What kind of fabric is this?

We want photos, Gregsie!

 

If they won't frighten small children anyway. I think Steve Martin is one of the few who could pull off a seersucker suit.

 

Cool, lightweight seersucker suits used to be common here in the south (think Andy Griffith in Matlock), don't see 'em much anymore...

Seersucker is woven by some of the warp threads being tightened, producing lengthwise puckering in stripes of various widths (can be seen here that the white threads in one direction are tighter, puckering the yellow threads in that same direction), because of the technique used, it's typically a solid, stripe, check or plaid. Plisse can produce a similar effect, but has a different look since it uses a chemical process to shrink areas of a regular weave, seen more often on solid or printed fabrics.

~Cheryl

 

Hi Gila,
Sorry no photos. Lost most of my photos in a 1987 fire. All my recent photos were on pcs that broke down. I have started to save my photos to an external hard drive.
I must say I was cute then. At work I always wore matching ties and socks and saddle shoes. Ah the good old days.
greg

 

*snapping fingers in disappointment*

 

I remember as a young child wearing white organdy pinafores over "Sunday" dresses.

 

Yes! My grandmother made me the dresses and the pinafores! I remember one...pale blue and the pinafore was dotted swiss. And there was one outfit that was modeled on the heroine of some of my mother's childhood books, Dorothy Dainty.

 

Silverthwait, that sounds like such a pretty outfit.

I just looked on-line and found a "Dorothy Dainty" book. Yes, that style of a young female child's dress was still "in style" (at least around here) when my aunt was making my dresses.

She made my rough-and-tumble play clothes out of much sturdier fabric (my aunt and uncle raised chickens, so there was always a ready supply of feed-sack material).

Do you remember wearing crinoline slips/petticoats under your full-skirted "Sunday" dresses when you were young along with the ever-present white lace-trimmed socks with white shoes in the spring/summer and black patent leather shoes in the fall/winter?

 

Thank you Lord I'm too young to have been stuck in those. I do have snapshots of my cousin wearing such to my parents' wedding in 1965. It must have been the end of that particular torture. She was about two at the time.

 

It must have been. I was talking about the early-to-mid fifties.

I want to congratulate you for being so level-headed for one so young.

 

I don't think she had to deal with the pinafore though, just the frilly socks and the fancy dress.