Categories: ramblings, silly-things
Date: 21 May 2009 11:28:24
I have a couple of weddings to go to this year, and needed an outfit. Having found a fabulous pattern (Dior New Look, mid calf, long sleeve), that the equally fabulous Rosamummy is entirely confident of being able to get to fit me, I went shopping for fabric. One of the suggested fabrics, shantung silk, is Not Cheap, and I need about a mile of whatever I decide to buy. Anyway, I commenced poking Google with a stick, and it disgorged a website that was selling aforesaid fabric for $5 a yard.
“Squeeeeeee!” I said, only precariously maintaining my perch on the giant purple ball that passes as a seat at my “no, Mr Bond, I expect you to die” desk. The cheapest I’d found it elsewhere was $12 a yard (eBay), which is fairly impressively cheap, or in John Lewis at £20 a yard, which made me blink and go “bibble,” after I did the dressmakers’ equation of “£20 a yard * 7 yards = ouch.”
I perused the site further.
“Ah,” I said, as all became clear.
No wonder it was $5 a yard. Who’s going to go to a wedding wearing a dress the colour of sick?