Hollyhock Junction: September 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

Fashion Runway

A garment homemade. Handmade. Hand sewn. Hand touched.
I suppose the most desirable way to say it is, "My garment is handmade."

The 40's house dress shown below looks handmade, but was manufactured. The tag reads: Top Mode Frocks made in USA.
"Yesterday's Dusen Dusen Box Dress," my daughter would say.
In the forties, handmade and store bought may have looked very much the same.

Greatgrandmother Emma sewed for herself house dresses like this, and wore a fresh crisp cotton apron over the top of it. She baked bread most everyday for a dozen kids.

And my daughter,  in her forties, is learning to sew and to sell dresses on Etsy.Com Prairie Chic.

Sewing is becoming fashionable once more.

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb." A small rain. hollyhockjunction

Proverbs 31: 10-31

10. Her price is far above rubies. 11. The heart of her husband does safely trust. 12. She will do him good. 13. She seeks the wool and flax. 14. She brings her food from afar. 15. She rises while it is yet night. 16. She considers a field. 17. She girds her loins with strength. 19. She lays her hands to the spindle. 20. She stretches out her hands to the poor. 21. She's not afraid of the snow for her household. 22. She makes herself coverings. 23. Her husband is known. 24. She makes fine linen and sells it. 25. She rejoices. 26. She opens her mouth with wisdom. In her tongue is the law of kindness. 27. She eats not the bread of idleness. 28. Her children rise up and call her blessed. 29. She excels. 30. A woman that fears the Lord. 31. Give her the fruit of her hands.