Breast Cancer

Baer Charlton

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This is just my diatrab about how I feel about shirts, dress', jerseys, kimonos or anything else that is normally seen with a person inside.

The gentleman came in with this shirt. He also had a shirt that had been done else where in the US, that he hated. "just don't make it look like this one".

The shirt in his picture was pressed flat and stretched out of shape into a square with flying butruss arms that came out at a 45 folded somewhere about mid bicep and hung straight down.

This shirt is signed by breast cancer survivors.
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One of the most tramatic events of breast cancer, for women is the loss of their breast or breasts.

In our society, we make much about a woman's breast and that tends to be an identifying mark of a woman being viral and attractive. Wrong or right as that may be, it is none the less the most tramatic thing that can happen to a woman. And of coarse along with that insult comes or goes as the case may be hair lose from the chemo.

So to restore a certain dignity.... I stuffed.
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And yes, there is just a little something special and extra up top.

then it was stitch as usual and frame it up.

The guy was actually holding back tears.
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BTW: four of the signitures, are men.
They may not have mammeries, but they do have dadderies.
 
You are a VERY creative/interesting man!!!
 
Beautiful...just beautiful! I once did a wedding dress as a surprise for the client's wife. After I lined the LJ Imperial frame with peach moire and sewed down the dress, it didn't look quite right. Some time during that night, it hit me...the dress was too flat! I went to the surgical supply store and got a pair of falsies and put them in. That did the trick...or so I thought! When the client came in with his wife, I unwrapped the dress and she burst out laughing! When I asked her "Don't you like it?", she, still laughing, pointed to the dress, and then to herself. She was maybe an A cup, and what I had put in the dress brought it to a C. I told her that I'd fix it, but she laughed harder and said "Don't you dare!"
 
I love it. My mother is a 42-year breast cancer survivor (after two radical mastectomies). She did not have the option of implants so she will greatly appreciate your heartfelt concern. I, too, have had a biopsy and am at high risk for breast cancer. With your permission, I want to have our local survivors (Breast Cancer Awareness) group sign a shirt which I will frame for display . . . OK, Baer? Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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OK Baer.......how are you keeping those 'puffs' from sinking over time??? You ARE a marvel! What wonderful thought went into this project and nothing less than a beautiful outcome!

By the way: "Dadderies" ARE "mammaries" and prone to cancer as well thus are to be self-examined monthly too!!! Daddy's, take care!
 
Sherry, two of the four guys that signed, were themselves survivors.

The unspoken truth is that well over 10,000 guys die from breast cancer. Which is about a third that die from prostrate cancer, and twice as many from testicular.

These projects are very hard for me. My mother passed at 59 but with a great humor. My Nephew the Maxial Facial Surgeon has beat Hodgekins at 17, non-hodg at 25, thyroid cancer at 26, and yesterday went in for a needle biopsie on another lump in his neck. My oldest niece had radical bi-lateral this last year. She's back to a C-cup and doesn't need a bra. All she needs now is some tatoo work .... two bulls-eyes for her husband to steer by.... they have a great sense of humor too.

My gosh, I could go on for a page or more.... I think if thought about it, I could fill my own shirt full of friends signitures that are survivors. I tell my family that I am bless with many of my family who are surviving to bury me.
But the truth is, it just fills my heart full when I think about my friends and family who go through so much, and I still get to keep them.

Now just no one goes off bawling their heads off... we did have a little good old fashioned "boys mis-behaving like boys" that day too...

And Sherry, here is the honest truth to your question:

I cast the old letchers spell on them. :D
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[polyester batting, if you massage it a bit, not only bonds to itself, but adhears to the shirt as well. Quilters call it "fulling" or just "letchers rub". 'Least, that's what my mama said. :D ]
 
That gave me teary eyes and a lumpy throat, Baer, it's beautiful! With your permission, I would like to do one like that to hang in my new shop. I know many survivors who would happily sign it. I just found out today, after a long, anxious wait, that my lump is benign. Thanks for helping to spread the Awareness.
 
GUYS/GALS!! Thanks for the thought.....

BUT

This is America; you don't need my permission.

This was a customer who brought this in....he took final control of it today. They are going to have Miss Oregon present it to the Port of Portland.
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Lucy Fleck, Miss Oregon at 3 day Cancer Camp.
Cancer, has always been her cause.

He doesn't have any more Pink on Pink, but he does have some Pink ribbon on White sweatshirts....

If he drops one by, we are going to start having "our survivors" sign. We have many customers that are survivors, and they saw the shirt in the window this past week. I think it would just be a great thing to have on our wall.

So, as for replicating.... GO FOR IT. Spread the word.
 
Very nice. I liked to put batting in clothing items. Did it often-christening dresses, a band uniform, jersey's, most got the treatment. Never had the opportunity to make breasts though!
 
I know two double mastectomy 'survivors'. I put survivors in apostrophes, because at least one of 'em would slap you into next week if you(or I) referred to them as survivors. Their view is that it was something that happened to them, they did what they had to do, and life goes on for them.

Neither of them feel that having breasts is a mark of their femininity. One of them, in particular, had copious breasts, and is now 82 years old, having undergone her remaining mastectomy only 5 years ago. They are country folk, she and her husband, and they accept what they cannot change. And are also glad to have some time remaining together. She hasn't had the surgery to restore 'breasts', but she doesn't mind. She does, for appearance sake, wear a padded, or perhaps a bra that gives the appearance of modest breasts. But, I assure you, it has nothing to do with a loss of femininity on her part.

The other lady I know is about my age, and has had the surgery, down to the latest detail. She could afford it, and, if it makes her feel better, more power to her, as she is one of the sweetest, most considerate women I know.

Ladies have many more, ah, parts that need checking, and I hope you all get regular check-ups, in order to prevent such radical surgery, and the chance of it spreading to the lymphatic system.

I get a PSA done twice a year. PSA, if I have it right, is the blood test that is an indicator of prostate trouble. The other, more invasive test is done, per doctor's orders, every two years. So far, so good.

My best wishes, and, where needed, deepest sympathy goes out to breast cancer survivors. May God bless you all, and give you the strength to come to terms with it.

Sorry to frankenthread your thread, Baer...
 
Charles, you were fine.....

right up untill you snapped the cuff on the latex glove...
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PS: PSA does NOT detect breast cancer, and 10,000 of us GUYS die of breast cancer every year. Keep feeling for bumps.
 
Originally posted by Baer Charlton:
Charles, you were fine.....

right up untill you snapped the cuff on the latex glove...
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PS: PSA does NOT detect breast cancer, and 10,000 of us GUYS die of breast cancer every year. Keep feeling for bumps.
It is a good thing not to many people can see into my cubicle at work! :D

James
 
Love it Baer. Esp love the last photo of you and said shirt!

I look for products for the gift store that support breast cancer, and try to use them to help the cause. My mom was a double masectomy survivor, and my sis had a scare a few years ago. I've had 2 friends diagnosed this year. One is struggling. I guess we have all been changed by this disease.

I also may "copy" your idea. Think flattery.
 
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