tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post5252240848186837508..comments2024-03-19T08:54:07.518+00:00Comments on Clothes In Books: Dress Down Sunday: Moonglow by Michael ChabonClothes In Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-28010559698052603122017-03-17T16:46:21.205+00:002017-03-17T16:46:21.205+00:00Oh Kathy I was just the same - I was hopeless at s...Oh Kathy I was just the same - I was hopeless at sewing, and in school lessons failed to make anything really, I got stuck on making a simple square sewing bag! Meanwhile my great friend, whom I sat next to, made dresses and blouses and skirts and eventually a coat. So I do empathize.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-83549312585954712482017-03-17T16:43:33.827+00:002017-03-17T16:43:33.827+00:00Quilted housecoats were quite the thing were they ...Quilted housecoats were quite the thing were they not? Perhaps we should just both read Yiddish Policeman again - what a great book that was.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-38504697035370491522017-03-17T08:00:26.258+00:002017-03-17T08:00:26.258+00:00This is bringing up memories of sewing crises (or ...This is bringing up memories of sewing crises (or phobia on my part.) I could not sew from a pattern. I can do basics, make a hem, sew on buttoms, repair a tear on a seam. That's it. Tried to sew something from a pattern in junior high school. Failed. Home economics and I were not meant to be together.<br /><br />Then my talented younger sister made a pink dotted Swiss floor-length bathrobe with pearlized buttons and lace at the collar and cuffs! This, while in high school. And she sewed several dresses, too. <br /><br />I discovered this was definitely an area in which I did not excel. <br /><br />I have not read books by Chabon, but I read two by Ayelet Waldman, light, but interesting. One funny, one not so much.<br />I love her Twitter feed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-20160588282134382202017-03-17T03:35:56.133+00:002017-03-17T03:35:56.133+00:00I do love the housecoat, and the pattern. I had to...I do love the housecoat, and the pattern. I had tons of those as did my mother and her mother. I swear one of us made a housecoat for me of a quilted material in a style similar to the ones above. <br /><br />Hard to tell whether I would like this or not, but I have only read one Chabon, and it is the Yiddish Policemen's Union, because it is a mystery. That one I could read again.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-70222938849239979952017-03-15T09:43:43.353+00:002017-03-15T09:43:43.353+00:00Probably right.Probably right.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-15584826333090965962017-03-15T09:43:03.606+00:002017-03-15T09:43:03.606+00:00No - to be fair, it's not treated lightly - bu...No - to be fair, it's not treated lightly - but in a way that I found strange. I'm sure many people will love it, but for me it didn't quite work. <br />Oh Powell's, what a wonderful place.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-11529123794073915672017-03-15T09:40:54.033+00:002017-03-15T09:40:54.033+00:00Loving the expertise here... Loving the expertise here... Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-7202357650201933672017-03-15T07:55:20.869+00:002017-03-15T07:55:20.869+00:00Pass Pass col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-84016050776540733062017-03-15T01:22:30.999+00:002017-03-15T01:22:30.999+00:00I have this book as part of my Powell's book c...I have this book as part of my Powell's book club membership (that, sadly, I've had to let lapse until I plow through at least 50% of what I have in my to-be-read piles). Now, I'm not sure if I want to read it. I had high school friends who were children of Holocaust survivors. I'm pretty sensitive on the issue -- especially if it's being treated lightly.carrpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16726596939143045758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-2091043479523674572017-03-15T01:19:41.483+00:002017-03-15T01:19:41.483+00:00Big ol' ditto on that from me, Shay!Big ol' ditto on that from me, Shay!carrpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16726596939143045758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-37420312240234974952017-03-14T22:57:08.598+00:002017-03-14T22:57:08.598+00:00Thanks for asking, because you did make me think a...Thanks for asking, because you did make me think about it more, and marshal my thoughts.<br />I quite liked the Sherlock one, but expected more of it. I'm always complaining books are too long - perhaps that novella should have been longer... Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-52531595838257600132017-03-14T22:55:45.935+00:002017-03-14T22:55:45.935+00:00Thanks for the extra info Shay!Thanks for the extra info Shay!Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-64062837815240723852017-03-14T08:28:39.656+00:002017-03-14T08:28:39.656+00:00Thanks for the extra paragraph Moira - certainly, ...Thanks for the extra paragraph Moira - certainly, if discerning the author's intent becomes an obstacle in a book, then you've got problems!!!Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-72278202163320560652017-03-13T23:57:25.121+00:002017-03-13T23:57:25.121+00:00Meh -- Raglan sleeves are a snap. It's the set...Meh -- Raglan sleeves are a snap. It's the set-in kind, particularly with puffs, that drive the home seamstress to drink.<br /> Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16527241089629026268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-4537184194127847072017-03-13T23:01:56.457+00:002017-03-13T23:01:56.457+00:00What did you make of his Sherlockian pastiche?What did you make of his Sherlockian pastiche?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-14285410363715917482017-03-13T20:49:43.831+00:002017-03-13T20:49:43.831+00:00Sergio - your question was a very reasonable one, ...Sergio - your question was a very reasonable one, and force me to think about it more, and I have added another section to the blogpost explaining what I didn't like about the fiction/nonfiction mixture. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-24573573619379356432017-03-13T12:55:19.373+00:002017-03-13T12:55:19.373+00:00No, it's all the way through, and given that t...No, it's all the way through, and given that the narrator is called Michael Chabon I just kept thinking 'is this true or not?' and I found that unsettling. Cavalier and Clay is probably my least favourite of his books (apart from the unspeakable Summerland) so maybe that says something - I think he is a wonderful writer, and I did like C&C, but not as much as the others. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-7214021869297491002017-03-13T12:52:33.290+00:002017-03-13T12:52:33.290+00:00I'm always impressed by anyone who can sew tha...I'm always impressed by anyone who can sew that well. And intrigued by stories of women (and it is always women) who have collections of unworn clothes and underclothes and housecoats. Tucked away in a drawer against some future moment. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-78296055672207498362017-03-13T12:48:47.934+00:002017-03-13T12:48:47.934+00:00Thanks Kathy - the Nehru collar certainly conjured...Thanks Kathy - the Nehru collar certainly conjured up a certain image. And what fascinating points about class differences - of course not everyone can sit around in bed in a bedjacket. And bathrobes - a whole new subject.. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-30020964656896899112017-03-13T12:47:50.777+00:002017-03-13T12:47:50.777+00:00Just add a multiple candlestick and you're rea...Just add a multiple candlestick and you're ready for a trip up the staircase to terror, through the secret locked door, and into the room with something strange and dark in the corner...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-59220683173599102892017-03-13T09:42:46.717+00:002017-03-13T09:42:46.717+00:00Not read this yet and sorry you really didn't ...Not read this yet and sorry you really didn't like it, though the whole "is it true or isn't it" would not really bother me that much frankly. Why did this trope bother you so much? I mean, if it only comes in at the beginning and the end, what about the stuff in the middle ... :) My personal favourite remains CAVALIER & CLAYSergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-35248236783685755592017-03-13T06:02:54.575+00:002017-03-13T06:02:54.575+00:00I think my mother might have had that very McCalls...I think my mother might have had that very McCalls pattern - or one very similar - she was a demon seamstress and made herself many house coats over the years (and did indeed have many un-used ones when she went doo-lally and we had to put her in a nursing home - she was the best dressed person there). Bernadettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07641617609801125707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-63204949918917661762017-03-13T04:51:11.875+00:002017-03-13T04:51:11.875+00:00These points about the housecoats are hilarious. ...These points about the housecoats are hilarious. I remember them. You seem to have captured the right one with a few photos of a red one with a Nehru collar and very arty design and falling to the floor.<br /><br />I remembers mothers of friends wearing housecoats. But I believe that there are cultural and class differences between wearers of housecoats and bed jackets. Bed jackets are more middle- and upper-class, more Grace Kelly in a bed scene.<br /><br />Housecoats were for every woman, including immigrant and working-class women, especially grandmothers in my day. Maybe friends' mothers, aunts, etc.<br /><br />And then there were bathrobes. My mother wore a bathrobe when not otherwise dressed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-85731493666892967602017-03-13T00:10:43.352+00:002017-03-13T00:10:43.352+00:00I have a terrible confession to make - I slob arou...I have a terrible confession to make - I slob around in a nightdress and SHAWL.Lucy R. Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08632983296994349550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-15312492140610670992017-03-12T20:53:07.261+00:002017-03-12T20:53:07.261+00:00Indeed. that previous generation not only had bedj...Indeed. that previous generation not only had bedjackets and housecoats, but they had special untouched clean ones in a drawer, so that they'd be prepared if they ever went off to hospital. I think there's a lot to be said for bedjackets, I don't know why we let them go. And, as Shay says, it would raise our game for what we read while wearing them.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.com