Originally Posted by katrbee
BarbaraSue, I love your tag line. I think that is true. I noticed when up in the Seattle area and in Maine when I visited the Keepsake home, that the fabrics seem to be nicer. I also noticed it near downtown LA. I wonder if some shops order from a more expensive place.
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From a more expensive place, or from their company's higher end runs.
I strongly suspect it makes a lot of sense if they sell in a high income area. The bay area of CA near San Francisco sold a higher quality type than I could ever get here in my own town. My DH used to have to go to Stanford often and while he was there for the day or two I'd go shopping. And rapidly discovered that what they had I couldn't afford much of. I still yearn for a length of fabric I fell in love with, but it was over 24 dollars per yard, while in the 80s fabric around here wasn't even half that.
I can still feel and see the way that fabric draped over my arm, flowed in the breeze from air conditioners and swung to and fro, while the material here, in direct contrast, just flopped down stiffly.