Comments on: My friend Trish

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:00:51 +0000

I thought I posted yesterday but I must have just hit “Preview” by mistake…

Well… what I said in my failed post was…

Isn’t Kathleen the greatest!!!!

The student designer in the photo is Christian Pardo Herrera and that smile shows the nature of her heart. She is a winner in my book!! Christian is a fabulous designer and illustrator.

The student designer of the “pattern paper” dress is Ernesto Torres. Ernesto is very talented and full of great ideas.

In my failed post I went on to talk about style numbers and the beauty of using numbers that tell you the whole story… but I do not have time now to repost. Maybe as I get some time later I will go back and talk about style number development.

Thanks, Kathleen, for highlighting my students!!!!!

Todd… glad you love the chucos!!!!!

By: Todd Hudson

Todd Hudson — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:41:57 +0000

I love people from Chuco.

By: Malissa

Malissa — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:55:16 +0000

I would love to tour a working manufacturing facility, again, I had the opportunity at 9. I had relatives who worked at a Jordache factory in Crocket, TX. They were going to burn all their remnant pieces of denim under 5 or so yards, but my relatives convinced them there were home sewers who would be glad to take it off their hands. We ended up with over 2000 lbs, it was more than what we could measure and my father owned a feed store so my mother weighted it all on the scales, but I digress. I got left behind several time entranced by the machines, the tour guide had to continuously come back and get me to stay up with the group. I don’t think I got a full grasp of it but the feeling I get inside just thinking about it, it was wonderful. As a college student I had the opportunity to tour a fabric manufacturing plant in Brenham, TX, the name fails me. They started with bales of cotton that they cleaned, carded, combed, spun into thread, loomed and made all the domestic produced pocket fabric for jeans and the uniform fabric for the Texas Prison System. Those are 2 experiences I will never forget , nor would I pass up, if the opportunity rose again. I can’t wait to see what you post when you do your tour, Kathleen.

By: Lisa Bloodgood

Lisa Bloodgood — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:50:05 +0000

I like that there’s a balance of heavy and light.

I would have loved to go on a plant tour when I was attending the Art Institute of Portland. (I have a B.S. in apparel design.) We went to some stores, the Norm Thompson main offices where their designers are, Nike, and Pendleton Woolen Mills (but they wouldn’t let us get up close to their looms). I know for a fact that there are at least 2 fairly good sized production sewing contractors here, but we never got to see them.

…big sigh…

(For those who aren’t in giant production, Pendleton Woolen Mills in Washougal, WA, very close to Portland, has their “seconds” fabric for $3-$10 per yard. I only found one flaw so small that it either didn’t make a difference or was easily worked around.)

If I ever got to Texas, would Trish take me to a production facility? Or someone in L.A.?

By: Karen C

Karen C — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:25:09 +0000

I like your commercials. Thanks.

BTW, a lot of us DEs down at the Los Angeles Textile show were pushing your book while in the book store. They have it displayed on the very front table, right close to the cash register. I, and others, would mention it to people browsing that they really needed to get “that book.” Hope it helped sales.