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Woman really blends in on the Red Line

By adamg on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 12:49pm

A woman made a bodice and skirt out of fabric that matches that weird seat pattern on the older Red Line (and Orange Line) cars, then got on the Red Line. She describes how she made the dress, using Red Line seat-like fabric she had printed up (and which you can now buy).

Via Karyn Regal.

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Comments

By anon on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 1:28pm.

What is the story behind that pattern anyway? Was it off the shelf in the 1990s, or did the MBTA create it themselves?

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By cybah on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 6:07pm.

I think it came from the same designer who designed "Jazz" for Solo

IMAGE( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Solo_Jazz_design.jpg )

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By peter on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 1:29pm.

I think it was the same person who made the fabric and then used it to make the outfit:
(from the reddit post):

I created this fabric with from photos I took of the seats, and printed it with Spoonflower on their celosia velvet, so bonus it's fuzzy :)

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By Boston-Stitch on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 1:34pm.

This is awesome! Is there an award for "most-Bostonian + most-random" creative work?

BTW it looks like she also had the fabric printed via Spoonflower, using a photo she took of the red line fabric, and then posted the design on the Spoonflower website in case anyone else wants to make something.

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By adamg on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 2:14pm.

What I don't know about online fabric sales ...

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By jmeltzer on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 1:59pm.

until someone tries to sit on her. :-)

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By adamg on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 2:06pm.

Red Line duvet cover - imagine going to sleep with this ...

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By Friartuck on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 3:39pm.

They'd sell this.

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By John Costello on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 4:53pm.

You might end up waking up on a shuttle bus at Savin Hill smelling like piss and have water stains and rubble on you.

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By Friartuck on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 3:35pm.

Match the drapes

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By StillFromDorchester on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 6:58pm.

Bloody brilliant

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By Don't Panic on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 1:09am.

I agree.

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By ScottB on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 9:17am.

Moquette

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