Comments on: Archaic anthropometry http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/archaic_anthropometry/ How to start a clothing line or run the one you have, better. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:23:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Fashion Incubator » A question of thoracic shaping http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/archaic_anthropometry/comment-page-1/#comment-30441 Fashion Incubator » A question of thoracic shaping Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:35:54 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2006/04/archaic_anthropometry/#comment-30441 [...] start, let’s return to the entry Archaic anthropometry. There I’d made specific mention that I’d be using the thoracic cross section as the [...] [...] start, let’s return to the entry Archaic anthropometry. There I’d made specific mention that I’d be using the thoracic cross section as the [...]

]]> By: Shirley Willett http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/archaic_anthropometry/comment-page-1/#comment-2752 Shirley Willett Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:12:08 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2006/04/archaic_anthropometry/#comment-2752 Hi Kathleen, This is really ELEGANT research, as said in the science research world. I created these in a fashion engineering design research grant for the National Science Foundation: "A Computational Model 3D / 2D Model for Apparel Pattern Design and Expert System". In 1991. The are 2D ellipses in a 3D body. I propsed them for cutting my "Stylometrics 3D Primitive Slopers" at strategic points in the body. I wish I had more time to converse with you. I love your Fashion Incubator. But I have taken on too much work to leave a legacy of what I've experienced to others, and, at 73, I can't take on that much online – at least for now. But, keep up the great work. Best regards, Shirley Willett Hi Kathleen,

This is really ELEGANT research, as said in the science research world. I created these in a fashion engineering design research grant for the National Science Foundation: “A Computational Model 3D / 2D Model for Apparel Pattern Design and Expert System”. In 1991. The are 2D ellipses in a 3D body. I propsed them for cutting my “Stylometrics 3D Primitive Slopers” at strategic points in the body.

I wish I had more time to converse with you. I love your Fashion Incubator. But I have taken on too much work to leave a legacy of what I’ve experienced to others, and, at 73, I can’t take on that much online – at least for now. But, keep up the great work.

Best regards,

Shirley Willett

]]> By: sandra http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/archaic_anthropometry/comment-page-1/#comment-2751 sandra Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:28:46 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2006/04/archaic_anthropometry/#comment-2751 I have a copy from 1893 of J P Thornton's "Sectional System", in which he claims that "About the year 1820 Mr J Wyatt, of London, one of our earliest trade writers, published in his "Tailor's Friendly Instructor" a plan for developing large-size garments from smaller ones, which he styled "Construction and Expansion." " The method seems to be along the lines of the Lutterloh pattern system, (rule a line from a fixed point through all the corners and expand proportionately), which to my mind makes no sense, but Mr J P Thornton then shows some of his blocks expanded in this manner. He calls it "Gradation." FYI, his women's tailoring book (or part thereof) is on the web at <a href="http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1912thornton1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1912thornton1.htm</a> I have a copy from 1893 of J P Thornton’s “Sectional System”, in which he claims that “About the year 1820 Mr J Wyatt, of London, one of our earliest trade writers, published in his “Tailor’s Friendly Instructor” a plan for developing large-size garments from smaller ones, which he styled “Construction and Expansion.” ” The method seems to be along the lines of the Lutterloh pattern system, (rule a line from a fixed point through all the corners and expand proportionately), which to my mind makes no sense, but Mr J P Thornton then shows some of his blocks expanded in this manner. He calls it “Gradation.”

FYI, his women’s tailoring book (or part thereof) is on the web at http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1912thornton1.htm

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