@CoraCHarrington Also if you are cool, w good style, a fairly standard size & an eye in a large fashion city … it’s not that hard
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Jill Draper
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Jill Draper
@JillMakesStuff
Jill Draper makes stuff. Lots of stuff. She/her. This is Jill's personal account, for yarny stuff & shop updates follow @JustJDMS
Upstate NY Katılım Temmuz 2011
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You can get brand new $600 shoes from eBay for $50.
daniela@daniela__127
Rama Duwaji wears $600 shoes and outfits that run into the thousands. She’s either being gifted A LOT of items (can she accept those, she’s the wife of a public servant?) or she is clearly not living on the combined income of her and her husband (whom she only married a year ago)
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@Michaelfiore A lot of those aren't lightfast or colorfast even with a mordant but there are a lot of books that will explain how to get there with the ones that are.
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The science fair was today! Unfortunately, it was not a competition, because I think my daughter had a great chance of winning if it were.
She got so many great comments and questions from fellow students, parents and teachers.
I’d love to find a way to turn this into a workshop at the garden center. Anyone have good ideas of how that could be done?
Michael Fiore - Garden Center@Michaelfiore
Y’all, my daughter wanted to do an experiment to see which flower makes the best natural dye, and this is so cool! It’s turning out so well. The purple petunia is blowing my mind. Bougainvillea is outstanding also.
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@j_bot I didn't *actually* think so but LOL. Please do LMK though!
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@JillMakesStuff Not right now lol. I was just talking with Dan about going upstate soon though. We WILL meet up one of these days!!
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looking at some unusually expensive in-season produce and wondering if this shop hates its customers, has bad vendor relations, or both
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@katewillett My grandpa was born in 1932 & did the dishes every single night.
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You’re allowed to both cook and do the dishes in your own home, but it’s uniquely jarring to read about from one of the arbiters of 2010’s feminism.
Like person who cooks doesn’t do dishes is the kind of feminism even Boomer parents embraced.
No more personal brands.
emily may@emilykmay
lindy west discourse has me thinking about how your career banking heavily on you "personal brand" can put you in such an awful spot. your life turns into a performance for your audience.
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What I'm learning is there are a LOT of ugly navy sweaters with flags on them. All of which are RL knockoffs. Blech. Boring.
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@CoraCHarrington Even early undergarments were split at the crotch so “pants” would be fundamentally confusing, right?
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So even if everything else were to have a handwavey fix or solution, the shock, repulsion, and persecution that would result from an early 18th century woman wearing pants does not.
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Now that I have more time and am at my laptop, I want to come back around to what I think is one of the core issues of talking about historical fashion, which is how do you get people today to think of garments in the past through the lens of the past.
keysmashbandit@keysmashbandit
I'm sorry this is insane. A person in 1704 would be completely swept off their feet stunned at the comfort, warmth, affordability, and ease of care afforded by a pair of knit Costco brand sweatpants
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I’m reading an old spinning journal from 1979 that’s talking about making cloth from kudzu the same way you can from flax. It apparently feels like a cross between linen and silk, is lightweight, translucent, waterproof, and wind-resistant. Never would have considered this.
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Why is no one mentioning this self selects for online quiz takers which may not reflect the rest of the reading population?
Kevin Roose@kevinroose
We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing. 86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment! nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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@CoraCHarrington @dieworkwear I saw someone saying the other day they are planning on starting some sort of cottage industry of home sewers in the US, creating dresses for sale bc they can’t find a nice dress for $30 anymore & …
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@dieworkwear This person’s tweets cross my timeline whenever textile chat goes viral on this app, and they don’t actually care about bringing back the textile and apparel industry to the US. They care about AI and robots and defense contracts…not resurrecting all the jobs that were lost.
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This is true, but I don't think it tells the full story. Since the 1960s, the US has largely offshored its textile and garment manufacturing, but it's held onto related services, such as design and marketing. In other words, someone in the US will design a jacket and come up with the marketing strategy, but the actual jacket manufacturing will be done offshore.
As it happens, the service component is the largest added-value. As you go down the supply chain — starting with farmers who grow related crops such as cotton, linen, or wool — the value-added becomes very, very small. Thus, there's very little wage growth at that end. The highest wage growth is on the service side, which is why New York City still has a bustling fashion sector, where many people are employed in design, marketing, retail, merchandizing, etc.
This combination — retaining the most important parts of the production chain while letting go of the other parts — could theoretically put the US in a very good position to manufacture luxury goods that it can export abroad. But the US has not been very good at developing its luxury sector for a variety of reasons (possibly culture, cost of living, lack of government support, etc).
Of course, in the transition from the 1960s to now, there have been some winners and losers. The winners are people who do design and marketing; the losers are the sewers who used to work on US factory floors. The good news is that you can still buy clothes today that are made exactly as they were in the 1960s — from oxford-cloth button-downs to Goodyear welted shoes. The bad news is that you will be paying prices close to what the average family in the 1960s paid for such goods. Which is to say ~$150 button-ups and ~$500 shoes in today's dollars.
When you purchase these clothes, you may find that the $150 button-up shirt isn't that different from the one made in China or India. That's because other countries are now pretty good at making clothes.
Kaia Rhodes@kaiarhodes
In the 1960s, 95% of the apparel Americans wore was made in the USA. Today, that number is just 2%. In one lifetime, we went from being the world’s textile & apparel powerhouse to being entirely dependent on foreign supply.
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@j_bot @svershbow Don't worry a sweater pattern paid equal to like 3 paragraphs worth of writing...
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@JillMakesStuff @svershbow Omg I can't even imagine lmao
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Can anyone tell me if George had good freelance rates for writers? It doesn't matter, I'm genuinely just curious.
corinne ☆@MIUCClAMUSE
i love seeing people discover jfk jr’s george magazine from ‘love story.’ i truly believe he was ahead of his time trying to merge pop culture and politics for young people and would love to see george get a proper/modern rebrand because the covers were FAB!
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@thetolerantweft I found your last newsletter really interesting & something I had been thinking about but not really seen expressed.
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I have more to say about the reactionary undercurrent of this contemporary revival of figure painting, which this person is getting at. The coquette stuff is relevant
international stakeholder@intl_weeds
The kinds of paintings Epstein collected are the kinds of paintings you see posted by weird femme coquette accounts on here twenty times a day it really says a lot
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@CoraCHarrington @iratesheep Also woolgathering (a personal fave) & bellwether!
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@iratesheep On pins and needles, cut from the same cloth, dyed from the same wool, patch things up, birthday suit, off the cuff, mouth dry as cotton, shirt off his back, wolf in sheep’s clothing, too big for his britches, air dirty laundry, came in on his coattails, knock your socks off, etc
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There are so many textile-based idioms, I think people have forgotten they came from textiles.
frye@___frye
50% of idioms in the english language come from baseball. 45% come from poker. the remainder are from aviation
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@CoraCHarrington If I won the lottery there would be signs...
(until them I'll bring my gingher's to the sharpener)
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@CoraCHarrington The guy complaining about elastic in underwear. LOL. Enjoy your loose drawers.
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Do you remember when I talked about the polyester backlash and insistence that natural is always superior being linked to rising conservatism?
Cora Harrington@CoraCHarrington
Any minute now, there’s going to be an article or a video connecting the rise in “I hate polyester because it’s fake” posts to conservatism & a yearning for the nostalgic past. Which is not the same as saying people who believe that want to live in the past, but it’s in the water
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@CoraCHarrington @TehWonderkitty For real bc computer systems are based on weaving looms.
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This feels like a good moment to mention that machines cannot crochet. It’s something only humans can do.
Black Mutual Aid@miiriya1
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@CoraCHarrington I think people wearing more casual clothes to work & school definitely changed this from the norm. And bc clothes are less expensive many people treat everything as disposable. (Not great!)
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People are being weird about this tweet but changing from outside to inside clothes is, historically, very normal. New clothes get taken off when you get home to preserve them. Old clothes no longer suitable to be worn outside, are worn at home because why throw away clothes.
5@txrxvc
the way the concept of “home clothes” is foreign to some people is wild, what do you mean you don’t change into home clothes as soon as you come in from outside??
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@feederofcats We adopted a bonded sib pair in December & it’s been so fun to see them together after having all adult rescues who liked/tolerated each other but these two are cuddle puddles.
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📍 SF Bay Area
Tugboat (siamese) has gotten many applications but nobody wants to take his brother, too 😢 these sweet, purry babies are bonded and love each other so much. Brown tabbies are just as cute as a blue-eyed siamese!
Please share and help them find their home! 🩷
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@j_bot I use eventbrite to manage RSVPs for my party which has the same basic details for several years now. They autofill descriptions w AI now & you have to delete & retype. Anyway when I say NONE of the AI details were even remotely close to any other years.
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A team working on an AI knitting pattern editor and pattern grading product just popped up and this is exactly how I felt about their website. When I asked about their founders, the marketing guy just told me their names :/
Hiten Shah@hnshah
There’s a flaw in AI marketing I can’t unsee. Today, I’m sharing findings that changed how I think about product launches. What buyers told us in these sessions made me rethink every launch I’ve ever worked on. We brought real buyers in to review the most-hyped AI homepages. They arrived curious. Most left frustrated, confused, or unconvinced. Here’s what stood out: 🤔 97% couldn’t figure out how the product actually worked 😬 67% wanted more real-world examples or use cases ❌ 57% didn’t trust the claims ⏳ Less than half would even try the tool Almost everyone still believed in the potential. But that gap between curiosity and trust? That’s where millions in revenue quietly disappear, before your product ever gets a shot. Watching these sessions forced me to question everything I thought mattered on a homepage. It’s not about features, visuals, or clever messaging. It’s about showing the real product, removing every point of confusion, and making the benefit instantly clear. Here’s what buyers asked for: - Show what the tool actually does - Share specific examples, not just big promises - Be honest about what the product can’t do - Use clear, customer language And here’s what not to do: - Stop leading with generic claims or buzzwords - Don’t hide the product behind a wall of marketing speak - Never assume buyers will figure it out for themselves We pulled in conversion rate optimization (CRO) experts and turned every insight into a step-by-step homepage playbook. Even a small improvement here means real revenue. If you want the full research, buyer quotes, and the homepage template, check the next post below.
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