Carol P was intrigued by the book I’d mentioned, Innovation and Technology of Women’s Intimate Apparel so she requested it via interlibrary loan to see if it was worth the $208.95 price tag (there’s one used copy for $136.52). At list price of $219.95 and a page count of 239, it costs 92 cents a page.…
Month: July 2007
Gynametry
I learned to do something useful today and luckily, you’re the beneficiary of my largesse. Wowee. Miracle has been saying it’s easy to make pdf docs and sure enough, she’s right. Remember all those books I photographed page by page at the Library of Congress?…
Fashion copyright: the death of us all
Amended 7/31/09: This bill is still in the works. More recent entries are Proposed law to destroy 90% of design businesses and Fashion-Incubator, a good idea while it lasted. We have an active petition I hope you’ll sign. Yes, I know the title is misspelled (the host did that), my title was HR 2196.…
Batch, UPS and Modular (Modular pt.1)
Continuing from parts one, two and three, we’ve come to modular. Modular is TSS, team or lean sewing and I’ve written about it ad nauseum. As a refresher, team sewing means (usually) U shaped pods of machines. One operator makes an entire product moving from machine to machine in the cell sequence.…
It all starts here 6
It’s been since the end of May that I’ve posted photos of the cotton fields by my house. Then, the plants were so cute and itty bitty. This is what they looked like on Sunday:
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