Showing posts with label bag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bag. Show all posts

Monday, June 8, 2009

Bliss Bag Collection

Bliss Bags are up in my etsy store. The collection is made up of bags, magazine totes, and pouches.



Bliss Bag: "Wildwood"
This bag features Erin McMorris fabrics and my quilted leaf motif. Bliss Bags are solid cotton, including quilted cotton middle layer. No crinkly, plastic, iron-on stiffener, just soft sturdy washable cotton. The perfect summer bag!




Magazine totes: "Run".
Grab and go .....
-your towel and book and snack for the park.
-with your book and water bottle to the Dr office.
-your towel and gym clothes.
-your notebook and pens for a walk through the new museum exhibit.
Whatever it is, you'll be ready with your cute tote!




Bliss Pouches have many uses:
- great for a camera and money clutch purse for a walk to the coffee shop,
- keep your tunes and cords from tangling in your purse,
- make up bag,
- I use mine to keep my check book, my punch cards, gift certificates, and receipts in which lightens the load on my wallet and keeps it all organized.

I'm still listing these, so if you don't see the perfect one yet, check back tomorrow!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Vintage Fabric?

I love a good vintage fabric find! This mushroom bag is made from fabric I found at a yard sale. I use the term vintage for 60's-70's fabrics like these because they are special, I'll never see it again, can't find it anywhere else, and we don't make anything like it now. ETSY defines Vintage as anything over 20 years old. But it's not really the correct term.

The term vinage originates in the wine industry, refering to the year a wine was bottled. It was later used by the car industry to mean cars over 50 years old. Now, fabric and clothing sellers use the term rather loosely, and banter over proper use.

Antique is generally to mean anything over 100 years old. So for clothing and fabric, anything pre- 1920s is antique.

And Vintage covers the space between 1920's and 1960's.

Retro is supposed to be used to talk about 60's and 70's...... so I suppose these are RETRO 70's mushroom fabric bags! ANd to that we should add 80's. Retro 80's? Oh yea, baby!

Repro is a great word in the clothing/costuming industry to refer to period type clothing that is reproduced to fit modern bodies, and be usable (like washable, and wearable for re-enactments, etc).

Quotes about "Vintage":
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend. Lucy Liu quotes (American Actress, b.1968

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