Tag: dresses
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Dior: From New Look to New Talent
Welcome to our new series about venerable design houses and the changes brought by new designers. This is the brainchild of the wonderful Shannen Lindsey, one of our students. The big couture houses, we hope, will survive profitably for far longer than the lifespan of their original designers. This series will take a look at…
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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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Making It Up
Here at FIT, we have many resources that offer possibilities to inspire you. As I reshelved materials one morning, I came across a title from the 1950s that I’d never looked at before. It offers patterns and measurements for laying out a range of fashionable contemporary garments. Since I love that era for fashion, I…