#Margaret Howell-inspired

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July, 2024 | Simple Pink Day Dress

Hey there! It’s been a long time. I have been spending the majority of the spring on academic work, but I did finish a few items and will be making more fibre things over the summer. Today I will be writing about this simple pink dress with just enough details for a clean and high-quality finish.

I should clarify that the design is based on an old Margaret Howell dress—so it is not my own. The original dress was in linen and came in two colours (mid-blue and black), and it looked fabulous on the runway. I wish I could find it, or afford it, or had the body to feel comfortable in it…But I thought it would also be nice to make my own.

The dress has no waist seam, and the waist shaping relies entirely on the belt. It has a simple V neck in the front and a deeper faux wrapped neckline in the back. The maximum waist measurement is fixed. The front and back necklines are stabilised with bindings cut on straight grain. The armscyes have bias binding. There is an opening on the right side seam to allow the belt to draw through. You may add a button to further close the back neckline if the shoulders tend to slip off (it works for some people; for me it doesn’t.)

Pattern

The pattern is easy to draft. We start with a basic bodice block that fits exactly.

Draft the pattern on a folded half of the front:

Rotate all darts towards the waist. Leave the darts ‘open’ i.e. do not add sewing lines here as they will be gathered when you wear a belt.

Add 1cm to the underarm width, i.e. in total 4cm added to the underarm circumference.

Add 5cm to the waist, i.e. in total 20cm added to the waist circumference.

(Adjust Steps 2 and 3 based on your desired positive eases.)

4. Draw the neckline on the front.

5. You might want to adjust the armscye—for many people, fitted bodices with and without sleeves require different armscye shapes. This includes raising/lowering the underarm point and increasing/decreasing the shoulder width.

(By now we have the bodice part of c.)

For the back:

6. Draw the ‘wrapped’ neckline, taking into consideration the width of the belt. Depending on your body shape, you can just ignore the tiny shoulder dart on the basic bodice pattern, or take it into account when you sew the binding.

7. Leave the waist dart ‘open’ and adjust the underarm and waist as in the front. This doesn’t have to be exactly the same as the front, but note that the neckline gap will become harder to control as the width of the bodice increases.

Skirt:

8. Extend the bodice to make the skirt. It is a little tricky for a dress without a waist seam, because the front bodice is often wider than the back to accommodate the chest, whereas the back of the bottom is usually wider than the front for the hips. This can be compensated to some extent by adding waist darts or making the back skirt expand wider than the front (i.e. closer to a quarter circle than a rectangle), but note that neither the back nor the front skirt can be too wide as the waves would not hang in a correct distribution.

9. The lengths of the front and back skirts also depends on your chest and hips.

10. The skirt in the back is divided into two asymmetric panels – see the illustrations.

Belt:

11. The belt is two ribbons of 4*140cm, so cut two rectangles of 10*142cm, with 1cm of allowance.

Fabric

Choose a drapey fabric if making a longer skirt. Soft silk, cotton and viscose would work well. Linen tends to be crisper so I would suggest reducing both the width and length of the skirt if using pure linen. Alternatively, you can reduce the width of the skirt but keep the length by adding a slit.

I cut my patterns along the cross grain, because for some reason this fabric is much stabler on the weft than on the warp. Proof that you don’t always cut along the straight grain!

Making the dress

(All seams unspecified are French seams.)

Finish shoulder seams.

2. Add binding to the front and back necklines. I controlled the neckline gapping by easing the main fabric into a straight-grain ribbon binding. I eased 1cm on each side of the front and 1.5cm on each side of the back.

(Above: the front, seen from the outside.)

（Above: the back, seen from the outside.)

3. Finish the side without the opening. For me, this was the left side.

4. Finish the side with the opening. First, check that the opening is at the correct height. Then just treat it as a skirt side slit from both ends. Add a ‘stopper’ to stabilise the opening.

(Left: the opening seen from the outside. Right: the opening seen from the inside.)

5. Finish the armscyes with narrow bias binding.

6. For the belt, finish the ribbon that goes on the ‘upper’ side. Sandwich it at the waist line between the two back panels and finish the back seam (a French seam). I closed both short ends of this ribbon before attaching it to the body, but, in hindsight, the end that goes in the body doesn’t have to finished.

(Above: where you attach the ribbon, seen from the outside.)

7. Sew the ribbon of the other side, leaving the width of the overlapping part of the bodice open. Finish one short end. Turn it to the right side.

8. Attach the unsewn width of the belt to the bodice piece that goes under. Finish the raw edge of the short edge. If you have left the short end of the other belt open, you will be able to see it here and should encase it as you attach the ‘under’ ribbon.

(Above: ribbon attached to the 'under' half of the bodice and then sewn onto one short end of the other ribbon, seen from the inside.)

9. Check the length and finish the hem. I did a simple twice-folded hem and steam-pressed after each fold, before sewing it down with whip stitches.

There you go😊 This post consists mainly of brief notes; however, if you would like some further explanation, let me know and I’ll try my best!

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i really like your posts about clothes and designers and fashion. i dont know much but i like learning things from you & think you have good taste. i wanted to ask you about buying from mercari japan. im in the USA and i use that version of mercari all the time but id love to shop mercari japan. however im intimidated by the language barrier and what shipping would entail. do you use a proxy shopping service? if so any recs? & do you have other tips in general for navigating / using mercari japan? i want to thank you very much if you choose to answer ^_^

hehe im happy you like my posts and aesthetic taste i just post what inspires + interests me ^_^

I’m also in the US, and I use a proxy! In fact, I literally just got my haul two days ago!! Most people go for buyee, but they’re overpriced so I go for Neokyo. I’ve used japanese shopping sites for almost a decade + I learned some japanese when I was like. an 11 year old weeaboo so I can easily navigate through these websites—BUT— what’s cool w/ neokyo and some other websites is that they p much have their own user interfaces in english, so having to go through the japanese websites isn’t really necessary(with some caveats). And worst comes to worst, you can use browser extensions /apps that directly translate the website for you, so everything is easier to navigate. im not sponsored by neokyo btw, but compared to other sites like japonica or buyee, they have the lowest rates, and often have promotions that take off the service fee in the first place. Most sites are pretty self explanatory and will have tutorials in case you get stuck.

ok so here’s some tips for shopping on japanese websites that im just gonna put just in case someone else asks me in the future so i can redirect them to this post lol

1) KNOW WHAT YOU WANT.

It will make your life INCREDIBLY helpful if you are looking for a specific brand or designer, as well as the article of clothing you want in the first place. Having this specificity in mind can help you buy less in general too, and will help you get something that you’ll really want and keep. That aside, each website will have different filters to sort through stuff and one of them will be brand name, so that can help you parse through junk posts of people posting old zara when you’re looking for old Helmut Lang.

2) DO YOUR RESEARCH.

If you are looking for a specific style in mind, such as mori kei, karasu zoku, jirai kei, etc. there will be specific brands that cater(ed) for that style alone. most of the time, the information will be available on google. for designers, doing some digging on their different sublabels and aliases will be really helpful for digging for hidden gems. for example, one of my favorite brands, Undercover, has multiple sublabels, diffusion lines, names, etc. that you can search it under, such as: JONIO, ZAMIANG, AFFA, etc. Sometimes, you’ll get people knowledgeable about the brand and will put the brand filter on the item, but sometimes, people will pick up an item and will not know anything about the garment’s source or designer. Having that precursory knowledge lets you take advantage of people selling insanely rare items for insanely cheap prices because they’re clueless about it lol.

3) IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR, BE LESS SPECIFIC.

The point that I made from earlier that certain brands will kind of spearhead a certain genre of clothing is very helpful if you’re looking for other brands/designers/clothes that go for the same aesthetic. For example, the brand Trove has become synonymous with the Mori Boy style, and many people use that for search visibility. It’s annoying for me when I was specifically looking to buy trove, but it helped me learn about some other designers like nonnative, yaeca, and margaret howell.

4) IGNORE SIZE LABELS, USE GARMENT MEASUREMENTS*.

As none of us truly have the luxury of trying things online, knowing correct fit is hard. So save yourself the hassle and disappointment by literally just taking measurement of your body + clothes that you like, to get a gauge of whether or not the thing would fit you. Most sellers are kind enough to provide measurements, but sometimes, they don’t. This is where research and experience comes into play. For example, Takahiromiyashita theSoloist’s pants always goes a size down, meaning that a size 30 trouser will most likely be a size 27/28. This knowledge will only come after getting a general sense of the brand itself, so having a bit of brand loyalty and knowledge can pay off.

5) GO FOR JAPANESE DESIGNERS.

A lot of these brands tank in value, especially as they become forgotten and the trends have moved past. It’s sad for them, but it’s great for me. My mori kei wardrobe only cost around $300 ish, with the most expensive one being a $150 Yohji Yamamoto pour Homme runway cardigan. But mostly it was cheap clothes on mercari that I was able to buy for less than $30 max.

6)KNOW THAT THIS ISN’T LIKE SHOPPING ON SHEIN/ZARA/SSENSE/ETC. AND THIS WILL TAKE TIME.

Unlike regular websites where you can literally buy what you want at any time, it takes can take weeks, months, or even years to scope out what you want to buy. However, being more fluent in browsing thru these websites can help you score insane deals for things you’d see marked high in the west. I regularly buy rare undercover for insanely low prices, just because I toil in the mercari japan mines frequently.

7)THE MORE YOU BUY, THE BETTER IT GETS.

Your rates for shipping will get better the heavier your parcel is. Meaning that it’s better for you to buy more in one time, rather than buying only one garment. Yes, this spurs even more consumerism, but whatever lol

8) Saddest one of all, this entire thing will be easier the skinnier you are.

This isn’t fatphobia; it’s the fact that most of the clothes you’ll wanna buy are in Asian sizing, meaning that most of it will be incredibly small. Even I, as a US Men’s Small, can barely fit into a lot of Japanese clothes due to my big ass shoulders. Luckily, there are some ways to circumvent it, including going to styles/brands that incorporate a lot of oversized stuff, like Doublet, Yohji, or Balmung. Recently, some brands also offer plus size options available, but it requires you to buy new.

Okay it took longer than expected, but I hope this is helpful for the anon and anyone else who reads it! :D

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Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood, and Survival" by Alice Vincent has had a significant impact on 21st-century women. This book explores the relationship between women and the earth, highlighting the importance of gardening and nurturing the land. It delves into the stories of inspiring women who have turned to the soil as gardeners, growers, and custodians.

The book sheds light on the histories and experiences of women in connection with the land, offering a unique perspective on the bond between humans and their surroundings. It emphasizes the role of gardening as a tool for challenging societal structures and nurturing grassroots movements.

Through her work, Alice Vincent has created a platform for women's voices and experiences in the realm of gardening and horticulture. The "Why Women Grow" podcast, which accompanied the book, featured interviews with notable guests such as Margaret Howell, Sarah Raven, Rukmini Iyer, and Poppy Okotcha, further amplifying the stories and insights of women in this field. Why Women Grow shows the beauty and grit of tending the soil in difficult times. Alice Vincent shows us that the cure for uncertainty is to get mud under our nails”

Written by; Djalmairene Ecleo

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"I am often inspired by the method by which something is made... Good design has to work. Clothes have to work for people just as a chair has to...”

—Margaret Howell

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50 Great Thrillers by Women, as recommended by 10 of the UK’s female crime writers

Sophie Hannah:

Summertime by Liz Rigbey. Follows a woman who loses her baby and whose father unexpectedly drowns. When her husband and sister close ranks against her, she begins to suspect they are lying to her.

The Spider’s House by Sarah Diamond. Also published as In the Spider’s House. When Anna Howell discovers that a 1960s child murderess was the previous resident of her old cottage, her marriage, sanity and life come under threat.

Hidden by Katy Gardner. When a young mother’s seven-year-old daughter disappears, she finds herself questioning everything in her life. Then a police officer starts asking about the murder of a woman 14 months earlier …

A Shred of Evidence by Jill McGown. DI Judy Hill and DCI Lloyd investigate the murder of a 15-year-old girl on a patch of open parkland in the centre of town.

Searching for Shona by Margaret Jean Anderson

The wealthy Marjorie Malcolm-Scott trades suitcases, destinations and identities with orphan Shona McInnes, as children are evacuated from Edinburgh at the start of the second world war.

Val McDermid:

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey. A teenage war orphan accuses two women of kidnap and abuse, but something about her story doesn’t add up.

Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer. The Booker-longlisted author of Snap follows it up with the tale of a medical student with Asperger’s who attempts to solve a murder.

The Field of Blood by Denise Mina. The first in the Paddy Meehan series sees the reporter looking into the disappearance of a child from his Glasgow home, with evidence pointing the police towards two young boys.

A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine. Writing under her pen name, Ruth Rendell tells of the discovery of a woman and child in the animal cemetery at Wyvis Hall, 10 years after a group of young people spent the summer there.

When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson. In the third Jackson Brodie book, a man is released from prison 30 years after he butchered the mother and siblings of a six-year-old girl in the Devon countryside.

Ann Cleeves:

Little Deaths by Emma Flint. Inspired by the real case of Alice Crimmins, this tells of a woman whose two children go missing from her apartment in Queens.

The Dry by Jane Harper. During Australia’s worst drought in a century, three members of one family in a small country town are murdered, with the father believed to have killed his wife and son before committing suicide.

Devices and Desires by PD James. Adam Dalgliesh takes on a serial killer terrorising a remote Norfolk community.

The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina. Heavily pregnant DS Alex Morrow investigates the violent death of a wealthy woman in Glasgow.

Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky. The inimitable VI Warshawski takes over coaching duties of the girls’ basketball team at her former high school, and investigates the explosion of the flag manufacturing plant where one of the girl’s mothers works.

Sharon Bolton:

Gone by Mo Hayder. In Hayder’s fifth thriller featuring Bristol DI Jack Caffrey, he goes after a car-jacker who is taking vehicles with children in them.

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris. A murderous revenge is being plotted against the boys’ grammar school in the north of England where eccentric Latin master Roy Straitley is contemplating retirement.

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. A time-travelling, murderous war veteran steps through the decades to murder extraordinary women – his “shining girls” – in Chicago, in this high-concept thriller.

The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood. Two women who were sentenced for murdering a six-year-old when they were children meet again as adults, when one discovers the body of a teenager.

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty. Married scientist Yvonne, who is drawn into a passionate affair with a stranger, is on trial for murder.

Sarah Ward:

A Place of Execution by Val McDermid. Journalist Catherine Heathcote investigates the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl in the Peak District village of Scarsdale in 1963.

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths. Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway investigates the discovery of a child’s bones near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes.

The Ice House by Minette Walters. A decade after Phoebe Maybury’s husband inexplicably vanished, a corpse is found and the police become determined to charge her with murder.

The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard. When a body is found in Dublin’s Grand Canal, police turn to the notorious Canal Killer for help. But the imprisoned murderer will only talk to the woman he was dating when he committed his crimes.

This Night’s Foul Work by Fred Vargas (translated by Sian Reynolds). Commissaire Adamsberg investigates whether there is a connection between the escape of a murderous 75-year-old nurse from prison, and the discovery of two men with their throats cut on the outskirts of Paris.

Elly Griffiths: 

R in the Month by Nancy Spain. Sadly out of print, this is an atmospheric story set in a down-at-heel hotel in a postwar seaside town. The period detail is perfect and jokes and murders abound. This is the fourth book featuring the fantastic Miriam Birdseye, actress and rather slapdash sleuth.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. A gripping crime novel in which the detective never gets out of bed and the murder happened over 500 years ago. Griffith says: “I read this book as a child and was hooked – on Tey, crime fiction and Richard the Third.”

The Detective’s Daughter by Lesley Thomson. Cleaner Stella Darnell finds herself tidying up her detective father’s final, unfinished case, after he dies. It is the first in a series featuring Stella and her sidekick Jack, an underground train driver who can sense murder.

A Place of Execution by Val McDermid. Griffiths says: “I could have chosen any of Val’s novels, but this book, about a journalist revisiting a shocking 1960s murder, is probably my favourite because of its wonderful sense of time and place. It’s also pitch perfect about journalism, police investigation and life in a small community.”

He Said, She Said by Erin Kelly. An account of a rape trial at which nothing is quite as it seems. Griffiths says: “The story centres around a lunar eclipse, which also works wonderfully as a metaphor and image.”

Dreda Say Mitchell: 

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. The Gone Girl author’s debut follows journalist Camille’s investigation into the abduction and murder of two girls in her Missouri home town.

Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole. Cole’s first novel sees 17-year-old Maura Ryan taking on the men of London’s gangland.

The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid. Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill is asked to profile a serial killer when four men are found mutilated and tortured.

Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky. A client tells VI Warshawski he is a prominent banker looking for his son’s missing girlfriend. But VI soon discovers he’s lying, and that the real banker’s son is dead.

The St Cyr series by CS Harris. Mitchell has nominated the whole of this historical mystery series about Sebastian St Cyr, Viscount Devlin – master of disguises, heir to an earldom, and disillusioned army officer. It’s a bit of a cheat but we’ll let her have it.

Erin Kelly:

No Night Is Too Long by Barbara Vine. Tim Cornish thinks he has gotten away with killing his lover in Alaska. But then the letters start to arrive …

Broken Harbour by Tana French. The fourth in French’s sublime Dublin Murder Squad series, this takes place in a ghost estate outside Dublin, where a father and his two children have been found dead, with the mother on her way to intensive care.

Chosen by Lesley Glaister. When Dodie’s mother hangs herself, she has to leave her baby at home and go to bring her brother Jake back from the mysterious Soul Life Centre in New York.

A Savage Hunger by Claire McGowan. Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire investigates the disappearance of a girl, and a holy relic, from a remote religious shrine in the fictional Irish town of Ballyterrin.

The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald. Parents Joanna and Alistair start to turn against each other after their baby goes missing from a remote roadside in Australia.

Sarah Hilary:

The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin. A sleep-deprived young mother tries to stay sane while her fears grow about the family’s new lodger, in this 1950s lost classic.

Cruel Acts by Jane Casey. Leo Stone, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two women, is now free and claims he is innocent. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwen want to put him back in jail, but Maeve begins doubting his guilt – until another woman disappears.

Sex Crimes by Jenefer Shute. A lawyer’s New Year’s Eve pick-up spirals into an erotic obsession which leads to graphic cruelty.

Skin Deep by Liz Nugent. Nugent, whom Ian Rankin has compared to Patricia Highsmith, tells the story of a woman who has been passing herself off as an English socialite on the Riviera for 25 years – until the arrival of someone who knows her from her former life prompts an act of violence.

Cuckoo by Julia Crouch. Rose’s home and family start to fall apart when her best friend Polly comes to stay.

Louise Candlish:

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. Christie’s classic – with a legendary twist. The best Hercule Poirot?

The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith. A conman on the run with his wife meets a young American who becomes drawn into the crime they commit.

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. The author of The Handmaid’s Tale imagines the life of the real 19th-century Canadian killer Grace Marks.

Little Face by Sophie Hannah. Hannah’s thriller debut is about a young mother who becomes convinced that, after spending two hours away from her baby, the infant is not hers.

Alys, Always by Harriet Lane. Newspaper subeditor Frances is drawn into the lives of the Kyte family when she hears the last words of the victim of a car crash, Alys Kyte.

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New Season — Margaret Howell & MHL by Margaret Howell

"I always had these sort of connections with clothes – they were always a memory of something," Margaret Howell once told Dezeen. Eschewing the term “fashion designer,” Howell’s inimitably pragmatic approach to everyday staples is instantly appealing, pointing back to Howell’s English roots and eye for detail. A new season of her eponymous line and MHL by Margaret Howell collection sees classic trousers, signature knits, shirting and dresses in pristine seasonal fabrics, from crisp poplin and lightweight wool to workwear-inspired cotton drill. We love this season’s bursts color and pattern, featuring Margaret Howell’s pleated Windowpane skirt and bright citron oversized cotton and cashmere sweater.

Shop Margaret Howell & MHL by Margaret Howell.

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Meghan Markle shows skin in a sexy tuxedo minidress to see 'Hamilton,' and social media loves it

Now that she’s a part of the royal family, Meghan Markle rarely gets to wear something even slightly sexy. So who could blame her for taking the opportunity to show some skin on date night?

Meghan attended a performance of Hamilton Wednesday night in London with Prince Harry and made jaws drop by appearing in a sleek tuxedo minidress for the occasion.

The couple’s date night was for a good cause, as the gala performance of musical benefited Sentebale, Prince Harry’s charity with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho.

Meghan Markle chose a daring look for her date night. (Photo: Dan Charity-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

For the occasion, the duchess went with a sophisticated yet sexy style. Her black double-breasted dress had a plunging neckline balanced out by long sleeves. The $600 Judith and Charles frock also had a shorter-than-normal hemline for the duchess, revealing a lot of leg, which was accentuated by Stuart Weitzman black suede pumps. And the shine on her gams says she wasn’t wearing pantyhose.

With a snug fit, the look was slightly sexy but also subdued, thanks to a lack of jewelry and a simple gold box clutch.

And social media is super-supportive of it.

“LET

THE

GIRL

BREATHE

!” one fan wrote.

LET 👏🏾THE 👏🏾GIRL👏🏾BREATHE👏🏾! #MeghanMarkle

— Nina♍ (@Niinstar) August 29, 2018

Definitely did not just order a similar dress to Meghan Markle already 👀

— hannah (@hannah61275535) August 29, 2018

meghan markle looks insanely good tonight like WOW that dress

— shauna (@pimpabxtterfly) August 29, 2018

The outfit is such a great "F*ck you U haters!" on so many levels. Absolutely love this couple.

Meghan Markle Attends Hamilton in Her Sexiest Look Yet – Prince Harry Meghan Markle Hamilton Appearance https://t.co/Y7LdXu6FSh

— MissFit (@MissFit56862376) August 29, 2018

Of course, people can’t stop commenting on her visible legs, so one Twitter user pointed out that it’s not the first time a royal has rocked a short hemline.

Seeing as everyone's going off at the length of Meghan's dress, here's a thread of Royals wearing dresses the same length or shorter. #DuchessofSussex #MeghanMarkle #DuchessofCambridge #KateMiddleton #PrincessDiana pic.twitter.com/F1lXclv0ZQ

— mollie (@molliemmarkle) August 29, 2018

It’s about time the girl got to wear a tuxedo. In July, a rumor spread that the Duchess of Sussex really wanted to wear a tuxedo during her first royal tour in Australia but that Prince Harry nixed the idea.

She follows in the footsteps of many amazing women who’ve made menswear their own. Jane Fonda wore a tuxedo for her 80th birthday party. Eva Longoria frequently wears plunging pantsuits. At 2016’s Golden Globes, Evan Rachel Wood wore a sexy tuxedo. And at last year’s Golden Globes, pantsuits held a lot of power, especially among women in support of #TimesUp.

Princess Diana in a tuxedo at Wembley Stadium in 1988. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Even her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana, rocked tuxedos and skirt suits a time or two, including a Margaret Howell tuxedo in 1984 and a Catherine Walker pink and purple tuxedo-style skirt suit in 1990.

Read more from Yahoo Lifestyle:

Meghan Markle Just Wore Princess Diana’s Signature Outfit to Buckingham Palace

Princess Diana Wore a Department Store Suit When She Got Engaged to Prince Charles

Meghan Markle’s wedding dress is going on display — here’s how to see it in person

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Four children’s picture books for budding urban planners?  Two on solid waste, one on public art, and one on community gardens... 

Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans Phil Bildner, Illustrated by John Parra (2015)

In New Orleans, there lived a man who saw the streets as his calling, and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down another and everyone danced along. The old ladies whistled and whirled. The old men hooted and hollered. The barbers, bead twirlers, and beignet bakers bounded behind that one-man parade. But then came the rising Mississippi—and a storm greater than anyone had seen before. In this heartwarming book about a real garbage man, Phil Bildner and John Parra tell the inspiring story of a humble man and the heroic difference he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, Illustrated by Rafael Lopez (2016)

What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine! Based on the true story of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego, California, Maybe Something Beautiful reveals how art can inspire transformation—and how even the smallest artists can accomplish something big. Pick up a paintbrush and join the celebration!

City Green DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan (1994)

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of City Green—the environmentally and community-conscious classic that shows the wonderful things kids can do when they put their minds to it—with this new paperback edition.

Right in the middle of Marcy’s city block is a vacant lot, littered and forlorn. Sometimes just looking at it makes Marcy feel sad. Then one spring, Marcy has a wonderful idea: Instead of a useless lot, why not a green and growing space for everyone to enjoy?

With her warm, hopeful text and inviting illustrations, DyAnne Disalvo-Ryan shows how a whole neighborhood blossoms when people join together and get involved.

Dear Garbage Man Gene Zion, Illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham (1957) 

It's Stan's first day being a garbage man, and he wants to do a good job. But everything seems too good to put into the sanitation truck's smasher. Instead of throwing these things away, he gives them away! 

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Cereal magazine is one of my inspirations as a designer so I was exited to see they had some of their own tour guide books in a collection called “city guides.” They have a clean, structured look to their books with a nostalgic feeling on the cover with B&W photography! They are larger in size more like coffee table books but I love they use a textured linen as a covering which makes them feel more professional and durable! 

An insight into what they include in these “city guides” from their website... London Guidebook

CEREAL CITY GUIDE A portrait of London, offering a curated edit on what to see and do.Rather than a comprehensive directory, this guide offers instead select points of interest and venues that reflect Cereal’s values in both quality and aesthetic sensibility.Carefully researched and illustrated with original photography and copy, each guide features 30 of Cereal’s favourite places and also includes: – a photo essay of the city – an illustrated neighbourhood map – interviews and essays from celebrated locals, such as architect John Pawson, fashion designer Margaret Howell, designer Michael Anastassiades, and more – lists of essential architectural points of interest, museums, galleries, day trips outside the city, and unique souvenirs – an itinerary for an ideal day in London

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The Seaside Fashion Essentials… For British Weather

Last summer, after months of being confined to the same four walls, many of us – particularly those looking to leave the dreary concrete of cities and towns – sought escapism in cottagecore. The bucolic aesthetic celebrated all things pastoral, from country home interiors to picnic-ready prints like gingham and ditsy florals. If the pandemic didn’t see you upping sticks and leaving it all behind for pastures new, we’ll wager you lived out your rural fantasy via romantic prairie dresses and frilled collar blouses, taking inspiration from the likes of content creator Paula Sutton or one of the 5.6 billion videos tagged under the trend on TikTok.

Beyond the desire to escape our own personal Groundhog Day, the pandemic has given people new perspectives on the kind of life they want to live, with many being drawn to a more simplified and slower existence, closer to nature. Even if you didn’t have the urge to escape to the country, many of us spent last year exploring the great outdoors closer to home as international flights were banned and dreams of Italian piazzas and quaint French villages were put on ice. Having taken advantage of hyper-affordable flights over the past decade, many of us were guilty of neglecting the beauty in our own back garden. The pandemic allowed us to rediscover the joys of the Norfolk broads and Yorkshire moors.

As a big question mark looms once again over the idea of international travel, we’re back to planning our summer escapes on these shores. A year on from the first lockdown, though, as spring greets us with longer days and more promising weather, we’re not looking to the countryside for sartorial inspiration but to the great British seaside instead. We’re packing away our saccharine frills and reaching for sturdier staples better suited to rough-and-ready days combing the coastline, with quintessential pieces like stripes, linen and chunky knits taking note from salty afternoons spent eating fish and chips and fending off seagulls.

Designers, too, have departed from the chintzy prints of cottagecore and found inspiration at the seaside this spring. JW Anderson’s latest Moncler Genius project, a gender-fluid capsule titled A Nomadic Voyage, looked to the hues cast by a Northern Irish sun setting over the sea. Using Econyl®, a regenerated nylon derived from ocean and land-based waste, the collection is made up of fisherman beanies suitable for high winds, rubber boots made for exploring rock pools and quilted fabrics which will warm you up after an icy dip.

Elsewhere, Arket’s SS21 collection, called Modern Marinière, riffed on the classic striped knit (also known as the Breton shirt), a traditionally blue-and-white cotton long-sleeved top which originated as the uniform of French sailors in the early 19th century. “Marinière stripes are a reference we revisit season after season,” says Anna Teurnell, Arket’s head of design. “Every spring they feel new again, and they lighten up our wardrobes after the winter season. Over time, they have become a symbol of this joy. This year, we offer a new interpretation that makes reference to this mood by exploring not just the iconic stripes but also the garments we style them with, as we long for the first signs of spring.” Beyond the Breton, the collection offers water-resistant recycled nylon anoraks and hardy denim, plus oversized striped shirts, woollen hats and cotton chinos, all hallmarks of a traditional nautical aesthetic.

Over on the (virtual) catwalks of SS21, designers from Balmain to Celine celebrated the marinière stripe, while Margaret Howell and Etro featured sou’wester hats and fisherman beanies. So whether you hit Whitstable or Whitby, Brighton or Blackpool, St Ives or Salcombe, this summer it’s time to fall back in love with all the charms the seaside has to offer, from lemon-soaked scampi to the sugar rush of a stick of rock. Just make sure you dress accordingly, and be prepared for whatever the changeable British weather will throw at you.

The Marinière Jumper

The Sunnies

The Pull-On Shorts

The Sandals

The Chunky Knit

The Rubber Boots

The Swimsuit

The Beanie

The Cotton Button-Down

The Waterproof

The Cotton Trousers

The Beach Towel

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Alasdair McLellan

McLellan was born in 1974 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He has worked for the fashion press Vogue UK, Vogue Paris, i-D, Love, Another Magazine, Another Man, Arena Homme +, Man About Town, 032c, Self Service, The Gentlewoman, Fantastic Man, and W. He has photographed advertising campaigns for Louis Vuitton,Burberry, Topshop, Calvin Klein,Gucci,  Miu Miu, Margaret Howell, Palace and Supreme. He has worked with the xx and his portrait of Adele was used on the cover of her album, 25.

I have always loved McLellans photography as it is just so realistic and natural. Seeing he has alot of work featured in Self Service magazine really showed my how the magazine really has such a range of young creatives featured. Knowing McLellan is from Doncaster, not far from where i’m from really makes me believe anything is possible because he has gotten so far within the industry. 

I plan to take inspiration from his photographs from the realness of them to the wacky poses. I love how most models he features are pulling quite relaxed natural faces. 

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Daniel Howell Hise House

1100 Franklin Avenue

Salem, Ohio

The Daniel Howell Hise House is an historic home that was part of the Underground Railroad. It is located in Salem, Ohio. Built in the early 1850s by his father, the house was occupied by Daniel Howell Hise and his wife Margaret in 1875, when they rechristened the home, Unserheim (“our home” in German), and made several alterations to the property, including construction of several hiding places for fleeing slaves. These renovations—including hidden rooms in the basement and a barn on the property—made the house a viable stop on the Underground Railroad. Daniel Howell Hise was born in New Jersey on September 12, 1813, and moved with his family to Salem in 1819. In his youth, he worked as a steamboat engineer in Alabama during the summers, and he eventually found work in his adopted hometown in blacksmithing, toolmaking, roofing, and kiln operation.

Inspired by the words of Amos Gilbert, Daniel Hise served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Western Anti-slavery Society and helped organize the city of Salem's then-annual Anti-Slavery Fair (a local fundraiser for abolitionist causes). He strongly agreed with the philosophies of William Lloyd Garrison, and from 1849 to 1855, Hise made his home available to fleeing slaves as well as abolitionist luminaries such as Oliver Johnson, Henry C. Wright, Parker Pillsbury, and Charles C. Burleigh. Notably, Hise did not consider himself a “suitable leader for the reform movements in existence,” but rather acted as an ardent supporter of abolitionism, in addition to other causes like women's suffrage and temperance.

Hise kept a vivid diary from December 29, 1846, until his death on November 17, 1878. Published by a local book company in 1933 at the request of Hise's daughter, Nora, the entries have provided a window on the history of Salem and its role in the Underground Railroad. The Daniel Howell Hise House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for social and African-American history, as well as for the local notoriety of its namesake, Daniel Howell Hise. The American watercolorist Charles E. Burchfield featured the House in a painting made during his life in Salem. An Ohio Historical Marker was erected 2003. The Daniel Howell Hise House is a private residence, and is not open to the public.