Our challenge today was to be inspired by an English Department Store. I grew up in the era of the downtown Department stores which were cities unto themselves. Luncheons on the mezzanine, escalators that carried shoppers up what seemed like miles of floors. Of course, you got dressed up to go shopping. So I can just imagine how chocked to the brim this John Lewis must be! It was the Curtain Call that inspired me to create the heavy pleated drapes that all the movie houses had back in the same day and they were single screens!
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010 GMT Views: 665
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Registered: September 7, 2007 Location: Miamisburg, OH Posts: 43205
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 5:15 AM
Wow, your mind goes where most do not dare to tread!! (In English, you think of stuff the rest of us DON'T!) You always create a side to something I had not considered. This is a very cool little work of ART!! And I remember a store like that, called G FOX, and my grandma used to take me there, and buy me an outfit that cost enough for a closet full of clothes. And it was like a field trip!!
Registered: May 18, 2005 Location: Connecticut USA Posts: 35783
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 5:28 AM
thanks for the lovely memories you brought back, lunching with my Mom and sister at Bloomingdale's, riding the elevator at C.O. Millers which employed a full time elevator operator smartly dressed in a navy blue suit and cap.... Great card and as always so much more than the sum of its parts.......
Registered: May 15, 2005 Location: Arlington, Washington Posts: 30400
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 9:43 AM
what a great card Susan! I remember the movies with beautiful draped walls. that was a long time ago... We always had to dress up to go to town with my grandmother... she even made me wear white gloves... this for a family that was from a tiny town kind of remote, coming to the big city~Seattle... thanks for the memory..
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Judy
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" If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spread it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. ~Brendan Frances~
Registered: August 18, 2008 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Posts: 31972
Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 3:35 PM
I love how the thick pleated curtains took you on a complete journey which arrived here...you created a whole little world of theatre right there on the card, Susan!! This is one dramatic card, love it!