(So they're having a camp out at Girlfriend's preschool. Fun, games, s'mores, Kumbaya, all that stuff. I think they'll even manage a pancake breakfast in the morning.
Call me a party-pooper, but you couldn't drag me with promises of Prada and champagne to a deal like that.
The other mothers tell me how much fun we'd have, camping out with all the other families and the children. All the snacks and games and the guitar playing. It'll be fun fun fun.
Fun? You call more than 50 children under five and a medley of bored teenagers hanging around over by the swings, fun?
No, not even six new Chanel lipsticks would lure me. Gratis Gucci. Not a chance. Shoot, I wouldn't even go if they gave away lobsters.)
So this is what I was working on the past few days. Something for Girlfriend. I spotted a little girl sporting an A-line dress with go-go boots the other day and I decided right then and there that Girlfriend needed something like it. I remember wearing lots of dresses a la Marsha and Jan Brady with go-go boots, too.
Of course I was probably more of a Cindy-slash-Jan Brady rather than the elusive Marsha, but I did have a couple a-line dresses and a pair of black patent leather (read: vinyl) go-go boots that were so to die for that, to this day, I still dream about them.
Oh the fashion of it all. The sheer go-go-cool of it all. Those boots. Those boots.
Those boots stunk.
I wore those boots so often that after awhile, they began to stink. I remember years later asking my mom whatever came of those fantastic go-go boots and she told me that she had to throw them out. She said, they stunk so bad she had to keep putting them in the garage when I wasn't looking.
But I kept retrieving them.
Then one night, the Go-Go Boot Struggle finally came to a head. Mom decided the things had to be banished for good. So, she planned to come into my room while I slept to take them away.
Thing is, she told me, she snuck into my room and couldn't find them.
Turns out, I wore them to bed.
Yup. Gotta get some more go-go boots. Two pair. One for me and one for Girlfriend (that breathe).
BTW: I made up the pattern as I went and the V goes in the back. I'm going to look for a skinny, white leather belt to go through the loops instead of ribbon. And wouldn't it be so great if I could find a white plastic belt buckle in the shape of a flower!? Oh. The Brady Fashion of it all!
(Oh, and if you're in the mood, there are two new patterns over at the Garter Belt.)
Ooooh. CUTE! I can just see my girlie in that dress w/boots. :P
Posted by: Tasha | April 27, 2006 at 03:08 PM
You mean Girlfriend's preschool is having a sleepover for 50 kids and their parents? Not even promises of gin and tonic or cosmo's could drag me there!
I love the dress; go-go boots, and the white belt would definitely complete the outfit! Can't wait to see photos!
Posted by: katie | April 27, 2006 at 03:13 PM
My little girls actually saw this and wanted one! Too bad mom is just learning how to knit, LOL. Great job!
Posted by: Mindy | April 27, 2006 at 03:14 PM
I had blue vinyl go-go boots, tricked Grandma into buying them for my birthday when my Mom had already said I couldn't have any. Mom never let me out of the house in them..... lesson learned - don't try to circumvent The Mom.
Posted by: lynda | April 27, 2006 at 03:20 PM
My boots were white. Loved. them. Wore them with my Danskin outfits. I was so hip as a pre-teen. What the hell happened to me?
Posted by: Kat | April 27, 2006 at 03:24 PM
That dress is adorable! You are gifted.
Posted by: victoria | April 27, 2006 at 03:42 PM
(I had a velveteen purple coat with a big silver belt buckle that I wore EVERYwhere until it became so faded and dingy that it was forcibly removed from my clutches.)
Posted by: victoria | April 27, 2006 at 03:43 PM
My dad took me to an overnight camp for my school to a zoo one year and we had a great time. Girlfriend is a lot younger than I was, but still. The dress is super-cute!
Posted by: Kaity | April 27, 2006 at 03:57 PM
What a cute dress. I'd love to see the boots that would go with it.
Posted by: Tanya | April 27, 2006 at 04:20 PM
The only way I'd have a sleep-over with that many kids if if I could bring my camper, with locking doors.
I had to wear orthopedic shoes. I had to order them from the ugly shoe catalog, I cried. But I did have a pair of go go boots (white patent vinyl, and you're right they were stinky), Oh the beauty of those boots!! I wanted to be Marsha, but I'm afraid I was more Jan. Girlchild has a pair of black boots, they're too cute with a little dress. You'll have to post another picture with the boots, and the belt.
Posted by: Cheri | April 27, 2006 at 04:38 PM
Hey Wendy - Try www.lesbonribbon.com - they have the white plastic flower buckle you are looking for. I discovered this fantastic site while looking for a buckle for the Tempting II sweater from the last issue of Knitty.
Posted by: gail dokucu | April 27, 2006 at 04:47 PM
We totally need a picture with Girlfriend doing the modelling. The dress is very cute, but with her, it would be TO DIE FOR!!!
Monkeygurrl's preschool had a "Parent's Night Out", where they kept the kids from 6 - 11 pm. It was wonderful. But I had to get likkered up for the drop off and pickup. You couldn't pay me to stay the nite!
Posted by: Monkeygurrl | April 27, 2006 at 04:50 PM
that is one cute dress. too bad i'm 31. :)
Posted by: melissa | April 27, 2006 at 04:51 PM
I would buy this pattern. Let us know if you decide to write it down and sell it. :)
Posted by: Wendy | April 27, 2006 at 05:09 PM
I think I will write it up and make it available. My main goal was to make one in a small size so I could adapt it and make an adult version...Gail, the www.lesbonribbon.com is fantastic!
Posted by: Wendy | April 27, 2006 at 05:13 PM
I thought you'd like it . . . I just about had a buckle-induced aneurysm when I came upon it. Another good one is www.mjtrim.com.
BTW - I LOVE your site. I was vehemently anti-blog until I accidentally found yours. Love it!
Posted by: gail dokucu | April 27, 2006 at 05:51 PM
OMG SOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!
I bought my dd go-go boots in black and leopard suede. She wore them until the fell apart!
She has been asking for more.
Posted by: Lynae | April 27, 2006 at 06:09 PM
Hee, hee. I skipped the preschool campout, too (three years running!)Being a well-meaning parent and a good sport only goes so far.
Posted by: sherry | April 27, 2006 at 06:12 PM
Whoa! Didn't get my go-go boots until I was all grown up. What is better than go-go boots? Nothing.
Except maybe the wonderful a-line dress you knitted.
Also, with you all the way on the horror, the horror of camping out. LOL.
Kathleen
Posted by: Kathleen | April 27, 2006 at 06:14 PM
Soooooo, will a pattern be forthcoming?
;)
Posted by: carole | April 27, 2006 at 06:41 PM
1971, chocolate suede lace-up boots, burgundy cordaroy hotpants (Daisy Dukes)with fitted burgandy heather sweater w/hip belt under a camel-colored wool maxi coat (shin length)w/faux leopard fur lining - all made by mom except the boots and the sweater!!
Cute dress, Wendy. Can't wait to see your princess in it!!
Posted by: Marsha | April 27, 2006 at 07:08 PM
Funny, I just eBayed a pair of white gogo boots - they just sold yesterday. They were indeed fabulous (Fluevog gogo boots, no less), but a half-size too small for me. I kept putting them on and trying to step out the door in them and realizing I was going to have blisters on my toes.
I miss them already.
Posted by: Lizbon | April 27, 2006 at 07:18 PM
PS. Adore the little dress, by the way.
Posted by: Lizbon | April 27, 2006 at 07:19 PM
Oh that rocks!!! I wish my Supergirl would wear something like that.
I don't know why, but the pictures of the yarn I just dyed makes me think of you.
Posted by: Scout | April 27, 2006 at 07:21 PM
One of my earliest memories involves wearing my BRAND NEW patent leather go-go boots to a "professional" wrestling match. I don't remember watching any of the matches, but I do remember looking at my boots all night!
Posted by: Tam | April 27, 2006 at 07:26 PM