Nice little drawing of the shirts here. I totally want a male version of this. I'll type out the letter later.
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Also- About a wedding shirt (must be white?) Too bad this isn't Kashmir where they embroider really beautiful things to order. Nepal surely has it's own special variety of excellence but I'm still just buzzing around everything trying to get beyond the tourism trinket trip of new array of junk. At first, all such shit is somewhat attractive. If only for it's color or shine but after a while and having seen so many, you begin to discriminate and notice the shit craftsmanship- turned out especially for tourists, cheesy fabric-sewn together like it was made to fit the abominable snowman, with thread so thin and weak that a couple of washings reduce the whole things back into a tattered old garment. But even some of this shit-work- if cheap enough, might be worthwhile trying to sell on the flea market. On the other hand, I'd like to find a nice short for Francis. I'm thinking of either a Chinese silk or Nepalese velvet (not white velvet though) fabric. As for the styling- maybe the Nepalese one- nice, I like it, but it's definitely a very peasant-like shirt but very well fitted, not baggy. Don't know if these tailors are very adept at other designs unless I use a pattern of some other shurt- I'll try to do something nice- About size, for Francis I'll try to guess from some guy who seems to be a similar build. Sizes for our "big deal" - there is no such thing as sizing in any of these mid-east and eastern countries. Everyone has his clothes tailored. Travelers too. As for the tourist displays in the cities- these clothes are all a guess or small, medium, large at best. So here again I'll also just guess but with the sligt advantage that the styles are really pretty suitable to fit several different sized people. Upper left shows the men's shirt, same for women except shorter- coming only to the waist. Pants of the same fabric (simple elastic waist or drawstring) legs- I'll try one in the traditional bell shape, but a bit wider (o.k.) another- your suggestion- with elastic at the ankle (how about at the knee?) and all puffy like pantaloons. Want to describe especially the women's shirts and dresses- really fine style These two fold around the waist with the longer (attached) belting going around the front again to tie (depends on length of that belting piece. Into this belting is also designed a good bit of the skirts yardage, so that it folds back as two big pleats (one on each side of the back on top of the actual back portion of the skirt. Sleeveless but the Tibetan women wear a small short blouse underneath. (Hope you can understand explanation here) they prefer black , but we should do flashy colors I think but no blouses. This is also possible as just a skirt rather than a full dress. I'll see about it. Also had some shoulder bags in mind. These kinds that seem interesting. One very flashy, shiny and colorful made from pieces of Chinese Silk and fringe
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So this is Adam talking.. it's interesting how everyone would totally wear these styles as "Kung Fu" shirts or clothes or outfits nowadays. So the top shirt is male. Shoot I want one now. Were people all wearing these back then? This was '73. Okay I'll type the second page later.
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