Linda Oldham, Fashion Designer

Years ago, mom took it upon herself to become a seamstress; in addition to working 8-12 hours every day, she would also make all of our clothes. How this made any sense, we will never know. What we do know is that she became astonishingly good at it. I remember the brown 5-pocket Bermuda shorts she made me.

There are no photos of these creations, but we do have photos of items that not only involve creative seamstressing, but also creative fashion design. The photos here show costumes that mom made for scratch for Aziza and Osman for a school party. It might have been for Halloween, but I cannot be certain.

Aren't they wonderful? Yes, the costumes and the kids both.


Aziza's costume was some sort of princess (or maybe She-ra from Masters of the Universe). Osman's was Superman.