models in EVERY shape and size!
Written By: Kim R
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FUN! FRIENDSHIP! CREATIVE INSPIRATION! ECO EDUCATION!
“Ancient landscapes offer stories yet untold”
from a 2000 Café Dress Poetry Patch
2000 transitions, one of my fav lines. . .
I spied my first Blue Fish Tee in San Diego in 1986. WOW! Look! I’ve never seen anything like it—abstract art with retro influence! I LOVE this STUFF!! I fell in love…still have that Tee….Have since had the pleasure of shopping in the stores which were in Santa Fe, Soho/NYC, Frenchtown, Taos…what beautiful stores…found Blue fish in Boutiques, at a crafts fair in PA.. . .Nordstroms…
“atoms spinning the newness of time dissolves into clocks
chrome brushed smooth our own reflections of wonder and
everyday turning NEW”
from a 1985 or 6 Tee Shirt Patch--
Started collecting Blue Fish and Catalogs in the early 90’s…and met friends along the way through the Blue Fish connection. Fun, releasing enjoying creativity and expression by having fun playing dress up! Beautiful and comfortable….ahhh!
When my daughter was just shy of her 2nd birthday, she picked up the phone and began paging through a BLF catalog…!! Oh my, they do imitate their parents so…
At my stop at the Frenchtown store in 2003 while visiting “back east”. . .a magical day…for they were taking pictures of the newest collection for the website…and at the last minute the news was this: one of the models couldn’t make it…Jen and Frannie asked me “would I like to model?”
WOW. Having pored over the beautiful catalogs all these years and wishing I could be
A blue fish model, painter, employee, etc…was this the power of creative visualization!? ;^) This was also a special day as it was the first time I met Jennifer Barclay. . .and even more special, her husband and son were there too…neat!
The other funny thing about me modeling was that I had childhood dreams of being a model, or musician or magician or…but I was short and curvy, not tall and skinny! I love that the BLF models were all shapes, sizes, ages and colors!
Formed a BLUE FISH lunch club in Atlanta . . .we BLF womyn met wearing BLF of course, then we oohed and aahed in a “tailgate” party as S. showed us a new box of BLF stashed in her car trunk…We tried on each other’s coats. . .
I've Printed and Painted clothing with a Blue Fish Friend in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington . . while our kids played with the guinea pigs..
Who am I? A jazz singer (they played my CD for awhile in the Frenchtown store!), Lyricist, Art Therapist, Mom and wife. . .