Carla: Well, well. What have we here?
Darla: Looks like someone here is unclear on how things are run in this town, boss.
Marla: [raises chin, menacingly.]
Carla: You mean someone doesn't know that this is OUR department store, Darla?
Darla: Looks that way, boss.
[Marla's silence, is, if anything, more unnerving than the rough voices of Carla and Darla.]
Carla: I'm sure these … girls … didn't mean any harm. And I'm sure they feel so terrible about trespassing that they'd like to make it up to us, don't you think so, Darla?
Darla: Makes sense to me, boss.
Carla: So if these ladies just hand over their new lipsticks, I think we'll call it a simple misunderstanding, right, Darla?
Darla: I'm sure they'll agree, boss.
[Marla starts humming under her breath. It may or may not be the Toreador song from Carmen.]
Carla: [examines lipsticks.] Very, very nice, ladies. I commend your excellent taste, if not your senses of direction. Have a lovely day.
Today's pattern is from Sheila, at Out of the Ashes — and she's running a spring sale! Get 15% off starting tomorrow morning, April 8, with the coupon code SPRING. (All paid orders will ship Wednesday or Thursday 4/14 or 4/15.)
A Dress A Day 
Thanks! I needed some humor in my morning!
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Thanks! I needed some humor in my morning!
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Hahaha. đŸ™‚ I do believe my mother had this pattern.
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The way Carla and Darla are both tilting their heads the same makes me wonder if theyre at a modern art exhibit.
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I am going to have to memo the art department too, I look hideous in green. What were they thinking down there. Someones idea of a joke is going to cost more than a lipstick. Carla
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Im headed down to the art department now. I look hideous in green, as they well know. Was this someones idea of a joke? I prefer peach and coral!This will cost someone more than a lipstick!Carla
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The Girls in Green are powerful — they wreaked damage today over at my blog, too, coincidentally!
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Im sorry to say the version with the pleats strikes me as being majorly dowdy…does anyone else agree? Eeeek. Something like a brown plaid fabric would make it even dumpier. From where I sit, it looks like a real Please Dont Notice Me pattern…MAYBE suitable for a substitute teacher. But maybe Im being too harsh?
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Note to Cookie: This type of skirt was very stylish in the mid-sixties and again toward the late 1970s. The best looking ones had the top of the pleats sew down. My mom (very petite and style conscious) had a sage green suit with this type of skirt. Nothing dowdy about it – at least on her.The dowdy part would depend on the fabric and how well the skirt fit. To me it is the top that is frumpy. Just my opinion. đŸ˜‰
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To me it is the top that is frumpy. Just my opinion. đŸ˜‰ Yes, I mean the combination of the top and the skirt together. PS: I read in a book about French couture that Chanel was the first to sew the tops of the pleats down in a skirt like that, so the hip area was more fitted. Wonder if its true? Thanks for advocating for the poor, defenseless little skirt! If only it hadnt met that top….
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Every time I visit your site, I feel like I may have had the pattern of the day! I sewed for myself and my mother back in the 60s. Taking a break from sewing to day, thought I would visit some sewing blogs. Yours is always a delight.
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Great as usual!!! hahahahahaha!
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Hilarious! Even better, my mothers name is Carla, and her best friend in college (in the 60s no less) was Darla! They searched for a Marla, but never found one.
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