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What? Sandra Betzina Fashion Show & Discussion When? Saturday, Sepember 25 Where? Cañada College, Redwood City, CA www.artistryinfashion.com  or 650-306-3370   Description of Event: Professional Designer Sale: 10:00am – 5:00pm Fashion Show featuring Sandra Betzina Open House: 12:00 – 3:00pm Variety of foods available throughout the day Cost: $10.00. Click Coupon for $1.00 off entry Looking forward…...

Sharon from Adventures from the Sewing Studio shows how to sew a dress for a 11.5″ fashion doll (such as Barbie).  After all, the fun of a fashion doll is changing the clothes – again.. and again… and…...

Sophie Gimbel, 1959 Sophie Gimbel, also known as Sophie of Saks, was one of America's most influential designers in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Born Sophie Haas in 1898 in Houston, TX, she moved to Atlanta, GA at age 4 after the death of her father. She attended Agnes Scott College there. At age 19, Sophie married Harry Rossbach and moved...

Thank you, Russian Burda! A mere two weeks after the September BurdaMag preview showed up on the German Burda website, the October preview is already available on the Russian site. Extra bonus- the Russian site has even more photos from the upcoming Burda Easy Fashion, which I mentioned yesterday. First up, 10.2010. For some reason, [...]...

Phew!  In answer to the question of whether the new Burda EAZY magazine was intended to replace the beloved semi-annual Burda Easy Fashion, we now have our answer: No. The preview for Easy Fashion is up, and it’s no EAZY. I haven’t sewn anything from recent issues of Easy Fashion, but I always get very [...]...

It's much much overdue. Writing this here, and making it official and all. But, I'm finally doing it. Here's my challenge. To myself. Inspired by many more things that I can recall or say. This, of course, all leads on from my Slow Project. Is part of it. In a way, a big part. Consumerism. Fast fashion. Throw-away fashion. Made-in-China cheap...

What happens when technology and fashion meet? You get the latest in sustainable textiles - 3D printed fabric. While I think it's fabulous that you can not only get a perfect fit, but that there is little to no waste to creating clothing, I just can't see that this technique will "make needle and thread obsolete." Now my real question is,...

If you have a fashionable friend who is going through medical treatment, these pretty band-aids from Cynthia Rowley offer some supportive bling.  According to the NY Times: Cynthia Rowley has been busy jazzing up one unseemly necessity after another. Now comes something everyone could use: 14 fashion-friendly Band-Aid designs, created [...]...

I was thrilled to receive a box full of vintage magazines as a gift from faithful blog reader Dona on Saturday. Several of this week's posts will be from those magazines. Thank you for your generosity, Dona! We all appreciate it! In one of those magazines from 1967, there is a makeover article that focuses on young career women living in...

We’ll wrap up the tribute to Horrockses Fashions today with three green dresses featured in the book. The signature Horrockses’ look was a full-skirted dress with simple but interesting bodices in fabulous cotton prints. Image credits: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, by Norwyn Ltd. (top); collection of Christine Boydell, photograph by Nigel Essex (middle); [...]...

Floral stripe in three colorways by Joyce Badrocke for Horrockses Fashions (date unknown). Badrocke created the o’s with a manual typewriter. Image credit: Archive of Art & Design at the V&A. Book review of Horrockses Fashions: Off-the-Peg Style in the ’40s and ’50s by Christine Boydell here. Tags: fashion fabrics, floral, horrockses fashions, joyce badrocke, [...]...

The British Isles are juxtaposed with lines from Shakespeare in this print by Marny Tickle for Horrockses Fashions from their first collection in 1946. See my review of the book Horrockses Fashion: Off-the-Peg Fashion in the 40s and 50s by Christine Boydell here. Image credit: Archive of Art & Design at the V&A by Betty [...]...

This jacket was supposed to be a wearable muslin to test Vogue pattern 7860 for a possible Chanel type jacket. I rejected the pattern for the Chanel jacket soon after cutting it out because of the bust darts in the front. The darts starts out at the armhole like a princess seam, but taper to nothing at the pocket level. They...

This print depicting flowing trim was designed by Alastair Morgan for Horrockses Fashions in the late 1940s, and used to cover a promotional booklet for the company. Image credit: Archive of Art & Design at the V&A by Betty Newmarch. See my review of Horrockses Fashion: Off-the-Peg Fashion in the 40s and 50s by Christine [...]...

Horrockses Fashion: Off-the-Peg Fashion in the ’40s and ’50s by Christine Boydell V&A Publishing, 2010 The Horrockses Fashions label grew from the fabric company Horrockses, Crewdson & Co. in early-to-mid-20th century Britain. They helped pioneer ready-to-wear, mass-produced fashion, and helped establish the popularity of cotton as a fashion fabric. V&A Publishing (distributed by Abrams in [...]...

Sunday concluded a whirlwind week for us here at Martha Pullen Company – our July School of Art Fashion wrapped up after 7 full days of sewing classes, shopping, special events and more! (Not to mention, we were racing our final deadline for the September/October issue of Sew Beautiful .) But all said and done, we had a fantastic time getting...

I recently listed this stunning vintage 70s panné velvet dress by Leonard Fashion on my website. While perusing my vintage magazine collection, ads for the company have been catching my eye ever since. The other day, I came across an article about the company in a 1973 magazine and I had to share a bit of it with you. The textile...

I just have one question that I should have asked a 16 year old me - What on earth were you thinking girl????? I'm quite sure that you won't be able to actually find me in that see of white puffy meringues (although it might be fun to play 'spot the white puffy Wally'). I'm blaming it all on the 80's........

Season 4 of Mad Men starts this Sunday, July 25 on AMC!!! If you love Mad Men as much as I do, you've been dying for any and all details, but this year AMC is keeping a tight lid on things. I guess even the cast doesn't know what will happen until they show up for rehearsal. If we assume that...

Every industry has a lexicon, but how does the lexicon of the fashion industry effect those of us who are interested in style, clothes and their creation but who do not work in it? Obviously, there is a wealth of specific terms related to pattern creation, garment construction and the necessary technology that are common [...]...

Do you remember the totally gorgeous owlie pins that Amanda made for me as part of our swap a few weeks ago? Well, look what arrived in the post on Friday! The most gorgeous little bunch of flowers, just for me. They're teeny tiny and truly exquisite. Thankyou so much Amanda ! They look perfect hanging out in the mushie pincushion...

It's been two months since my last Awful 80's post. How time flies! Today, Awful 80s fashion for the man in your life. "Honey, what's for dinner?" "Oh, I don't know.....how about salmon ?" "Maybe if I lean up against my expensive car, they won't notice my pants." Preppy checklist. Plaid jacket with green lining, check. Pink shirt, check. Green pants,...

For me, balloons mean birthday parties, twisty headpieces and grand opening celebrations. Balloons as fashion? Now that is definitely different. Rie Hosokai of Daisy Balloon has created some stunning pieces -- all out of balloons. They aren't the most wearable, but they are definitely eye-catching and incredibly creative. Image from here. Image from here ....

For a while now I've been seeing and enjoying romantic dreamy gracious collages on blogs such as Lovely Clusters, Rachel puts together mood boards like this one most days after a visit to Lovely Clusters I am swooning and sighing with delight. Every Tuesday it is a delight to visit La Marquise des Anges and take in her flickr mosaic like...

Can you believe how excited were were at DIYStyle to find out that one of favorite St. Louis area fashion designers is a contestant on THIS new season of Project Runway! Lucky for us that we snagged an interview with him for DIYStyle long before PR got hold of him Watch the video on [...]...

Technical Drawing for Fashion (Portfolio Skills Fashion & Textiles) Author: Basia Szutnicka Technical Drawings: Ayako Koyama Publisher: LaurenceKing in association with Central Martins College of Art&Design ISBN number: 978185669618 Type of binding: Paperback Number of pages: 234 with 850  illustrations plus a CD-Rom with templates Size 11x 8 1/2 inch Price: UK £ 22.50  US $ 35.00 TSD received [...]...

I was lucky enough to take a short trip to New York a couple of weeks ago with the sole intent of seeing the concurrent fashion exhibits on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Both exhibits feature treasures from the Brooklyn Museum's extensive costume collection that has been transferred to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute. After...

I rarely shop ready-to-wear anymore (too busy fabric shopping, I suppose), but yesterday at lunch I made a brief reconnaissance mission to Anthro. You see, I had spied this aqua version (below) of the " Tracing Twirls " dress online and fell madly, deeply, head over heels. Look at that 50s-inspired bustline! I knew I would have to attempt to drape...

I was lucky enough to take a short trip to New York a couple of weeks ago with the sole intent of seeing the concurrent fashion exhibits on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Both exhibits feature treasures from the Brooklyn Museum's extensive costume collection that has been transferred to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute. My...

Day four in the refashion roundup series this week … boys shorts from men’s shirt [pic above] Pillowcase pyjamas tutorial toddler boardwalk t-shirt dress Lola bag - refashioned from a favourite t-shirt for the grownups ballet t-shirt refashion Pretty petals t-shirt turn t-shirts into underwear heart corsage t-shirt shirred fashion topSimilar Posts: refashion roundup [3] [...]...