During Lisa's recent visit, we decided to take a trip to Mood, the fabric store popularized by Project Runway. Mood LA, that is. My excitement waned the moment we walked into the store. The inventory itself was overwhelming, for one thing. And everyone in there seemed to part of the club - to be wearing the proper clothes and certainly working on the proper projects. As for us... well, Lisa is slinkster cool. But I was in my very obviously Old Navy gear, including a sweater I've been rocking since 1997. And Ben... well, let's just say you probably don't get too many guys wearing Browns caps without irony at Mood. Especially guys wearing Browns caps carrying fussy toddlers who want to explore the designer play silks.
It was, and I can't emphasize this enough, the opposite of JoAnn's.
Without going into details, I never felt particularly welcome at the store. It certainly could have been 100% my perception, but sometimes "Can I help you?" totally sounds like "You clearly don't belong here."
I hate that feeling, even if it's entirely in my head.
I spent $1.57 at Mood. A half a yard of elastic, and a yard of ribbon. I decided to use my undesigner, "Joann's exclusive" fabric for the skirt Lisa helped me make. As for Juliette, she doesn't seem to care that Christian Siriano wouldn't touch the print with a ten-foot measuring tape.
That's so funny! I'm super cheap, I guess, b/c I would have been tempted to ask if they honored JoAnn's 40% off coupons... :D
ReplyDeleteJ looks ADORABLE.
ok, you have as much right to shop there as anyone else, so march right back in there and buy some more elastic and ribbon and make us some of those skirts, please. : )
ReplyDeleteand then listen to the frown song by ben folds (long after juliette has gone to bed) and remember that being hip is overrated : )
Hee hee! Imagine how I felt this summer at the "real" Mood in midtown Manhattan, with my big corn-fed midwesternenss, not wearing nearly enough black in the August heat.
ReplyDeleteHeck, we felt proud just finding it, because it is three stories up off the street in an unmarked building in which one must find the right rickety old elevator complete with cranky operator!
But to the Wonder Girl, it was nirvana.
The skirt is adorable, but not nearly as adorable as the model!
i request that skirt in a 4t and um, my size please :)
ReplyDeleteADORABLE!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think the visit was worth it just for the fun we had after the fact making fun of it and the fact that you purchased only $1.57 worth of materials.
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Darling skirt! And your little Juliette is quite the ham...that smile is too much!
ReplyDeleteThat is one adorable model! You did great!
ReplyDeletevery cute skirt. i've been thinking of ordering one of oliver + s patterns. was it easy to follow?
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was pretty easy, and I have literally NO experience reading patterns. It was actually not really a pattern, just directions. It was a freebie on their website.
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