>>Remember the bleeding and then non bleeding Madras shirts in the 60s?<<
I do remember the Madras shirts, but not the bleeding. I didn't have any bleeders. But I didn't have any of the shirts.
Madras and Paisley are interesting; both from the Indian subcontinent. I will do some more research, if I get time. Because they are interesting.
Madras was named for the city of its origin. And is pronounced difficultly. Yah. I always forget. Which Indian way it is. There are at least two Indian ways, and then the American way(s).
And since there's a town a few miles thataway (east of here) called Madras, too, there's The Oregon Way. I will, also, have to go over there; to Madras; and see how they say it; and how "some" people say it, who don't say it "that" way; and see if they know how the Hindians say it; and see "what" it was named after. Wouldn't that be interesting? I mean, was it the fabric, before the fabric was hip, or was it a guy?
I have a lot of trips I need to take.
Just for you guys.
But it's odd to think of a City inventing a fabric, like that, like the city in India, and becoming distinctified. For it. Kind of neat.
Both madras and paisley are super-authentic windows into the Indian design mind. Right in to there. In; boy. Authentic.
The Indian mind is very hard to describe. Is it. Try to describe a paisley or madras.
Paisley is a much older fabric/pattern, centuries old, and was named for Albert Paisley.
(Does anyone believe that?)
(I don't even believe that.)
(How much can Gaugie say that people believe?)
(Just checking.)
(I always assume nothing. That nobody believes anything. Makes me feel.....safe.)
Both of these patterns drove me nuts, when they were current. I didn't like them. Eee-yuk. "Back then", when I was 15-16, and fascinated with India. And India's history.
Now, I like them both; and don't like India.
Balance, you know.
Maintain a balance.
Balkance, is balance for the Balkans. (It's different there.
You get to balance with a foot blown off.)
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So, let me get my crap together, and I will tell you a story about them guys in Madras.
Kay? |
