Hey,
This is a very simple project, but takes a little time because you’ll be sewing by hand.
It makes an incredibly delightful Boho fashion statement. 🙂
I guess I’ve been on a nostalgia kick, lately.
(This intro has nothing to do with my tutorial! Lol! But, it’s fun stuff, nonetheless! 😀 …and it DOES end up on a fashion note!)
My stroll down memory lane kinda
started when I saw this cute graphic (below) that really got me to missing my childhood.
Beatles Forever!
I’ve been a true-blue Fab Four fan since I was a little girl.
Our parents said they wouldn’t last…we knew better!
Favorite music is my salvation at work! Through it, I can escape into a fantasy world far, far away.
The other day, as I toiled at my boring, mindless p/t job, I was ecstatic to find—a few—full Beatles albums on YouTube on my phone—after trying, in vain, to find them, before.
I currently don’t have a properly working record player on which to play my vinyl collection, so, I have to depend on the web. All I could find previously was imitators…cover bands. Uh-uh…not the same.
I still remember, fondly, that Sunday night in 1964 when they appeared live for the first time in America on the Ed Sullivan Show.
My heart beat wildly with anticipation and excitement, and my eyes were glued to the screen of our old B&W box TV-set.
I became a part of that exhilarating experience: a revolution that
would “rock” the music world forever!
I was witnessing history being made with the delirious teenagers in the studio audience and the millions across the country who were also glued to their TVs!
I drank in every lyric, every guitar pick or strum, every drum beat, every cymbal crash; every movement made, every “oooo” vocalized.
Are the Beatles the best rock-n-roll band to ever be?
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Lol.
Another Idol of My Youth
Recently, as I was searching for something else, my eye caught on Twiggy, and I decided to read up on her.
Remember that cute, skinny, Cockney teenaged pixie who modeled mini skirts, revealing her thin little legs?
I loved her!! She was just a few years older than I, and my
teenie-bopper heart just idolized her!
Well, come to find out, she’s modeling again!
The young girl with the impish face framed by that tomboy hairstyle has matured into a very attractive womanly presence.
I thought it would be fun to feature her, here, on my post.
The Face of 1966
Supermodel Jean Shrimpton was her heroine: “I had her pictures all over my walls,” Twiggy was quoted as saying. “I thought she was the most beautiful creature I’d ever seen.”
Twiggy had dreamed of being a model, but
was told that she was too short for fashion modeling.
In addition, she was thin—like a little waif, having a boyish figure.
Well, as fate would have it, Twiggy brought a new image to the industry:
With merely 90 lbs. of flesh stretching over her 5-foot-6-inch frame, she became the darling of the fashion world and the idol of many young girls—including me!.
Looking back, she admitted she was “much too thin.
“I had a look – I can see that now – but I don’t think I was beautiful.”
As a Child
Born Leslie Hornby on September 19, 1949, in a suburb of northwest London, she was the third
daughter of Nellie Lydia (Reeman), a factory worker for a printing firm, and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter from Lancashire.
As a schoolgirl, she first acquired the nickname of “Sticks,” which she hated.
At age 16, still a “shy, thin, gauky girl,” as an article described her, this unassuming teenager became known as Twiggy, and changed the face—and body—of the fashion modeling scene.
The Discovery
Twiggy was discovered as she was helping out in a London hairdressing salon, early in 1966.
In this chic salon—the House of Leonard, her childlike innocence caught the eye of Leonard himself, as he was looking for models on whom to try out his new crop haircut.
So, she had her hair colored and cut in Leonard’s style, had test “head shots” taken, and
went back to school the next day.
Fate continued to lead: Deirdre McSharry, fashion editor of the Daily Express, saw on the wall of the salon the newly put up photo of Leslie in her novel haircut and asked to meet this young model.
The editor took her to tea, ordered more photos to be taken, and three weeks later, her dad came into her room holding an open newspaper. The headline read: “Twiggy – The Face Of ‘66.”
Within a month’s time, she was doing her first shoot for Vogue!
Now, at Age 68?
Twiggy—yes, she is still called Twiggy, said about her nickname: “It was only when a newspaper called me ‘Twiggy, The Face Of ’66’ that I realized I was stuck with it for life.
“But, to be quite honest, it’s been rather good to me.”
She has stayed slim—though, not skinny, and is still modeling.
“The way I looked when I started modeling – I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra.
“I wasn’t trying to be that thin, I was perfectly healthy, but still – that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20.”
Which brings us to the fulfillment of another dream of hers: clothing design.
Having been taught to sew as a child by her mom, and making her own clothes in her youth, she has blossomed as a designer.
Second Dream Come True
After seven years of modeling, beginning in 2005, for Marks & Spencer clothing, she debuted her own collection for M&S of 47 pieces.
“I have such a passion for design and truly believe fashion should be stylish and fun.
“Women my age don’t want to be frumpy.
“I don’t feel how I thought I would,” she said in reference to her advancing age.
‘There’s nothing you can do about getting older. You’ve just got to accept it,” she added.
The “face of 1966” has become the face of L’Oreal hair products.
Now enjoying her longer hair, she said she won’t be pressured into getting a short ‘do, opposing the so-called “beauty rule” which states that “older” women should have short hair.
You go, girl!!
By Cindy Davis a.k.a. Cindy Ann Lowe Davis
Sources: Articles by Jess Cartner-Morley, David Wigg, Bianca London for MailOnline, Vanessa Green of Yahoo Lifestyle and Wikipedia.
My commentary on Twiggy’s story:
Hold on to your dreams!
Even though it appears to be impossible for your dreams to manifest, as you trust the One Who created you, it is He who will fulfill what He has planted in you.
As the Creator—your Father, it is His responsibility to perform in you/ through you—His creation, His child—the good things He has planned for your life!
I see in Twiggy’s story a “Hand,” bringing her to the right place, at the right time, to meet the right people that would take her to her destiny.
I’m believing for that in my life, and wanting you, too, to believe it in your life.
Make a Fuzzy Stole!
This is a very simple project, but takes a little time because you’ll be sewing by hand.
It makes an incredibly delightful Boho fashion statement. 🙂
- Begin with several fuzzy scarves.
I found mine at the Goodwill Outlet, where you pay per pound, so, as these are extremely lightweight, they cost very little. It took more than one visit to find all five.
- Lay them out on a table to decide the order of which goes next to what.
- Find the center of the length of each. Put a
piece of Scotch tape at the center point.
- Line them up on the table with centers in a row.
- Start, by making a couple of stitches at the center points to connect them all.
- Hand sew them together with a whip stitch, using a thread color that will blend in.
With each stitch, simply catch the edge of each scarf—the woven threads—and sew along the length, attaching two together, then, add the third, etc., till all are sewn securely together.
As you sew, you can release the fuzz that gets trapped in the stitch, so the thread is more hidden.
Voila!
You Have a Great Stole!
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