Tag: books
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Needles in the Stacks – Draping
We welcome you back for a holiday version of Needles in the Stacks. We’ve designed this post to help you decide which of the many draping manuals out there should be on your holiday wish list. Here are the books we looked at this fall: Drape Drape, Drape Drape 2, Drape Drape 3. All three…
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Menswear (again), and the Beauty of the Worn
In my post of January 30, 2014, I referred briefly to a book that has some pretty wonderful photography, “Vintage Menswear: A Collection from the Vintage Showroom“. FIT has been smart enough to purchase this book which was put together by Douglas Gunn, Roy Luckett, and Josh Sims. A friend showed it to me, and…
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Is a Passion-for-Clothing shallow?
I have a lot to say about this, but my first reaction is to be dumbfounded that we are even having this conversation in 2014 when several respected institutions give M.A. degrees on the study of clothing (as material culture, generally), and clothing-related industries have formed the center of regional economies repeatedly throughout human…