I keep meaning to order from them, but am lazy and don’t want to do my measurements… I shall one day!
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Doing the measurements is a bit of a hassle, especially without someone to help. But once I realized how long my dresses from them lasted even when washed and dried it seemed much less so. As an overweight professional, their clothes have been valuable for me. My first knit dress has lasted nearly weekly wear for 3 years now. I use it for casual now bc between the kid and the cats it is stained!
If you do order a custom, add a bit of space for shoulders, arms, waist and hip. They cut to exactly the measurements, so the non-strechy fabrics don’t have much room to move.
And the pockets. I love the pockets.
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Mrs. Ficus got some Levi’s jeggings the other day and was pleasantly surprised to find they had fully functional back and front pockets.
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5 minutes in an alteration shop, done by a professional! I did this about 12 years ago, but obviously COVID Tire has required me to do it again.
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I had not even considered that… a good idea.
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well, the toidy is busted, so he can’t go in space!
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It’s kind of odd seeing your own childhood experiences being described as a historical curiosity in an article. But then, so is the whole modern experience of Halloween in a Celtic country, seeing old traditions exported, transformed by American popular culture, then re-imported in a slightly different, commercialised form.
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I’m a medievalist for a hobby, specialising in Ireland and England.
I think in terms of the echoes of Pre-Christian Samhain and the concept of liminality which is so respected in Irish myth, and the echoes of those concepts into medieval Christian practice… but I grew up on the other side of the world and I’ve never been to Ireland, and I’m very aware that the practices of 5C Ireland, or 15C Ireland, or even 18C Ireland, aren’t necessarily going to be recognised by the present day Irish.
I can’t tell anyone what Samhain means. But I do like to think that I have some insights into what it might have meant, back when iron swords were magical artefacts worthy of the gods themselves.
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On 12 February this year, HOPE not hate revealed the existence of a huge and mysterious social media network that was targeting QAnon conspiracy followers via the Telegram messaging app.
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Now HOPE not hate can reveal that the person behind this operation is the German artist and photographer Sebastian Bieniek, an obsessive self-publicist with a long history of social media manipulation.
Thanks to @knoxblox for pointing me (indirectly) at Hope not hate.
This is definitely “odd”…
Hey, Atlantic!!!
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I’d only care if he shot himself into space and just kept on going.
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Lure them all in close, and then the Triffid strikes!
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Ma’am. although I’ve noticed in Star Trek, superior officers are always sir, regardless of gender identity…
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“a-rare-penis-plant-that-smells-like-rotting-flesh-has-bloomed-in-the-netherlands”
What’s with stinky plants from Sumatra? Corpse Flowers and Durian fruit trying to out do each other??
I had a chance to see / smell one in the DC Botanical Garden. It’s as bad as you might think. Hints of 3 day old roadkill and feet.
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Ya but it’s sexy tho
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“It was really a coincidence that the clitoria was flowering at the same time the amorphophallus was blooming.”
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Buried the lede, though:
“People found out about that, and they asked me where the clitoria was,” Van Vught said.
“In some cases, they came back and, with a straight face, surrounded by dozens of other people, they told me they cannot find the clitoria. And they were absolutely oblivious of the joke they were in, which I found really funny.”
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