TA. I just checked.

I don't have a problem with the harness details so far. They are more like punk styling than actual fetish wear aren't they?

I agree. The whole bondage wear style is punk really. But it’s going to get old if it’s all he does.

I like punk bondage stuff as done by Vivienne Westwood back in the day but his shirt just looked like bits of badly cut fabric hanging onto a one-sided shirt. I was surprised it won because it didn't look particularly well executed but I'm guessing it must have looked better in the flesh.

I like shorts Tony. He seems to have a lot of talent and I liked the shorts he made even though as they said not enough of the fabric was from the pencil skirt or shirt. Top glasses.

Asmaa is going to be good. She's a surgeons, she's precise and used to pressure. But she's also a breast surgeon who makes lingerie for her patients who's have had mastectomies. She's going to be good a difficult fabrics (underwear fabric) and good and adjusting fit to fit people, especially with experience doing bras to fit one typical breast and one surgical/inserted/absent breast. Lots of good foundations for her.

Did anyone see Esme on House of Games? I found her quite irritating because she seemed to think anything to do with popular culture was beneath her, and she had to be jollied along into making a bit of an effort occasionally.

Exactly.