2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Baileys_Babe

PipneyJane said:

The YouTube video is the one, @TwibbleDee.  I watched an episode yesterday and recognise the bloke you can see as well as the hat, which is Ruth's.  I don't think this series is as good as the "Farm" ones but that may just be me.  I'm just not that interested in slate mining, which was a big focus of the first episode.  I prefer the domestic stuff.
- Pip

I too prefered the Farm ones, but I did find the slate mining surprisingly interesting yesterday.

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@Baileys_Babe - my Gran used to say that too about anything I wore that was very short or skimpy - "you'll get a cold in your kidneys, my girl!"

I hate to say, my Grandmother was right, I dislike having cold kidneys now, it makes me feel cold to my core if there is a draft around that area. Not that I would admit that to her if she was here now 🤣

PollyWollyDoodle

That’s a great picture of the petticoat Laura, exactly as I imagined it. And I love the story of the ‘mink’ stole being ferret fur!   @SezzaF that is exactly like The Railway Children, if only Bobby had owned a mobile phone ... they wouldn’t have had half as much fun!  @keepcalmandcraft it always makes me cry, too. I listened to an audiobook of this on BBC Sounds quite recently and found myself sobbing in the car!  But ... The red petticoat that I’m thinking of isn’t that one. It’s a book about a woman who longs for a red flannel petticoat. I’m wondering if it’s Mammy in Gone With the Wind? It’s years since I read that.

Laura_Elsewhere

keepcalmandcraft said:

Love your petticoats, Laura!  Red petticoats always remind me of The Railway Children’.  It’s one of my favourite Films and I cry every time at the ‘Daddy, it’s my Daddy’ bit!

***Wa-a-a-a-ahhhh!!!!***

I was trying *very* hard no to mention or even think of that bit....

Has anyone got another hankie please? These are all sodden now... 

Wraithlady

Here, have one of mine. It's clean, promise.
Anyone fancy some gingerbread? It's a bit paler than it should be, couldn't get treacle for love nor money, but it tastes alright.

TwibbleDee

PollyWollyDoodle said:

 But ... The red petticoat that I’m thinking of isn’t that one. It’s a book about a woman who longs for a red flannel petticoat. I’m wondering if it’s Mammy in Gone With the Wind? It’s years since I read that.

Oh, she got it.  Rhett bought it for her in New Orleans.  

fiwen30

TwibbleDee said:

PollyWollyDoodle said:

 But ... The red petticoat that I’m thinking of isn’t that one. It’s a book about a woman who longs for a red flannel petticoat. I’m wondering if it’s Mammy in Gone With the Wind? It’s years since I read that.

Oh, she got it.  Rhett bought it for her in New Orleans.  

Yep! Not flannel though - silk taffeta, to rustle like angel wings!

PollyWollyDoodle

It IS Gone With The Wind, then?  That’s been bugging me ever since Laura posted about her red flannel petticoat. Thanks, TwibbleDee. I know the book is viewed a bit differently now because of the themes that it deals with, but I remember reading it when I was about 14 and loving it, and I still think the film is one of the best ever made

Laura_Elsewhere

fiwen30 said:

Yep! Not flannel though - silk taffeta, to rustle like angel wings!

Now I want a red silk taffeta petticoat...! 

The really funny thing is... my original comment about wanting a "red flannel petticoat" - that meant the classic Victorian ones, as in The Railway Children - which is very very fine WOOL cloth! As in cricketing trousers and Oxford bags, all made of very fine grey wool cloth, wool flannel. Very warm, very practical, very thin and non-bulky - very widely-worn as underwear and outer-wear in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Britain. About as thick as a normal r-shirt today, I would say. 
The very very dear, kind, generous, thoughtful lovely friend who surprised me with several miles of red flannel is American - and in America, "flannel" is brushed cotton...! 
(To most people in Britain, tbh, nowadays if you asked them what material is "flannel" they'd assume terry-towelling...)

So I do have a red flannel petticoat, but it isn't what Bobby waved at the train...!  

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

fiwen30 said:

Yep! Not flannel though - silk taffeta, to rustle like angel wings!

Now I want a red silk taffeta petticoat...! 

The really funny thing is... my original comment about wanting a "red flannel petticoat" - that meant the classic Victorian ones, as in The Railway Children - which is very very fine WOOL cloth! As in cricketing trousers and Oxford bags, all made of very fine grey wool cloth, wool flannel. Very warm, very practical, very thin and non-bulky - very widely-worn as underwear and outer-wear in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Britain. About as thick as a normal r-shirt today, I would say. 
The very very dear, kind, generous, thoughtful lovely friend who surprised me with several miles of red flannel is American - and in America, "flannel" is brushed cotton...! 
(To most people in Britain, tbh, nowadays if you asked them what material is "flannel" they'd assume terry-towelling...)

So I do have a red flannel petticoat, but it isn't what Bobby waved at the train...!  

@Laura_Elsewhere.  Now you're making me lust after a bolt of really good, fine, wool flannel.  No idea what I'd make with it yet, but I love decent fabric!  (Thank God the shops are closed during Lockdown.  It'll give me time for this to wear off.)

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

@Laura_Elsewhere.  Now you're making me lust after a bolt of really good, fine, wool flannel.  No idea what I'd make with it yet, but I love decent fabric!  (Thank God the shops are closed during Lockdown.  It'll give me time for this to wear off.)

- Pip

No idea where to buy wool flannel, but my beloved century-old family firm, from whom i buy all my phenomenally good (and mega-wide) Belgian linen, Wolfin Textiles do "nuns veiling" which is a very beautiful fine wool challis. They also post you samples, free, so you can drool in the privacy of your own home... 

I recommend their Belgian unbleached linen, the 213cm-wide one - with washing it softens beautifully and needs no ironing, ime. I used it for all my re-enactment body-linen and all I ever did was take my shift off after wearing it 24-hrs/day  for 5 days, and chuck it in a cold-water rinse cycle, take it out after the spin and drape it somewhere to dry. Real linen's anti-microbial properties and European-grown, traditionally-processed very-long fibres do the rest... I've also used their white linen, which is a little more loosely-woven. 

I would apologise, only... well...
https://www.wolfintextiles.co.uk/product-page/nuns-veiling-100-wool