Tag: dressmakers
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Needle-sharp Skills pt. I
In honor of Women’s History Month, let us talk about the history of educating women. This seems especially apt, because 84% of the overall students here at FIT are female. Historically, the needle-arts have been associated with female gentility and marriageability, which used to be the measure of female success. As women’s work outside of…
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Fashionable words
Here at FIT, we all think about fashion a lot. Which is different from how I grew up. I remember my mom always taking time to point out well-made fabric, thick seam allowances, good linings and natural fibers. She’d learned this stuff from her grandmother, who was a dressmaker in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in the 1890s.…