Are You Going To Crochet A Tailor Swift Dress? Chat To Someone Elderly Today. Childhood Memories.
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
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Are you going to make a Taylor Swift Dress? Please chat to someone elderly or lonely today. I love social history and watching videos about old housing.
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Hi Jan! Love your vest(?)!!! I enjoy listening to people talk, especially those older than myself. I used to work in a veteran’s home…had primarily WWII men (and a very few women) as well as only one WWI veteran (who lived to be a month shy of 100). I so loved listening to their stories! And there were definitely a lot of characters with so much history! I’m partial to the people who go mostly unnoticed (like the unhoused and mentally ill). I inherited this from my mother…she’d talk to anyone and everyone! I’m happy that the weather has finally warmed up to your liking. All of last week was unbearably hot and humid…luckily the temperatures are more pleasant now. It took a big ole thunderstorm rolling through yesterday morning to cool things off. Unfortunately, with the storm we lost power for about 18 hours, but fortunately it is once again back on.😊
I am glad that your power has come back on. It's not just the light it is the worry about our food in freezers when the power is off for a while. My Dad had dementia or Alzheimer's at the end of his life and the only way we could get s response from him was to take him back to his war years. My Dad was a great raconteur and I wished that I had recorded his stories. Not only about the war but the social history of where I was born and where he lived most of his life
We all love you Jan ❤❤❤
Thank you Nancy for your kind comment x
i love your stories so much ms jan i will always listen to them❤️❤️❤️ i fall asleep to your videos every night
Thank you for liking my stories. I have so many memories of my childhood. I guess that I was lucky to have a good, if poor, upbringing when small.
@@UrbanGypsyCrochet you have such a unique perspective on life because of it and also I learn so much about those times from listening to you. It’s fascinating how different it was when you were growing up. It’s made me even more grateful for how i was raised with electricity and modern amenities. But i also see how much people of my generation miss out on. People seemed much more connected back then. You mentioned your son used to go outside, sometimes all day, with his friends when he was little. Nobody my age, unless they live in the middle of nowhere, has much of an opportunity for that. Everything costs money or requires a vehicle to access…. There are so few places left for play. I grew up in China where there were, thankfully, things to do and places to explore that didn’t cost anything. But now I live in the USA and I see the difference. I think you should talk about your experiences more, they are so valuable 😌😊
@@spotliker123 Thank you. I come from a generation where it was safe to play out and wander about. I lived in a close knit community where everyone looked out for children. If I did anything wrong or a bit naughty I could guarantee that my Mum knew about it before I even got back home! My son was lucky enough to also be safe enough to play out with his friends although I always insisted that they stay together as a group.
Hello, I have missed your "lives" because of my schedule so I was thrilled when you popped up on the side-panel. I always enjoy your stories and point of view and always learn something new. I did not know about the tin or back to back houses. I am in the States, originally from NY and now in Oklahoma and while I know the history of WWII, we are not taught about the actual impact on the lives of those affected. By the way, you made me laugh because I too have put on weight over the years and agree with you 100 percent about how unseemly baggy clothes can be, they are more suited for thinner folk.
I find that channel @Through Lucy's Lens and other similar channels fascinating. I am not really interested in way back history of Kings and Queens but I love what I call social history. How people lived and worked in our grandparents and great grand parents time. I watch a lot of similar RUclips videos as there is nothing much good on the TV these days.
Your stories are very thought provoking. Thank you for sharing. I agree, give a few minutes of your time and a smile to someone in need. People need to feel less invisible, especially elderly and disabled because others tend to look around them instead of at them.
May I say? You always dress fashionably and look so complete in your coordinating jewelry. I love when you wear soft floral prints the best, they really make your eyes sparkle and give your skin a lovely feminine softness. Very pretty.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I dress to please me. I love to dress in something nice but I understand that others dress in the style that pleases them. It wouldn't do for us all to dress alike and have the same tastes. It makes me feel better about myself and my day if I make a bit of an effort to look smart. It's just the way that I am. Too many people tend to ignore anyone with a disability. I do sometimes get abuse when out on my scooter as they think that I am a nuisance and in their way. I always smile sweetly and say thank you. It disarms them.
. Same.
Hi Jan, lovely to see you on YT today and to hear of your past recollections. I like watching Lucy as I have visited most of the places she visits around Birmingham where we both live. I also remember that smell of poverty, it must be why they called people “the great unwashed” it’s a distinctive cloying smell and I remember one particular family whose children I went to school with, had to be taken across the road from the school to the clinic every morning to be washed. One of the girls had her vest tied together with a pin underneath between her legs as she had no knickers and because she couldn’t undo the pin always smelt of wee. We girls always had to have our hair tied up so as not to get nits. I never knew that my fellow classmates were poor although many of them had free school meals, but I do remember the smell you spoke of, it’s strange isn’t it what we remember, and of course by listening to grown ups talking when we should be “seen but not heard” we learnt a great deal about our neighbours, very enlightening, and you would look at them with awe knowing what you knew about them, who knocked their missus about, who used to send their missus out up the alley way to earn her husband some beer money, of course we didn’t understand what the wife had to do to get the beer money until we were much older! What was more fun was to hear whose lady dog had had puppies (that weren’t drowned) and they would let you go and see them, aah that’s another smell, puppy breath!
The small of poverty is a difficult smell to describe. Once you have smelt it then it stays in your nostril memory for ever. I had to sit next to a girl in infant school who always had nits as we used to call them. Plus gentian violet around her mouth to treat impetigo. Her house was awful. No carpets and cockroaches running on the floor. At least our house was poor but very clean and I got bathed in the large kitchen sink most evenings as I used to manage to get very dirty playing out.
Hi Jan, I could sit for hours listening to you. My Grandpa lived in a prefab.
I always say I attract people who want to talk but some days it's me who wishes someone would talk to me.
I love the Taylor Swift dress but thankfully none of the females in my family will require one.
I am sure that if you sat on a bench somewhere then someone would stop if only to pass the time of day with you. My friend lived in a pre fab but I was never lucky enough to be invited in it. He viewed it with pride having moved from slum property with no bathroom. No one in my family and friends would wear a Taylor Swift dress even if I was to wear one. It's a passing phase and no doubt the cheaper fashion shops will be working on duplicates as we speak.
@UrbanGypsyCrochet my daughter showed me pictures from a major fashion chain doing crochet garments this summer. Exorbitant prices for mass produced stuff. She is eyeing up one of them with a view to making something similar herself.
@@lindanagle5081 Anything that is sold in a high street shop sells. People don't seem to realise that crocheters can replicate these garments probably in better quality yarns. When I had a physical shop I sold everything that I made. There is something magical about a garment in a shop window. I do hope that your daughter is successful in making her own version.
😮Jan I crocheted a Taylor Swift dress. And then hated it and unpicked the lot.
Took longer to unpick than to crochet the entire thing.
You are a nice lady .
Thank you. Sorry that you had to undo all of your hard work. I knew that I wouldn't wear a Taylor Swift dress and would not be able to sell it if I made one. High street stores are now selling very cheap versions of this dress.
I am not keen on the self service section they have in Supermarkets. I went into Sainsbury's one evening and there were no tills open, so was told to go to self service. Even though i did get help, i find them very impersonal. They are said to make life easier, but even in the Pound Shop there are long queues in that section.
I refuse to use the self service in supermarkets. I tell them that I don't work for them and would they open a till for me. They grumble a bit but I say that I will just walk out and leave all of my shopping in the trolley for them to put away if they don't.
Hello Beautiful lady😊
Thank you Esin x
Hi Jan! Im very fascinated of history and when you started talking about the poverty I could relate. My grandfather shared a lot of stories from his youth. Not always happy ones but to hear it gives one perspective. More history from your childhood/youth please.❤
Thank you Esin. I was one of the fortunate ones to have happy, but poor, memories of my childhood. Funnily enough I never felt poor as a child it is just on looking back that I realised that we weren't exactly well oiled as they say in Lancashire.
Hi Jan Kristen Omdahl put out another video explaining how to make the Taylor Swift inspired mini dress she did a really good live video so she answered a bunch of questions she will be putting out the pattern when she finishes her version of the dress❤
There is another video lady called Blondie Knots who is making a video on the dress. She said on her last video that she would reveal all on Monday. The one that Blondie was crocheting was using thick number 4 yarn. It will be very bulky for a dress when it is finished.
It's nice to see that black looks great on you, although I thought your clothes were always bright and shiny.
I know this with conversations. I like to talk with people I meet, especially the elderly, although as the years go by, there are fewer and fewer of those who are elderly.
I also miss the kind sellers where you come to shop as if you were a friend. There are also fewer and fewer of them.
I do like to wear black as a base colour a lot of times. I usually pair it up with a bright cardigan or sweater to liven it up. Years ago I used to only wear dark colours. As a public facing office worker we were frowned upon for wearing anything bright. Once I retired I donated all of my dark business clothes to charity. I live in a town that is an area filled with older people. Plenty to chat with here.
I scowl and random men try to talk to me sometimes (baffling since I am an old lady, now.) I don't speak to strangers 99% of the time so I say nothing and make tracks. Also, my knee is yelping, possibly in sympathy with your injured one?
My knee is on the road to recovery and I rarely feel it now unless I bump it. Poor old gentleman getting scowled at. Fortunately hardly any of the men, or women, who stop to chat to me are creepy. I find older people fascinating as they have to much experience to talk about.
morning lovely, my daughter works in tesco and always has a chat with the older shoppers, I love your cardie is it one of yours?
The black top is actually a very short waistcoat type. I do have the pattern somewhere. it is for a long waistcoat but I shortened it. I rarely get chance to wear it as it is a bit small and the weather isn't usually warm enough to wear it over a vest. If I do another pattern showing maybe the pattern will turn up in my collection and I will show it on camera.
haha ms. jan you may find this funny. taylor swift is part of the reason why the weather has gone so absolutely crazy. she has several private jets, and all are VERY well loved. one time she took a flight that was only 13 minutes long! she’s putting more pollution into the air than all of us who are watching this video ever will over our lifetimes combined 🤭
Oh dear. That is not good. I am not a Swifty. Wrong generation. I have probably heard one of her songs on the radio but I can't actually recall the title of any of them. I am officially old !
@@UrbanGypsyCrochet i don’t listen to her either and i am the prime audience. Maybe it’s time i pick up crochet and channel my inner old lady hehe