Category Archives: clothing

summer wardrobe

17 Tuesday Apr 2007

Posted by in clothing, home, life stuff, miscellany

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Gaaaaa I hate sewing!!!

Which may come as a surprise to those of you who have seen this place, but of course I have very talented seamstresses who sew the production for that – though I do sweat blood making up the first samples myself.

Anyhow, it is not only sandal weather but it turns out it is also suddenly no longer light jacket or sweater weather. Which means I’ve got to seriously revamp the summer wardrobe that sadly didn’t get revamped last year.

Which means I’ve got to sew myself some clothes!!!

*waits for the inspiration f_fairy.gif to come and visit*

auction frenzy

20 Tuesday Feb 2007

Posted by in clothing, media, miscellany

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I think Audrey would have liked this.

The sale of Audrey Hepburn’s iconic black dress from classic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s is to fund 15 new educational centres in India.

Yeah I know, it seems rather obscene to value a dress this much, but the end result achieved something very important and special. A nice news story, for a change.

sandal weather

14 Wednesday Feb 2007

Posted by in clothing, life stuff, sevilla

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When does it start?

For the past 4-5 days it’s gone up to about 21ºC in the afternoon. Last Saturday when Peter and I went out for tapas in the late afternoon was the first time I wore sandals this year. But since then I’ve been wearing shoes again … and today I wondered why.

If this was the beginning of November and 21ºC I’d definitely still be wearing sandals. But going in reverse (from cold to warm) it seems to require more than a couple of warm days to make the change.

Also, there seems to be an unwritten rule that people here don’t wear sandals before Semana Santa (Easter week), which is absurd. I don’t fall under this rule as I’m a foreigner and basically people expect me to be a bit weird. So I will be comfortably wearing a skirt with sandals in March when it’s 27º while other women are sweating in tights and shoes.

Any strange clothing rules where you live?

[note: on 3 March I found these!]

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wardrobe switch-over

17 Friday Nov 2006

Posted by in clothing, life stuff, rants

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coathanger.jpg Gaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Need I say more? Never enough hangers, never enough space. Drives me mental.

Anyhow, last weekend took the first steps towards wardrobe switch-over for winter. Sweaters out again, summer dresses packed into boxes. Drawers of socks and tights and long-sleeved t-shirts seeing the light of day for the first time since last March.

Before Nog moved in – and before we started our clothing biz – I had closet and drawer space galore. Never even had to do the switch-over, just used a different closet. But now the closets in our spare room are full of ‘product’ and the second closet in the bedroom is now Nog’s … well okay, mostly his 😉 .

So any day now I’m going to do my annual purge … do you do this too? Any general rules? Like, if you haven’t worn it in two years then out it goes? Or what?

All I know is I need more space and I don’t want to look at another hanger!

azahar summer sale

04 Friday Aug 2006

Posted by in clothing, retail therapy

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It’s our first summer sale! f_wow.gif

Everything in the shop is 25% off from August 1- 31 2006.

Yeah I know, shameless self-promotion but what the hell.

I also sent out an email thingy this afternoon – apologies to anyone who got duplicates as I was really having problems getting my biz email to work properly with a list.

You can visit the shop by clicking on the logo below. . .

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