Relation
Its all relative.
Yesterday I took some soup and vitamins to my favourite brother who was all snotted up and in bed. Just before I turned into his street I saw a wonderful dress walking by. So I dropped off my care package with my brother and had a few words with him, hoping I could still get to the owner of the dress before she disappeared.
I found her two blocks up, grabbed my data capturing kit (pen , book, camera, gumption), abandoned my car and ran across the road to speak to her.
She was quite intrigued and posed for me along a white wall where the picture would come out better (I love helpful subjects, because I often feel nervous and get the picture, questions etc wrong).
Her name is Relation, and she lives in Brixton - just like my brother and I.
Then I offered to take her home and asked where she lived in Brixton. It really was not out of my way at all to drop her off because it turns out she lives across the road from me. She has a few more outfits she tells me, and when she is next wearing them she will come and ring my doorbell and I can see them too. Hooray !
Relation's dress was bought in Joburg CBD and is made of Toto Six Stars. We see the logo on the reverse trim used around the collor. There is also braid around the bottom and around the collar and fun detail on the pockets. I can't discern what the pattern is but really like it.
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Basheera ! Hi !
How serendipitous. I have always been vaguely interested in fabrics, I used to sit on my moms lap while she sewed and some of my favourite memories are walking through the huge material shop in ermelo just looking at the colours and textures and patterns. The patterns interested me the most and I remember marvelling as a young child how a small pattern like small roses looked very different when viewed from far away. Recently this has become more of a thing and I often find myself looking a the texture / print of peoples outfits rather than the cut or style.
My mom sewed us some fun dresses from shwe shwe, and I was always facinated by its history and its origins. I suppose because its quite universal at the moment - it wasnt always and used to have quite a stigma attached to it - that I thought it would be interesting to find out the stories behind the various dresses and get to really enjoy the dresses for the works of art they are.
The first big sewing project I did on my new machine before 'The Circles' took over my study the last thing I sewed was a new Flamenco skirt for Alex's classes :-)