My friend Cookie with her fabulous cheekbones in 1974
A print from Old-Fashioned Calicoes
How old-fashioned you ask?How about 40 years or so? That's old to some people. Yesterday to others.
Me in floral print pants about 1969.
The pants sort of looked like this. Ditsies.
Cookie and the quilt
She was pictured in the 1974 book
Native Funk and Flash
The photo book by Alexandra Jacopetti and Jerry Wainwright was subtitled An Emerging Folk Art.
It documented the patchwork revival of the 1960s and 1970s. Many people believe the reinvention of quilmaking was a 1976 Bicentennial-inspired fashion but lots of us were making quilts and patchwork clothing ten years earlier.
The book's focus was creative textiles in the Bay Area.
(I don't know who this is but I bet she had a lot of blue calicoes.)
Sort of like this.
Quilters Newsletter
Patchwork was happening all over the U.S. and probably all over the the world.
I have some Old Fashioned Calicoes fabric from Moda. E-mail me or send a link to a digital photo of yourself in your patchwork outfit of thirty or forty years ago that we could post here and I'll pick a winner or two and send you a box of stuff.
The deadline is November 1, 2011. Click here for my email.
The deadline is November 1, 2011. Click here for my email.
And thanks to Cookie who loaned me the photographs. She still looks that good. I don't know about the quilt behind her.
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16 comments:
Wow -- she did(/does) have fabulous cheekbones! This was a fun look into fabric -- and you were a cutie, too! :)
Loved your post today, I really love the way they covered the chair. I would want to use an antique quilt but it certainly would be interesting to put together a quilt and do that.
Fun post, brings back memories. Not sure if I have any photos from that period, lol. Not sure if I ever wore calico.
Debbie
I don't have any pictures, but I remember my sister sewing a patchwork maxi skirt on my grandmothers treadle sewing machine. AND we used to embroider pictures and slogans all over our blue jeans. I was a little girl and I played with the Sunshine family dolls, which featured a mother father and baby, and the mother is wearing an old fashioned calico granny dress with an apron! Gotta love it!
I love this post! And can't wait to see your calicoes. Peace!
Old Fashioned Calicoes can sure bring back some good memories of LONG AGO, which can seem like yesterday. . .
I may have a picture or two for you!
You know you're old when the quilt historian is making repros of the fabric you used to make your daughter's dresses!
I shall look for my skirt and take a picture. I remember taking jeans that I had embroidered and ripping out the inseam. I inset a calico to make my skirt. I showed up at school and a teacher called my mother to ask her if she knew what I was wearing at school. LOL!
Thank you what fun photo's, I can't send you one of these type of photo's as I was only born in 1971.I have seen photo's of my older sister dressed in these groovie clothes :-)
Barbara - I bought Native Funk and Flash in 1974 in my hippie years and just about wore the ink off the pages! It inspired me to make so many creative clothes! I still have it and treasure it! So cool to know your friend was in it. Lynette
Holy cats, this takes me back. This is the first time I have ever seen anyone mention "Native Funk and Flash." That book undoubtably made me the embroiderer and quilter that I am today. I agree with Seaway Trail...I just about wore that book to pieces! The ideas were fabulous.
Gotta love those old calicos. They turn up occasionally on our guild Scrap Table and I can't resist them. They remind me of the old days when I started quilting.
PS - I did wear them too, I had a long granny skirt with a ruffle on the bottom, which I wore with a muslin peasant top. There are no surviving photos...thank goodness.
Oh, I love those old fashioned calicoes!
Wish I had a picture to send you :(
I do remember wearing calicoes and large floral prints growing up in India.
I wasn't born 40 years ago.
Boehoooeooeeee
I still have those old calicoes in my stash--& I've moved many times. I still like them :)
Hello Barbara, I too enjoyed reading your post....love the covered chair...Warm Regards, Lyn
I think I can locate my home-ec calico top from 1978. I'll try to take a pic of me wearing it now. Re vintage: this weekend I found an exact copy of my baby quilt c. 1962 being sold on eBay as vintage -- the horror!
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