Tried making a dress from old bedsheets and got a weird compliment i didnt expect

Last weekend i finally used up that stack of vintage floral bedsheets my grandma gave me 2 years ago. I stitched together a simple a-line dress with a gathered waist, nothing fancy. Wore it to the grocery store and a lady stopped me at the dairy aisle to ask if it was from a 90s catalog. I wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing but she said it looked nostalgically perfect. So that got me wondering - has anyone else gotten weird feedback on upcycled clothes that made you second guess your design choices?

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piper_burns1mo ago

That 90s catalog comment would live rent free in my head forever.

jenny_coleman1mo ago

That lady at the store probably meant it as a compliment but honestly i'd be a little confused too. Like is "90s catalog" the look you were going for or not? Hard to tell if that means it's dated in a good way or a bad way. Did she say anything else about the fabric pattern? Sometimes people latch onto the nostalgia of it all and that's what they really mean.