Take a look at Rosie the Riveter. A near myth of heroic proportions, she and her friends had to weld planes, build ships, trucks, and armaments, while millions of menfolk went off to fight in World War II. Have you ever wondered how Rosie learned to do her job so quickly?…
The most recent apparel manufacturing boot camp, making children’s coats for donation to needy kids, was dramatically successful. In 4 days with 22 people, we made 100 coats in 2 colorways and 5 sizes. The differences between this last event versus our first, are so great that I’m not sure where to start.…
I know the project choice of this event isn’t going excite many but the targeted population and production goals should.
After interviewing social service agencies and workers, we decided to manufacture house dresses for elderly women. Reason being, once society feeds, houses and medicates the elderly, they are largely forgotten.…
I’ll write a post about the progress of the event we hosted last weekend very soon, maybe even tomorrow but for now, you can see photos of the event on the Albuquerque Fashion Incubator website.…
Late in coming but here is a tl;dr bullet point list of what we have accomplished so far with explanations to follow :
