Garment Cut and Its Relationship to Underwear T he method outlined in this chapter will help you to collate information in a comprehensive and easy-to-follow way, regardless of the date of the garment. By gathering information from multiple sources and disciplines you will build the clearest possible idea of the shape of support needed to…
Explore the greener, cleaner side of Central America and ensure your travels are as good for the region as they are for you. Sustainable tourism is something of a mixed bag in Central America. Some countries – Costa Rica and Belize in particular – are world leaders in genuine, sustainable tourism. While in certain other…
Top Attraction 1 The Riviera Maya. From Cancun’s resort-lined hotel strip to Tulum’s eco-chic vibe, some of the world’s finest, softest white-sand beaches are found here, providing the setting for Mexico’s biggest tourist region. Top Attraction 2 Chichén Itzá. Declared one of the ‘New Seven Wonders of the World’, this great Maya city is intensely…
Technical developments and dressmaking techniques An understanding of the technical developments in garment production is useful when collating information to provide an approximate date for a garment. In order to do this a detailed comparison between the cut and construction of the garment and known developments in pattern making and stitching techniques will be needed….
Cartoons Caricatures and cartoons, although intentionally extreme with exaggerated poses and styles of dress, draw attention to how the body could be distorted by the controversial fashion trends at the time they were drawn. In the eighteenth century they highlighted the perils and dangers of wearing tightly laced corsets, satirizing the lengths to which women…
In order to present a garment convincingly on a display figure it is essential to know when it was made. Understanding how to use a wide variety of sources will help you to arrive at a date or date range, in order to establish the silhouette appropriate for the time. Since dress historians and curators…
Dress and textiles are amongst the most delicate and ephemeral objects in museum collections and need careful handling. The frst process when preparing any garment for display should always be a detailed assessment of its condition. It is essential to establish the fragility of the garment, the weakness of its fabrics and the strength of…
This book has evolved over several years of working closely with a wide range of public and private collections of clothing and uses my skills as a fashion designer and textile conservator to fnd convincing and innovative ways of displaying dress and textiles. Three-dimensional displays of garments intended to be worn in a particular manner…
When I called out those things and heard them echo back, I jumped up and down. I fist pumped the air. I whooped for joy. Seriously. Anyone watching me must’ve thought I was crazy. But I didn’t care—the excitement was real! I was getting emotionally connected to my goal. I was getting it into my…
A few years ago, a successful Manhattan realtor named Amy came to see me. She needed help, she told me, managing the high stress of her job. But the more she talked about her work, life, and family, the more I came to suspect it wasn’t work that was stressing her out. No, there was…