#16 february

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ethel Waters and Fredi Washington in Mamba’s Daughters, presented by Guthrie McClintic at the Empire Theatre, February 16, 1939. Written by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward from the novel by DuBose Heyward, with songs by Jerome Kern. Jose Ferrer, Canada Lee, and Alberta Hunter were also in the cast.

Photo: Associated Press

[oediex]

I'm ironing when I get to a dress that I've had for a decade. I love this dress. It's black with a colourful owl pattern on it. It's so short it regularly scandalises people, especially in winter. I wear it often.

I'm trying to de-hair all of my clothes before I iron them, because apparently losing hairs is what older kittens do. Give me back the younger kittens please. I prefer not having hair everywhere all the time.

At the back of the dress I see something odd. A black thread has been machine sewed across the width of the dress. Four lines of them, about an inch apart, connected to each other from one to the other with a longer piece of thread.

Weird.

I send some pictures in the vegan discord server and tag our local sewing expert. "What on earth is this?" I ask, "I've never seen it before." They don't really have an answer. "The fabric is knit so it's not a snag or pull. How bizarre."

I bought this dress secondhand, about a decade ago. I've ironed it many times, but I suppose it is possible that, since it doesn't require much of an iron, I've only ever done it from the front. Perhaps I'm only paying attention to the back now that I'm trying to de-hair it.

"I think I'm just going to pull it out," I say. "It looks like it wouldn't do anything to it." And they agree.

It might potentially have had the function of snatching the waist. If so, it was not only a job badly done, it is definitely no longer fulfilling such function. But it also looks like someone simply decided to practice their machine sewing skills on it, forgot to pull it back out, and then handed it to a thrift store. Who knows.

Either way, the real issue is: how have I not noticed this at all in the last ten years. What is wrong with me.

thank you @onehandkilling for the quick assist 🙏

Pictures, bc what the fuck is this:

[chengyangblog]

[dateinthelife]

16 February 1963

While playing their only gig in Oxfordshire, the Beatles met Jeffery Archer. Ringo Starr observes, "He strikes me as a nice enough fella, but he’s the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it."

Baron Archer would go on to a mixed career in politics and as a novelist, eventually going to prison for perjury after a financial scandal. As far as I know, he never bottled nor sold Ringo Starr's urine.

[rodentchild]

Wishing BLeeM a happy National Almond Day

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 16 February:

1768 – The Octennial Act limits Irish parliaments’ life to eight years. 1822 – Birth of engineer, James Thomson, in Belfast. 1841 – The Maplin Sands lighthouse was first lit, constructed and built by blind Irish engineer, Alexander Mitchell, from Dublin, which began in 1838 at the mouth of the Thames. A screw-pile lighthouse is a lighthouse which stands on piles that are screwed into sandy or…

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[wiiildflowerrr]

@5SOS: HERE WE COME JAPAN!!! See you soon! Sounds live feels live is hitting the road xx

16 February 2016

[kawaratoday]