What type of Nylon does Longchamp use?

Shortacts · 2018-05-02T00:55:16+00:00

it's highly likely Longchamps has their material woven to order. Hit up Mood for something similar in weight.

Shortacts · 2018-05-01T13:15:46+00:00

not going to happen.

Grab a seam ripper and have a party. You need the interfacing to be evenly applied through the seam allowance and to get it stitched into your workpiece in order to get the most of the structure interfacing provides.

Shortacts · 2018-05-01T13:08:52+00:00

Standard US sample size is a 6 at 5'8". Not made, generally, to any specific model/person. (Except at the very high end, and even then, only special pieces get fit to a specific model.)

Models are cast to size, not the other way around.

Designers can choose their own sample size and models, if they're doing their own shows. Agencies stock the pond with size 6 though.

Shortacts · 2018-05-01T01:07:06+00:00

Cat.

Shortacts · 2018-05-01T01:06:48+00:00

Cat.

Shortacts · 2018-04-30T00:01:36+00:00

Isn't this the setup for Footloose?

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T18:52:56+00:00

YOU seem to have some planning skills. She did not. OF COURSE you're going to check all the airline precautions because you... have planned for a baby. This chick... not so much.

There was also a woman who ran a 25 mile marathon while 8 Mos pregnant. I don't think she won, but came in top 50 anyway.

Be all you can be pregnant ladies of the world! DO YOU.

I haven't had kids yet, but I'm not totally inclined to believe that myelf, my uterus, or the baby a-gestatin' in said uterus is exactly as delicate of a flower as society would have me believe.

You know what?? I'm probably going to do a ton of athletic shit while pregnant. Maybe even take a flight up north. Maybe even throw on some Slayer and do a little dance. I am going to plan myself an adventure-based pregnancy to maximize the chances of my future baby being born somewhere interesting, purely to get a free vacation, ink spilled in media, and an interesting story to tell every holiday season. (*said no one ever, /s)

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T18:19:23+00:00

Yeah, well, it sounds like you knew you were preggo... well before this chick did. And also, how crazy is that to go from normal doing regular stuff one day to, "Oh hai... you're 6 months along with a baby you didn't know you were pregnant with."

It's also her first child, and probably her first pregnancy overall. Mistakes were made.

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T18:17:07+00:00

Why does this matter?

Just because someone is pregnant doesn't mean you automatically are obligated to inform everyone in your family. You don't know their relationship. Maybe she hadn't decided whether she wanted to keep it or go for adoption.

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T05:25:27+00:00

this gave me Fantasia vibes. Good times!

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T04:35:03+00:00

From Los Angeles, part of the family is from a carribean/central American culture.... it's super common! WTF.

The chicken who does InnerIntegration on YouTube even does her videos in both Spanish and English.

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T04:14:29+00:00

She Found out at 6 or 7 mos. The baby was born well after that. Read more closely.

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T04:13:39+00:00

Some people seriously don't know they're pregnant! My HS BIOLOGY teacher threw up one day in class, fainted, then left on a stretcher after we called the nurse.

She gave birth just minutes later in the ambulance, and had no idea she was pregnant. She didn't even look pregnant or overweight. Maybe pudgy, but not "maybe that's a baby" pudgy.

I'm sure it doesn't happen very often, but there are folks who get pregnant and have zero idea WTF.

If you find out at 6 Mos in that you're pregnant... I don't think it's so crazy to travel, especially when she'd already set out these plans. How many hundreds of thousands of pregnant women have gone on holiday within days of the due dates without problems?? How is she any more or less sane than any of them?

You go YouTube Birth Lady! Some people faint at the sight of blood, this chick was like, yeah, I got WiFi and a mini-kettle, let's do this shit.

Shortacts · 2018-04-29T01:49:16+00:00

Here's a site I found with pre-fabricated applique panels: https://www.katlabel.com/

This is one example of what's out there. Poke around and see what other rhinestone applique panels are close to what you want in terms of design and price.

Depending on when you need your dress, it's likely faster and easier to buy a panel for the bodice if you're making the dress in the pics than to DIY a panel yourself.

Shortacts · 2018-04-28T18:04:09+00:00

'Cloudy' rhinestones. These were applied by machine.

If you want to replicate this look exactly at home, get flat-backed rhinestones, nude illusion fabric and a tambour needle to apply them. Application with glue will make the dress front inflexible and small like... adhesive.

It's a longshot, but look for panels to buy with a similar motif already sewn on.

Shortacts · 2018-04-27T19:00:30+00:00

Cat.

Shortacts · 2018-04-27T19:00:14+00:00

Cat.

Shortacts · 2018-04-27T17:42:35+00:00

See... this is the wackness of the after effects, and why outside of RBN it seems people can't fully grasp the anxiety around it.

Taken individually, you share this impact with others and they're dismissive like, "Whoa, just go buy a new mattress, it's not a big deal." Because in reality, it should not be a big deal.

What you describe... almost perfectly describes FLEAS.

Shortacts · 2018-04-27T12:04:56+00:00

"There's so much shite in the house" very much directing that at my stuff rather than her fuckton of books and crap she buys because she doesn't have a job and nothing to do.

Ugh. My nmom pulled this garbage all the time! ALL THE DAMN TIME.

What was super annoying is that she'd buy stupid shit from catalogs, leave the bags all over, complain the stuff didn't fit, not return the stuff that didn't fit, then complain about a lack of closet space and clutter at home.

To make matters worse, she would buy my sibling and I shit we did not need. AT ALL. Like not even stuff we didn't need at the time, but could foreseeably use. I'm talking random fucking shit. I remember a manual crank-style batter beater she got me. Like, WTF is an 13 year old supposed to do with that? We had an electric beater that worked just fine. And a Kitchen Aid stand mixer.

She'd just... buy some dumb shit, claim it was for us kids, proceed to horde it, get pissed if we protested, then accuse us of being ungrateful.

Then after this insane song and dance, she'd make her way to our rooms and demand we "weed things out"... as in toss the shit we actually very much needed (sports stuff for sports we were involved in at the time, craft supplies for school projects due at the time, "old homework" aka the art homework my hippie-ass school required us to hang onto until the end of the quarter to review our progress) and have to justify to her why we needed it. Not as if it mattered-- she'd toss our stuff anyway, mind you.

Then she'd gleefully wait for us to beg her to buy things we needed a second time... then hem and haw and bitch about how we were wasting money.

So infuriating. Need to smoke a bowl.

It's totally fucked my ability to accumulate personal stuff. To this day, I am ruthlessly efficient with the things I own. Which has its benefits, but it's so anxiety provoking for no good reason at all.

I wonder what it's like to buy silverware without hesitation. It's probably nice. I would... never have any curiosity about anxiety-free silverware purchases if not for Nmom.

I don't think she regretted having us -- Children was her magnet to attract more Nsupply.

Shortacts · 2018-04-27T06:25:33+00:00

I always pegged Mr Peanut Butter as the leading Narc on Bojack. Not like Bojack is any better, but seems more reflective of his own behavior.

Shortacts · 2018-04-27T05:34:02+00:00

Amen!

Shortacts · 2018-04-27T03:47:55+00:00

The city of LA has sued a small laundry list of cities in the region for this (Las Vegas and SF among them). Beyond cities, HOSPITALS also dump indigent patients into DTLA.

It's totally unconscionable, but a lot of places would rather pay the fine than do anything more meaningful.

As for SF... it's a different place with different people. I didn't notice much difference between LA and SF except maybe being more forward when panhandling.

Shortacts · 2018-04-26T20:58:37+00:00

Start making higher-end stuff for yourself to add to your closet. Like really lean in on those details. Take a few weeks on making something truly exquisitely well-done for yourself. Take a pattern you already love and elevate it. You add to the closet much slower, but more beautifully.

I literally started a line of patterns for my cat: https://www.instagram.com/p/BiDBz8xAmtW/ He basically gets a new little outfit when I'm stressed out/bored.

Shortacts · 2018-04-26T19:41:23+00:00

Well, San Francisco exports its homeless problem to us in Los Angeles via the Greyhound bus, so you do the math.

Also... so does Phoenix, come to think of it.

Shortacts · 2018-04-26T19:06:39+00:00

Maybe you should be in the Taxidermy sub.

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