Great British Sewing Bee is back on 15th July

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I'm looking forward to it.

I love Caz - she has great imagination and is a wonderful sewist to boot. Really impressed with her the last couple of weeks.

I liked Glendora, but I think the programme has moved on from the "traditional" sewing that she said she feels she is, and is going towards more of an "out there" vibe. Which i do like, i get a lot of inspiration. Makes it hard for contestants though.

Dan definitely reminds me of someone. I think it might be Lad Baby (the face) but maybe not...

Looking forward to Korea week!

That was my exact thought. The mandatory gender benders get a free pass to this kind of guff. I don't want to hear the word 'slutty' on a sewing programme thanks very much.

My take so far is that the tall guy (Paul?) was robbed last week, he had so much potential. This week's Dorothy dress was an absolute star turn, I hope she can auction it for charity or whatever after the series finishes.

The fake J Lo dress was blimmin awful, like the worst Shein cheapie. Not nearly enough fabric used.

Paul's made to measure didn't fit, didn't fit the brief and was badly made. He was arrogant and deliberately ignored advice. I had high hopes for him after Episode 1 but he deserved to go last week.

The sewer cut a huge chunk of fabric off the JLo dress at the last minute, I didn’t understand why he did that! It was indeed sub-Shein. And the Grecian dress was like a bad Amazon fancy dress outfit.

Yeah , the way Dan made the front split of his jlo/geri dress was very concerning! I can only assume that he was running out of time after finding the bodice challenging and panicked. I hope he's calmer next week.

Why does Esme say 'crutch'? Maybe because she belongs to my generation.

From an earlier generation, one woman, born 1916, looked at her aunt's bloomers hanging on the washing line, and said to her cousin, also born in 1916, "Gold dust in the crutch." I was in the same room and heard this so I can vouch for the fact that two women at least, both sewers at home, used the term 'crutch'.

Edit to say that I have now seen that someone else answered this, too. Just generational, I think.

I thought there were a lot of really nice garments this week, I'm curious whether Kit made his own skirt - I liked it a lot (his comment about it did make me think of the HP character who liked the 'air round his privates') 😂

Kit did make his own skirt. He’s put something on insta about it as someone asked him about it. I liked it a lot too.
I like men in skirts in general.

Men in skirts is really normal if you’re Scottish. I mean, most kilt-wearing men would not wear any other sort of skirt but the concept of a man in a skirt type garment isn’t really a big deal. Kit’s denim one was quite masculine anyway. His model’s dress was a bit more out there, with the hairy legs under the ruffles!

His fur coat thing was an abomination though!

It absolutely was!

But this wasn't a kilt, it was a full on party dress on a bearded man and he look ridiculous,

Well, we'll have to disagree on this. I feel very strongly that if we as women want to be free to wear anything we like we should accept the same from men. In the end, it's all just pieces of cloth cut up and sewn together in different ways.

I say crutch for clothes, but crotch for trees. Granny age, and Scottish - could it be regional too?

Yes - also regional. I'm in the Midlands and would usually say crotch for clothes but 'crook' for tree, same as the crook of your elbow. I think they all share an origin.

Lie down in a darkened room with flannel over your head then, to recover from the abomination of a gentleman in a skirt.

The rest of us can enjoy a flamboyant dresser and creative and skilled sewer in an enjoyable and lighthearted a programme that doesn’t dictate who is allowed to wear certain garments. Men in skirts can absolutely rock - I’ve seen plenty of women look more ridiculous in a skirt.

I think that dress looked completely wrong but Kit's skirt was fine.

I, too, am not bothered by the dress or any of it but , just asking, was Kit hamstrung at all by having a male model? (or two!) ? He may well have chosen a skirt or dress anyway (and I quite liked the top, actually ) but the look would have worked better as a Westwood or Gaultier thing with a kilt perhaps (the redheaded model would have looked brilliant in a kilt get up!). Did Versace ever design for men? I've only ever seen Versace on women.

I’m glad PP also noticed the tie man looking like Patrick.
It was making me cringe a bit because I thought he was dressed in a shirt and tie to highlight it more hoping it’d get noticed 🥴

I’m predicting Kit and Caz in the final.
Kit reminds me of a small child that’s been AI’d into a man (I mean this in an endearing way).

I order from them online a fair bit, they carry a vast range of all sorts of stuff, but I haven't followed them on social media. I'll have a look.

Crutch is the English traditional pronunciation. Crotch is the American way. But the edges of our languages has become blurred.

I think the problem with Kit's made to measure was that the skirt was either too short, or if kept that length was too plain.

Having a plain short skirt plus black school shoes meant it looked like the model was wearing someone else's clothes rather than something made for him.

I think some tucks like caz's skirt could have elevated Kit's skirt and possibly brought some of the gold out to prominence too.

I’m fairly sure Elton John wore a lot of Versace. Heavily embroidered jackets, that sort of thing.

Has Esme always been so negative with her comments? Caz is brilliant!