Comments on: Geek Holiday day 2/3 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/ How to start a clothing line or run the one you have, better. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:30:46 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Fashion Incubator » Blog Archive » The grammar of garment cutting http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-30489 Fashion Incubator » Blog Archive » The grammar of garment cutting Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:40:36 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-30489 [...] claims and character assassinations of competing authors as you’d ever imagine. I’d mentioned as much before but oddly, I feel compelled to save you a click: One author (Otis Madison) is noteworthy because he [...] [...] claims and character assassinations of competing authors as you’d ever imagine. I’d mentioned as much before but oddly, I feel compelled to save you a click: One author (Otis Madison) is noteworthy because he [...]

]]> By: Secoli pattern making method http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-22815 Secoli pattern making method Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:03:16 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-22815 [...] world wide. In the US, it was called “drafting to scale”. The Library of Congress is filled with books describing the process, complete with author created rules. Once the method was universal, Fairgate [...] [...] world wide. In the US, it was called “drafting to scale”. The Library of Congress is filled with books describing the process, complete with author created rules. Once the method was universal, Fairgate [...]

]]> By: Lisa Bloodgood http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-7446 Lisa Bloodgood Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:58:52 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-7446 I was at Value Village yesterday and found a 1952 copy of <i>Sewing Made Easy: all about dressmaking and sewing for the home</i> by Mary Lynch. It was $2.99 and seems cool but also kind of silly. So if we all gave you our wrist measurements, would you be able to tell us what some of our measurements are, like height, chest, arm length, etc.? I'm curious to know how you can determine that stuff from just the wrist. (My right one is 6 inches.) :-) I was at Value Village yesterday and found a 1952 copy of Sewing Made Easy: all about dressmaking and sewing for the home by Mary Lynch. It was $2.99 and seems cool but also kind of silly.

So if we all gave you our wrist measurements, would you be able to tell us what some of our measurements are, like height, chest, arm length, etc.? I’m curious to know how you can determine that stuff from just the wrist. (My right one is 6 inches.) :-)

]]> By: Ann http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-7445 Ann Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:08:36 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-7445 I am SO sorry I could not drag my butt out of the house to meet you with Susan...it is an illustration of the depth of my need for solitude that I could not get myself out the door to meet you. And Susan tried SOOOO hard! Next time you are near, or I am near you, I will be sure to avail myself of the honor. Like you and my blog, I don't think I have ever commented here. But unlike my blog, yours is intimidating! I love it and want to thank you for taking the time to post your enlightening thoughts for all. I truly enjoy coming here. I am SO sorry I could not drag my butt out of the house to meet you with Susan…it is an illustration of the depth of my need for solitude that I could not get myself out the door to meet you. And Susan tried SOOOO hard! Next time you are near, or I am near you, I will be sure to avail myself of the honor.

Like you and my blog, I don’t think I have ever commented here. But unlike my blog, yours is intimidating! I love it and want to thank you for taking the time to post your enlightening thoughts for all. I truly enjoy coming here.

]]> By: Claire-Marie http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-7444 Claire-Marie Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:58:30 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-7444 The Tenement Museum (New York) web site has some great online virtual tours of period tenement apartments, as they appeared when specific families lived there at different times from the 1860's to the 1930s. Fascinating personal family histories indicative of the lives of many immigrants. Working the garment trade in your apartment was fairly common. <a href="http://www.tenement.org/" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.tenement.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tenement.org/</a></a> On my rare visits to New York (I live in California), I have yet to arrange my schedule to take a guided tour of the actual museum itself in lower Manhattan. Only guided tours are offered. However, the web site is wonderful and packed with historical detail. CMC The Tenement Museum (New York) web site has some great online virtual tours of period tenement apartments, as they appeared when specific families lived there at different times from the 1860’s to the 1930s. Fascinating personal family histories indicative of the lives of many immigrants. Working the garment trade in your apartment was fairly common.

http://www.tenement.org/

On my rare visits to New York (I live in California), I have yet to arrange my schedule to take a guided tour of the actual museum itself in lower Manhattan. Only guided tours are offered. However, the web site is wonderful and packed with historical detail.

CMC

]]> By: Alison Cummins http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-7443 Alison Cummins Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:10:26 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-7443 I read an account of a study of a neighbourhood in London about a hundred years ago. (Argh. I don't even remember where I read it. I'll have to do some digging.) Someone was trying to develop an index of family health and the likelihood of being able to educate the children, I think. They looked at things like windows and access to clean water and the number of children, but also whether there was a sewing machine in the parlour. If so... minus points. I think it indicated that people in the house were working, not reading. Anyway, that would be consistent with the idea that women who sewed didn't read, and vice versa, so that the marked for sewing books for women would be limited. I have got to track that down. Gack. I read an account of a study of a neighbourhood in London about a hundred years ago. (Argh. I don’t even remember where I read it. I’ll have to do some digging.) Someone was trying to develop an index of family health and the likelihood of being able to educate the children, I think. They looked at things like windows and access to clean water and the number of children, but also whether there was a sewing machine in the parlour. If so… minus points. I think it indicated that people in the house were working, not reading. Anyway, that would be consistent with the idea that women who sewed didn’t read, and vice versa, so that the marked for sewing books for women would be limited.

I have got to track that down. Gack.

]]> By: Sandra B http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-7442 Sandra B Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:36:19 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-7442 I have a 1921 copy of The New Dressmaker by the Butterick Publishing Company. I also have "A Manual of Plain Needlework and Cutting-Out" by the late Emily G. Jones (sic) (Apparently the resurrection was actually achieved by a sewing teacher, not a patternmaker) dated 1889. This is a school text-book. I also have The Sectional System by P J Thornton, from 1893. He mentions scale. Our state library has his companion volume for womenswear in stack. I wish I could share these somehow, but I don't know how. I'm thoroughly, vicariously enjoying your holiday. I'd love a week in a library. I have a 1921 copy of The New Dressmaker by the Butterick Publishing Company. I also have “A Manual of Plain Needlework and Cutting-Out” by the late Emily G. Jones (sic) (Apparently the resurrection was actually achieved by a sewing teacher, not a patternmaker) dated 1889. This is a school text-book.

I also have The Sectional System by P J Thornton, from 1893. He mentions scale. Our state library has his companion volume for womenswear in stack. I wish I could share these somehow, but I don’t know how.

I’m thoroughly, vicariously enjoying your holiday. I’d love a week in a library.

]]> By: Anne http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-7441 Anne Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:50:50 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-7441 I have some of the Institute of Women's Domestic Science books, including one just on cleaning clothes. Most of mine are English, although I have a few Australian books. I think you might be looking for sewing information in the wrong place - I don't know about texts for tailors and cutters, but there's a reasonable amount of 19thC works aimed at middle class women. Most of it is part of larger texts; general neeedlework books often have sections on 'plain sewing'. Considering the status of women in the 19thC, I think it is amazing that the most expensive thing that many households owned from the middle of the 19thC was a sewing machine. I have some of the Institute of Women’s Domestic Science books, including one just on cleaning clothes. Most of mine are English, although I have a few Australian books.

I think you might be looking for sewing information in the wrong place – I don’t know about texts for tailors and cutters, but there’s a reasonable amount of 19thC works aimed at middle class women. Most of it is part of larger texts; general neeedlework books often have sections on ‘plain sewing’.

Considering the status of women in the 19thC, I think it is amazing that the most expensive thing that many households owned from the middle of the 19thC was a sewing machine.

]]> By: Esther http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/geek_holiday_day_23/comment-page-1/#comment-7440 Esther Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:09:08 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2007/07/geek_holiday_day_23/#comment-7440 Your trip sounds fun! I am so jealous. Your trip sounds fun! I am so jealous.

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