Tag: dress
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Love, Loss, & Auld Lang Syne
At FIT, we spend a lot of time pondering the business and the art of dress. But there are so many more stories that clothes can tell. If every dress or pair of pants or skirt could talk, imagine the stories they’d tell. From the depths of December, we offer you some remembrances of summers…
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Needles in the Stacks: Fancy Machine Work and Sergers
Welcome back to another episode of Beth & Denise’s reviews of needle-oriented books in our stacks! With the holidays ahead, it seems a good time to continue our series reviewing the how-to manuals collected in the library. What’s on your Christmas list? Encyclopedia of Sewing Machine Techniques, by Nancy Bednar and JoAnn Pugh-Gannon 5th Floor…
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New Needles (in the Stacks): Sewing for Fun and Profit
While I apologize for the sewing/crafty focus of this blog, the fact that it’s fall means new clothes for school! Indeed, I know that many of you have already begun months of work in draping labs. While shelving in the Main Stacks area, I’ve noticed is that we have a lot of books that…