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What is the fabric? Maybe I need to make a walking shirt!
Oh I get it. First I thought you meant a dress made of scallop shells...! I wondered who on earth would like to wear a thing like that...!!!Maybe this will get the award for the strangest post of the day, but it is for real. I recently donated most of my professional work clothes to a center for women in transition, since I am more or less retired. Way in the back of my closet was a dress from the 1980s or 1990s — that qualifies it as “vintage”, I think. I haven’t worn it for at least the last 20 years, but I could never bear to get rid of it, because once I started walking the camino, that scallop shell had meaning.
Today I was going to get rid of it, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. So if anyone would like me to send them this dress, I will be happy to mail it to you. It is hard to imagine anyone would wear it as is, it is very dated, but I know there are some very talented people out there who might remake it, deconstruct it and use the fabric for something else, etc.
It is a size 12 Liz Claiborne dress (not sure they still make that brand), a belted shirtwaist with a pretty full skirt. The size 12 is misleading, because I am the same size now as I was then, and my 1980 size 12 body now wears a size 8. That tells you something interesting about how manufacturers size things.
Hoping to find a good home for my old dress.....
Buen camino, Laurie
Oh I get it. First I thought you meant a dress made of scallop shells...! I wondered who on earth would like to wear a thing like that...!!!
I bought this dress years before I started walking the camino, probably in 1984 or 1985. In fact, I had probably stopped wearing it before I started walking (walked the first time in 2000, but I do wear clothes for a long time!). After I learned the significance, I just pushed the dress to the back of the closet and couldn’t give it up till now!Well I'm just curious, @peregrina2000. Did you buy the dress before you heard of the Camino? And if you did, what did you think once you realized the significance of the scallop shell? I think I would have been really taken aback and figured, this is my destiny and I'd better get going!
I'm glad it found a good home.
Maybe this will get the award for the strangest post of the day, but it is for real. I recently donated most of my professional work clothes to a center for women in transition, since I am more or less retired. Way in the back of my closet was a dress from the 1980s or 1990s — that qualifies it as “vintage”, I think. I haven’t worn it for at least the last 20 years, but I could never bear to get rid of it, because once I started walking the camino, that scallop shell had meaning.
Today I was going to get rid of it, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. So if anyone would like me to send them this dress, I will be happy to mail it to you. It is hard to imagine anyone would wear it as is, it is very dated, but I know there are some very talented people out there who might remake it, deconstruct it and use the fabric for something else, etc.
It is a size 12 Liz Claiborne dress (not sure they still make that brand), a belted shirtwaist with a pretty full skirt. The size 12 is misleading, because I am the same size now as I was then, and my 1980 size 12 body now wears a size 8. That tells you something interesting about how manufacturers size things.
Hoping to find a good home for my old dress.....
Buen camino, Laurie
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