Real Women
Real Women In the seventies it was cool to sew. If you’ve lived here awhile you remember the great fabric store Virginia Gore had downtown. Everybody used to go there. People used to make clothes to send their kids to school in. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but currently, if you send your kids to school in something homemade, they turn you into family services. A social worker comes to inspect your house to see if you’re high on cocaine, and then they give you a gift certificate for the factory outlets and tell you if you ever try to make your own jeans again, they’re going to take your kids away and send them to Martha Stewart’s house. Martha says, “why would anyone make children’s clothes when they could be making poached salmon with dill in a filo dough crust instead?” So anyway, Virginia Gore now has a great quilting store on 4th South up from the Art Museum on the north side, next to that neat little bakery/restaurant, which, by the way, has a drive through that you can