Mairlyn's Photos - Sep 15 2025 - A Sailor Suit

don't see any clothes now that have the sailor suit flap collar. I remember having more than one outfit with a sailor collar.  What made such a big piece of fabric part of the sailor uniform, given there was a fair amount of fabric needed to make one?   I didn't find out why they are so big - but did find out about the shape: "The first collars were not cut square but were round and closely resembled items that were fashionable ashore. The three rows of white tape were probably added for ornament at first, surviving records mention some discussion about whether there should be two rows or three. The more familiar square collar developed as it was easier for the men to cut and sew themselves than the round variety." The colour has its own history - the uniform became navy in colour in the mid 1700s because Indigo based dyes offered a reasonable degree of colour fastness to sunlight and that's when Indigo came to the UK.  And my own familiarity with them as children's clothing has a distinct beginning.  Sailor suits became fashionable for children when Queen Victoria had a sailor suit made for her four-year-old son Albert Edward - it was copied immediately and was worn by boys and girls in many countries. It became a fashionable ladies style.   During the late 1800s, yachting suits became fashionable and the nautical style took hold.  In the 1920s middy blouses became popular. It became associated with active wear and sports clothing.  In Japan and the Philippines, sailor suits are common in girls' schools today. Here's a 1920s page from a Sears catalog - with the Admiral Brand blouse. And today's flower belongs in a pond.

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Marilyn's Photos - Sep 14 2025 - Front yard Signs

 

We created a yard sign for the Trilliums this year.  This is a contest for the prettiest front garden in Grimsby.  We moved it to a weekly cycle and so there are garden of the week signs out front for passers-by.  Hopefully, they would go and compliment the winning gardeners.  Here's our sign with supporting dog. Mostly front yard signs are about yard sales.  I found this picture of silly  garage sale signs you can buy, I suppose.  Or not.  It could just be a silly picture under the heading yard signs.  On average yard sale signs are not extravagant, like the second picture.  I start to thinking these are photoshop creations.  What do you think?  There are a few hand-made signs that say "Dead People's Things Yard Sale".   Remembner Vince the Sign Guy?  He's at the bottom with a few of his entertainments.

Marilyn's Photos - Sep 13 2025 - Find the ... in the picture

 

I am attracted to these puzzles that ask you to find something out of pattern.  In the first one it is find the 21, and the second one find the reverse 3.  What kind of puzzles are these?  You might think you just go look up a list of puzzles and find the name in the list.  It is too long a list in Wikipedia to be repeated here.  HERE is the link. Puzzles have been around since ancient times.  The first one that Wikipedia documents is the Chinese nine linked-rings puzzle from 475 BCE. riddles were known in Greek mythology.   And what about this Wikipedia entry - the list of puzzles that cannot be solved. It is HERE. This makes me think there isi also a large number of unanswerable problems and questions. Here's the answer to these:  "They are sets of questions that should not be thought about, and which the Buddha refused to answer, since this distracts from practice, and hinders the attainment of liberation. Various sets can be found within the Pali and Sanskrit texts, with four, and ten (Pali texts) or fourteen (Sanskrit texts) unanswerable questions," Isn't that the nature of puzzles - compelling and demanding.     I found this picture that I took quite a while go in my Lightroom database yesterday.  I don't quite remember the where and what of the original thing with this graffiti  - likely a floor or wall.

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Marilyn's Photos - Sep 12 2025 - How Many Famous People

 

I was wondering if there are more famous people/celebrities now than in the past.  What got me wondering is how many famous people have gone to the Burning Man Festival - in the Billionaire's Club - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others.  Celebrities and models such as Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, Heidi Klum, Susan Sarandon, Cara Delevingne, and Cindy Crawford have also been spotted.  Other notables include authors, scientists, engineers, psychologies, etc.   The most repeated number is .0086 percent of the world's population are famous - so if there are 8 billion people that would be somewhere around 605,000 people in the world. The articles say this is a small number, but seems pretty big to me.  I seem to have enough trouble recognizing people and their names who I am supposed to know.  But I'd have hundreds of names memorized if they showed up in my morning feed every day the way Prince Harry and Prince William show up. And these two Royals aren't even on the list above that I retrieved.  What do you think of these two abstracts - the first an abstract photo taken  inside a storage building on a farm.  The second is a digital painting inspired by artist Roberta Wagner's work.

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Marilyn's Photos - Sep 11 2025 - More Festivals

 

We didn't complete the story of the hair festivals.  There are beard festivals and even an Eyebrow Festival which has a Browista Championship.  What is something called Hairstroke? It is a permanent makeup technique that mimics the look of natural eyebrow hairs by depositing individual strokes of pigment beneath the skin.  Isn't this a bit more information than we would like? And there are lots of festivals about the human body.  Lots with the word Body in them. And Fat - that  is popular festival name - take FAT FAT Festival - a black music festival that features funk, soul and jazz.  Or Fat Joy about body acceptance.  There's a Fat Girls Summer Festival.  All of these festivals include music if you ask me. I think of the Burning Man Festival when I think of these festivals.  It has e biggest effigy of a body that they burn down at the end.  It is in the desert 120 north of Reno in Nevada.  It finished up on September 1st week with headlines of a murder, a birth, and a medical evacuation costing $50,000 for the helicopter.  Why does an art festival that concludes with burning a giant effigy of a man? That burning is supposed to be an act of "radical self-expression." It is not to be associated with "Wicker Man" - the ancient Celtic practice of human sacrifice. Here's this year's burning man.  Looks primal to me.

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