Katharine wrote:I took great delight in saying I had made my Jean Muir design outfit. I think I could hear her jaw crashing onto the school field! I may say it is a long time since I made anything like that. It was many years before I could take any short cuts in dress making - I always bound the sleeves and finished every seam.
That must have looked lovely, Katharine! A Vogue Designer pattern? They were always very difficult. I loved the designs of the late Jean Muir - beautiful elegant garments. I once spotted Jean Muir in Liberty's - a tiny woman, unbelievably chic, dressed in dark navy blue.
I feel glad that we did learn to sew. My favourite machine in the Needlework Room was one of those Singer gold and black ones with a hand operated wheel. We had one in House as well! I wish I had one now. My machine is a bit alarming although by no means new, but I have never used all those complicated zig-zag features.
I remember how interesting it was coming back to school and seeing what everyone was making. The laying out of the fabric on those long dayroom tables, the cutting out, seeing garments take shape; but oh the anxiety of getting it finished and handed in - could do without that!
There is a good chance, Kay, that She won't notice, but you can't be sure. You may have to unpick the trousers hem and do it again. Remember how Her face used to quiver with fury? No...no.. I musn't think of it!
Munch
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""