ScrapSayings, Clothes and Hats - Dress-up

  • All dressed up and no place to go!

  • All in Fur and Finery

  • Always in good taste

  • Bandana-Rama

  • Blue Jeans -- Levis jeans of today are direct descendants of the original pair made in 1873. And it was two visionary immigrants, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, who turned denim, thread and a little metal into the most popular clothing product in the world - blue jeans. What was once an apparel associated with low culture-working class and farmers in the late nineteenth-century society, is now a fashion statement walking the runways in Paris for young and young at heart alike.

  • A boy and his boots - It's a guy/cowboy/country-western thing

    A girl and her boots - It's a beautiful/girl/country-western thing

  • Check Mate / Checker board square / Check It Out (checked clothes/material)

  • Chic, Debonair, Flattering, Glam, Sophisticated, Sparkle, Trendy

  • Coat of many Colors - Dolly Parton

  • Come on over and see me sometime. - Mae West (She always wore boa's)

  • Doctor [your child's name], calling doctor [name again]

  • Dressed to the nines!

  • The Essentials

  • Fancy Pants

  • Fashion forward

  • Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. Denise Klahn

  • Fashion - one day you're in and the next you're out! - Heidi Klum (Project Runway)

  • A fashion statement - DON'T! / A fashion NO NO!

  • Fashion takes it's cue from the beauty of nature

  • Forever in Blue Jeans

  • Fringe Benefit (clothes with fringe)

  • Finger Painting (painted nails)

  • Funky, Fabulous, Fresh, Fantastic, Far-out, Fifties Fashions

  • Getting to the nitty gritty

  • Glisten, Glimmer, Glitter and Gleam

  • Happy Feet - Great Shoes

  • Hats Off!!

  • Hats Off to ________ [person's name]

  • Hat Tricks!!

  • Hidden Assets

  • I can deal with anything as long as I have the right shoes.

  • I just can't wait to be King! - Elton John

  • I wasn't born a princess, but if the Tiara/glass shoe fits…

  • I'm not vain. I always look this good!!

  • Identity Crisis

  • If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. - Neil Simon

  • If you need me I'll be right here on my pedestal!

  • It's hip to be square

  • Just the right hat for every occasion.

  • Ladies of Society

  • Let's get your party on!

  • Let's get this joint a-jumpin'

  • The little black dress

  • Little Buck-a-roo (cowboy costume)

  • Love them boots

  • Mad as a Hatter!! - Alice in Wonderland

  • Make it work. - Tim Gun from Project Runway

  • Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?

  • A must for every wardrobe

  • My Lady is Dressed for the Ball

  • My, you clean up well.

  • Nothing is more fun than a trunk full of clothes in an attic/ Mom's closet.

  • Of all the things I can wear, my expression is the most important.

  • Officer/Firefighter [your child's name] is on the job.

  • On/In the Fringe (clothes with fringe)

  • Outside the BOX / Maybe a little too outside the box?

  • PMS means purchase more shoes.

  • Purse-onality

  • Put on those Blue Suede Shoes

  • Ready to Wear

  • Rhinestone cowboy/girl

  • She's all legs

  • Simply Irresistible

  • Sitting Pretty

  • Sole Searching (shoe shopping)

  • Some days are a total waste of makeup.

  • Some like it Hot [color here]

  • SOOO Handsome

  • That is so FIERCE! - Christian from Project Runway

  • This is my sexy lingerie! (sleep in big tee-shirt and shorts)

  • Tuxedo Function/Junction (penguins / dressed up)

  • Uptown Saturday night

  • Warning - When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
    with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
    And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
    and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
    I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
    and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
    And run my stick along the public railings
    and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
    I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
    and pick the flowers in other people's gardens and learn to spit.
    You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
    and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
    or only bread and pickles for a week
    And hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
    But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
    and pay our rent and not swear in the street
    and set a good example for the children.
    We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
    But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
    So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
    When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple and red.

    - Jenny Joseph, anthem of the red hat lady's group

  • Wash 'n' Wear

  • Watch out Mr. Blackwell, here I come. (Blackwell is a designer who publishes a `yearly worst dressed list')

  • Window shopping

  • WOW! You wash up good!!

  • You are my sunshine on a cloudy day. - Temptations

  • You are the living end/cats meow/hot stuff!!!

  • You can dress them up but you can't take them anywhere.

Jokes:

  • Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

  • When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

Tips:

-- Take a picture of purses - Grandma's purse, Mom's purse, Girl's purse, Teenager's purse. Then list their contents. What is in a woman's purse is a statement of history and personality (like an archaeological dig). My mom carried everything, needle and thread, Band-Aids and antiseptic, as well as anything that I ever handed her to "hold this for a moment." My Grandmother's purse had tons of Kleenex, her own handkerchief, two lipsticks and pressed powder, pills in little pill boxes with a flip lid (not regular prescription bottles), and mints from the last 5 restaurants. I know these details because I use to dump the contents and organize their purses. My daughter's purses have fake lipstick (from their dress-ups), EMPTY candy wrappers, ΒΌ pencil no eraser, some waded up paper, and an empty key ring. I guess you don't want to know what is in a teenager's purse. 3 lipsticks- half used, 1 lipstick crashed into it's top, 4 chap sticks, 13 folded notes that were passed to her (not all hers?), 25 used hall passes, comb/brush, mechanical pencil -no lead, wallet with a picture of herself and the dog (no money), broken earphones for her ipod (Who knows where the ipod is) 9 pennies rolling around at the bottom.

-- I went to a wedding shower and this was one of the games. We dumpped out our purses and someone hosted `Let's Make a Deal'. We laughed for hours.