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We went to the movies and saw Blade Runner: Final Cut last weekend, and my head is still spinning with shoulder pads - goodness, what shoulder pads! Am going to see it again with a very young friend who hadn't even heard of it, so clearly needs to take the chance of seeing it on the big screen. I'm happy that I did, it was a completely different experience than watching an old, worn VHS copy on a small TV. There were so many little details that I had missed, and the restored sound was good, too.
And oh, the shoulder pads...
The silver-coloured three crowns buttons have found a project at last, by the way - I'm completely disregarding all the things I actually need in favour of another little mock uniform dress. The fabric is a woven polyamide/lycra that I have used for a couple of similar dresses before, fairly stiff and sturdy but quite stretchy, up to about 40%. Black with silver piping, buttoned down the front with a single row, comparatively narrow collar and lapels, pockets with buttoned flaps on the half-length sleeves, buttoned shoulder straps and big 40's style shoulder pads. I will make them myself, modern shoulder pads are too soft and flat. The 40's pads I'm trying to emulate are built high, often 2-3 cm or more, but not extremely wide, they are tightly curved over the shoulder and stuffed hard.
I had only seven of those buttons and needed at least eleven for the project, so I went to the two remaining military antiques shops in town (after a detour to the Army Museum half a block from where there used to be a third one, where I poked and prodded another set of great shoulder pads in a female WWII Blue Star uniform) and asked for them. Found only two expensive ones at my first stop, but hit the jackpot at my second - seven large ones, two small ones, plus oodles of the also very pretty grey M/39 version of the same button, two sizes, in metal and plastic. I bought in the region of 40 buttons there and I'll go back for more. Was asked to show off the dress I'm using them for, too, when it's finished. I think I should, maybe.
I know that many sewers tend to collect tons of fabric. I've never been that bad a case of fabric hoarding, but I can't resist good buttons. They do take up less storage space than fabric, there is that to say for it..
The K came from the same place as most of the buttons, by the way. I have been thinking about the metal numbers and letters featured on some uniforms lately, and since K is my first name initial and they only had this one little letter lying around, it was obviously meant to be.
And oh, the shoulder pads...
The silver-coloured three crowns buttons have found a project at last, by the way - I'm completely disregarding all the things I actually need in favour of another little mock uniform dress. The fabric is a woven polyamide/lycra that I have used for a couple of similar dresses before, fairly stiff and sturdy but quite stretchy, up to about 40%. Black with silver piping, buttoned down the front with a single row, comparatively narrow collar and lapels, pockets with buttoned flaps on the half-length sleeves, buttoned shoulder straps and big 40's style shoulder pads. I will make them myself, modern shoulder pads are too soft and flat. The 40's pads I'm trying to emulate are built high, often 2-3 cm or more, but not extremely wide, they are tightly curved over the shoulder and stuffed hard.
I had only seven of those buttons and needed at least eleven for the project, so I went to the two remaining military antiques shops in town (after a detour to the Army Museum half a block from where there used to be a third one, where I poked and prodded another set of great shoulder pads in a female WWII Blue Star uniform) and asked for them. Found only two expensive ones at my first stop, but hit the jackpot at my second - seven large ones, two small ones, plus oodles of the also very pretty grey M/39 version of the same button, two sizes, in metal and plastic. I bought in the region of 40 buttons there and I'll go back for more. Was asked to show off the dress I'm using them for, too, when it's finished. I think I should, maybe.
I know that many sewers tend to collect tons of fabric. I've never been that bad a case of fabric hoarding, but I can't resist good buttons. They do take up less storage space than fabric, there is that to say for it..
The K came from the same place as most of the buttons, by the way. I have been thinking about the metal numbers and letters featured on some uniforms lately, and since K is my first name initial and they only had this one little letter lying around, it was obviously meant to be.