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Category: “Get off my lawn” vocabulary gripes

Confusion in the Atelier and the Costume Shop. More Misheard Words.

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Wendy

Misheard words make mud pies of meaning. I think we all experience that. We all know that feeling of having been misusing a word for ages, and then finding out what the Continue Reading →

Posted in "Get off my lawn" vocabulary gripes, Costume, Fashion, Sewing Tips, What is it? | Tagged dress form, mannequin, needles, pins | Leave a reply

Oh Those Tricky Foreign Fashion Misheard/ Misread Words

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Wendy

There are more French words to trip us up than just the infamous pompon, (NEVER “pom-pom” or “pompom” or “Pom Pom”. Really. Never.)  I have already written about that one. There are Continue Reading →

Posted in "Get off my lawn" vocabulary gripes, Slider | Tagged charmeuse, cumberland, cummerbund, empire, faille, umpire, velour | Leave a reply

For All Intensive Purposes, It’s Not Sequenced

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Wendy

There are so many times when I am scouring eBay for supplies and I can’t find what I need. A quick trip through my misheard word list will sometimes pay off. Continue Reading →

Posted in "Get off my lawn" vocabulary gripes, Slider | Tagged bridal, misheard words, muslim, muslin, sequence, sequin | Leave a reply

It’s not “Foot Petal” or “Pressure Foot”

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Wendy

Yet another installation of my favorite misused/misheard words, or in the vernacular, “get off my lawn!” I’d worry that my linguist friends would be correct, and these two misheard and misused Continue Reading →

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The Word is “Pompon”, not “Pom-Pom” or “Pom Pom” or even “Pompom”

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Wendy

In some textile circles, people throw around the word “pom-pom” (sometimes without the hyphen, as pom pom, or even pompom), like it means that fluffy ball at the top of Continue Reading →

Posted in "Get off my lawn" vocabulary gripes, Blog | Tagged pom-pom, pompom, pompon | Leave a reply
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