Clothing Away From Home # 1 and Video

Greetings from The Manse. This is my view today, and in keeping with that scenery, I am continuing with a talk about clothing. I quoted one of my sayings in the video inserted at the end of this post:

Do not spoil the beautiful view by dressing carelessly. If the view is ugly, improve it by dressing beautifully.

I will move on to other subjects integral to the home, such as character, art, literature, music, home keeping, etc. in due time.

I read more about clothing from these two books and I showed this picture to illustrate a good way to make a non-fancy dress look more formal and put together by adding a coat. These are easily found in clothing stores and not expensive, as they are not designed to be traditional coats but made of thinner fabrics. They make you look more feminine even if you do not wear dresses or skirts, or if you are hesitant to wear longer skirts.

This is my collection of wardrobe planning for the home.

Some of these are sketches by my granddaughter who is also a sewist 🧵 🪡 

The blouse and skirt I wore today is cotton and purchased at the Walmart. It would have been nice if the store had it in other colors.  In a future post I will show you how I machine sewed it to fit me better and raise the neckline.

To make home clothing suitable for going places, just add a jacket, as you see here.

For a more formal look, try scarves and shawls:

You can do a search for aprons that cover the blouse as well as the skirt. There are some very nice ones out there.  Someone made this one for me.

That is all from The Manse today.

I hope you enjoy listening while you work at home. I make these videos for my descendants, who one day may want to know how to cope with the crazy fashions of the future, just to give them a glimmer of light.

View from my Regency walk this morning. 

Please enjoy moving about your home while you listen today:

Style Marion

Marion 

Hello Ladies,

Thank you for visiting here today. I want to introduce an elegant channel some of you more vital ladies will find interesting and delightful.

 Marion has a personal goal of lifting and encouraging and spreading happiness with her style, music and cute cats.  

I believe she lives in Switzerland and she wants to help improve clothing design in the midst of today's bleak fashion trends, in what I call the “prevailing culture. In her videos she revives good music and beauty. She also takes tea, like we do here sometimes.

 The country background is lovely.

Click here to see her videos:

Style Marion

Besides her videos, she posts daily short videos with music while she shares some of her "high-end" clothing she has collected. Be sure to click on the link and have a look.

I have also added her to my most recent favorites on the side bar.

Lately I have featured on this blog clothing for the home, because I observed how much better I feel when I dress my best. It affects everything I do at home from having tea to catching up on correspondence and yes, even picking up the daily clutter.

Rather than be too disheartened by the current fashion trends, I find it a happy challenge to go up against the prevailing culture of drab, unattractive designs in clothing. As Anne would say, it gives much scope for the imagination. There is a void to be filled, and we will do it. 

While my clothing may not be well known designer style, I think the same principles she espouses apply to dressing anywhere, even if you are home most of the time: be feminine, dress in inspiring ways, be modest, and use good taste and good sense, do  not be sloppy, trashy, or unkempt.

As I always say, try not to spoil other's view by what you wear, but inspire and edify, even at home.  

Although I identify as 16, and try to inspire the new generations to dress well, I am, like some of my readers, of a “ vital” age ( you all know what that means) and I thought you would appreciate listening to Marion, who dresses with dignity for her vital age.  

I have often told people who say their style is different than mine, "That's okay. We can still be friends."  So, even if you don't care for the clothing I feature (mostly designed and sewn by myself) you can use the principles of good design and how to bring out the best in your figure and coloring, as well as the message you are giving to others.

I hope to be back soon with a video about clothing for the home and for outside the home, soon, but in the meantime I hope my posting this link will give her some encouragement.

Lydia Ruth

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