Capri Pants, Pedal Pushers, Or Toreador Pants?
I have been getting things together that I will need when I go on the mission trip in August and yesterday I bought capri pants. One pair was too large so I took them back to the store but they did not have the smaller size. Went to another store and they did not have them either. Since I had wasted the day already I decided to drive to West Monroe and see if they had the pants in the correct size. They did not but they did have a different style and they were on sale. I came home with three pair for three dollars less than two pair of the first style. I had said that I was not going to buy any more clothes until I lost weight but changed my mind since I need them for the trip. Besides they will probably be worn out by the time I lose all the weight that I want to lose. I have not been to Curves in over a month and I have been eating sweets like they were going to be rationed in a few weeks. Maybe on the trip I will lose some weight for I will be busy and not sitting at the computer thinking of sweets that I would like to eat.
I think that I am remembering correctly that the pants that are called capri pants today are what we called pedal pushers back in the fifties when I was in high school. And I think that the pedal pushers were also more fitted than the capri pants are these days. I just Googled pedal pusher and it gave toreador pants as a synonym. I do remember that the toreador pants were very tight fitting. I can’t believe how much I have forgotten about fashion. But it has been forty years since I received my master’s degree in textiles and worked in costume at the Smithsonian Institution. The simple truth is that these days I go for comfort and forget about fashion.
Years ago I bought a hemostat for someone told me it was a great tool to have if one had a needle that was practically impossible to pull through the fabric with fingers. I have never used it to pull the first needle but tonight I used it to repair my tape player. A couple of months ago a tape got caught in the player and the only way I could get the tape out was to pull and of course it broke and left a piece wrapped around a part of the player. Since then I have only been listening to CDs so had not tried to repair the player. Tonight I wanted to listen to the last twenty minutes of a tape and therefore I had to fix the player or wait until tomorrow to listen in the car. I poked around with a pair of long, skinny scissors and got a piece of the tape loose but could not reach it to pull it out. Then it dawned on me that I had the hemostat and fortunately it was in the first drawer that I searched. It took two or three times but I finally got all the tape out and now the player works just fine. So, guess the purchase was worth it after all. Maybe one day I will use the hemostat to pull a needle through thick fabric.