Comments on: News from you 11/20/07 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/news_from_you_112007/ How to start a clothing line or run the one you have, better. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:23:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lisa Bloodgood http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/news_from_you_112007/comment-page-1/#comment-8953 Lisa Bloodgood Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:14:20 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/11/news_from_you_112007/#comment-8953 According to my textiles notebook that has samples of practically every fabric under the sun, flannelette is the cotton fabric mentioned above for pajamas and blankets and stuff, while flannel is only wool. What we think of as flannel is flannelette, and wool flannel isn't even really brushed or fuzzy (well, it kind of is, but doesn't look the same as cotton). According to my textiles notebook that has samples of practically every fabric under the sun, flannelette is the cotton fabric mentioned above for pajamas and blankets and stuff, while flannel is only wool. What we think of as flannel is flannelette, and wool flannel isn’t even really brushed or fuzzy (well, it kind of is, but doesn’t look the same as cotton).

]]> By: /anne... http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/news_from_you_112007/comment-page-1/#comment-8952 /anne... Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:09:09 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/11/news_from_you_112007/#comment-8952 Flannelette is the Australian (&UK??) name for that brushed cotton fabric used to make pyjamas. The fact that she used the non-US name for it makes me wonder if she's planning on selling it to people - 'only available from ME!!'. I hate that :-(. Oh, and I wouldn't shop anywhere that decided middle-aged women have short grey hair. I think 47 counts as middle aged, and my hair is neither short nor grey (and I don't dye it, not that I object to that). I want clothes that suit my lifestyle, and quite frankly my personal clothing rules at work haven't changed in 20 years; all I need is a bigger size, as I'm about ten kilos heavier. I don't think I'm old, and I don't want to be patronised. Oh, and I wouldn't be caught dead wearing embroidered jeans :-) Flannelette is the Australian (&UK??) name for that brushed cotton fabric used to make pyjamas.

The fact that she used the non-US name for it makes me wonder if she’s planning on selling it to people – ‘only available from ME!!’. I hate that :-( .

Oh, and I wouldn’t shop anywhere that decided middle-aged women have short grey hair. I think 47 counts as middle aged, and my hair is neither short nor grey (and I don’t dye it, not that I object to that). I want clothes that suit my lifestyle, and quite frankly my personal clothing rules at work haven’t changed in 20 years; all I need is a bigger size, as I’m about ten kilos heavier. I don’t think I’m old, and I don’t want to be patronised.

Oh, and I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing embroidered jeans :-)

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