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Thank you for the ever-so-lovely Miss Pilgrim for inviting me to be a guest of her wonderful blog. Every time I visit here I feel happier…don’t you? That’s it….breathe in Pilgrim’s colours….breathe, breathe…your day will be brighter after your visit!

When Pilgrim first emailed me to ask if I wanted to be a guest my first reaction (apart from doing some sort of weird yip for joy at the computer) was to get some shots from my American Fabrics magazines. I was lucky enough to purchase a large collection of them in 2009…they were basically the world bible for fabric manufacturers from the 1940s until the 1970s. I pictured Pilgrim’s psychedelia, her retro ethic, her colours that make you want to wear-sunglasses-all-of-the-time.

So I started going through the volumes, taking some shots of retro fabrics, kitsch typefaces and kapow trippy designs that need to live beyond the 1970s. And then I came across this advertisement and that was it. I was in love. It’s Pilgrim and I together – a match made in fabric and retro design heaven. Who wants to see photos of typefaces and fabric when you can look at a design idea for advertising your Leesona textured yarns. Apparently, as the headline for the ad says, Just About Everybody is Using Leesona Textured Yarns. Well – ahem – excuse me, but I am nude there on the side, whereas Miss Pilgrim has a delightful green piece on with a kitsch pink collar and a BOW in her hair. All I have is some weird circles on my inner elbows I am still trying to work out what they are there for. And some cool chick between us has the most divine psychedelic tights and matching belt (and matching hair?) and the coolest bag. Whereas I have no accessory. So, therefore, not everyone used Leesona textured yarns back in Spring, 1968. But thank you to the advertising guru who brought us adverts like this one as where would we be without retro design and fabulous vintage fabrics? In a beige world, I think!

Thank you, Pilgrim – enjoy your trip!

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thank YOU, ness! what i wouldn’t give for an afternoon alone with those american fabrics books. and congratulations on being the first nudie guest blogger on drawpilgrim.com.

now who’s next to disrobe? form an orderly line please.

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