FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: MRS 'ARRIS GOES TO PARIS

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: MRS 'ARRIS GOES TO PARIS: "The gist of the story is....................................................... A char lady from London, who is in her late 50's and a wido..."

MRS 'ARRIS GOES TO PARIS

The gist of the story is.......................................................

A char lady from London, who is in her late 50's and a widow, cleans for several well-to-do ladies.

One in particular is going to a function and has 3 Christian Dior gowns to choose from and asks Mrs Harris to choose for her.  Mrs Harris is mesmerised at the beauty of these gowns and decides she wants to own one.

She slaves and saves, walks to work and cuts out her social life and saves enough money to go to Paris.  Mrs Harris duly gets on the plane with a shopping bag full of her savings and sets off to Christian Dior to buy her gown.

When she arrives she is disappointed to find that it is a fashion house and therefore cannot buy her dress/gown.

She is invited to attend a Show but has to sit on the stairs to watch as she is not an affluent lady.

She gets lucky and is invited to sit at the front of house.

She picks out her gown and thinks she can buy it, she can't, whats more, because she is not a lady of means she is turned away from the House of Dior.

She fights back, making friends on the way and gets the nick name of Mrs Mops, and............gets her gown.

Christian Dior put on a wonderful fashion show.....the pinnacle being that..... every item of clothing his girls modelled could be bought and worn.

There were every day wear, evening wear even bridal.  Unfotunately there were no plus size appleshape models, but no matter.....................ALL his clothes were wearable for every occasion.

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: HOUSE OF ELLIOT

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: HOUSE OF ELLIOT: "The gist of the story is........two sisters from a seemingly affluent family find themselves broke and downcast. They designed their o..."

HOUSE OF ELLIOT

The gist of the story is........two sisters from a seemingly affluent family find themselves broke and downcast.  They designed their own clothes for functions which other attendees admired.

When they found themselves in the aforementioned predicament they decided to put their gem of an idea to good use by setting up, to start with, a dressmaking business.

They came upon obstacles, as the times dictated that women should not go into business for themselves.

They had no college education and used common sense.

They designed. made and sold their ideas.

The business expanded and they sought out staff.  Women, who in a man's world did not amount to much, but to the Elliot sisters they were the hub.

Cutters, seamstresses and beaders, all these women had hidden talents and most of them worked 'downstairs' for the 'upstairs' crowd, until they were discovered, mostly by word of mouth.

Hence "The House of Elliot' was born...............................

Bea and Evie worked their ideas of making clothes that were for women from all backgrounds, all ages, all sizes and the best bit ALL BODYSHAPES.

That would have included me if I was born during those times and had the means to pay these talented ladies who threw caution to the wind and made a stand for themselves.

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: Dresses

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: Dresses: "Hi Is there anybody out there who would like a challenge? Is there anyone who can dress a female taking into account the following? Under..."

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: MISS MARPLE

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: MISS MARPLE: "Geraldine McKewan's portrayal of Miss Marple, my doesn't she dress quaint. I like her way with feminine blouses under dresses if it ..."

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: MISS POTTER

FASHION THAT DOES NOT FIT: MISS POTTER: "Watching Miss Potter I soon realised that an appleshape plus size person would not fit into the era fashion wise, without some cause for loo..."

MISS POTTER

Watching Miss Potter I soon realised that an appleshape plus size person would not fit into the era fashion wise, without some cause for looks and sneers.  Unless you were below stairs staff, whereby you wouldn't have been noticed that much at all.

Upstairs however, you needed to be seen wearing a vast wardrobe as you could not be seen to wear the same formal wear to close together in attendance to functions, as someone, a woman no less, would comment "did she not wear that at Mrs So and So's function, how disgraceful, the family cannot be as affluent as they make out."  Tut tut tut!!!!!

The everyday wear appears to be pretty blouses tucked into long straight skirts made out of a suit type material, dull and hardwearing. ( A waist line is required to make sure the skirt is not to high or to low....what waistline??)

Thank goodness the formal dresses are made of flimsier material and very pretty, a vast difference from every day wear, as it should be. 

As usual there is a BUT.  The pattern of these lovely dresses dictate a waistline as they all have a waist line seam.  Not appropriate for someone such as me with the aforementioned body shape.

Back to the beginning.......Shame about the below stairs staff, they are the hub of every household and are people too, who care how they look, with little or no money or time to do anything about it, or is there a way for them........? 

Which brings me nicely onto the next segment.

The House of Elliot..................................................................

MISS MARPLE

Geraldine McKewan's portrayal of Miss Marple, my doesn't she dress quaint. 

I like her way with feminine blouses under dresses if it gets too cold.  Her  little hats and long cardigans.  Yes, I like her look very much. 

Femininity to perfection, days gone by but brought up to date. 

Unlike Joan Hickson who was 1950's personified, a good Miss Marple however.

Not sure how tall Geradine is but I certainly do not match her slenderness, she cannot be found if I stood in front of her.

NOT GETTING THIS RIGHT AM I?

Have you ever had ideas rolling around in your head whilst just falling asleep, ironing and thought I wonder if I could do something with that?   Fashion is my seed of an idea but nothing is happening.

My Blog sounds like I am forever moaning, not what I want to portay at all.

I am no way a designer and have no thoughts to be one, not for general public anyway.

I have certain ideas about MY fashion and can't, at present, do anything with them, or about them.  I am stuck.

I have a gem/seed of something and it just won't come out.

So I will just wait and see................................................................ NO MORE MOANING BLOG

Dresses

My dresses, well they don't fit right. I have little to no waistline so cannot have bodice/skirt type styles.  Have tried the drop waist but my big apple shows.  Empire line I think (maybe I'm wrong) is for the younger generation, very 60's, I need to find a style befitting my age group, however evening wear empires can be lovely and stylish.  Tent styles no way under any cicumstances.

Lengths: well, being so short they are long, just above the ankle, is this right for my height, some would say no others would say if you like the dress then yes, who is right? 

Dresses

Hi

Is there anybody out there who would like a challenge?

Is there anyone who can dress a female taking into account the following?

Under 5ft
Size 18-20
Appleshape
Fifty plus (but with a young outlook on life.)

Fashion preferred is 20's and 30's but getting a dress pattern in the UK is hard and is expensive from the states.

I were jeans that only fit around the bum, skinnies make me look like a toffee apple (which are on sticks).

So there you go.......................who is up for it...............love to here from you.