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Or as I like to call it the FQJ for short.  This is that famous jacket from France that everyone wants.  From the grandest of grande dames of high society to the most forward of music divas, all of them find the jacket not only appropriate for […]

I get this lots of times in my class and it’s one of those things that students don’t even know to ask – where’s the shoulder?!  I guess it shows how fashion has so moved the goalposts that basic things like the shoulder placement aren’t really considered.  […]

I find this article very interesting, and like a lot of articles today about trade schools it tells a similar story – that story is that a lot of kids who are bright, and some even have college degrees, opt for trade school, where most parents would shudder […]

Couture has always been a strange duck.  For years it’s always been a little quirky and strange, but for the most part, it was filled with beautiful clothes.  But it was secret, at least until it was time for collections to hit the stores, and then it […]

Years ago, when I was a feisty young thing, I didn’t have enough sense to pick out a vocation that would be easy to find mentors, teachers, and educators.  I had to pick some obscure passion for sewing.  About the time I got ready to learn how […]

I take the BOF (Business of Fashion) newsletter and it’s always filled with interesting little tidbits, with this morning’s article, The Retail Apocalypse Is Back.  You have to subscribe to see it, but the basics are that retail is having a hard time blaming tariffs and rental […]

You would think it would be a mess of fabric that is so tangled there is no hope of help much less detangling it. But no. What I see the very most of with my students and people who come to me for sewing help is They […]

So what in the world does this mean?  It means that sewing is a process.  It’s like learning math – you must learn that 2 + 2 = 4 before you can learn that 4 x 4 = 16.  It’s that simple.  And yes a lot of […]