Tag: crafts
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Of flags and clothing
The American celebration of Independence Day includes some colorful traditions, like fireworks and often firecrackers and sparklers, picnics and cookouts, and a lot of showing the good old red, white, and blue. Given our recent focus on the DIY, I did a quick search on Etsy for “American flag clothes” to see what would come…
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Four Good Dresses
Once again it’s spring, and spring means summer dresses! Indeed, I know that many of you are in draping labs working on term garments of this sort, even as I type. During the last dozen or so years of her life, the designer Pauline Trigere came every spring to FIT, to give a lecture on…
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Flowery Encouragement
Here in New York City, spring has been slow to appear. Bryant Park finally has pansies and daffodils, but it’s still been cold and blustery most of the month. We thought some embroidered spring flowers would help coax the real ones from their warm ground. The English have a history of being passionate gardeners. Gardening…