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		<title>Form, fit &amp; function that won&#8217;t break the bank</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/form-fit-function-that-wont-break-the-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/alvaform_features_sm1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-10833" title="alvaform_features_sm" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/alvaform_features_sm1.jpg" alt="alvaform_features_sm" width="230" height="507" /></a>I'm pleased to announce that Alvanon has launched a new line of dress forms called <a href="http://www.alvaformstudio.com/" target="_blank">AlvaForm Studio</a>. The price of these forms are gentle on your pocketbook but certain to please anyone who has coveted one of their elite quality forms. And, this is the first official announcement -we got the exclusive on it. Yay us! In keeping with the exclusivity of this advance notice (it won't be announced to the public for another three weeks), the forms are 30% off. I don't know how long that deal will last but I'll amend this entry when I know. Okay, now for features.

Gee, I'm not sure where to start, this being such a radical departure from anything else available in the market. I'll start by itemizing the anatomically correct shape features that are unique to this product, refer to image at right (<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/alvaform_features.jpg" target="_blank">larger image</a>).
<ol>
	<li>First we have a clavicle bump. Yay.</li>
	<li>The bust is a more rounded normal shape (I'll provide a comparison further down so you can appreciate the difference). The underside of the bust is fuller instead of coming to an abrupt 50's style bullet bra apex as is typical of other forms.</li>
	<li>The sternum between the breasts is taped for clear delineation, aiding in customary underwire placement.</li>
	<li>The bust is shaped with a princess line down the center and a dart off to either side.</li>
	<li>As with other forms, the cover is hand sewn along the side seam -but this one is much flatter. No more unsightly ridges. Can't speak for you but I find those ridges somewhat annoying.</li>
	<li>The form has a belly button; invaluable for aligning lower slung waistbands or crop tops. She also has a pronounced belly like real people do with a noticeable depression below just before the normal bifurcation.</li>
	<li>The outer front thighs are curved outward, again, just like real people. At the same time, the back side of the thigh is curved inward.</li>
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If you haven't guessed by now, this form was sculpted -based on real humans.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Theory of Garment Pattern Making</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/review-theory-of-garment-pattern-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forgive me for forgetting and not looking it up, but last week someone suggested I should create a top ten list of pattern books. And the indirect result -sorry no top ten list yet- is this review. All because I went looking for this book to see if by chance, there might be a reserve of them available and sure enough! Some enterprising individual has republished it. Lucky you.

The author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Garment-Pattern-Making-Designers-Technology/dp/1447400402?_encoding=UTF8&#38;tag=fashionincuba-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325" target="_blank">The Theory of Garment-Pattern Making</a>, W.H.Hulme, has been very influential in my development. I have two of his four books with another on the way. I was lucky enough to buy the third with diligent searching. I doubt it would have been available for me to buy if the seller had spelled the title correctly.  Which is by way of explanation that Hulme was (presumably deceased, I don't know) one of those seminal thinkers few authorities will tell you about, or know to tell you about (so how authoritative are they?). Hulme has affected the thinking of -surely- Aldrich, Bray, maybe Cooklin but no one that I know of on this side of the pond. At the same time, I'm not certain how much of what Hulme wrote really <em>is</em> new but undoubtedly, one truly great contribution was <strong>curating</strong>. He separated wheat from chaff to organize an archaic and arcane body of knowledge into an accessible format for study and analysis. And study you will if you get this slim volume.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Patternmaking by Dennic Chunman Lo</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/review-patternmaking-by-dennic-chunman-lo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/patternmaking_dennic_cover.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-10464" title="patternmaking_dennic_cover" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/patternmaking_dennic_cover.jpg" alt="patternmaking_dennic_cover" width="214" height="280" /></a>Today's review is another recently published book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Making-Portfolio-Skills-Chunman/dp/1856697509?_encoding=UTF8&#38;tag=fashionincuba-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325" target="_blank">Patternmaking</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fashionincuba-20&#38;l=ur2&#38;o=1" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> by Dennic Chunman Lo ($26). Be sure to read through to the end because I'm giving away a free copy of this book to one lucky visitor! Also, the publisher is promoting a significant holiday discount on all titles in their catalog for UK buyers. US buyers already get the discount courtesy of Amazon.

This introductory text is an excellent tool for designers, and oddly enough, particularly for those who don't intend to make their own patterns. I think there is a big hole in the market for a book that fills that gap. The reason being, many designers want a better understanding of the relationship of shapes and how these are incorporated into the body of a garment. See <a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/patternmaking_dennic_sleeve_overlay.jpg" target="_blank">this example</a> that shows the outline of pattern pieces on the body so one can understand construction relationships.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Leather Fashion Design</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/review-leather-fashion-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/leather_fashion_design_cover.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-10444" title="leather_fashion_design_cover" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/leather_fashion_design_cover.jpg" alt="leather_fashion_design_cover" width="298" height="371" /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Leather-Fashion-Design-Portfolio-Skills/dp/1856696715/?_encoding=UTF8&#38;tag=fashionincuba-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325">Leather Fashion Design</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fashionincuba-20&#38;l=ur2&#38;o=1" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> is the newest book written by Francesca Sterlacci, former fashion chair at FIT. Accordingly, some of you probably know her; I've never had the pleasure although I knew of her through an earlier book she wrote called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Leather-Apparel-Design-Francesca-Sterlacci/dp/082737772X/?_encoding=UTF8&#38;tag=fashionincuba-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325">Leather Apparel Design</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fashionincuba-20&#38;l=ur2&#38;o=1" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" />. Speaking of, this new book is very similar to the earlier one so if you have that you may not need this one. The new book amounts to a revised and expanded edition of the previous title which is now out of print. Lastly a caveat on my suitability for reviewing this book;  much of my experience is in leather production.

<strong>Strengths</strong>: Overall, it's a solid focus on design and production constraints. In my professional opinion, this is required reading and careful study for anyone who is considering a career in leather production either as a manufacturer or designer. The text contains a nice survey of leather garment history (also nice photos), a comprehensive discussion of hide tanning and processing, as well as much needed explanation of hand, weights and finishes. Subsequent chapters include advice on line planning, costing, cutting, seam finishing and sewing.]]></description>
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		<title>The silly sweatshop game</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/the-silly-sweatshop-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sweatshop_game_logo.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9758" title="sweatshop_game_logo" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sweatshop_game_logo.jpg" alt="sweatshop_game_logo" width="364" height="245" /></a>There's a new game making the rounds, it's called <a href="http://www.playsweatshop.com/" target="_blank">Sweatshop</a> (<a href="http://themoderatevoice.com/117022/can-online-games-make-economics-and-politics-fun/" target="_blank">hat tip</a>). I thought to mention it before a bunch of people start sending me the link and asking me what I thought about it.

The game scenario: you're a newly hired supervisor at a "sweatshop", in charge of hiring workers and meeting quotas. You have the choice of hiring various kinds of workers from children to more highly skilled (hat vs garment makers etc) and you even have the option to invest in worker improvements so they perform better.

I played thinking it might be a useful  exercise in load balancing and the cost benefits of investing in employee education and well being -which wasn't exactly what the game's creator had in mind. It was difficult to attempt to do a sincere job of it because the rhetoric and examples were so over the top as to be offensive to anyone's intelligence and credulity. If you want to affect change, you can't use the same rhetoric on the opposing camp that you use when preaching to your choir. Which is not to say the game won't be popular (not to be confused with generating effective change). The game would have been far more effective at generating positive change by showing cost and profit benefits were led by investing in workers in meaningful ways. ]]></description>
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		<title>Reviews: New pattern making books</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/reviews-new-pattern-making-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 00:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/patternmaking_in_practice.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9440" title="patternmaking_in_practice" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/patternmaking_in_practice.jpg" alt="patternmaking_in_practice" width="271" height="372" /></a>Lucia Mors has published a new pattern book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPATTERNMAKING-PRACTICE-STEP-GUIDE%2Fdp%2F8492810076&#38;tag=fashionincuba-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325">Patternmaking in Practice: A Step by Step Guide</a> (my <a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/review-patternmaking-in-fashion/" target="_blank">review of her previous book</a>). A departure from US textbooks, this title isn't as overwhelming with competing style options. The basic pattern is developed via draping and copiously illustrated step by step with large clear photos. Further along in the text, drafting a block from measures is also shown. Plenty of instruction is provided for the sleeve drafting process. I'm partial to this style of sleeve development which seems to be common in all drafting books, save those published in the US. ~sigh~

There are only a few styles in the book (two skirts and two dresses) but these are covered in great depth. Specifically, developing a complete pattern from the block -to include facings and linings-, cutting, fitting and sewing the whole garment start to finish. It's refreshing to follow style development from the beginning through finished product. And of course, that few pattern books show any sewing at all, this book provides comprehensive grounding and context.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of the Yield Exhibition (Zero Waste)</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/review-of-the-yield-exhibition-zero-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fashion-incubator.com/?p=9241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/zandra_rhodes.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9242" title="zandra_rhodes" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/zandra_rhodes.jpg" alt="zandra_rhodes" width="279" height="539" /></a>Today we have a guest entry from Jasmin Wilkins who lives in Wellington New Zealand -which is fortuitous for us as you'll see. Jasmin is a long time enthusiast member of our forum who works as a project manager. Like many F-I regulars, she's no intellectual slouch (a background in physics and math) rounded with a broad appreciation of artistry. I really enjoyed Jasmin's review and hope you will too.
--------------------

I’ve been very interested in the conversations around zero or minimum waste, and thought other readers might be interested in my impressions of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Making Fashion Without Making Waste</span> <a href="http://dowse.org.nz/en/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/Yield/" target="_blank">Yield Exhibition</a> I attended at the Dowse Museum in New Zealand. The exhibition consists of thirteen works, displayed in four groups. Each work has a description of the design ethos, an image of the pattern used, and (luckily for you!), linked online content. All the patterns for these garments can be viewed on site. The Dowse kindly  provide WiFi and smartphone readable 2D scannable links with each work to enable access to the online content – you can get to <a href="http://www.yieldexhibition.com" target="_blank">the homepage</a> to join in the journey. There is also a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/yieldexhibition?sk=wall" target="_blank">facebook page</a>.

As a whole, one of the first things that struck me about the exhibition is the variety of thoughts behind the designs, and how many questions were posed by the way works were juxtaposed.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Spec Manual</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spec_manual_cover.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8986" title="spec_manual_cover" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/spec_manual_cover.jpg" alt="spec_manual_cover" width="277" height="375" /></a><strong>Note:</strong> this review is of the first edition of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSpec-Manual-Michele-Wesen-Bryant%2Fdp%2F1563673738&#38;tag=fashionincuba-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325">The Spec Manual</a><img style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fashionincuba-20&#38;l=ur2&#38;o=1" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" />. I mistakenly purchased this instead of the second edition -but that's a whole other story. To prevent you from making the same mistake, all of the links in this entry are for the second edition. At close I'll include the publisher's list of changes.

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSpec-Manual-Michele-Wesen-Bryant%2Fdp%2F1563673738&#38;tag=fashionincuba-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325">The Spec Manual</a><img style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fashionincuba-20&#38;l=ur2&#38;o=1" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> is a textbook but could also be useful for entrepreneurs who are interested in doing a better job of <a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/things-you-must-know-if-you-have-a-clothing-line-garment-measuring/" target="_blank">garment measuring</a>. Its focus is simple and direct; to enable a reader to detail attributes of garments for inclusion in a tech pack. There are about 10 chapters once you get past the fluff (croquis, 40 pages of them!). Handily enough, pages are perforated so you can rip out pages you don't need or want to scan. The book includes a CD with the croquis and spread sheets (Excel and pdf). Each chapter details how to measure a given type of garment using only one sample product type. I realize that can be a rub since product features vary so widely but in defense of the authors, the selected garment examples are very complex. If you were making a simpler item, you would skip the extraneous features that don't apply to you.

The various chapters include how to measure a skirt, pants and shorts, vest, woven shirt, dress, bodysuit and jumpsuits, sweater, tailored jacket, outerwear and a belt (that last chapter is only two pages). The second edition includes a chapter on how to measure a bra. Okay, so maybe you read through the list of chapters and think it won't work for you but be as creative about developing your technical foundation as you are your styles. If you were making something like a short nightie with soft cups, you'd combine the appropriate attributes from the bra and dress chapters.]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Plus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing kindred as I do, you'll want to know of a new-to-me blog called <a href="http://truthplusblog.com/" target="_blank">TruthPlus</a>. The blogger (Jessica Gold Newman) is a bit... unusual -when you consider apparel marketing is <a href="http://www.jgandconyc.com/index.html" target="_blank">her day job</a> in that she's highly, uh, well, definitely not writing a pink pony fashion blog. I learned all kinds of nifty stuff about <a href="http://truthplusblog.com/2011/01/20/fashion-historian-john-tiffany-on-eleanor-lambert-and-the-coty-awards/" target="_blank">the history of the Coty Awards</a>. Specifically about Eleanor Lambert, "the founder of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, of the  Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum, of New York Fashion Week,  of the International Best Dressed List and of the Coty Awards".
<blockquote><em>When the NYDI hired Lambert, she swiftly and shrewdly suggested that the  campaign be based on designers, not manufacturers. At that time,  manufacturers, and not the designers who worked under them, were the  face of apparel companies. Lambert knew she could create a cult of  personality around these designers, much like the excitement that had  surrounded their Parisian counterparts.</em></blockquote>
So with that we know who to blame. It was <a href="http://truthplusblog.com/2011/01/16/a-response-to-ms-horyn/" target="_blank">the beginning of the end</a>!]]></description>
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		<title>Yet more vintage drafting books</title>
		<link>http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/yet-more-vintage-drafting-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Fasanella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/no_italian_monobutt.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8344" title="no_italian_monobutt" src="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/no_italian_monobutt.jpg" alt="no_italian_monobutt" width="311" height="184" /></a>Note: links to the preceding entries in this series -this being the fifth entry- appear at close. This will be the last because I can't tell (beyond the Italian book) whether these entries are of any interest. Also, I'm pouting a bit that visitors didn't seem to be as fond of the Union Special book as I was. Wah.

Before I tell you about today's books, I wish to bring your attention to the jeans and jeans shorts drafts in the Italian book (page 111-113 of the pdf ). Keeping in mind the last copyright date is 2004, <a href="http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/jeans_fit_lousy_these_days/" target="_blank">mono-butt is not in evidence</a> here so I retain hopes of seeing jeans like this again in my lifetime.  Preferably on me. Alternatively, I'd settle for having a butt like that but Santa has yet to bring me one in spite of repeated requests.

One thing to keep in mind with these books is that the titles are so long that they are often cut short. Unfortunately, you may not know the specific content of a book unless you download it to read the title page. One example is a book by Daniel Ryan titled on the LOC page as <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/humanproportions00ryan" target="_blank">Human Proportions in Growth Being the Complete Measurement of the Human Body</a>. However, a closer examination (aforementioned download and reading the title page) shows the the tail end of the title was omitted. The omission was "for Every Age and Size During the Years of Juvenile Growth". So what we really have here is <strong>a children's drafting and proportions book</strong>. Maybe not the first but certainly one of them and definitely the most accessible of the earliest ones. Since children's growth isn't as dynamic as modern adult growth, the age of this text is not as important as you'd think. This could be an important work. I hope some of you will download this one and let me know what you think of it as you have time to go through it.]]></description>
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