Measurements Having established the garment’s date, placed it in its historical context and assessed its condition, you will now need to take accurate and informative measurements in order to create an appropriately shaped mannequin for display. This chapter explains the essential measurements you will need to take, where to take them and the most useful…
Silhouette timeline A person can be easily identified by their silhouette. Likewise, throughout history, the silhouette of a garment can be a good indicator of the date it was worn. To create a simple version of a timeline, imagine the silhouettes of garments seen from the distance as a series of geometric shapes like circles,…
Storyboards and Silhouettes This chapter explains how you can adapt a technique used by designers today to give a visual overview of garment styles relating to a specific date. Designers use ‘storyboards’ or ‘mood boards’, to create the ‘atmosphere’ or express a ‘theme’ when designing garments for a new collection. When used in reference to…
1940s In Britain, fashion during the Second World War (1939–45) was greatly influenced by the introduction of rationing by the government. The aim was to produce fashionable but functional clothing without wasting any resources. In 1941 The Board of Trade introduced the ‘Utility Scheme’ with strict instructions to manufacturers controlling the amount of fabric that…
1920s By the 1920s the cut of women’s garments was at its simplest for many years. Waists were low, or ignored. Skirts were shorter, ending above the ankle at the beginning of the decade, below the knee in the mid-1920s and then lowering again at the end of the decade to between the calf and…
CHANELThere is an affinity between the resort town of Deauville and the House of Chanel.This was where Coco Chanel launched her millinery business in 1912, and where actress Anouk Aimée brought her own Chanel bag onto the Un Homme et Une Fille (1966) set one day, immortalising it in the annals of cinema. Thus, Virginie…
Caching Data with CDNs If Julian is the first user in the last 24 hours to load any of the requested files, the Winnipeg CDN POP won’t find the files in its temporary cache. The POP would then relay a web request to the website origin address hosted in the cloud region hundreds of miles…
Reliability and Performance Are Linked Safety, testability, quality, maintainability, stability, durability, and availability are all aspects of a workload’s overall reliability. Reliability is the critical design consider-ation. For example, if a workload crashes periodically but reboots and carries on, persistent end users who retry their requests might get their results eventually. But besides the obvious…
Petticoat design was also simpler, creating a smooth line from the waist to the hem (see figure 3. 73). However, although the basic shape was simple, the introduction of elaborate decoration in the form of tucks, frills and lace flounces all gave increased width at the hem to support the wide A-line skirts of garments….
Performance Efficiency Pillar In information technology systems engineering, design specialists characterize workloads as compute oriented, storage focused, or memory driven, designing solutions tuned to efficiently meet the design requirements. To achieve your performance goals, customers must address how the design of workload components can affect the performance efficiency of the entire application stack. How can…