LOVE the new sweater dresses I am seeing for winter!! I remember wearing rib knit sweater dresses in 1969 with a wrap skirt that I could whip off for my evening date...didn't have to go home and change clothes !!

I have found a new magazine.. VERENA KNITTING Fall 2008 that has a lovely dress called Club Hopper made from Lang Yarns Pearl (mohair/acrylic/poly) Has anyone tried this yarn? Do you think dresses will continue to be a fashion statement....And even though I have lost 10 lbs.... can a 50 something wear one????
Who out there of you follows the fashion trends?? And has been adventuresome enough to GO FOR IT???

I neither follow fashion trends or am interested enough to "GO FOR IT" when it comes to fashion but I have noticed that regardless of age and body shape <smile>, projecting inner confidence that you feel good in what you have on makes a tremendous difference. If wearing a knit dress makes you feel good -- especially one you made yourself -- GO FOR IT!

I know I am a miserable old man!

BUT

I cannot bear to see women in knitted skirts and dresses. Show me one JUST ONE photograph of a woman looking good walking away from the camera when she has been sitting for 10 minutes wearing one of the aforementioned garments.

I have been paid to make a number over the years when customers have not listened to my advice. All that work, all that knitting, and the words, "I told you so" echo round.

I know I get the TGKA version of a verbal bashing everytime I forward this opinion!

Merry Christmas everyone, John

Dear John--
No bashing here.

I have only known one person who could wear a knitted skirt without the dreaded "two pigs under a blanket" effect. That was Miss Levinson, who taught Spanish in my junior high school. She was a Sephardic lady who made much of her Spanish ancestry, and affected the look of a flamenco dancer: black hair pulled back in a tight bun, heavy-lidded eyes, severe expression (as though we nauseated her, which we probably did). She wore knitted suits which she made herself -- wonderful fitted creations, navy blue or maroon, with set-in sleeves, tiny cables, and gold buttons down the front. In spite of her extreme skinniness, she must have worn a steel girdle because her straight knitted skirts were perfectly cylindrical fore and aft -- not a bump or bulge anywhere.

For the general public, however, I could not agree with you more.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, John

Hi, John.

Is the problem with knitted skirts about exposing figure flaws, or does a knitted skirt stretch out and stay that way? Or both?

My skinny sixteen-year-old has begged me many times for a knitted skirt, but I don't want to make a costly and time consuming mistake.

My grandmother made me two of those when I was 14 years old. It was the only time I actually looked good in them!

Shari

I agree with John. Only some 14-year-olds and models look good in a knitted dress or skirt. After that, one starts looking like either 1-a stuffed sausage or 2-one is wearing a blanket.