Crazy Quilt -- Cotton Stripe Percale

This skirt is one of my NYC sewing creations.
It wasn't all that flattering so I didn't hold onto it for too long.

I can clearly "see" myself, standing in my apartment at 108th + Riverside, wearing this. I'm in the doorway of the livingroom/studio. Not sure why this memory is so strong...

The apartment was nice, for Manhattan. One bedroom, ground floor, on the corner with a view of Riverside Park and New Jersey beyond. We had sunlight! And, this is going to make every New Yorker cringe, the rent was $375/mo. Even in 1977, that was cheap.

I wrote a letter to it last year for a Sketchbook Project, the post is here.

Crazy Quilt -- Levi's Cotton Denim

It took me a while to get some Levi's 501s, maybe because "everyone" wore them.
[Once I put them on,] They immediately became my favorite jeans for years.

I wore this combo of a boy's size 14 white crew neck tee with the 501s for my College of Creative Studies (UC Santa Barbara) exhibition announcement. The show was held in my last semester of school -- I quit after Junior Fall quarter to move to NYC with DEF to become a Famous Painter (DEF was going to write the next Great American Novel).

I had a great time posing in different locations around the campus with a CCS folding chair (they had a very specific brown metal folding model with a padded seat). Here follows a little tour of some spots on the UCSB campus with me and my folding chair:

outside CCS art studio

on the side of a building with 5 doors (not CCS bldg)

the outside patio of the cafeteria

by the lagoon

in the Pacific -- love the water skier!

the final show announcement

Dark Dusty Rose

Pantone calls it Deco Rose

Not a color I'm normally drawn to (too faded, too in-between).

This morning, however it whispered in my ear,

in the form of a tank top (which you can hardly see here).

These boots really wanted to play too, but WAAAAAAY too uncomfortable.
Aren't they funny? I got them at NaNa (RIP), back in the 90s.

I decided to call it dark dusty rose.
Can you think of something better?