Is anybody still coming here?

I moved the party over to the new blog site at Fashion-Incubator and I'm kind of getting tired of coming over here to put up sporadic posts just so that somebody won't think this blog project has been abandoned entirely. Anything you can find here is over there except better and more of it. Maybe I'll just come over to repaste this message over and over so you can see the server is still alive...

How quickly we forget

In my warehouse cleansing frenzy, I found an old dress that I'd saved for demonstration purposes.



The thing is mentionable because it won third place in an annual design contest -earning a scholarship- and it's horrible! Don't get me wrong, the designer had a cute idea but the quality is appallingly bad. It's distressingly bad. It's awful! One can only imagine how horrible the 4th and 5th place winners were. I save this as a reminder of what design schools put out and/or put up with; it depends on your perspective. Anyway, here's the list of this student's sins:

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Style 22692 Bundling & Bagging

This serves as a brief introduction to Bundling. Bundling is how large quantities of goods are managed in many companies. This company bundled styles in quantities of 10 but it's just as common to find bundles quanitified by the dozen. That's a preference you'll have to establish when managing the sewing end of your production. May I recommend units of 10? It simplifies the math.

This is a bundle of cut jackets ready to be sewn. Note how all the pieces are lain neatly with the ticket edges readily visible.

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Leather dies style 21206

Style #21206:

Much of what I need to get rid of is stuff I've collected for the purposes of demonstration. This post will detail a set of leather dies I have for sale. My critique of the pattern follows. Why I'd ever think anyone would ever consider buying this is beyond even me. Still, I got the dies for the purposes of demonstration which follows.

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Independence day?

I was a little bummed to read in yesterday's Las Cruces Sun-News that Betsy Ross was not likely to have been the original flag-maker we'd all been led to believe. According to Leepson's book Flag: An American Biography, the original flagmaker is unknown but it's original designer was Francis Hopkinson, attorney and designer of seals and emblems. What is evident is that several flags were made by several people.

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