*** Quoting Ward Dossche from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

WD> Good story. My opinion is that if you are nice to people, people will
WD> be nice to you ... not always but anyway.

That seems to be what has worked out in my life.  (Nice Airport bit there ¨below!).

WD>  
> WD> No, but Helly Hansen jacket (my son freaked-out when he discovered
> tha
> WD> my sailing-suit was HH), Tommi Hilfiger hat/cap, Adidas or whatever
> co
WD>  
> Hilfiger.  Not sure if that's the right spelling but I kniw what you mean
> and do not understand that one.  Who the heck is he?
WD>  
WD> It started as a brand of cologne for men, then scarves, sweaters, now
WD> it's the whole lot. Sometimes als marketed as "Tomi". It's
big now in

AH!  I was wondering.  It just started one day some year or so ago back
here ¨and looked like a clothes-line and i didnt understand it.  The
clothes arent ¨that good or long lasting but cost 30$ for a top what
without that brand name, ¨can be gotten in almost identical for 5$.

Then again, Japan has it's own fads.  It's the only place you will find
adults ¨wearing 'mi kitty' (Blush, my cell phone is a mi kitty phone.  Don
had ¨Charlotte with him when he picked it out).  I want a Tomayashi
keychain!  He ¨rocks!  .

The local base has a 'fad' of it's own unique style, lightly based on a
¨Japanese one.  Many of the bluejeans here have fur rims at the bottom. 
The ¨local clothing rules for the base (applies to the dependants too) says
no ¨frayed pants and they have stepped this up.  This created a problem for
those ¨of us with growing kids and a few came back to the 60's idea of the
thick ¨'ribbon' at the bottm to extend them.  The hottest thing now is to
match with a ¨friend so your right leg has a bottom ribbon (covering frayed
bottoms) that ¨matches their left leg, and the other leg will be either
something else, or ¨match another friend.  They will actually line up the
matching legs when they ¨walk someplace.

I've got queries out for 1 yard bits of eyelit laces and neat buttons, from
¨internet ordering places.  Very important to the kids that each be
'unique' and ¨not something 'everyone else has on their pants' so I cant
get it locally but ¨had to check the local stuff to be sure not to
duplicate.  I have 3 different ¨1yard bits due in and some wierd buttons
that will go at the top of the ¨'ribbon' to cover that I am just so-so with
sewing an actual seam (no machine ¨here).

I get a giggle out of this.  I wanted patches like these as a kid so *bad I
¨could taste it* but 'Mom' though they were dumb so I made my own and just
sewed ¨them on til the fad passed.  My home made ones then weren't
considered totally ¨cool by the 'jet set' (kid version) but everyone else
liked them.  Charlotte ¨has only one set with the 'ribbon' bottom just now
but it's handmade from an ¨old sheet and embroidered with little kitties
and bears and her name along the ¨outer leg.  There are loops at the top of
the 'border' that attach to buttons ¨sewn on the legs so they can be washed
separately.  I've been threaten'd with ¨virtual death if i dont make one
leg for Lisa and one for Nicole, from their ¨respective Mom's .

                                       xxcarol

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